Our good old Deputy Director specifically recruited Cuban teachers even when it wasn't their subject speciality and local experienced teschers were retired.and willing. Not only do Cubans not integrate they also simply come for the money. And their exam results are often very poor.

Most of this violence is between ill educated black youths but don't worry TaRussell despite your incoherent ramblings I can assure you that very soon most of the white/foreign folks will have left. You only have to look at Eleuthera where almost every foreign owned property is for sale. And once they are gone you and the few racist Bahamians can celebrate by handing out food and supplies to all the unemployed maids, builders shopkeepers, caretakers, painters, gardeners and handymen who will not have a job. Already a common complaint of visitors is about prices, poor service and a homeowner who said to me the authorities are making it more and more difficult and expensive to live here. Just remember this "blame the white guy" tting that rears its head every so often by a few racist Bahamians is making potential investors very wary and also remember there are many other countries with sea and sunshine that are cheaper and welcome foreign investment.

So very true. As a (dare I say it lest TaRussell has another mental episode) foreign teacher having taught here for over 30 years I was always surprise how even the smallest petit girl of boy had no reaction to being beaten on the hands with a cane or BEC insulated cable. It showed how conditioned they were to punishment and pain.

When will they take down these stupid inaccurate signs advertising duty free liquor when so much of it is cheaper with tax in the USA. Why are we paying so much for locally produced beer such as Kalik. If anybody wants one of many reasons why tourism is down is the beyond belief prices in this country. $2.00 for a tomato, almost $10 for a bag of apples. $54 for a case of Kalik platinum beer. Nobody seems to monitor the price gouging especially in the Family islands and given that fuel prices are historically low what will prices be like when oil prices go up.?

One born every minute. Anyway I am starting a scheme where you pay me $500 for a return on 1000 coconut trees that will be planted next year. Investors will be assured of a return of $2000 in the not to distant future. Please apply to the fairy godfather, cloud avenue, planet earth.

There is no easy solution as long as you have young ill educated unemployed young men but maybe cameras like they have everywhere in the UK being placed in crime hot spots might be a start.

Maybe you should ask the same question of some of the pastors who live extravagant lifestyles on the backs of their often struggling congregation.

Whilst I agree with the general trend of your comments it is a ridiculous situation where home grown and produced products such as Kalik are cheaper in the USA than here, where Bamsi produces nothing that the ordinary farmer cannot already produce rather than producing vegetables that are presently imported at great cost and finally with oil prices at an all time low did you notice air fares drop, mail boat freight charges drop, food prices drop-No because merchants rarely pass on any savings. Can you begin to understand the price of ONE tomato in a family island shop costing $2.00 .

I can buy 6 good clean s/h Japanese cars for the price of 1 average American car. Bought a new truck once-never again. $18500 in Nassau $9.500 in USA ?

The troubling problem is that so many die hard PLP supporters are so woefully lacking in any understanding of the bigger picture and have their heads stuck in the sand. Minnis is right to get the wasteful spending under control and the double dipping that is going on. Mind you why iis the Director of Education still employed and way past retirement age, why are costly projects still continuing , why do local clinics have little or no medical supplies but have three or four recently employed persons with nothing to do, The long term risks to the country of any future downgrading are to unpleasant to contemplate.