LOL

Tings dat make you go hmmmmmm

I often get asked for reputational opinion for people in the Bahamas. Ray Winder goes into my corruption database.

This is a pretty naive view, although it is a correct one. The Bahamas needs to do something about food security. We have enough reserves to last three months worth of food for the Bahamian population. The bitter pill though, is that food production in agriculture is a complicated thing.
First of all, agri-businesses offshore, in the USA, Canada and other countries receive huge subsidies from their governments. Even with import taxes, Bahamian farmers cannot compete price-wise because these economies of scale. How can a corn farmer with 10 acres compete with an Iowa corn farmer of 1000 acres who is heavily mechanized and receives subsidies? Then there is the cost of fertilizer and pesticides which must be imported and are hellishly expensive. We do not have the arable land nor the appropriate climate to compete for breadbasket items.
That being said, there is plenty of room for niche agriculture and organically growing the things that can be grown with intensive agriculture. Yes these products will cost more, but they will be healthier and will contribute to food security. The problem is that a vast majority of the Bahamian population has only the money to buy cheap processed foods and cheap fast foods. All of this goes to the monolithic Bahamian economy.
This is a tough nut to crack. It must be dealt with in an innovative fashion, with some government help, and our government is broke.
Again, another seemingly unsolvable problem.

There is a backstory to these two gents.

Ego before country. Totally expected that.

The domestic chicken is a rat with wings. Dere een no domestic chicken.

The government has always disregarded polite requests. The government thinks that it is the font of knowledge. That is why our Financial Services has declined. That is why we are still a "developing" country. That is why our standard of living has declined. That is why our economy is a mess. That is why we don't have a Tech Hub yet. That is why mediocrity is king in this archipelago. And the citizens meekly accept it as their fate. The sheeple need to stop being sheeple, and perhaps this is one way of getting the government to take notice.

Women are respected if they are women of substance, but not the same substance as in a Large Buttered Tart. I mean substance like the brain substance of Dr. Gail Saunders, Nicole Bethel, Dr. Olivia Saunders and dems. Not the pneumatic lipids and triglycerides and all mouth kinds like LBT.