"There is absoluty nothing any human can do to change mother nature."
An absolutely false and ignorant statement.

Simply put, without needing to parse the numbers too carefully, poverty, homelessness, and crime will soon be increasing, even more in The Bahamas. The pressure on single mothers will increase, most having to work two or three jobs to put food on the table. Our productivity is very low, near rock bottom. Ask any employer. The Central Bank deals in numbers, not lives. The Central Bank officers deal with people with money, not people struggling to make ends meet. When the PM says, "We are in for a Rough Ride", it makes me think of the Rough Riders condoms I see in the stores. What kind of rough ride is our PM suggesting we are in for? Many people work full time, yet still can't make ends meet. Our national tax burden rests fully on the backs of the working class and poor, a regressive tax scheme. Our national educational standards fail to produce employable citizens. We have failed to instill a respect for our environment and the other living creatures we depend upon. Our religious and political leaders are woefully uneducated, to the point where they are unable to see the callous indifference to the suffering and mistreatment of our people. Would Jesus, or any semi-decent person be satisfied with the way we treat our own people in this country?

Sorry Jokey, but this is a national failure. From top to bottom, there is no excuse for the educational level of this country. Period. haven't we heard this "testing" excuse before? We are competing on a global scale and not 1 in a 100 graduates can write a flipping sentence or count change. What happened to parents?

It doesn't take much traveling or awareness to realize that the national problem of education starts at home. The sad part is that the shit is about to hit the fan this generation. Our natural resources are being depleted, sea levels are rising, and hurricanes are becoming more frequent and stronger. We will witness more dramatic changes to this country in the next 15-20 years than have happened in our history. Math, English and other subjects are absolutely essential to getting a job. However, the greatest deficit is in critical thinking skills. As a nation, due specifically to our appalling lack of dedication to improving our citizens minds, we continue to be challenged by adult problems, and have little to solve them with other than a child's mentality. And, the real problem is that an uneducated populace cannot even see how this is happening. Ignorance and superstition reign supreme. The pastors and politicians don't care if this ever changes. If we become people who can think for ourselves, how many of our current pastors and politicians would have a job?.

Bank of Bahamas is a nightmare. Wondering if the other banks are the same.
Go to a bank in the U.S. Wait time? Hardly.
We do not understand customer service. This is a national trait.
I called a company the other day. The receptionist told me the person I was calling for was not in at the time. Could I call back. I said "no, but you can take my number and have her call me when she gets back." The receptionist was annoyed. Clearly, she does not have a clue as to what a business owner needs to stay in business. Is customer service dead in The Bahamas? Seems so, and banking is at the top of the list.

Too bad with all the brilliance abounding that the one solution to this is never even discussed.
What kind of society do we live in where people can work a full time job and yet still not be able to afford adequate groceries for their families?.
The lack of education has served our politicians, and press secretaries, well.
We don't even have to discuss the real issues.
Lovely.

Sadly, we are governed by the clueless.
More sadly, we don't even seem to notice.

Pintard is right on the following point he made.
"The public will still pay for it. One way or another, the taxpayers will pay. The question is when and how. BPL does not have the money, the Government does not have the money. The present course of action is not sustainable"
This is always the case.
And, so long as we have a regressive taxation system in place, the poor will bear the brunt of the burden. Any burden.
We have lost a generation of Bahamians who had the capacity to think, but did not have the educational, social, or familial encouragement to become educated.
Thinking is not a given. Just like any other endeavor it requires learning and practice.
We have, and continue to place so little value on learning and education that we are in the state we are in now.
This is why a lawyer who made it defending criminals can continue to bullshite our people with utter nonsense and get away with it.
This is another result of our poor educational system.
A regressive tax scheme, as we have in The Bahamas, is dooming our country in many, many ways.
Few want to talk about it. Politicians surely don't want to upset their own little boat. And, they are not Christian enough to admit this truth. Or, they would. But, the rest of us aren't in their club, anyway.

A good synopsis of our society, in general.
A few bad apples spoil it for everyone.
Our politicians are the worst.
Who, honestly, can say otherwise?
The rot started at the head and now our whole country seems mired in theft, dishonesty and greed.
But, maybe I have it all wrong.

Most of the money will be stolen by our own people.
The clinic on Mangrove Cay, Andros has already been paid for twice.
Our medical services here are presently deplorable, by any standards.
We have passed the point of no return.