We do not understand what "society" is about.
We are in it for ourselves.
BPL, along with most SOEs, are doomed by intellectually and untutored executives and the bulk of government employees who don't give a shite about anything.
A perfect recipe for the disaster that has unfolded before our eyes.
The Bahamas at large is now holding the bill.
The politicians will be looking at new ways to tax us and to saddle our children and their children with more usurious loans.
Can't see it?

Can you give me the name of the psychotropic drugs you were taking when you were on the bus?
I think I need them too.
Or, on second thought, maybe not.

You guys are good.
Sadly, the letter writer failed yo spend any time researching the relevant data available to educators and parents for the last 50 years.
Or, countries that Never hit their kids, yet have no crime or disrespect problems.
And, the lack of connection of following a group of illiterate pastors religious interpretation of the bible.
The resounding commonality of all who argue for continued corporal punishment is that they all blame the victim. Always.
A rape victim is asked what she was wearing. An abused woman is asked what she did to deserve her beating.
The level of brainwashing of these so-called Christians is complete.
One only needs to look at the crime statistics in this country to realize we should be looking foreign, or anywhere else, to seek the answers that so far have completely eluded us.
We are witnessing a national failure. From our educational system, parenting and certainly from the abject failure of those we raised to become so-called leaders.
Look at parliament.
Lack of corporal punishment for all of them?
Most were probably beaten senseless, hence the total lack of empathy and intelligence they appear to possess.

Perhaps if we had the majority of our nation's "parents" go to a parental boarding school in China we would get better results. After all, who is it that controls the neighborhoods, the police, the social service funds, the schooling....
We keep hoping for better for our children, all the while allowing uneducated adults to control their lives.
Just who will be running these boarding schools on the Family Islands?
What will this do to the last remaining vestiges of decency on our Family Islands?
Don't get me wrong. The only salvation to the immense social problems we face as a nation are our children.
However, I have seen very few in leadership positions who have any clue how to solve any of these problems.
Our politicians are the bottom of the barrel. They are a financial and moral drain on The Bahamas. From the top to the bottom.
Our Christian leadership is even worse.
Could be a downside of our Bahamianization strategy, Hey?

A clear indication that BPL. BEC and all governments in the past have utterly failed.
The condition of our electrical infrastructure, the prices we pay and the reliability of the service we get are complete failures.
A terrible joke on the Bahamian people.
It seems as if we are unable to operate within the bounds of reason, efficiency and legality in this country.
And, just where the fish rot start from?

As we despise education, we will despise this editorial.

"The days of accepting bullshyt from the pulpit, and politicians kicking the can down the road, ducking, dodging, and deflecting responsibility are over! "
If only.........

Art is essential in times such as these.

Hopefully, we would address the land-based activities which contribute thousands of times more pollutants directly into our precious waters than sailboats around Nassau.
Many years ago, experiments in the Florida Keys proved that it took only 24 hours from flushing a toilet on land, to the effluent reaching the nearshore waters. Our limestone substrate is no different here.
This, before we start talking about the gasoline, diesel, brake fluid, and the whole host of residential and industrial pollutants which are dumped directly onto our porous limestone.
If truth be told, from my perspective, there are few places where environmental protection is less a concern, on a national level, than The Bahamas.
If you don't believe this, get out of the office a bit more.
The vast majority of us simply don't care, or are completely unaware of what is going on environmentally. It is not a pleasure to say this, but it is true.
From the very, very top of our political leadership, to the average Bahamian, it is difficult to find an acceptable or meaningful level of knowledge and concern for our environment. Perhaps it is simply out of sight, so of no concern.
The most poignant explanation I get is that our good God put resources here for us to use, and when they run out God will provide us with more.
I credit the stellar intellectual prowess of our Christian pastors for this misguided and ignorant perspective.
There are things that we could do as a nation that would help remedy the offshore pollutant situation.
If we were serious about our pristine crystalline waters, we would ban ALL cruise ships from our waters. But, we aren't serious.
We love money much more than our environment. This much should be clear.
So, Ms. Phillips, if you want to go all the way in protecting our lovely waters, let's try and be morally and intellectually consistent.
Leave the sailboaters alone until you have a comprehensive plan that will undoubtedly be completely politically untenable, but which is fair minded.
Along with every other reasonable solution to the long term survival of our species and the health of our planet, The Bahamas will be vying for last place, as usual.
Maybe try a powerful freedom of information act so that at least we may know what our government is doing in our name.
Until then, these are just worthless words. Both mine and yours.

Wow Simon.
Excellent analogy.
Sadly however, the dumbing down has reached all levels of society, and I muse how many will actually read, comprehend, or finally, even give a shite about what your spot on editorial highlights.
In many areas of study there are what are called "tipping points".
My fear, not entirely unfounded, is that we have reached that point here in The Bahamas whereby any suggestion for change and improvement of the present circumstances are met with apathy, and unintelligible muttering.
Not long ago, I was challenged by someone who said to me, "For change to come about, The People have to want it to change,"
What she was really saying is, don't hold your breath.
But yes Simon, dumbing down is an entirely appropriate phrase to describe parliament and most Bahamian institutions.
Sad, hey?