Im sitting at my keyboard, practicing self discipline. LOL

You good - just dont write "Mudda" on your application lol lol lol

I do not agree with you that they are brain dead. They are smart and well educated. I think that their words are likely just crafted for public consumption. You hear a lot of the same out of the US. Feel good words to keep spirits up generally i think. It seems to work because here and in USA, no matter how much wrong either Party does in power, while out of power their sins are forgiven so they can be elected right back again in a few years.
It's the people and the entertainment industry mainly at fault.

$1.7 billion dollars in reserves?????? lol lol lol. So they have this money and yet they waste paperwork accepting a measly $10m from Finance?

Dont make me laugh. There is no account in the Bahamas with 1 point 7 billion dollars in it.

or maybe the bn after the $1.7 means one point seven Bahamian nickles ????? LOL

Where do these people get these ideas from? Have we hired a special consulting group from abroad to just sit around all day and come up with jokes?

A cruise ship costs around $100 million dollars. Is she suggesting that NIB could buy and pay in cash for 17 cruise ships if the Financial Secretary ordered her to? Yet we continue to hope and pray that Carnival and Royal Caribbean "come through" ? Mind boggling.

Yes ... very magnanimous of them :-)

Yes, your prediction is a potential one - but only because nobody ever knows where the hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign loans upon loans ever goes. Where do hundreds of millions go? Anyone?

In addition, isnt it hilarious that while this PM has not held any Cabinet post (a good thing), esp Min of Finance like his predecessors, that at the same time we just can never seem to have an actual Financial Secretary. It's always some guy from Hollywood, who's "acting".

I can't blame the government for that. Whenever I visit Abaco I see too many foreign flags being flown. A complete lack of patriotism it seems. Too many people there give praises to foreign countries, let the foreign countries help them now.

LOL

The answer to your questions is: video games, phones, chat room / groups, television, and an understanding by students (even at their level) that they don't need a good education to work at a fast food restaurant.

Government needs to seriously address (without the Christian Counsel) the issue of teen pregnancy, children without parents over 21 years of age who were themselves born to parents under 21, psychological issues such as pent up anger, depression, anxiety, extreme peer pressure greater than when we were in school, and inability to focus due to extremely short attention span caused by the changing "scenes" in video games.

We have widespread psychological issues that are impeding the ability for students to learn and become productive citizens. All of our big companies in this country are being sold out (and citizens complain about government selling public corporations) - but the truth is, there is nobody who can run them here. We are not producing a viable workforce. Schools are babysitting centers, and God forbid anyone should suggest students are ill or need any psychological help or are at fault in any way.

The method applied is just to treat them with kid gloves and hope for the best and thank God when they turn 18 their lives will then be their problem. This ignores the fact that everyone's problems are everyone's problems. NIB needs to be paid by high wage earners. Crime affects everyone and so on. A country full of ignorance and incompetence is no country at all.

We need real leadership on this problem, someone who realizes that to make an omelette you have to crack some eggs. The longer we try to protect children's "feelings", the more we condemn them to a life of real and significant bad feelings.

One Grand Bahamian is easily worth 1000 ordinary Bahamians. That is an unshakeable fact. Notice the old term "grand" to mean $1000. A thousand. And a thousand x a thousand is a million which is what Freeport people are really worth. Everyone knows the capital of the Bahamas should have been made to be Freeport in 1967 - but there was politics at play (as always) - and so now we have 70% of the country jam packed into a dirty, crime filled cesspool, and somehow people have been brainwashed into thinking that is a beautiful.

If Nassau people are truly upset with this article, and my comments - why not rally together and petition the government to remove Grand Bahama as a part of the Bahamas and offer it back to England? Or to the USA of which it is already a part for all practical purposes.