You really shouldn't strain your brain by trying to think, birdie.

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If there was a God, He would smite Perry Christie with another stroke. Taking a look at this fat belly (fat cat comes to mind), maybe the cholesterol will do what God can't or wont do.

I noticed that too. Maybe the contacts on the PLP brain implant are corroded and common sense is taking over. Or ... maybe there is a patriot hidden down there somewhere.

This is pure comedy. Everything that Fweddie touches, turns out to be pure comedy. Everything that the PLP touches is pure comedy. Baha Mar - pure comedy. Carnival - pure comedy. Laughing all the way to a failed state.

I bear one of the names of the 22 foundation names of the Black community of the Bahamas. I don't know how many generations of my ancestors are/were Bahamian. When I stood up for the Haitians, I was accused of being a Haitian. Because I dare point out the severe problems, and burst a rose-coloured glasses view of the Bahamas, I am not a Bahamian.

But I guess I should know better. Someone who quotes the prophecies of Myles Munroe (except that he got the dates wrong, and few little other details) .. well that says it all about reasoning ability.

Bottom line -- there are solutions. They are not deus-ex-machina solutions like a cadre of expats coming to save the Bahamas.

Those seeds will be sown by a home-grown patriot.

And as for being a hypocrite -- my job requires me to be here -- part time at least. I have a residency card that permits me to work in another office in a more civilised place. When I travel, it becomes apparent that we Bahamians have settled for a smaller life -- and it p*sses me off.

Interesting in the fact that the vendors are unlicensed.

Wow, apparently everything said about them in public by Fweddy was a BIG LIE!

I'm sorry that you don't like it and think that it is condescending when I call a spade a spade.

First there is a Bahamian patois, and it took me a couple of years to shake it, and I can still revert to it effortless.

"I een gern tell you how when I reach. Jess be known, dat I gots da powa ta do so".

Secondly, I do not believe that there is a generation of Bahamians that will return. I know of a Bahamian who is an MIT grad, programming copmuters for an insurance company at forty-something thousand a year. An MIT grad in the US can start as high as 90-100K per annum. Why should I return to have my children educated by second class educators, and live in Third World unsafe squalor?

Unless you have lived abroad, you don't know how dysfunctional life is here. You don't know how deprived and un-rich existence is on these islands. It is a cultural desert compared to Miami, Toronto, Houston or Boston.

And because you are normalised to it, you do not see how parochial and uneducated the bulk of the Bahamian population is. I disagree with your assessment that many Bahamian men think it is effeminate to hold an office job. When I play basketball with my friends who are either unemployed or work at menial jobs, they always are looking for an edge to get a better paying job -- especially an office job.

The rescue of the country will not happen from afar. It has to happen from within. Being employed by a foreign and traveling extensively gives one perspective and benchmark to evaluate Bahamian life at home. It is severely found wanting.

Some people just don't like it when a mirror is held up to them, to destroy their cherished self-delusions.

There are industries other than manufacturing that can absorb and employ several thousand semi-literate and semi-numerate Bahamian employees. It would take a few million dollars (less than what the government spends on Carnival) to build the infrastructure to create these jobs, but no one has the vision to determine what these jobs are, or how to set up for them. All that the PLP can see with the tunnel vision out of their rectums, is lowly tourism jobs of bed-making and baggage handling.

We could have a workforce that would take away jobs from the Philippines or Malaysia and pay a decent wage to Bahamian workers, in a clean tech setting that the workers would enjoy.

Simply reading WIRED magazine will give you an idea of what these jobs could be. (No, it's not call centers, although they would work as well.) The advantage is that the Bahamians could learn to speak proper English faster than the Filipinos. (Bahamian patois is not an acceptable language of business).

Building these economic segments is like sowing seeds. Businesses arise to support these workers, and soon enough you will have full technology parks like the ones in Jamaica that are taking Bahamian banking call center jobs away from us.

There are answers to the conundrum of generations of poorly educated Bahamians. They are employable in large numbers within the resource limitations of the Bahamas. However, no one wants to think outside the box, and actually make the conditions to put Bahamians to work.

How much is Fred Mitchell and the PLP paying you birdie? If you were in Jonestown with Jim Jones, you would have been first in line for the Kool Aid.