**Also a behaviour of great danger currently affecting safety on the road, is: Drivers texting and / or talking on the cellular phones !** surely you also have seen this ! I saw a driver looking and texting on his ipad while it was resting on the wheel, as we were slowly approaching a round about. Many, many drive holding the wheel with one hand and the other holding the cellular to the ear, talking and driving. In the USA, Canada, Europe, and other countries, this practice is written in the Law as being against the Law. In some other is allowed as long as the cellular is fixed on the dashboard, hands free. But even so, there is the danger of accident by distraction.
**Another frightening practice** I notice is drivers driving with high beams blinding the incoming driver. Many do not understand the message one tries to send by blinking one´s signal, it means: Please lower your BEAM.

I am a mother of three young adults, two of them left the bahamas almost two years now, disillusioned with the current environment and lack of opportunities, the two remaining members of the family hope to leave as soon as we are able to sell the home. We waited for life here to improve but instead is gotten worse in every important way. Uprooting is complicated but it can be done and beginning again somewhere else is better sooner rather than later. The grass is not always greener somewhere else but in the Bahamas the grass is dying. Unless the people unite and demand change, change will not happen. As the will of the people goes, so goes the country.

I am a Realtor - the Bahamas Real Estate Association (BREA) sends from November of each year emails reminding all members that the fee will be due for payment by the end of December the fee due for payment applies to the following year period. If the fee is not paid ontime, the association allows the realtor a grace period of at least 6 months and before the agent's license is cancelled a number of emails are sent as reminders to pay the fee. This is done by BREA routinely every year. There is no excuse for any agent to claim he/she didn´t know the fee was due. Claiming that, is simply an excuse, or possibly an oversight. I suspect some of the names in the list are people with legitimate reasons for non-payment, others may fall in that current culture of people who think they are VIPs and therefore not required to pay. Majority of paying agents make it a priority to pay the fee even in this very difficult economy.