As I myself age, I find I am losing the fear of death.
Watching what has been happening the world over does not bode well for our children and those who come after.
The Bahamas has failed, as so many other places have, by giving it all over to those who have little to offer other than money.
Your money could have come from gambling houses, drug running, liquor stores, or predatory lending as sanctioned by most bankers today.
The days of looking up to those who are honest, hard working and community oriented are gone, it seems.
The whole world seems to have jumped onto this idea of worshiping the rich, no matter how they got their riches.
Once that happens, humanity is finished.
This is the road we now travel.
The Bahamas grants citizenship and residency to those who have the most money.
Driving up the cost of living and sharpening the divide between the haves and have nots in this country.
This isn't a natural occurrence. We choose this path with greed and the absolute love of money.
Trashing our politics and justice system, and any sense of Christian ideology.
Creating an ever growing gulf between a sustainable future and the selling off of everything we should hold dear.
Soon, when the letter writer and others with the memory of how things were are gone, the current generation will know nothing but the rotten ways we currently suffer from.
Look closely at how silently we carry on, while the insults to humanity rush forth in this country.
Mr. August, I feel your pain.

You aren't very good on math.
There are 350,000,000 more people living in the US.
The entire Bahamas population doesn't match the average population of a decent sized city anywhere.
The number of people killed per 100,000 is off the charts in The Bahamas.
The way we manage and appreciate our natural resources here are a joke, anywhere you choose.
I don't like the way the US operates either.
However, to refuse to address our obvious failures as a nation is the reason things can't improve here.
Do a bit of reading and researching John.
The truth is staring you in the face, if you care to open your eyes.

Politics as usual.
Nothing new to see here.
Were we really ever a nation of laws?

The saddest part of all is that we failed at educating our people, or encouraging them to read.
If ever, there was writing on the wall, how is this article not it?

Sad but true.
Not just North Andros.
Slightly south, we see the exact same thing.
Is this just a local example of a greater national failing?
Yes.

Fire every useless URCA employee.
They need to find a real job.
URCA is an unnecessary drain on our valuable resources.
BPL has already failed.
Now, we are merely watching the house of cards fall.

Mr. Strachan,

You are quite right.
However, you are in the minority.
You are in the minority of people who actually approach this from a pragmatic, educated point of view and less archaic biblical misinterpretation.
It doesn't start with our criminal justice and penal system.
Therein lies our problem.
The police in every country are the most organized criminals in society.
Our brightest students do not go into the police force, do they?
Why? Isn't the answer rather clear?
We do not raise children anymore. Neither men nor woman seem to know how to care for and raise good kids.
This is a national problem that leads directly to our high crime rate and lack of respect for others.
If this is not evident, we have already failed and can do no better.
Get used to it.

Birdie,
Look hard and intelligently at the score card for The Bahamas as a whole.
There is nothing, absolutely nothing that we are succeeding at.
Please correct me, if I have overlooked one Bahamian government endeavor that hasn't, or isn't failing.
Any high school graduate can see this, yes?

Mr. Bethel is correct.
Yet, it has nothing to do with landmass.
It has to do with principle and progress.
We have abundant solar and tidal flow to harness and generate our energy needs. .
There just hasn't been the money for politicians to put into their pockets, as with the fossil fuel industry.
It is more than a lack of vision which holds us back.
The history of BEC / BPL speaks volumes about our lack of integrity and failure of our country as a whole.
This renewable energy talk is childish to those who are moderately educated.

100% correct.