Patriotism is dead. Algernon Allen and Pratt are an international disgrace to the Bahamas. Imagine being in charge of public money and not wanting accountability. In a civilised jurisdiction, they would be facing criminal charges.

Checkmate Warren. Are you gonna hide and cower and hope there is no extradition or are you just going to stop going to the United States for the rest of your life? Or will you face it like a man and go up the river to the big house in the US for a few years, like your old boss Martin Tremblay at Dominion Securities did.

My five-year old niece wants to know why in the picture, Jesus is pirate.

I guess it begs the deeper question of can poor-socialised individuals with no value programming be saved? Can a tiger change its spots? A lot of the young men today are children of children raised in a single parent situation with a parent who was emotionally immature with poor parenting skills. The experiment has gone horribly wrong. Can we fix this? Do we have to wait 20 years and start with a new generation?

Just thinking out loud here. There is no help from the government in reducing crime. The economy is not helpful with its deteriorating picture due to non-diversification. Social programmes aren't doing much good. Putting up signs on the library to "Protect ya tings" and wear condoms is just plain embarrassing for the tourists to see.

If there is going to be an answer, and an answer coming soon, it has to be a grassroots movement. I was just reading about a grassroots movement in Northern Ireland about how the mothers who were just plain weary of burying their sons in sectarian violence, banded together and started a peace movement on both sides of the divide. A grassroots movement that mobilises people, if it gains momentum, is an agent for change.

One possible such movement, can incorporate the Mailman Paradigm of Community Building (my term). The Bahamas never had a mailman system, but in the 1950's and 1960'sm the mailman was the daily glue of suburban society. He visited every house, he delivered the mail. He reported breakins. He saved the mail when people traveled. He knew the neighbourhood. There were even jokes that no one will understand these days, of how a certain child in the neighbourhood looks like the mailman.

I've seen the mailman paradigm work in healthcare, where certain people with minimal yet effective training visit every home in a village (they get a dollar per visit -- donated or raised by medical charities), and report back by cell phone. A physician scans the symptoms and if they are troublesome, the person gets a chit for a ride to the clinic.

What if each person, through the goodness of their heart, decided to check up on the household on each side of them daily. They would greet the children, the parent(s) and just bring a touch of collegial, human contact to their neighbours and their children that engenders a sense of belonging and community. A sense of community is perhaps the strongest anti-crime motivator. People don't create messes in their cherished spaces.

Just thinking out loud.

The "leakage" of our poor distribution system may be the impetus to actually clean up the Bahamian grid and driving the infrastructure upgrade if there was a direct bottom line cost.

Actually connecting to the American grid is a good idea. The American Northeast connects to the Canadian Eastern Canada grid, and they have reciprocity agreements. There is a definite link between economic well-being and a secure stable supply of energy. Bozo Miller is incapable of abstraction, and thinking in strategic, economic and intellectual terms. Not only does he not pay his power bill, he hasn't paid his brain bill, and it was shut off. If his dumb was dirt, it would cover the entire island to a depth of six feet.

Trade unions should not be involved in anyone's business. They are leeches that hinder productivity.

This is all smoke and mirrors. They say that room revenue is up 11%. Here is how they calculate it. They take the total revenue, and divide it by the number of total rooms. So if the number of total rooms goes down, the revenue is higher. For example if one gets $100 total revenue on 5 rooms, then the room revenue number is $20. If you take one room away, then the room revenue is $25. Voila! You have just had a 25% increase in room revenue without any more money changing hands.

So now the average room in the Bahamas rose by 8.9% to $268.11 and the number of rooms decreased then of course you will have a rise in room revenues as well.

The $268.11 cost per night is very scary. Just looking at the Cuba room rates (single occupancy) Old Havana - $200 per night; La Nacional - $126 per night; Santa Isabel - $115 per night; Melia Cohiba - $151 per night; Melia Habana - $138 per night and the list goes on. These rates are for the month of April, 2015 -- this year. Dominican Republic is even cheaper.

Tourism boom? Ha! Sad to say, but this is junk reporting. The Central Bank and Wendy Craigg are PLP pawns told to report positive news. The subtext in this article is that it will be impossible to fill Baha Mar unless we get more airlift, and there will not be more airlift until demand strengthens. It is a chicken and egg scenario and there are no chickens and no eggs, except the goose eggs on the increase in profitability numbers.

The Central Bank, in its disingenuous commentary also noted that with VAT the cost of living increases were "moderate". With a high unemployment rate, do they consider VAT as moderate ???? And they also noted that the government's deficit had risen to over $290 million in January, calling the overall growth of the economy as "firming up". Whatever they are smoking, I want some of it. People are hurting, the country is dying a slow painful death, crime is increasing, endemic corruption is almost at the same zenith as during the Pindling years, and the Central Bank puts out this vomit? God help us.

This will never go anywhere. Perry will have to face a discovery process where the questions are wide ranging and intensive. Suing someone gives the opposition lawyers a free pass to go fishing. No lawyer in his right mind defending Perry would allow that. It would be highly entertaining though. Perry might tell the judge to go to hell because he has been a politician for 40 years. LOL!