7. Illegal immigrants need to work off the cost to transport them back to their country. Government spending on immigration is too much. We need to have them farming at the detention center and once they work a certain number of hours, the amount that they would have earn, government will keep and that would be the money the government will used to transport them back to their country. We don’t need to make the Bahamian people suffer for other people mistakes.
With the development there will be opportunities for jobs openings in various sectors and field in outer family islands which will reduce Nassau over population and high crime rate. With my plan over the next few years the murder rate will be lowered, startup businesses will rise, tourism will rise, and the Bahamian people will be safe and happy.
My solution to reduce crime is simple and effective. With my approach I can guarantee a 10 percent or greater reduction in the murder rate. The high unemployment rate is the result of the high murder rate. Only solution to reduce crime is to create JOBS outside of Nassau.
It may not come as a surprise that there is a correlation between unemployment and crime and that joblessness is a major motivator in theft, burglary and violent crimes that can have a monetary motivation. Unemployment is linked to a wide group of crimes which are mostly perpetrated by men without a college education. A fall in pay, however, has a great effect on crime also, since low wages don't always provide workers with everything they want and need.
In order to understand the crime rate in the Bahamas, one must understand the reasoning behind the crime. The population in the Bahamas is about 324,597 and last reported in 2014, the unemployment rate was about 15% last mentioned in 2014, which means about 48,689 Bahamian people are out of jobs looking for work. This is saddened to hear because I have family members and friends that are part of that unemployment numbers.
I love my Bahama land but it’s time that government gets some young educated people as advisors to help them. Obama don’t come up with the ideas for change in the United States, he has a team of advisors to educate him on the decision and what ideas are good. Perry Christie needs to fire his advisor staff and get some fresh young people to help educate him on this new age change that is needed. Through the grace of God is was able to get education abroad in which I pursue a double major in International Business and Tourism Management and Hospitality Management. If the government can give me about 1 hour to give a presentation on my ideas and how we can get some of these implemented immediately, it will change the Bahamas. Gandhi say, “be the change you want to see in the world”. Let’s step up Bahamas.
4. Development of the outer family islands is another big project. Government must do their jobs before it becomes enticing to investors to want to invest and create jobs. We need better airports to allow commercial flights and improve road ways. Once this happen, investors will begin to invest and property on the outer islands will increase tremendously making the local owners rich from land sales as well as the government. Government will need to reduce the tariffs on certain goods going to the family islands. With the large influx of developments, government will make billions on the back end from trade, customs, property taxes, business licenses, car registrations, land sale, and many more over time. Take for example, before Atlantis came to the Bahamas, Paradise Island was known as Hog island and property over there was super cheap, some as low as 1,000 dollars 20 years ago. Now, property over paradise island aka old hog island, property value ranges about 3 million dollars and upward to 20 million. Bahamian people and the government will prosper if done right. It’s the similar approach as what Dubai has done. They reinvented the city. let’s reinvent and transform the outer islands of the bahamas like how atlantis reinvented hog island aka paradise island and how dubai transform their city.
5. Commercial Farming is also what we need. We need mass farming on a large scale on outer islands producing fruits and vegetables for local consumption and exporting to US, worldwide and other islands. We need to start exporting goods because trade is essential to any country success.
6. Jail need to be turned in to something profitable, instead of a large expense. We need to have some criminals working while serving their time instead of at the expense of the Bahamian people tax dollars. About 70% of jails in the United States are profitable in which the prisoners work during their sentence. We need to develop various jobs that the prisoners can do that will contribute to profitability to the jail. Such as make furniture for schools, farming in the prisoner yard, dog training, making and sewing government school uniform for less privilege students, manufacturing products, and many other options. We can choose a few things that are profitable and have the prisoners work while lockup. This will allow government to make money and be able to afford to pay for the high expense cost to retain these inmates. Also inmates can earn a very small wage earning which can be put on their books/ account in jail. About maybe 2 dollars a day for 10 hours work which will allow them to buy maybe Ramon noodles or something. It will teach them a lesson of hard work and savings.
2. Hire me to help create and help run a private government sector in which we structure plans to improve the Bahamas and gather investor’s locally and worldwide. This organization will bring in over 1 billion dollars of revenue into the Bahamas over the next 5 years from various investors. This organization will gather and develop a team of young educated Bahamians to search out and contact various companies and rich individuals to advise them of the potential in the Bahamas market in regards to manufacturing goods and services, building hotels, schools, colleges, technology companies, restaurants, farming, salt distribution, movie production, fishing, and many more. We will also help get investors to purchase Bahamian treasury bonds. In the United States, the bank FDIC only insures up to $250,000 of an individual money. Therefore, multimillionaires and billionaires look for projects and emerging markers to invest their money to improve their portfolio. Their money is not safe siting in the bank, therefore this department/ sector will show them their potential of investing in the Bahamas. I suggest they name it Bahama Dreams where your dreams come true.
3. Sell Bahamian treasury bonds to locals and worldwide persons and companies. Allow people or companies to purchase long term Bahamian treasury bonds with a term of 5 years, 10 years or 20 years, etc. This will allow government to raise capital in order to fund various projects and expansions. This is a common method many nations used to gain direct capital investment.
If government spends about 200 million to develop Andros and some outer islands by building better roads, better airports for commercial flights to land and other infrastructures, I can project a return on investments about 1 billion within 5 years. Tell Christie and the PLP give me 1 hour to pitch my proposal on how we can take this Bahamas to the next level and prosperity. I have a Business Degree with a double concentration in International Business as well as Tourism Management and Hospitality Management. I am currently employ with a top Forbes list company in the U.S. With my studies abroad, experience and research, I truly believe if government listens to me about my ideas and how we can implement this, crime will decrease and many Bahamians will be back to work. I have numerous suggestions, but here are a few ideas just to give you an understanding.
1. My suggestion is that we increase taxes on the Web Shops ONLY, at a tax rate of 35%-40% and remove sale taxes of general sales purchase to attract investors to come to the Bahamas to start businesses. Web Shops gambling has a detrimental effect on the economy and the society. The influx of web shops is increasing our poverty level, the poor is getting poorer. Instead of money being spent at our local stores from gas station to retail shops, people are taking their paychecks and last dollar to gamble it away instead of buying food or putting gas in their car. People are becoming addicted to gambling, spending hours playing slots. In addition crimes, such as robbery, theft and murders are happening because of web shops gambling. People are stealing to sell items for cash, and murdering others in the robbery and theft process, in order to use some of the cash to gamble. Since web shops are already legal, and negatively affecting our society, I suggest high taxes on all web shops.
There is no solution to end all crimes in the Bahamas but there is an absolutely a solution to REDUCE the number of crimes that occur in our lovely Bahama land. I am a young Bahamian and it saddens me to see the large number of murders that occurred in 2015. In the Bahamas, at the end of 1968, there were 19 murders in an estimated population of 161,000. In 2006 when I graduated from high school in Nassau, Bahamas the murder count raised to 60, which was the highest it has been since the year 2000 when the murder rate was 74. By the end of 2015, we have set a record high of 148 murders which is unbelievable for a nation in which Tourism accounts for about 50% of the GDP. As a Tourism nation, high crime rate will destroy our country. Government need to take action and take action now. let my voice be heard and let change happen.
a wise man once said, “One man can make a difference and change”. I hope government listens to me and give me a chance to educate them on ways to improve the Bahamas. I have research projects and spreadsheets of data and information of how the Bahamas can improve itself. Tell government to email me or call me so we can talk.
Government needs to listen to the citizens and understand the community. I feel as thou there is a disconnection among government and citizens; because while MP’s at their nice homes and good jobs, the neighborhoods of the Bahamian people are broke and jobless. Robing, killing and stealing are the only few things people know how to do in order to put food on the table when they broke without a job. Government doesn’t understand the crime and effect of unemployment because they aren’t the ones affected by the unemployment. They have a secured job. With my ideas and plans, if government decides to listen to me, we can improve the Bahamas tremendously. There is numerous ways for government to raise money besides implementing additional taxes. Our nation is not ready for sales taxes increase and current sales taxes in the Bahamas is currently reducing local business operations and profits, which will result in less local jobs availability and reduction in sales. Taxes also cause a lot of investors not to invest in that specific area, because of tax cost, which in the end will cripple the Bahamas economy.
There are two main problems for a high crime rate in Nassau. The first is that Nassau is over populated, which 70% of the total country population resides on the smallest island. Whenever a place is over populated crime tends to increase. As a result of over population, unemployment percentage tends to increase, which is the second main reason for high crime. Therefore what government must do is develop outer islands to make it attractive to investors to invest, which will create jobs and people will move to other islands for work. In the end result, this will reduce the over population of Nassau and create jobs and prosperity around the Bahamas.
There is no solution to end all crimes in the Bahamas but there is an absolutely a solution to REDUCE the number of crimes that occur in our lovely Bahama land. I am a young Bahamian and it saddens me to see the large number of murders that occurred in 2015. In the Bahamas, at the end of 1968, there were 19 murders in an estimated population of 161,000. In 2006 when I graduated from high school in Nassau, Bahamas the murder count raised to 60, which was the highest it has been since the year 2000 when the murder rate was 74. By the end of 2015, we have set a record high of 148 murders which is unbelievable for a nation in which Tourism accounts for about 50% of the GDP. As a Tourism nation, high crime rate will destroy our country. Government need to take action and take action now. let my voice be heard and let change happen.
a wise man once said, “One man can make a difference and change”. I hope government listens to me and give me a chance to educate them on ways to improve the Bahamas. I have research projects and spreadsheets of data and information of how the Bahamas can improve itself. Tell government to email me or call me so we can talk.
Government needs to listen to the citizens and understand the community. I feel as thou there is a disconnection among government and citizens; because while MP’s at their nice homes and good jobs, the neighborhoods of the Bahamian people are broke and jobless. Robing, killing and stealing are the only few things people know how to do in order to put food on the table when they broke without a job. Government doesn’t understand the crime and effect of unemployment because they aren’t the ones affected by the unemployment. They have a secured job. With my ideas and plans, if government decides to listen to me, we can improve the Bahamas tremendously. There is numerous ways for government to raise money besides implementing additional taxes. Our nation is not ready for sales taxes increase and current sales taxes in the Bahamas is currently reducing local business operations and profits, which will result in less local jobs availability and reduction in sales. Taxes also cause a lot of investors not to invest in that specific area, because of tax cost, which in the end will cripple the Bahamas economy.
There are two main problems for a high crime rate in Nassau. The first is that Nassau is over populated, which 70% of the total country population resides on the smallest island. Whenever a place is over populated crime tends to increase. As a result of over population, unemployment percentage tends to increase, which is the second main reason for high crime. Therefore what government must do is develop outer islands to make it attractive to investors to invest, which will create jobs and people will move to other islands for work. In the end result, this will reduce the over population of Nassau and create jobs and prosperity around the Bahamas.
donavon228 says...
7. Illegal immigrants need to work off the cost to transport them back to their country. Government spending on immigration is too much. We need to have them farming at the detention center and once they work a certain number of hours, the amount that they would have earn, government will keep and that would be the money the government will used to transport them back to their country. We don’t need to make the Bahamian people suffer for other people mistakes.
With the development there will be opportunities for jobs openings in various sectors and field in outer family islands which will reduce Nassau over population and high crime rate. With my plan over the next few years the murder rate will be lowered, startup businesses will rise, tourism will rise, and the Bahamian people will be safe and happy.
My solution to reduce crime is simple and effective. With my approach I can guarantee a 10 percent or greater reduction in the murder rate. The high unemployment rate is the result of the high murder rate. Only solution to reduce crime is to create JOBS outside of Nassau.
It may not come as a surprise that there is a correlation between unemployment and crime and that joblessness is a major motivator in theft, burglary and violent crimes that can have a monetary motivation. Unemployment is linked to a wide group of crimes which are mostly perpetrated by men without a college education. A fall in pay, however, has a great effect on crime also, since low wages don't always provide workers with everything they want and need.
In order to understand the crime rate in the Bahamas, one must understand the reasoning behind the crime. The population in the Bahamas is about 324,597 and last reported in 2014, the unemployment rate was about 15% last mentioned in 2014, which means about 48,689 Bahamian people are out of jobs looking for work. This is saddened to hear because I have family members and friends that are part of that unemployment numbers.
I love my Bahama land but it’s time that government gets some young educated people as advisors to help them. Obama don’t come up with the ideas for change in the United States, he has a team of advisors to educate him on the decision and what ideas are good. Perry Christie needs to fire his advisor staff and get some fresh young people to help educate him on this new age change that is needed. Through the grace of God is was able to get education abroad in which I pursue a double major in International Business and Tourism Management and Hospitality Management. If the government can give me about 1 hour to give a presentation on my ideas and how we can get some of these implemented immediately, it will change the Bahamas. Gandhi say, “be the change you want to see in the world”. Let’s step up Bahamas.
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Posted 6 January 2016, 11:19 p.m. Suggest removal
donavon228 says...
4. Development of the outer family islands is another big project. Government must do their jobs before it becomes enticing to investors to want to invest and create jobs. We need better airports to allow commercial flights and improve road ways. Once this happen, investors will begin to invest and property on the outer islands will increase tremendously making the local owners rich from land sales as well as the government. Government will need to reduce the tariffs on certain goods going to the family islands. With the large influx of developments, government will make billions on the back end from trade, customs, property taxes, business licenses, car registrations, land sale, and many more over time. Take for example, before Atlantis came to the Bahamas, Paradise Island was known as Hog island and property over there was super cheap, some as low as 1,000 dollars 20 years ago. Now, property over paradise island aka old hog island, property value ranges about 3 million dollars and upward to 20 million. Bahamian people and the government will prosper if done right. It’s the similar approach as what Dubai has done. They reinvented the city. let’s reinvent and transform the outer islands of the bahamas like how atlantis reinvented hog island aka paradise island and how dubai transform their city.
5. Commercial Farming is also what we need. We need mass farming on a large scale on outer islands producing fruits and vegetables for local consumption and exporting to US, worldwide and other islands. We need to start exporting goods because trade is essential to any country success.
6. Jail need to be turned in to something profitable, instead of a large expense. We need to have some criminals working while serving their time instead of at the expense of the Bahamian people tax dollars. About 70% of jails in the United States are profitable in which the prisoners work during their sentence. We need to develop various jobs that the prisoners can do that will contribute to profitability to the jail. Such as make furniture for schools, farming in the prisoner yard, dog training, making and sewing government school uniform for less privilege students, manufacturing products, and many other options. We can choose a few things that are profitable and have the prisoners work while lockup. This will allow government to make money and be able to afford to pay for the high expense cost to retain these inmates. Also inmates can earn a very small wage earning which can be put on their books/ account in jail. About maybe 2 dollars a day for 10 hours work which will allow them to buy maybe Ramon noodles or something. It will teach them a lesson of hard work and savings.
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Posted 6 January 2016, 11:18 p.m. Suggest removal
donavon228 says...
2. Hire me to help create and help run a private government sector in which we structure plans to improve the Bahamas and gather investor’s locally and worldwide. This organization will bring in over 1 billion dollars of revenue into the Bahamas over the next 5 years from various investors. This organization will gather and develop a team of young educated Bahamians to search out and contact various companies and rich individuals to advise them of the potential in the Bahamas market in regards to manufacturing goods and services, building hotels, schools, colleges, technology companies, restaurants, farming, salt distribution, movie production, fishing, and many more. We will also help get investors to purchase Bahamian treasury bonds. In the United States, the bank FDIC only insures up to $250,000 of an individual money. Therefore, multimillionaires and billionaires look for projects and emerging markers to invest their money to improve their portfolio. Their money is not safe siting in the bank, therefore this department/ sector will show them their potential of investing in the Bahamas. I suggest they name it Bahama Dreams where your dreams come true.
3. Sell Bahamian treasury bonds to locals and worldwide persons and companies. Allow people or companies to purchase long term Bahamian treasury bonds with a term of 5 years, 10 years or 20 years, etc. This will allow government to raise capital in order to fund various projects and expansions. This is a common method many nations used to gain direct capital investment.
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Posted 6 January 2016, 11:17 p.m. Suggest removal
donavon228 says...
If government spends about 200 million to develop Andros and some outer islands by building better roads, better airports for commercial flights to land and other infrastructures, I can project a return on investments about 1 billion within 5 years. Tell Christie and the PLP give me 1 hour to pitch my proposal on how we can take this Bahamas to the next level and prosperity. I have a Business Degree with a double concentration in International Business as well as Tourism Management and Hospitality Management. I am currently employ with a top Forbes list company in the U.S. With my studies abroad, experience and research, I truly believe if government listens to me about my ideas and how we can implement this, crime will decrease and many Bahamians will be back to work. I have numerous suggestions, but here are a few ideas just to give you an understanding.
1. My suggestion is that we increase taxes on the Web Shops ONLY, at a tax rate of 35%-40% and remove sale taxes of general sales purchase to attract investors to come to the Bahamas to start businesses. Web Shops gambling has a detrimental effect on the economy and the society. The influx of web shops is increasing our poverty level, the poor is getting poorer. Instead of money being spent at our local stores from gas station to retail shops, people are taking their paychecks and last dollar to gamble it away instead of buying food or putting gas in their car. People are becoming addicted to gambling, spending hours playing slots. In addition crimes, such as robbery, theft and murders are happening because of web shops gambling. People are stealing to sell items for cash, and murdering others in the robbery and theft process, in order to use some of the cash to gamble. Since web shops are already legal, and negatively affecting our society, I suggest high taxes on all web shops.
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Posted 6 January 2016, 11:17 p.m. Suggest removal
donavon228 says...
There is no solution to end all crimes in the Bahamas but there is an absolutely a solution to REDUCE the number of crimes that occur in our lovely Bahama land. I am a young Bahamian and it saddens me to see the large number of murders that occurred in 2015. In the Bahamas, at the end of 1968, there were 19 murders in an estimated population of 161,000. In 2006 when I graduated from high school in Nassau, Bahamas the murder count raised to 60, which was the highest it has been since the year 2000 when the murder rate was 74. By the end of 2015, we have set a record high of 148 murders which is unbelievable for a nation in which Tourism accounts for about 50% of the GDP. As a Tourism nation, high crime rate will destroy our country. Government need to take action and take action now. let my voice be heard and let change happen.
a wise man once said, “One man can make a difference and change”. I hope government listens to me and give me a chance to educate them on ways to improve the Bahamas. I have research projects and spreadsheets of data and information of how the Bahamas can improve itself. Tell government to email me or call me so we can talk.
Government needs to listen to the citizens and understand the community. I feel as thou there is a disconnection among government and citizens; because while MP’s at their nice homes and good jobs, the neighborhoods of the Bahamian people are broke and jobless. Robing, killing and stealing are the only few things people know how to do in order to put food on the table when they broke without a job. Government doesn’t understand the crime and effect of unemployment because they aren’t the ones affected by the unemployment. They have a secured job. With my ideas and plans, if government decides to listen to me, we can improve the Bahamas tremendously. There is numerous ways for government to raise money besides implementing additional taxes. Our nation is not ready for sales taxes increase and current sales taxes in the Bahamas is currently reducing local business operations and profits, which will result in less local jobs availability and reduction in sales. Taxes also cause a lot of investors not to invest in that specific area, because of tax cost, which in the end will cripple the Bahamas economy.
There are two main problems for a high crime rate in Nassau. The first is that Nassau is over populated, which 70% of the total country population resides on the smallest island. Whenever a place is over populated crime tends to increase. As a result of over population, unemployment percentage tends to increase, which is the second main reason for high crime. Therefore what government must do is develop outer islands to make it attractive to investors to invest, which will create jobs and people will move to other islands for work. In the end result, this will reduce the over population of Nassau and create jobs and prosperity around the Bahamas.
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Posted 6 January 2016, 11:15 p.m. Suggest removal
donavon228 says...
There is no solution to end all crimes in the Bahamas but there is an absolutely a solution to REDUCE the number of crimes that occur in our lovely Bahama land. I am a young Bahamian and it saddens me to see the large number of murders that occurred in 2015. In the Bahamas, at the end of 1968, there were 19 murders in an estimated population of 161,000. In 2006 when I graduated from high school in Nassau, Bahamas the murder count raised to 60, which was the highest it has been since the year 2000 when the murder rate was 74. By the end of 2015, we have set a record high of 148 murders which is unbelievable for a nation in which Tourism accounts for about 50% of the GDP. As a Tourism nation, high crime rate will destroy our country. Government need to take action and take action now. let my voice be heard and let change happen.
a wise man once said, “One man can make a difference and change”. I hope government listens to me and give me a chance to educate them on ways to improve the Bahamas. I have research projects and spreadsheets of data and information of how the Bahamas can improve itself. Tell government to email me or call me so we can talk.
Government needs to listen to the citizens and understand the community. I feel as thou there is a disconnection among government and citizens; because while MP’s at their nice homes and good jobs, the neighborhoods of the Bahamian people are broke and jobless. Robing, killing and stealing are the only few things people know how to do in order to put food on the table when they broke without a job. Government doesn’t understand the crime and effect of unemployment because they aren’t the ones affected by the unemployment. They have a secured job. With my ideas and plans, if government decides to listen to me, we can improve the Bahamas tremendously. There is numerous ways for government to raise money besides implementing additional taxes. Our nation is not ready for sales taxes increase and current sales taxes in the Bahamas is currently reducing local business operations and profits, which will result in less local jobs availability and reduction in sales. Taxes also cause a lot of investors not to invest in that specific area, because of tax cost, which in the end will cripple the Bahamas economy.
There are two main problems for a high crime rate in Nassau. The first is that Nassau is over populated, which 70% of the total country population resides on the smallest island. Whenever a place is over populated crime tends to increase. As a result of over population, unemployment percentage tends to increase, which is the second main reason for high crime. Therefore what government must do is develop outer islands to make it attractive to investors to invest, which will create jobs and people will move to other islands for work. In the end result, this will reduce the over population of Nassau and create jobs and prosperity around the Bahamas.
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Posted 6 January 2016, 11:13 p.m. Suggest removal