You basically nailed all the reasons why men get married. Three or more of those reasons actually apply to a lot of men simultaneously. What your "fascination" didn't conclude in the article is if this has changed your personal opinion(s) on marriage or does this just serve as an informational wake-up call for our women? The tone does seem to suggest that marriage may really be over-rated.

Welcome back Mr. D'Aguilar! You had gone silent for awhile. We miss your big juicy mouth breathing fire on this government's incompetence. I believe that we are in worse shape than the statistics currently show. If the government were to trim the fat from our bloated public service sector, we would have closer to 40,000 unemployed. Add to this the 5,000 - 6,000 school-leavers every year and one can see that we are headed towards an economic disaster. We can't keep building mega-resorts to absorb all of the jobless. They better come up with some new ideas quick!

'generalcrazy', these boards are for intelligent people who have something worthwhile to say or contribute to the discussion based on the preceding article. Obviously this doesn't include you since you frequently resort to your gutter mentality and spew all sorts of nonsense. Please stay out of grown folks business. Then again, what would one expect from someone with your screen name.

Ms. Burrows, I can't really figure it out myself either. It seems like our people are so used to seeing our politicians as some demigods that they have automatically assumed subservient roles, grateful just to be acknowledged by the people we actually hired! But can this just be a trait of small island nations that are considered too laid-back with 'chill' attitudes? If we look at our neighbors in the region, quite a number of Caricom member states are also suffering from bad governance. But I can't think of any besides Haiti where there are any frequent demonstrations against the government. Does it take us getting to the dire situation of a Haiti before we become activists in our own country? With all the scandals and incompetence that occurs in our Country, Rawson Square shown be constantly filled with 'Revolutionaries' demanding change. Maybe this is just something that 'First World' developed countries do. Our politicians have always said in the past that they want to take the Bahamas to 'First World' status. Maybe they should be careful about what they wish for.........................

True, true!! This government seems like a bad dream from which the Bahamian people cannot wake up from.

Yes, yes! I forgot those. Thank you. I'm sure the list will keep getting longer everyday. I hope the Bahamian people keep this government's feet to the fire until they are voted out!

Let's see; under this government we are up to Scandal/Incompetence Number.............????? (Please help complete the following list because there are so many it's hard to recall all of them).

1). Renward Wells Letter of Intent
2). The Maynard-Gibson/Fitzgerald nolle prosequi
3). The Gambling Referendum
4). The Junkanoo Carnival fiasco
5). Complete silence on the BEC bribe situation
6). Delay of the Opening of the PMH Critical Care Block
7). Crime out of control even though they claimed they had the solutions during the elections
8). Secret Spy Agency with no legislation in place
9). Alleged abuse of detainees at the Detention Center
10). Proposed NHI taxation roll-out right after VAT implementation
11). Ongoing fires at the Dump
12). Secret officials behind Renew Bahamas
13). bamsi
14). btc (Gov't math: 49% + 2% = 49% = Gov't retaining control)
15). BEC
16). Gov't members self-promotion to Queen's Counsel (watch those legal fees get higher!)
17). Fast-track implementation of stem cell legislation as a favour to wealthy benefactor
18). Gov't members pictured chilling out at 'resort home' of wealthy benefactor
19). Delay of Freedom of Information Act
20). AG's 'forgetfulness' regarding her promised report of her meeting with the Financial Action Task Force in Europe prior to legalization of the numbers boys.
21). Foreign Minister with an overly obsessive penchant for traveling
22). Gov't ministers that frequently contradict each other
23) PM with the gift of gab but frequently says nothing
24) The PHA scandal

Unfortunately, this is a pipe dream. By the time our government figure out how they want to manage and develop Freeport moving forward, Cuba will already have attracted most of the potential investment in the area. We missed the boat with Grand Bahama.

Thank you! She also needs to table that report (like she promised) on her meetings in Europe regarding the webshops. We never heard anything about this again. I'm certain they were skeptical about legalizing the 'Numbers' boys.

Miss Burrows, the more things change, the more they stay the same! These same people who cussing the PLP now will be the first in line to vote for them come 2017. You will see them jumping up at the rallies preceding the elections waving their free T-shirts (which I personally use to wash my car). It doesn't take much to regain the support of disgruntled PLP supporters. A free ham or turkey at Xmas, some drinks, a rally T-shirt, and the empty promise of a government or Urban Renewal job will have the PLP back in power for another 15 years. In reality, if the opposition parties do not form a coalition party to contest the next election, you can expect that things will remain the same for a long time to come.