You can tech all of those behaviors ,going to church ,tucking your shirt in ,values etc with out spanking ..Would you hit another adult if they misbehaved ,that would be called assault .Why is hitting someone much smaller okay ?? A noted researcher said about the corporal punishment debate ,"There aren,t two sides , there is a preponderance of fact , and there are people who find it inconvenient to accept those facts " .There is just too many studies ,research ,new technologies like brain imaging to show corpropal punishment produces negative result . Thirty seven countries have outlawed hitting ,spanking etc children .

There are now too many studies to refute .Also many times the parents that are barely adults themselves have lost their tempers and are beating in a violent manner .A just published study found that kids that are spanked at 3 are more aggressive at 5 , however we can keep doing what we are doing and
keep getting the same results ,an ever growing violent society w/ a murder rate like a war zone ..

Is this woman for real . 30 to 40 million dollars of the peoples money went missing from The Road Traffic Dept . when she was Minister of Transport and Aviation

Study after study has shown that as long as we keep beating the snot out of children under the guise of spare the rod spoil the child they will grow up to use violence as a problem solving tool . The last study released was a 50 year study of over a hundred thousand children to young adults .The ones who recieved corporal punishment were much more prone to violence and anti social behavior . The Nordic countries where corporal punishment is outlawed have the lowest crime ,violent crime and murder rates on earth . There are other ways to punish children w/ out physical force . It is a vicious cycle w/ beating the snot out of kids and them watching boyfriends beat the snot out of mummy,,its all learned behavior

2 .4 billion on the debt and thats w/ never before billion in VAT revenue ...Not one large infastructure project or any increase in stopover visitors .The icing on the cake is every penny these crooks stole was borrowed money in the name of The Bahamian people ,that has to be paid back on our backs with interest . So if they stole ,wasted and gave family ,lovers and friends two billion of our money it will cost use much more once you add in the interest

who would buy BEC w/ 500 million in a debt and a worthless bunker C burning power plant ..The companies bidding were bidding to build own and operate a new plant and guarantee us a 28 cent kilowatt rate .PLP would never pull the trigger b/c that would cut out Snake and his bunker C fuel contract .

Because the firm in question is a billion dollar firm w tens of millions of dollars in programs and analytical data w global contacts .Not Obies friends and lovers living off the tax payers dime abroad playing like they know what they are doing .

As to your think before I make silly comments ,the wealthy foreign second home is the segment that I make my living from and have been involved with for the past 30 years .I am thankful for them and see all the benefits we get from them .I also would not pay to stay in a lot of our boutique hotels , with the high prices ,somewhat lousy service etc .I also see the way the wealthy home owners pull all kind of tricks to cheat custom ,get there houses under valued for property tax here ,, , ask me to inflate the hell out of the build price , fake documents to show the US /Canada , yes I have built for them too, and repairs I do so when they sell it they pay less tax in the US or Canada .please don,t tell me to think , i started w/ development on PI in 1987 and built the last house for an American in 2004 on a family Island .Now I just Captain boats and do repairs .There is room there for a "bed tax "

I know that , I,m a boat Captain that gets a lot of work from them ,I also do home repairs .However when they pay off a 1/2 million to 2 million investment in 5 to 10 years then make profit as quite a few I know well have told me they do there is from for some tax . Remember we are losing the bed tax . Then many of them buy a boat for the house don,t have a business lic/insurance for boat and claim the guest using it are all their friends or hire a unlicensed capt and charge the house guest extra for us of unlicensed boat .

On the Island I live very wealthy people are renting homes from other wealthy second home owners that are from the U S or Canada . They are paying from 3000 to 10,000 a week for these luxury homes .I think there is room for some taxation here .