https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/08/30…

Yes Kevin,
The web shops ain't helping either.
We don't seem to care, do we?

yes

So, each day I ask myself, "Why do I bother, why do I care?"
Unfortunately, we have an obligation to leave a place better than how we found it.
Is this what we're doing?
And, I also am well aware that any social changes for the better came about by people making noise, not by remaining silent. This is a fact.
As the late John Lewis would say, people making "good trouble".
I am down to but a handful of friends, specifically because of my outspokenness. I know no other way. We must use the gifts we were given.

Is everyone on the payroll now?
It sure as hell seems so.
And, who gets to be called an "environmentalist"
Almost like being called a pastor, hey.
Nothing can go wrong there, can it?

Forget about the actualities.
Think about the fugging arrogance in keeping this information secret.
Does anyone really think
No democratic nation should stand for this.
Pinder should go.
He is a danger.
But, so is the entire PLP apparatus.
So, we're screwed either way, hey?
"On Sunday, Sun Oil Chairman Sir Franklyn Wilson told The Tribune that, to his knowledge, the company was fined, but he could not recall how much." Jesus Christ Almighty.
Attention: Our politicians and richest business people are officially treating us as supremely stupid.

Fiscal Responsibility. Starting Now?
Reading the papers, even poorly, one realizes that The Bahamas is in deep doo doo.
If I were cynical, I would suggest that this "watchdog" group is merely another layer of bureaucracy designed to eat up enough time for the real criminals to leave office and to get straight on their foreign bank accounts and condos abroad.
There are two possibilities. Either those running our government are inexcusably ignorant of finance and unrealistically optimistic about our future.
Or, they are simply failing to alert the public to the realities that are staring us in the face.
Our debt alone, and the near term due dates for our giant loans will compel the government to react. Their wiggle room is narrow. We have hundreds of millions of dollars to repay, and we're still borrowing. The vast majority of Bahamians will suffer and many will be impoverished when the Bahamian government is FORCED to enact these Structural Adjustments. These realities are well known to those who do understand our fiscal situation.
Our State Owned Enterprises are all failing. All needing to "find" more revenue.
Our financial gurus will not dare touch the wealthy class with the needed taxes, for they know who butters their bread.
That leaves the rest of The poorest Bahamians to continue to have no voice in the matter, and consequently to feel the full brunt of the belt tightening that will be demanded by those we are indebted to.
Only those who do not read will be blindsided by the government's actions in the very near future. Only those people will not recognize that this playbook is used over and over on countries such as The Bahamas.
At present, The Bahamas greatest deficit is a political class that has the moral courage to do the right thing for the Bahamian people.
At present, we do not have the quality leadership with a moral backbone to act in a Christian manner for the good of the least among us.
Worse for the politicians, would be a population of educated people who could see the truth of how our politicians truly treat those who elected them.
Education funding will be some of the first to be cut.

What, and who, will change anything?
If the politicians were honest about what was going on financially in this country............
The last thing any politician wants is an educated populace.
How many of us understand the economic implications of what is ahead for The Bahamas?
Exactly!

I am sure the results of this investigation will be earth shattering.

Mr. Munroe should begin the process of issuing passports and NIB cards to those "conceived."