Going back to the '40's '50's alright, but due to incompetent Government, muddy business environment and non compliance with international tax treaties and IMF overlord instructions!
Unions will collapse due to no membership, due to no damn jobs!

Good Lord we are going back to this again?
Didn't work the first time around, ('70's-80's?) so we are going to have shortages as we do now.
All because we can't manage crap, as opposed to not paying foreign vendors for plates?
Incompetence abounds.
Who (insider, cousin, politician etc) is waiting in the wings for this "contract"?

How on earth are they expected to steal and pillage from the treasury
if all is open to view? There must be some panicked Larcenous people pretty stressed right now.
Slush, theft, shrouded in slackness.
What will they do? The answer is probably nothing,
as they will still sit atop the pile of crap locally.
with a 90% willfully blind population still supporting them.
Any of them.

I agree on the potential for the legal fraternity, however our presence at these conferences and treaty negotiations have been haphazard at best, including the firing of the Bahamas negotiating contingent, replaced by Two People! (Raymond Winder and Zhivargo Laing)
Apparently too much information was being "leaked" into the public domain.
How strange. Perhaps this is where Christie learned his "Chinese negotiation strategy!)
All this aside the 5 year "switch sides" debacle that leaves the country in the lurch every time.
Lack of continuity is our strong suit.

This is the result of having the Lawyers and politicians enmeshed for more than 40 years,
They've finally outsmarted themselves!
Always finagling, scheming and finding ways around rules, domestic or international, with a hand on the political power for protection/manipulation, never thinking about long term consequences.
The Economist is right, and by Signing the EU-EPA the Bahamas will be opened up in short order.
If not, more sanctions by WTO etc.
The Banker is right, in that the "establishment" (old and newer) will resist and refuse to believe change can be forced.
Maybe it is what is required to flush out the last of the Nassau Rats.
Maybe we will just fail.
I see no moves being made to avert failure, I just see more pillaging, more retreating.

Rigging in that party election will put the "regularized" rigging of General elections to shame!

As pathetic as it is, having to shame someone into get off their backside to get things done,
namely their damn job,
it shows maybe the Government should outsource assessments and work orders to the private sector!
In effect that is what the Tribune is doing!

Uh Oh, severe dieting coming soon!
Inter Island shipping logistics and food storage has been the #1 problem for the movement of locally grown produce since the 60's!
Detailed in one of the earliest "studies" done in 1968, I remember the harbor red with Tomatoes thrown off boats by case loads incoming from Eleuthera hearing from outgoing boats that potters cay was overloaded and taking no more.
Ridiculous then, ridiculous now.

Almost fell over at slightly ahead of Schedule and on budget!
Mind, they've only swept and cleared junk so far.
Junk will re-accumulate quick enough, and the budget will get blown,
so my astonishment is pre-mature.

first critical mistake: “We intend to go much further in moving this country forward from where it got stalled in the ’70s to rebuilding the middle class, to re-empowering financially with subsidies for the middle class; making education once again free and including tertiary level, provided persons meet the grade; and to maintaining health care as free, and not just this debacle of NHI, of paying twice for the same public health system."
No different that the failures of the last 40 odd years.
Subsidies, while "unofficial" via patronage, cronyism and self dealing, are exactly what the PLP and FNM have done to great personal success.
There is no way you can separate all the government minions from their expected perks.
Your people will be on that gravy train from day one. You will owe them.
Re-packaging the same drivel and promises will not change a damn thing.
Picked out a party banner color yet?