And of course you have the answer. Your chance to make your fortune because every country in the world is struggling.

If this gets away from you then the financial cost will be enormous and hopefully the PLP will put aside their political differences because no country and the associated expense could have foreseen this happening.and the impact. If countries in Europe including the UK are looking at bleak financial damage imagine what the effect will be on the Bahamas alread deep in debt along with a. seriously bad power generation system.

What are you smojing ?

How about this stupid idea of employing Cuban teachers who beside the financial cost often cannot speak reasonable english let alone have the interests of the kids at heart. Why is this continuing when Cuban teachers sole aim is to repatriate as much in the way of USD back to Cuba. Time to employ Bahamians especially in the vocational subjects perhaps using BTVI final year students. Every dollar saved is important.

Funnily enougjh when there is a good crop, or someone is cured by medical intervention credit goes to God, but when everything goes wrong even the death of an innocent newborn child, suddenly its not God but mans doing.
Can' t have it both ways.

Better still take to court all the corrupt inept pok iticians who spent money like it was going out of fashion on all sorts of madcap ideas, and now the public have to pay. Bet Mrs Pindling has enough cash left by her deceased husband ,maybe she could make a donation.

These officials should hang their heads in shame. Firstly the last MOE director and deputy director told employed teachers in subjects such as auto, electrical due to retire thay they could work for another 5 years after retirement. Lies, when the previous D Director went to Cuba to hire teachers in one case to replace a family teacher with proven results,. not only did this teacher not get the courtesy of a response for his request for extended employment his replacement was knowingly hired as a teacher who had never taught that subject before. Tell me how it is more cost effective to pay all the costs with hiring a Cuban when you have established teachers with their own houses on the family islands. Consider that some of these Cuban teachers have an extremely poor grasp of speaking English and in some cases really don't have the students interests in the forefront. Lets face it Cubans put as little money as possible into the local economy preferring to save and buy as much stuff as possible to take back to Cuba. It takes a foreign teacher in many cases years to understand the kids, culture etc etc and as they are on contracts their is little motivation to fully integrate. Why not apprentice the brightest students from BTVI to work alongside an experienced teacher. This would employ a young Bahamian and their must be a way of these apprentices doing summer courses at COB. Teacher training gives you the theory but doesn't necessarily make you an effective teacher. This nonsense will go on for years if wr don't get outward thinking, competant Directors and their underlings. Why is the BUT not getting involved and fighting hard to find a long term solution ?
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Sorry Madhatter, but so many Principals have trouble with simple economics let alone free rein on spending. One Principal who accumulated , over $10,000 worth of debt in unpaid school bills was moved only to be put in charge of his new school's finances. Other Principals deny certain subject areas any funds yet spend freely on themselves on so called official trips into Nassau or bloated gifts for visiting talkers. Then what about the desk jockeys in Nassau who have no idea what subject teachers need (especially practical subjects) and order what they think is needed often in quantities that are miniscule and of inferior quality without ever looking at the pointless excercise wherby teachers submit annual requisitions.

With a well constructed house the roof is the most likely part to fail. Giiven the extortionate premiums that are charged one person I know has the philosophy that if you are able to save what you would pay for annual premiums and put it in a savings account then with bit of luck you could do repaors out of that nest egg. However do these highly paid executives have any idea how impossible it would be for the majority of the population to pay any premium.

Oh common, the PLP take the trophy for victimization. I can name people in sernior positions who were moved and replaced by a inexperienced PLP voter. Or a drug lords wife who suddenly became head of National Insurance in Eleuthera with no previous experience. Nothing changes ,its just third world politics.