Interesting .. about the programmers argument .. you are making the same mistake that the government makes. They assume that just because you are a programmer, you can program anything. Not true. Tech is now one of the least stable environments for long term employment because the field changes so fast.
Years ago, any 9 year old could make a website. That still is true, but not very useful for modern reactive websites, especially ones that do client and customer service. One of the programmers in our office, paid money to learn Ruby-On-Rails - a web framework to connect to databases based on high software engineering principles. Our firm adopted it, and a few years later ditched it for programs known as Angular, NodeJS, and a bunch of other funny names like Coffee. This poor guy was made redundant because the firm needed experts immediately and didn't have the time to train up their staff.
I know a guy in Nassau with an IT degree from MIT -- the best software engineering school in the world. He decided to stay in Nassau -- family, like, patriotism, etc, and spent the last decade programming in mainframe languages for the financial services. He now has very few marketable skills in this day and age in the exciting tech scene.
Even skills in accounting, law, program management and financial services are changing rapidly, and we need experts to keep our sectors going.
>No one is interested in training the Bahamian populace.
A very very large part of the Bahamian populace is untrainable. They are functionally illiterate in language, math and technology. It is a result of the D- education system. When I was employed in the Bahamas, we had to go through many receptionists before we found one that was capable, and knew how to treat clients. And that was just for a receptionist job. We gave the failed candidates more chances than they deserved, hired a local communications firm to train them just in the art of speaking to high net worth clients on the telephone, and we still had to terminate them because they just didn't get it. Some couldn't operate the scheduling/appointments system on the computer. One of them came in and said that she couldn't enter appointments on the computer because her acrylic nails were too long and she juss had dem done, and she could be ready in a month to type. One of them missed days of work without phoning in. Others were incredibly lazy. It was a nightmare. When we got a good employee, we paid them well because they were worth their weight in gold. But we had to go through a lot of chaff to find the wheat.
The PLP is a cult. They trade their brains for coconut bread and will say anything whether it is truthful or not. They have had the 666 anti-truth chip installed in their brains.
Yep. The Bahamians who support PLP are of definitely inferior intelligence and the country needs a cull of them. Ship them to Inagua to work in the salt flats and keep their poisonous personalities where they can't be seem and won't infect the rest of the population. The average IQ of PLP Bahamians is about around their shoe size.
I say open it up completely to anyone who has a profession, a tertiary education and comes from a first world country. Open it up for free. Totally populate the Family Islands from first world country people. That will rejuvenate them.
banker says...
Interesting .. about the programmers argument .. you are making the same mistake that the government makes. They assume that just because you are a programmer, you can program anything. Not true. Tech is now one of the least stable environments for long term employment because the field changes so fast.
Years ago, any 9 year old could make a website. That still is true, but not very useful for modern reactive websites, especially ones that do client and customer service. One of the programmers in our office, paid money to learn Ruby-On-Rails - a web framework to connect to databases based on high software engineering principles. Our firm adopted it, and a few years later ditched it for programs known as Angular, NodeJS, and a bunch of other funny names like Coffee. This poor guy was made redundant because the firm needed experts immediately and didn't have the time to train up their staff.
I know a guy in Nassau with an IT degree from MIT -- the best software engineering school in the world. He decided to stay in Nassau -- family, like, patriotism, etc, and spent the last decade programming in mainframe languages for the financial services. He now has very few marketable skills in this day and age in the exciting tech scene.
Even skills in accounting, law, program management and financial services are changing rapidly, and we need experts to keep our sectors going.
On Extend work permit 'fast track' to locals, Government urged
Posted 24 October 2017, 11:25 a.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
>No one is interested in training the Bahamian populace.
A very very large part of the Bahamian populace is untrainable. They are functionally illiterate in language, math and technology. It is a result of the D- education system. When I was employed in the Bahamas, we had to go through many receptionists before we found one that was capable, and knew how to treat clients. And that was just for a receptionist job. We gave the failed candidates more chances than they deserved, hired a local communications firm to train them just in the art of speaking to high net worth clients on the telephone, and we still had to terminate them because they just didn't get it. Some couldn't operate the scheduling/appointments system on the computer. One of them came in and said that she couldn't enter appointments on the computer because her acrylic nails were too long and she juss had dem done, and she could be ready in a month to type. One of them missed days of work without phoning in. Others were incredibly lazy. It was a nightmare. When we got a good employee, we paid them well because they were worth their weight in gold. But we had to go through a lot of chaff to find the wheat.
On Extend work permit 'fast track' to locals, Government urged
Posted 24 October 2017, 11:14 a.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
The PLP is a cult. They trade their brains for coconut bread and will say anything whether it is truthful or not. They have had the 666 anti-truth chip installed in their brains.
On Investment bar cut for troubled Family Islands
Posted 23 October 2017, 11:15 a.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
Yep. The Bahamians who support PLP are of definitely inferior intelligence and the country needs a cull of them. Ship them to Inagua to work in the salt flats and keep their poisonous personalities where they can't be seem and won't infect the rest of the population. The average IQ of PLP Bahamians is about around their shoe size.
On Investment bar cut for troubled Family Islands
Posted 23 October 2017, 11:13 a.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
Fire that plagiarist criminal.
On Nepotism claims after university board hires president’s wife on $100,000 contract
Posted 23 October 2017, 11:08 a.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
I saw the picture, and I thought that this would be the swimming pigs story.
On Davis: I’ll win fight for leader
Posted 23 October 2017, 11:04 a.m. Suggest removal
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On Campbell faces new citizenship challenge
Posted 22 October 2017, 4:27 p.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
http://tribune242.com/users/photos/2017…
On Campbell faces new citizenship challenge
Posted 22 October 2017, 3:21 p.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
Don't I know you? Seems familiar.
On Campbell faces new citizenship challenge
Posted 22 October 2017, 3:16 p.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
I say open it up completely to anyone who has a profession, a tertiary education and comes from a first world country. Open it up for free. Totally populate the Family Islands from first world country people. That will rejuvenate them.
On Investment bar cut for troubled Family Islands
Posted 22 October 2017, 9:56 a.m. Suggest removal