Ummm, where to start? Norman; have you ever lent someone a large sum of money? When they did not pay it back, citing reasons of religious belief, did you then happily lend them a further large sum of money? Ever since Majority rule, the Bahamas governments have had to borrow money to pay their obligations; mostly State Employed workers' salaries and pensions. If the country does not wish to pay back the eye watering 12 billion dollars that it has borrowed over the past 50 years or so, then how can it expect to be able to borrow more?
Have you noticed what has been happening to the economy in Argentina recently?

Brilliant. Valuable information which will sadly reach too few. And I am someone who has used Dr. Bonners pure castile soap exclusively for about 50 years now.

Sheepruiner: while I do not totally disagree with your comment; "The first past the post system is what is killing our democracy." , we need to be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater. The first past the post system has evolved over 500 years of English parliamentary democracy; it tends to create a stronger government mandate than the pleuritic alternative and thus results in less coalition administrations paralyzed into inertia due to diverging political agendas. See; Italy, par exemplar.

I have to wonder whether whoever decided to place these containment booms had considered the 6 knot or higher current that runs past Potters Cay with the rise and fall of the tide, How far will escaping oil travel when rising through 15 to 2o feet? Not vertically, that is for sure.

On point.

Now I freely admit that I may be wrong and that Mrs. Burnside may be correct, but as a real estate agent in practice in this country when the Immovable Property's Acy was passed into law, I have a very different understanding. While this act was commendably designed to stop foreign "speculative" investment ; First; it killed dead , the foreign investment market for Bahamian real estate; at least until 1992 when PM Ingraham repealed it. The figures are there as a public record. Secondly almost all real estate transactions were private owners selling their privately owned real estate, not Ms. Burnside's, or any one else's patrimony. Thirdly; many investors thought that the provision in the act that they could not bequeath the land that they had legally bought to their heirs upon their demise, to their children, without Mr. Pindling's permission, to be a deal breaker- Each and every sale or inheritance of Bahamian land had to be approved by Mr. Pindling, as he was then, not yet having been Knighted by the queen .

Thisisyours: Just so. Some religions actually set out the terms inclusive of the expected marital relations, frequency dependent upon occupation, more for a labourer, less for a scholar.

Marriage is a social construct that has evolved to help two slpha predators to live together without inflicting major harm on esch other long enough to successfully raise children. The truth is that most marriages in western democracies either end in divorce or a compromise of two people living unhapplily together. A legal document setting out responsibilties, obligations, expectations,and duration of the contract, might well be a huge improvement over what is now available. BTW I have been in a relationship with the same partner for over half a century, and so I know that of which I write.

Umm,OK, but hey,.how much that legal advice gonna cost you? Pay peanuts, get monkeys....jus sayin'......

Tal: you rock.