I would like to see a statement by Perry Christie saying that he wholeheartedly supports Mr. Mitchell, and that he has approved the tone, timbre and intent of Mr. Mitchell's statement.
I would like to know that the ramblings of Mr. Mitchell are indeed the policy approved and conceived by the prime minister, and I would like the Prime Minister to deal with the topic in a thorough, direct, unambiguous manner.
We have marginalised the young, Bahamian male. We have disenfranchised him and separated him from the realisation of aspirations and dreams. He is functionally illiterate. He is jobless. He is the product of a single mother. He has never had a father figure. He lives in a society that has no moral compass. The corruption of the government is visible to anyone with half a brain. He knows that the rules can be breached with "grease" everywhere in Bahamian society, the civil service and the world that he lives in.
The first victim of such an environment is truth. The second is the human goodness within us. The third is respect for the law.
Putting a gun or a knife in the hands of a person describes above empowers him. It gives him ultimate power -- the power to remove someone from the Earth.
Why do we have this erosion of the veneer of civilisation, enlightenment and altruism? It is because there is dissonance in the messages of value programming and the everyday life experience. The message is "respect the law" and the living example is "people who bend the rules get ahead in life".
The ultimate reason, as iterated before has its roots in the economy. Bahamian people are shackled economically. They have a monolithic economy consisting entirely of low-skilled manual labour. There are virtual no knowledge or information age jobs. They have a dollar that is useless everywhere in the civilised world. You cannot spend it anywhere but the Bahamas and trading for a convertible concurrency costs too much.
There is no upward mobility. Mass media touts the "American Dream" of work hard and you can make something of your life. This is not true in the Bahamas. The education system is inferior. 75% of the households in the Bahamas at last census were of single mothers with children from more than one man. The fabric of the family has been rent asunder.
There is no power dynamic in the Bahamas where one can cause a shift in ones life, by triumphing economically. Or is there? Drugs. Selling drugs. Selling guns. Gangs. Copper thefts. Robberies.
It doesn't take a large study to figure this out. Like the deeply embedded tap root of a wart, the stagnant, backward economy of this archipelago, is the root cause of disenfranchisement and the human ills and misery of the people. And that is true where ever you see the erosion of altruistic human values.
Good argument. The flip side is that it would allow Bahamians access to capital markets that they do not have now to grow their businesses. There are no real commercial or merchant banks servicing Bahamian businesses (no credit bureau, no receivables factoring, no commercial bonds, etc), and by eliminating exchange controls and dollarising the economy, there would be a huge benefit to the Bahamas.
>Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tinny blast on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.
Does Brad know the definition of "honesty"? Does Brad know the definition of "Intellectual"? Certainly his track record indicates that he is avidly and brutally and intentionally ignorant so to the meanings of those words. I have been in his presence on several occasions and I have an overriding compulsion to have a shower after talking to him. It makes me cringe just to shake hands with him.
I hope that the landfill they used from the old Jack Tar Resort to make luxury lots doesn't contain toxic building materials . This could lead to a second bigger failure of the Ginn project.
Hey watch ya mout'. Don't ya know that we took the biggest ever drug-runner's wife and made her a governor general. We are the laughing stock of the world. A real banana republic.
banker says...
I would like to see a statement by Perry Christie saying that he wholeheartedly supports Mr. Mitchell, and that he has approved the tone, timbre and intent of Mr. Mitchell's statement.
I would like to know that the ramblings of Mr. Mitchell are indeed the policy approved and conceived by the prime minister, and I would like the Prime Minister to deal with the topic in a thorough, direct, unambiguous manner.
Where is the Prime Minister in this debate?
On Mitchell: Activists defamed country
Posted 24 March 2015, 9:47 a.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
We have marginalised the young, Bahamian male. We have disenfranchised him and separated him from the realisation of aspirations and dreams. He is functionally illiterate. He is jobless. He is the product of a single mother. He has never had a father figure. He lives in a society that has no moral compass. The corruption of the government is visible to anyone with half a brain. He knows that the rules can be breached with "grease" everywhere in Bahamian society, the civil service and the world that he lives in.
The first victim of such an environment is truth. The second is the human goodness within us. The third is respect for the law.
Putting a gun or a knife in the hands of a person describes above empowers him. It gives him ultimate power -- the power to remove someone from the Earth.
Why do we have this erosion of the veneer of civilisation, enlightenment and altruism? It is because there is dissonance in the messages of value programming and the everyday life experience. The message is "respect the law" and the living example is "people who bend the rules get ahead in life".
The ultimate reason, as iterated before has its roots in the economy. Bahamian people are shackled economically. They have a monolithic economy consisting entirely of low-skilled manual labour. There are virtual no knowledge or information age jobs. They have a dollar that is useless everywhere in the civilised world. You cannot spend it anywhere but the Bahamas and trading for a convertible concurrency costs too much.
There is no upward mobility. Mass media touts the "American Dream" of work hard and you can make something of your life. This is not true in the Bahamas. The education system is inferior. 75% of the households in the Bahamas at last census were of single mothers with children from more than one man. The fabric of the family has been rent asunder.
There is no power dynamic in the Bahamas where one can cause a shift in ones life, by triumphing economically. Or is there? Drugs. Selling drugs. Selling guns. Gangs. Copper thefts. Robberies.
It doesn't take a large study to figure this out. Like the deeply embedded tap root of a wart, the stagnant, backward economy of this archipelago, is the root cause of disenfranchisement and the human ills and misery of the people. And that is true where ever you see the erosion of altruistic human values.
On A LIFE OF CRIME: Why do we kill?
Posted 24 March 2015, 7:56 a.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
Good argument. The flip side is that it would allow Bahamians access to capital markets that they do not have now to grow their businesses. There are no real commercial or merchant banks servicing Bahamian businesses (no credit bureau, no receivables factoring, no commercial bonds, etc), and by eliminating exchange controls and dollarising the economy, there would be a huge benefit to the Bahamas.
On VIEW FROM AFAR: The Bahamas treasure trove
Posted 23 March 2015, 12:51 p.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
>Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tinny blast on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.
On Govt says immigration claims 'bizarre and outlandish' at Washington hearing
Posted 23 March 2015, 12:29 p.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
Does Brad know the definition of "honesty"? Does Brad know the definition of "Intellectual"? Certainly his track record indicates that he is avidly and brutally and intentionally ignorant so to the meanings of those words. I have been in his presence on several occasions and I have an overriding compulsion to have a shower after talking to him. It makes me cringe just to shake hands with him.
On PLP Chairman hits back at Brent Symonette
Posted 20 March 2015, 1:06 p.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
Who? I am curious.
On Activists brief US Senate on ‘human rights violations’ in the Bahamas
Posted 19 March 2015, 8:15 p.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
Someone laundered all of Craig Flowers money for years.
On US slams zero money launder prosecutions
Posted 19 March 2015, 6:04 p.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
I hope that the landfill they used from the old Jack Tar Resort to make luxury lots doesn't contain toxic building materials . This could lead to a second bigger failure of the Ginn project.
On Owners ‘very aggressively’ marketing ex-Ginn project
Posted 19 March 2015, 3:26 p.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
Not to worry. The survival strategy of BOB is to bank the webshops.
On BOB ‘owes’ revival strategy disclosure to its shareholders
Posted 19 March 2015, 3:11 p.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
Hey watch ya mout'. Don't ya know that we took the biggest ever drug-runner's wife and made her a governor general. We are the laughing stock of the world. A real banana republic.
On UPDATED: 'Intensive' immigration checks in Abaco
Posted 18 March 2015, 9:34 p.m. Suggest removal