No. It's because you have
a b c d e f u

The D is in the middle. I have this from a 20 year veteran educator.

It's also ironic that the last 2 letters taken on their own truly spell out the policy.

I actually don't think one week of school here or there makes a difference. The true problem in our system is the Government's refusal to have an on par grading system with Canada and the USA so that our kids can have the actual C average that they truly are at - reflected on their report cards. Some have suggested that this is a conspiracy to prevent even more kids from going to the USA and Canada and never returning than there are even now. Unless someone can give another reason why we deliberately take a C average and force it to be reported as a D, I have to believe the conspiracy.
It's not working though. Anyone with 5 brain cells or more is making plans to get the heck out of here as quickly as possible - before the new flag raising ceremony.

I'm thinking of approaching the new year with a whole new attitude. Seeing how bad things for Bahamians are always happening and being created and perpetuated by our government - I can only conclude that my view has been wrong all this time, and simply opposite. I need to start seeing "bad" as "good" and seeing "good" as "bad". In that way, things will look just rosy for me all the time.

So therefore, from this article, I must conclude - kids being out of school a longer time and not learning anything while they are there, and the existence of the grade "E" which forces the average to be a D (while there is no E in the USA) - are all good things. Bahamian students suffering and being made ignorant under our system of education - yes, a good thing it is. I call for even more ignorance. Let's have more.

Can we throw away all textbooks and forbid anyone under the age of 18 from accessing a library or the Internet? That would be even better. Can we get more leaking roofs and broken ceiling fans and broken water fountains in the schools? There must be a company in the USA that goes around and collects all these broken things from their schools (the same day they break) - we can import them here and set them up to be eyesores. Heck, there's a lot of ignorant things we can do - we just have to put our mind to it.

There is nothing Bahamians (by vast majority) love more than Haitians. They patronize and frequent their businesses. Food, clothing, household items, you name it. Laborers, delivery drivers, gardeners, maids, you name it. All Haitian. The Fish Fry, the Straw Market, all kinda Haitian. They marrying them up every weekend.

If a Bahamian has a dollar in his pocket, he is very very likely to give it to a Haitian in preference to a Bahamian any day of the week. A job? Don't even apply if you are a Bahamian - waste of ink.

I don't see anything wrong with this. It is democracy in action. It's a choice and people should be able to make free choices and pick and choose.

Could the Defense Force start making weekly trips to Haiti in January and throughout the new year and start bringing Haitians here by the thousands each month and Government could give them spanking new passports as they walk off the dock? That would be good. It would make everyone happy.

It's a new near. Let's do this !!!! More Haitians. The more the merrier.

"...and potentially even derail, a major foreign direct investment (FDI) project that the Government was relying on heavily to turn around Grand Bahama’s moribund economy."

"Moribund". I like it. Cool choice of a word for Freeport. Instead of saying, "horrible", "pathetic", "dead", "bankrupt", or "sucks like a brand new vacuum cleaner" - let's say "moribund". Nobody can say there ain't no thesaurus at The Tribune.

Notice there is no web link to the data given in this article. Anyway, i tracked it down on the Central Bank website and it is a load of rubbish. I combed thru it and there is no way to see where the VAT money gone.

Just macroeconomic figures that the IDB and huge corporations can use to see our weak points and devise strategies to further enslave us. That in itself is not really worth all this effort cause there ain't much "further" we can be enslaved.

Correct. As a Bahamian the only "benefit" you get is free ink for ya fingah every 5 years. And that ink don't do you no good. It's the same ink from the last time.

So yall make all kinda noise about new KYC and new financial regulation scrutiny and properties being overvalued for tax purposes and long wait times for Deed recordings and searches and approvals for exchange control being modified etc and now all of a sudden "Realtors are optimistic"????

Is that what we used to call crying wolf?

... and while that is all going on, at the same time, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ, please reopen the road thru the Princess properties.

Minnis should summon the top 5 chiefs from Buckeye and the top 5 from Stat Oil in a private meeting (each individual person separate) - so that's ten quick 10 minute meetings. 1 hour and 40 minutes total. Get their input.

If they worried about nothing except competition, then go for it. Do it. Get crackin. Put some diesel in them dozers. May 10th will be two years of doing as close to nothing as possible for FPO as they could. Get something done quick.

Go back to the deal with MSC buying the Port Authority that Perry approved of. Get it done. Let some of the boys from MSC fly to London and meet the kids and make them an offer they can't refuse. Those kids aint interested in FPO anyway. Should be an easy sell. Get it done.

Get it done. What a concept.