We have a choice. We can appreciate our own and pay them a living wage, or we can embrace the global labor market and take what we can get.
As a business owner and corporate manager, I can comfortably say, that if we did embrace this view, there would be very few Bahamians left in The Bahamas. The stats show clearly our productivity, or lack thereof, and for all to see is our national work ethic.
Do you realize what would happen if we opened up our country to Mexican construction workers?
There wouldn't be but a fraction of jobs left for Bahamians.
Our work ethic, by and large, is a joke.
I have long advocated bringing in talented and proven managers, since it is so difficult to find people capable of running ANY of our State Owned Enterprises. Besides speaking to many Bahamian owners and managers who all say the same thing. We truly lack an educated, honest, reliable work force. Most Bahamians are unemployable in the global market. This is a fact. If we were a transparent country, and eliminated even a small fraction of the theft, incompetence, waste and fraud, we would have more than enough money to pay our professionals a living wage.
They say it takes @ $120,000 to be in the middle class in this country.
Seems only a handful of people make that much. Politicians and their cronies, web shop owners and criminals. None of which have any real education, or ethical mores.
Sad, but true.

I appreciate your hope.
However, there is a saying that when the US sneezes...................
I find very few who truly understand what shape The Bahamas is in economically.
Do we understand how many hundreds of millions of dollars our politicians have taken out in the last few years alone?
We have borrowed and borrowed with little to no transparency.
We are in deep doo doo. We are deeply in debt.
We have no idea of the collateral pledged.
The fact that our own kids have fled, should tell us something about what we truly value here.
Those who will be returning, will be returning to a country on the brink. There is nothing that we do that is sustainable.
Not our fiscal policy. Certainly not our political situation.
I would like to see a bright future for my son, but am preparing for him to be educated abroad. If he is truly educated, he will find there is not much to return for.
I have traveled and lived other places.
Rarely have I encountered such a backward thinking place.
Just being real. What exactly do WE care about?
I can't find much. We just don't care.
Our politicians, pastors, police, judges, all don't seem to give a shit about anything.
The daily papers illustrate this on a daily basis.
On the Family Island where I live, I doubt there is one person who reads anything other than the bible, which they do NOT understand.
I wish I could be more optimistic, however, this situation did not occur overnight. We have had many decades of the fish rotting from the head down, as a Nation for Sale, as a place where going low is a business plan.
It will take a few generations, if we have that, for a group of educated kids to come back home, fight off the demons currently in power and to help educate a group of really ignorant people to do the right things.
There is hope, however, it dwindles by the day.
Judging by the way this administration operates, they are doing their best to make sure corruption, dishonesty, greed and selfishness prevail.
Christians? Please!

The problem is that those in government jobs just don't care.
They don't care.
Work in government long enough and you become brain dead.
Or, a shyster

100% agree. However, where are these leaders going to come from?
It has to be a complete, totally complete, revolution of mindset, requiring sound education and understanding.
I think most of our most promising kids are choosing to leave, rather than fight the maggots.
I know I sure as hell do not want my son to stay.
The idea that a decent child would work for a Davis, or a Lundy is rather sad.
Yes?

A clown talking fool.

Miss Bowe, I am proud of you.
Thank you for your integrity.

This is simple.
Our "honourable" leaders would rather pay foreign workers peanuts, rather than pay our own people for the valuable work they do.
Nurses and teachers are critical to our well being and growth as a civilized country..
they don't care!
We clearly have been so dumbed down in this country that we can't see this as national suicide.
The brain drain has been going on for some time.
Brave and company prefer to have ignorant and stupid citizens. Who else would vote for them?
We have failed as a nation.
We may as well elect web shop owners to government.
This nation is finished.

I understand her pain.
Whenever I have spoken out about any sordid condition in this country, the first response is to kill the messenger.
Davis, Lundy, Darville, all of them care only about themselves. This is their culture.
I'll bet the Prime Minister's office doesn't have any of the problems that our National hospital has.
It is an insult to human decency, not that PMH is in this condition, but that we have a gang of leaders who don't give a damn.
Don't care and will literally choose to shoot the messenger rather than do the right thing.
I believe that our current administration CANNOT even imagine what the right thing is.
Disgraceful!

I still am asking why, if we are truly Christian, thinking, and decent nation, do we not demand to nationalize the web shops?
What are we lacking in our ability to think straight?
When did our imaginations and our critical thinking skills die?
Is it not fair to say that we have intellectually and morally failed as a nation?

This all sounds good.
So, why don't you do this in Florida?
I think I know the reason.