Editor,
All points well taken. As you state,
"Few of our politicians have read widely in history, politics and literature. Many in our professional class have professional degrees. However, very few are intellectually imbued with a more liberal and classical education."
This also fits into the critique of a lack of "exposure" of our country.
Without these instructive tools, a liberal education is not possible, severely limiting the tools in our leaders, hence our country"s, toolboxes.
Leading a country without these tools is not unlike trying to change a tire on one's car without a lug wrench. You don't get far.
Yet, for me, even if our leaders were more educated, it still boils down to the following:
As Lord Acton accurately observes. "Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely."
In our political dreams, holding democracy dear, we must dissolve all centers and concentrations of power. It really is that simple.
All concentrations of wealth and power must be wrested from those who crave and monopolize it, and distributed back to the people. Where it rightly belongs.
The restraint we wish to see, must be exemplified and guided by those who allow these leaders to occupy the positions they so covet. It must be a reasonable balancing act.

Sometimes I wonder if the whole country of The Bahamas itself should not be classified as a gang. It's very hard to read this newspaper everyday and not have some concern. Far more Bahamians have left these shores, never to return, than live here now. Yes? Why didn't they return? No idea, huh?
Just like we can't figure out why crime is a problem?
I guess that's why so many turn to their god.
Last hope for those who have no answers.

In The Bahamas, how would one possibly determine "reliable"?
Reliability is only a poorly understood concept here.
However, I must say it is a breath of fresh air to see that there may be a spark of caring and concern other than for our own short-term selfish interests.
On second thought, yeah, how do we know this survey was "reliable"?

Exposed,
His biggest mistake was being a foreigner.
This won't be first, or last ruling, a bit eye opening.
They say justice is blind.
Hmmm.
Bahamar perhaps?

Mr. Young,
You are living in a colonial mindset world.
The dissolution of NATO is long overdue.
Thankfully, the youth of the world, along with the remaining moral thinking class is abandoning your way of thinking.
The international isolation is not Israel's alone.
The U.S. and Britain are also isolated now, due to their unwavering support for obvious genocide.
In your above article, you failed to mention how the Palestinians have been dehumanized, tortured and killed for the last 70 years by a state created by England in a land they had no business in.
Why did you fail to mention that?
And furthermore, most honest scholars would challenge your assertion that Israel is a democracy.
It is not.

Precisely!
Very, very few foreign vessels cruising in Bahamian waters are ever searched. Even if they were, do we not remember prohibition? Despite heavy fines, what curtailed the flow of liquor? Nothing.
Think of where Bay Street would be if the.........
There is NO WAY to stop the flow of guns if people want them. Period.
Why do we refuse to learn? Why do we embrace the silly statements by men in uniforms? Do we ask the operating room janitor why the patient got sick? No, their job is simply to clean up the mess. Just like the police force.
We somehow refuse to accept that we have raised a group of young people who have no respect for anything. Not each other, not adults, not even life itself.
All one has to do is to look around Nassau to see what we are creating. Guns, knives, gasoline, acid, rocks, it doesn't matter. If people want to create harm and chaos, they will do so.
No thinking adults in this room, hey?

"However, the judge found that Mr Turnquest breached his fiduciary duty to Alpha Aviation, as one of its directors, over the deed of release with Mr Kaiser asserting that he was “attempting to justify the unjustifiable”. The former deputy prime minister argued that there could be no breach because his actions were approved by the Sky Bahamas principal.

“I find that the first defendant procured the execution of the deed of release without the knowledge of the beneficial owner, the other director of the company,” Justice Card-Stubbs found. “I find that he acted alone - without the knowledge of Mr Kaiser.... The actions of the first defendant do not reflect the conduct of a director required to ‘act honestly and in good faith with a view to the best interests of the company’.”

Immoral and illegal have rather different, convenient meanings, don't they?
Suggesting to an observer that we are rather good at straddling that line.

After the sale of BTC to Cable & Wireless our cell phone and internet has gotten worse and worse.
We used to have 2 full time technicians and regular business office hours.
Not anymore.
The phone and internet service on our Family Island is deplorable.
Yet, BTC continues to charge as if they are delivering the service they advertise.
They do not. That is called fraud.
I would bet there is not one person on our Family Island who is satisfied with BTC.
BTC, and URCA have been informed of this for over a decade.
Nobody seems to care. Both organizations appear useless.
Especially now that most all government business is online now, BTC is failing us.
Thank God for Starlink.
They will soon put BTC out of business.
Good riddance..

Mr Mitchell had previously said in the House of Assembly he was “irritated” by journalists contacting him, saying it was none of their business.
This sums up the attitude of most politicians.
I believe that everything "governmental" should be known by the public.
No secret nothing.
These people are paid with OUR money.
Amazing how they think they're something above the rest of us.
These attitudes exemplify the minds of small people.
Those who have no business involved with The People's business.
Wonder what really keeps them in power?

Stand your ground.
You are right.
The history is there for all to see.
Most just choose not to.