Good point! Marijuana flourishes here with just novice growers. BAMSI could become an economically viable operation with-in a 24 month period and we could still maintain our goal of feeding ourselves!
More studies are also needed for cancer, Alzheimers, leukemia, flu, balding, and the common cold as well!
The point is, we have a choice.
Either move hastily to jump on this rapidly evolving cash cow bandwagon now **OR** spend the next 3 years debating and waiting for our brilliant Bahamian "researchers" to successfully prove that the global scientific fraternity was wrong in their findings on the merits of marijuana, leading to a worldwide reversal of legalization, medicinal, and recreational use!
Rest assured the window of opportunity to "lead" is already well beyond our reach and in 2 to 3 years there will be very little crumbs left.
I personally do not understand how anyone could remotely question what we should be doing.
Here we go again trying to convince ourselves to recreate another wheel. The only thing the Bahamas "lead" in is political stupidity, corruption and doing nothing!
Why on earth are we suggesting more studies when "real" countries have already concluded the benefits of marijuana? There is already enough evidence available.
As humanitarians and our brother's keeper, we must do all possible to ensure Mr. Jean Rony Jean-Charles, his parents, siblings and all like them are returned to the country of their allegiance so they can fly their Haitian flags with dignity and great respect while celebrating Haitian flag day on May 18th in their beloved capital!
GOD'S speed to them all. May they never return to the Bahamas.
Why is this man being ostracized? TIM Rider's comments were true to the facts and everybody is up in arms!
Successive inept, corrupt, governments destroyed the Bahamian economy by failing to educate our people and stupidly replacing the Bahamian workforce with too many expat foreign workers that repatriate income which eroded spend in the local economy thereby crushing the volume of business available to the banking sector.
25 years of the asinine political stupidity of Hubert Alexander Ingraham and Perry Gladstone Christie "leadership" is the root cause of the collapse of the Bahamas!
These two prime ministers sold the country out to Haitians, Asians, Latinos, Jamaicans, Africans, Chinese and now Indians that have regulated the average Bahamians to mass unemployment and soup kitchen lines for survival.
The powers that be need to man up and make obvious changes to rectify unemployment and domestic spending to fix the economy and shore up the banking sector. It is no great surprise that the fastest growing business in the country is money transfer companies repatriating expat income to home countries while local bank business shrinks proportionately as Bahamians are no longer players in the employment arena and have no money to bank.
PM Minnis running from pillar to post attempting to create new job opportunities is a futile effort when all he needs to do is have Bahamians placed in short-term training programs to replace foreign blue-collar workers, which will have an immediate sustainable positive effect on the economy.
Getting rid of Mr. Rider will not resolve the main problem of too many people repatriating income out of the local economy.
I do not accept the notion that their financing was in question causing the PLP to delay the project. How difficult could it be for the government to contact their bankers and request confirmation of financing?
More than likely, Christie, Ingraham and their usual group of pirates were attempting to manipulate the investor and use them as a political football for personal gain!
It is absolutely astonishing that no one here has called this boy that murdered 17 innocent people and shot up a school, any derogatory names!
Imagine the name calling and racial slurs from you people had a black Bahamian robbed or attacked a tourist. Why is it that civility is maintained when a white perpetrator commits heinous crimes?
The Willie Lynch Syndrome and racial bias are alive and well in the Bahamas.
SP says...
Good point! Marijuana flourishes here with just novice growers. BAMSI could become an economically viable operation with-in a 24 month period and we could still maintain our goal of feeding ourselves!
On 'Let's lead the way on medical marijuana'
Posted 24 February 2018, 8:32 a.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
More studies are also needed for cancer, Alzheimers, leukemia, flu, balding, and the common cold as well!
The point is, we have a choice.
Either move hastily to jump on this rapidly evolving cash cow bandwagon now **OR** spend the next 3 years debating and waiting for our brilliant Bahamian "researchers" to successfully prove that the global scientific fraternity was wrong in their findings on the merits of marijuana, leading to a worldwide reversal of legalization, medicinal, and recreational use!
Rest assured the window of opportunity to "lead" is already well beyond our reach and in 2 to 3 years there will be very little crumbs left.
I personally do not understand how anyone could remotely question what we should be doing.
On 'Let's lead the way on medical marijuana'
Posted 24 February 2018, 7:56 a.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Here we go again trying to convince ourselves to recreate another wheel. The only thing the Bahamas "lead" in is political stupidity, corruption and doing nothing!
Why on earth are we suggesting more studies when "real" countries have already concluded the benefits of marijuana? There is already enough evidence available.
http://www.businessinsider.com/health-b…
The Bahamas has already lost “the whole loaf,” and still cannot decide on “catching the crumbs” in this well proven viable industry.
On 'Let's lead the way on medical marijuana'
Posted 23 February 2018, 5:37 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
As humanitarians and our brother's keeper, we must do all possible to ensure Mr. Jean Rony Jean-Charles, his parents, siblings and all like them are returned to the country of their allegiance so they can fly their Haitian flags with dignity and great respect while celebrating Haitian flag day on May 18th in their beloved capital!
GOD'S speed to them all. May they never return to the Bahamas.
On Jean Rony ‘lost automatic right to citizenship'
Posted 22 February 2018, 8:05 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Please enlighten me to exactly what "facts" are missing? Is living proof not "factual" enough for you?
Tim spoke the pure unadulterated truth and **WE** need to pull our heads out of our backsides, remove our tribal colors, and deal with it!
On RBC executive retires after blasting education of nation
Posted 22 February 2018, 7:15 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Why is this man being ostracized? TIM Rider's comments were true to the facts and everybody is up in arms!
Successive inept, corrupt, governments destroyed the Bahamian economy by failing to educate our people and stupidly replacing the Bahamian workforce with too many expat foreign workers that repatriate income which eroded spend in the local economy thereby crushing the volume of business available to the banking sector.
25 years of the asinine political stupidity of Hubert Alexander Ingraham and Perry Gladstone Christie "leadership" is the root cause of the collapse of the Bahamas!
These two prime ministers sold the country out to Haitians, Asians, Latinos, Jamaicans, Africans, Chinese and now Indians that have regulated the average Bahamians to mass unemployment and soup kitchen lines for survival.
The powers that be need to man up and make obvious changes to rectify unemployment and domestic spending to fix the economy and shore up the banking sector. It is no great surprise that the fastest growing business in the country is money transfer companies repatriating expat income to home countries while local bank business shrinks proportionately as Bahamians are no longer players in the employment arena and have no money to bank.
PM Minnis running from pillar to post attempting to create new job opportunities is a futile effort when all he needs to do is have Bahamians placed in short-term training programs to replace foreign blue-collar workers, which will have an immediate sustainable positive effect on the economy.
Getting rid of Mr. Rider will not resolve the main problem of too many people repatriating income out of the local economy.
On RBC executive retires after blasting education of nation
Posted 22 February 2018, 6:48 a.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
This is total nonsense!
I do not accept the notion that their financing was in question causing the PLP to delay the project. How difficult could it be for the government to contact their bankers and request confirmation of financing?
More than likely, Christie, Ingraham and their usual group of pirates were attempting to manipulate the investor and use them as a political football for personal gain!
On Questions raised over refinery deal
Posted 20 February 2018, 6:38 a.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Brave....."We knew about the proposal and had some concerns about the proposal"
**Translation**
Christie was too busy dancing bout da place and shaking down Baha Mar and didn't have enough time to shakedown Oban Energies investors enough!
On Questions raised over refinery deal
Posted 19 February 2018, 10:30 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Our country is in dire shambles. Bahamians and the country were better off 3 decades ago than they are today.
WTF intelligence and wisdom history are you referring to???? PLP took the country from the future backward 30 years to nowhere!
On Davis slams Moultrie for 'wilful, malicious attacks'
Posted 16 February 2018, 7:15 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
It is absolutely astonishing that no one here has called this boy that murdered 17 innocent people and shot up a school, any derogatory names!
Imagine the name calling and racial slurs from you people had a black Bahamian robbed or attacked a tourist. Why is it that civility is maintained when a white perpetrator commits heinous crimes?
The Willie Lynch Syndrome and racial bias are alive and well in the Bahamas.
On Gunman kills at least 17 people at Florida high school
Posted 16 February 2018, 7:23 a.m. Suggest removal