The server could well have been running for 93 days. To anyone who knows IT, that is a laughable figure that means nothing. The server is just the server. It could be up and running and not have a functioning radar attached to it. Just because the server was running doesn't mean that the radar was operative.

Server have what is known as daemons to gather input on a real time basis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(c… The print server is an example of a daemon. The daemon that connects to the radar could be alive and well, but not receiving data from a malfunctioning radar piece of hardware, in the same way that you can send a print on your computer to the print queue, and it doesn't give you an error message, but the printer connected to the print daemon has zombied out and your print doesn't come out.

This 93 days of server logs is bull. It means nothing to those who know the slightest bit about computers. Nice try ya bunch of liars. The real title of this piece should say Met Office Logs shows radar server was working. Whether the radar was or not is indeterminate from the logs.

The explanation is very long, but it would have saved the project. It allows the project to carry on, in spite of being broke. Izmirlian was going to inject the necessary money to keep it going while finding other financing to complete the project.

The currency talk is about saving the Bahamian economy now that tourism as well as Foreign Direct Investment is collapsing. There was a slowdown of FDI, and now that the world knows what happens to foreigners who invest thanks to the dunderhead criminals Christie, Mayonnaise-Gibson et al, they know that they cannot trust their money to the Bahamaland with those slimey b*stards in power.

Oh stop the ignorant foolishness -- banning the Bahamian dollar. Have you ever been to the Cayman Islands? You can pay either in Caymani dollars or American dollars. And the store clerks are literate enough to the do the conversions on the spot. Each cash register has a handy little calculator next to it that the clerks use.

>the Government would have to be able to convert one for one,

... or reduce the money supply, which also would not be very good for the average Bahamian. Generally, when dollarization occurs, an exchange rate is established, and you can bet that it won't be one to one. There will be immense pain for the common people, but it can be a very handy implement as the government can reduce crippling domestic debt by devaluing the Bahamian dollar. They can cut it in half with a judicious devaluation. Unfortunately the price of groceries would skyrocket, and crime would probably increase in the short term. However in the long term the country could get back on its feet with economic diversification denominated in American dollars.

Exactly. My original point was that the dollar would not float. It would still be pegged to the American dollar but not 1 to 1. It would not be a convertible currency and not be traded on the world currency markets. There would be no value to that, and it would be traded at levels of a few cents to the American dollar. With the currency reserves and a peg, it would probably fall to about 30 cents, or about three Bahamian dollars to one American dollar. And that by no means would be the floor. It could go lower.

I would go for dollarizing the economy and throwing out the Bahamian dollar and making the American dollar the currency of the Bahamas. Dollarization has worked well and not so well. It has worked in Ecuador and not worked so well in El Salvador. However there have been other mitigating factors in El Salvador, such as galloping inflation. It would work in the Bahamas because of the tourism influx of American dollars.

Tal is one of those people who threw their hat in with the PLP and invested their entire lives in it. And then when they come to the bitter realisation, they they were comrades with a phony, criminal, devolved, deviant, odious organisation, there really was/is only one option, and that is to deny the truth and still support the criminal gang that let them down and made their lives a laughingstock.

These people -- are not stupid or ignorant -- they are trapped in a lie in which they invested their lives in, and now they are trying to save what personal dignity they may keep in their own legacies. It is really sad, because each new revelation chips away at their self worth. They all know that history will eventually see the PLP as uncivilised, animalistic brutal thugs, and so they have to choice but to defend them, and distort and deny the truth. These people are real broken legacy of the PLP. They believed in them, and were grievously let down.

Like the beggars in the marketplace, they gather their torn robes around them to try to preserve what little personal dignity that they have left. The "comrade" shtik is that they want to believe that we are all in the same boat, because misery loves company. They destroy enlightenment to hopelessly try and save their own dignity.

You cannot pray a lie, but they try.

There is a devaluation scenario with the peg. Right now, to enable the peg to remain on par with the American dollar, the Central Bank keeps reserves of dollars and instruments denominated in American dollars.

If the world financial community decides that the economic output of the Bahamas requires double, or triple, or even ten times the amount of American dollar reserves, and we cannot come up with the money, then the peg will be at a fraction of the American dollar instead of at par. That is how devaluation will work.

You are still not getting it birdie.

Let me try again. Here is another example that you may understand. Suppose a man comes home from work early, and sees a strange bicycle in the drive. This is strange. Instead of going in, he peeks through the bedroom window, and quickly gets a glimpse of his wife -- naked, and the man also naked. He is devastated.

But suppose in his quick glimpse, he fails to see that his wife is crying, and the man on the bicycle is a rapist and intruder. What he saw, gave him a completely different idea of what was really happening. However the scene that he saw, bears a resemblance to a woman fooling around on her husband.

All Dr. Knowles was saying was that the burning of the shanty town bears a resemblance to Kristallnacht. That's all. In the case of Kristallnacht ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristalln… ) it was the government inciting the people to destroy the belongings of the Jews. He does not draw any conclusions about the shanty town burnings other than it bears a resemblance for the points that I mentioned, in the same way of the example that I gave you.

Can you understand this?

This is what Baha Mar will look like in six months.

http://tribune242.com/users/photos/2015…