Ironically, Gowon Bowe conveniently forgot to address the brain drain scenario which is the "real gross wider issue" as to why we have such a skills gap in the first place!
The brain drain especially affects black Bahamians regardless that they are well educated and trained locally and abroad. These Bahamians NEVER get the opportunities and nowhere near the remuneration employers so willingly offer to ex-pats!
It is common knowledge that Bahamians educated abroad refuse to return here because they know without question that ex-pats are overwhelmingly favored for the best high-end positions regardless if they are less qualified.
These same black Bahamians are sort after and snapped up many times even before graduating from universities by foreign corporations all over the world, and are well known abroad as serious, productive, leading employees.
A frank conversation must be started on the existing apartheid mentality successive governments allowed employers to get away with under this false guise that there are no qualified Bahamians!
@bahamian242...Lol.....Regardless of all being said here, nothing justifies giving away the country!
Successive governments foolishly created this problem. Now **we all** have to do whatever is necessary, bite the bullet, and suffer whatever short to medium term fallout arises until enough Bahamians develop the skills, demeanor, and work ethics to help with truly building our nation in the long term.
Continuing on our current course already unquestionably proved to lead to higher unemployment resulting in more crime!
@bahamian242...Everyone and their dog know the Filipinos educated their people well. But why do we need university graduate blue-collar domestic workers? You are still missing the point. If every Bahamian is lazy, D-average and fat remain irrelevant. Those are still not reasons to give the country away! We MUST find solutions and exceptions for your so-called lazy, D-average and fat Bahamians.
If you are the only Bahamian that's not lazy, D-average and fat, then we need to study you to determine how to help more Bahamians emulate your behavior. Giving the country away is NOT an option!
Everyone and their dog knows the Filipinos educated their people well. But why do we need university graduate blue-collar domestic workers? You are still missing the point. If every Bahamian is lazy, D-average and fat remain irrelevant. Those are still not reasons to give the country away! We MUST find solutions and exceptions for your so-called lazy, D-average and fat Bahamians.
If you are the only Bahamian that's not lazy, D-average and fat, then we need to study you to determine how to help more Bahamians emulate your behavior. Giving the country away is NOT an option!
@ bahamian242. I am always amazed at how many people like you cannot comprehend what they read. What part of "blue-collar" jobs do you find difficult to understand?
Non-essential, low skilled, ex-pats should not be allowed to have work permits. Those jobs should be strictly reserved for Bahamian low skilled workers.
Try getting a domestic work permit for a Bahamian in the Phillapeans and you will be unpleasantly surprised to discover it is impossible to obtain! So why should we allow ex-pats to come from other countries to take jobs Bahamians can do when those same countries absolutely refuse to reciprocate in kind?
Time To Get Tough On Work Permits'? You think? Regardless of where I travel in Nassau, every time I turn around, I bump into Haitians and Filipinos doing low skilled jobs Bahamians should be doing.
Nassau is infested with Haitians and Filipinos, while Bahamians are left literally killing each other hustling a living on the streets!
Successive governments are equally responsible for failing to educate our people, then abandoning them like garbage to fend for themselves.
Although not perfect, I support this initiative 100%. something has to done to rectify the decades' old idiotic ex-pat open-door policy that is turning our people into criminals for survival.
No other country in the world abandoned its own people as the Bahamas has. Regardless of circumstances, countries fiercely protect jobs for their citizens. Try applying for a work permit for a Bahamian blue-collar worker in Haiti, Jamaica, Philippines, Latin America, Asia, Africa, or anywhere else these ex-pats come from and you will find it is impossible to get one!
If successive governments actually knew anything about tourism the Bahamas would be running neck and neck with Orlando!
The P3 Groups' offer is our opportunity to create a fun, sun, tourist destination that rivals Florida.
We will soon see if Dr. Minnis has what it takes to grab this magnificent bull by the horn and use this company to create a more competitive, sustainable tourism product.
Exactly! The bay street and sunshine boys are holding the "majority" hostage. So-called "majority rule" is a myth that needs to be dispelled so that a conversation can be started leading to a real equitable distribution of wealth!
Granted, what you said is all true. However, my "point" is that unemployment and lack of opportunity for citizens are the root causes of crime in the Bahamians!
We need a government with enough backbone to reverse the ex-pat open door policy which deprives our people of jobs and business opportunities.
Another out of touch political party. How could so-called intelligent, educated, people, be so dam dense that they can't simply look at where we came from to figure out how we got where we are now?
Prior to dumb Pindling, dumber Ingraham, and dumbest Christie, the Bahamas enjoyed over employment, Bahamians all had two or in some cases three jobs, there was no crime to speak of, and we never thought about locking our doors or partying until sunrise. Murders were something we heard about in the U.S. or other countries. On the very odd occasion, if there was a murder in the Bahamas, everybody went into deep shock!
Pindling, Ingraham, and Christie, with all their combined wisdom, decided we needed more people to build the country and opened the floodgates for Haitians and anybody else to come in and take jobs away from Bahamians.
The 3 stooges were so busy enriching bay street boys, sunshine boys, friends, family, lovers, and living high on the hog on peoples' backs, they never considered they had to actually educate the masses, and grow the economy commensurate with the massive false per capita population boom.
The 3 stooges abandoned the people they failed to educate, internationally labeled them as "D" average illiterates, and encouraged better-educated ex-pats from anywhere to come in and take jobs and entire sectors of the economy away from Bahamians. Over decades of this imbalance, Bahamians grew poorer and poorer, people began to despair, unable to find alternate means of survival, in desperation, they began turning to crime.
Bahamians now find themselves, unemployed, hopeless, with nowhere to turn for survival and supporting families other than "hustling" a living on the streets. As with any "job", the proper tools are essential. To hustle on the streets the required "tools" are guns and knives, resulting in the present crime wave, caused by the undeniable result of 50 years of failed governance!
The only solution to crime is to reverse the open door ex-pat policy, allow our people to get back to work, and give them the opportunity to earn a living.
SP says...
Ironically, Gowon Bowe conveniently forgot to address the brain drain scenario which is the "real gross wider issue" as to why we have such a skills gap in the first place!
The brain drain especially affects black Bahamians regardless that they are well educated and trained locally and abroad. These Bahamians NEVER get the opportunities and nowhere near the remuneration employers so willingly offer to ex-pats!
It is common knowledge that Bahamians educated abroad refuse to return here because they know without question that ex-pats are overwhelmingly favored for the best high-end positions regardless if they are less qualified.
These same black Bahamians are sort after and snapped up many times even before graduating from universities by foreign corporations all over the world, and are well known abroad as serious, productive, leading employees.
A frank conversation must be started on the existing apartheid mentality successive governments allowed employers to get away with under this false guise that there are no qualified Bahamians!
We have to face this reality and deal with it!
On Pinder warned over 'blunt' visa crackdown
Posted 16 January 2020, 5:30 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
@bahamian242...Lol.....Regardless of all being said here, nothing justifies giving away the country!
Successive governments foolishly created this problem. Now **we all** have to do whatever is necessary, bite the bullet, and suffer whatever short to medium term fallout arises until enough Bahamians develop the skills, demeanor, and work ethics to help with truly building our nation in the long term.
Continuing on our current course already unquestionably proved to lead to higher unemployment resulting in more crime!
On 'Time to get tough on work permits'
Posted 16 January 2020, 4:29 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
@bahamian242...Everyone and their dog know the Filipinos educated their people well. But why do we need university graduate blue-collar domestic workers? You are still missing the point. If every Bahamian is lazy, D-average and fat remain irrelevant. Those are still not reasons to give the country away! We MUST find solutions and exceptions for your so-called lazy, D-average and fat Bahamians.
If you are the only Bahamian that's not lazy, D-average and fat, then we need to study you to determine how to help more Bahamians emulate your behavior. Giving the country away is NOT an option!
On 'Time to get tough on work permits'
Posted 16 January 2020, 7:17 a.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Everyone and their dog knows the Filipinos educated their people well. But why do we need university graduate blue-collar domestic workers? You are still missing the point. If every Bahamian is lazy, D-average and fat remain irrelevant. Those are still not reasons to give the country away! We MUST find solutions and exceptions for your so-called lazy, D-average and fat Bahamians.
If you are the only Bahamian that's not lazy, D-average and fat, then we need to study you to determine how to help more Bahamians emulate your behavior. Giving the country away is NOT an option!
On 'Time to get tough on work permits'
Posted 16 January 2020, 6:37 a.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
@ bahamian242. I am always amazed at how many people like you cannot comprehend what they read. What part of "blue-collar" jobs do you find difficult to understand?
Non-essential, low skilled, ex-pats should not be allowed to have work permits. Those jobs should be strictly reserved for Bahamian low skilled workers.
Try getting a domestic work permit for a Bahamian in the Phillapeans and you will be unpleasantly surprised to discover it is impossible to obtain! So why should we allow ex-pats to come from other countries to take jobs Bahamians can do when those same countries absolutely refuse to reciprocate in kind?
On 'Time to get tough on work permits'
Posted 15 January 2020, 9:20 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Time To Get Tough On Work Permits'? You think? Regardless of where I travel in Nassau, every time I turn around, I bump into Haitians and Filipinos doing low skilled jobs Bahamians should be doing.
Nassau is infested with Haitians and Filipinos, while Bahamians are left literally killing each other hustling a living on the streets!
Successive governments are equally responsible for failing to educate our people, then abandoning them like garbage to fend for themselves.
Although not perfect, I support this initiative 100%. something has to done to rectify the decades' old idiotic ex-pat open-door policy that is turning our people into criminals for survival.
No other country in the world abandoned its own people as the Bahamas has. Regardless of circumstances, countries fiercely protect jobs for their citizens. Try applying for a work permit for a Bahamian blue-collar worker in Haiti, Jamaica, Philippines, Latin America, Asia, Africa, or anywhere else these ex-pats come from and you will find it is impossible to get one!
On 'Time to get tough on work permits'
Posted 15 January 2020, 2:49 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
If successive governments actually knew anything about tourism the Bahamas would be running neck and neck with Orlando!
The P3 Groups' offer is our opportunity to create a fun, sun, tourist destination that rivals Florida.
We will soon see if Dr. Minnis has what it takes to grab this magnificent bull by the horn and use this company to create a more competitive, sustainable tourism product.
On $1.5 billion Thank Yous
Posted 14 January 2020, 9:41 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Exactly! The bay street and sunshine boys are holding the "majority" hostage. So-called "majority rule" is a myth that needs to be dispelled so that a conversation can be started leading to a real equitable distribution of wealth!
On DNA leader: Crime is out of control
Posted 13 January 2020, 8 a.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Granted, what you said is all true. However, my "point" is that unemployment and lack of opportunity for citizens are the root causes of crime in the Bahamians!
We need a government with enough backbone to reverse the ex-pat open door policy which deprives our people of jobs and business opportunities.
On DNA leader: Crime is out of control
Posted 13 January 2020, 7:53 a.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Another out of touch political party. How could so-called intelligent, educated, people, be so dam dense that they can't simply look at where we came from to figure out how we got where we are now?
Prior to dumb Pindling, dumber Ingraham, and dumbest Christie, the Bahamas enjoyed over employment, Bahamians all had two or in some cases three jobs, there was no crime to speak of, and we never thought about locking our doors or partying until sunrise. Murders were something we heard about in the U.S. or other countries. On the very odd occasion, if there was a murder in the Bahamas, everybody went into deep shock!
Pindling, Ingraham, and Christie, with all their combined wisdom, decided we needed more people to build the country and opened the floodgates for Haitians and anybody else to come in and take jobs away from Bahamians.
The 3 stooges were so busy enriching bay street boys, sunshine boys, friends, family, lovers, and living high on the hog on peoples' backs, they never considered they had to actually educate the masses, and grow the economy commensurate with the massive false per capita population boom.
The 3 stooges abandoned the people they failed to educate, internationally labeled them as "D" average illiterates, and encouraged better-educated ex-pats from anywhere to come in and take jobs and entire sectors of the economy away from Bahamians. Over decades of this imbalance, Bahamians grew poorer and poorer, people began to despair, unable to find alternate means of survival, in desperation, they began turning to crime.
Bahamians now find themselves, unemployed, hopeless, with nowhere to turn for survival and supporting families other than "hustling" a living on the streets. As with any "job", the proper tools are essential. To hustle on the streets the required "tools" are guns and knives,
resulting in the present crime wave, caused by the undeniable result of 50 years of failed governance!
The only solution to crime is to reverse the open door ex-pat policy, allow our people to get back to work, and give them the opportunity to earn a living.
On DNA leader: Crime is out of control
Posted 11 January 2020, 7:26 p.m. Suggest removal