What a beautiful expression of gratitude. Tthank you for speaking truth with which many agree. Upon return to the Bahamas during the late 1990s for the first of many subsequent visits, New Providence glittered like a jewel of optimism, prosperity and goodwill, all thanks to Mr. Ingraham's tireless efforts on behalf of all.
Thank you
Paul Vincent Zecchino Manasota Key, Florida 22 May, 2012
Agree. It begins in the home with morals and a healthy fear of the living God and respect for His standards.
Criminals choose to become criminals. Learned people who've studied this report that every criminal they interview admits that at some point, they chose to commit the crime when they could have just as easily chosen to walk away from it.
As you say, any different is hogwash. Blaming Mr. Ingraham for the deviant behavior of criminals is just a typical election-year smear, of which we see plenty in America and elsewhere. A shame that it still works, but that's why they pull it.
Blaming Mr. Ingraham for the deliberate deviant behavior of known criminals, who always resolve their differences with violence, is akin to blaming a pneumonia outbreak in Hong Kong on the guy who opened a window in Argentina - there's no link. Might as well say the crowing rooster caused the sun to rise.
Does blaming the FNM remind you of a slogan oft heard in the USA, 'It's all Bush's fault', until citizens finally called baloney on it?
The problem with blaming predecessors is that citizens know they're gone, and sooner than later they ask, 'so, now that you're in, what will you do about it besides blame people who're no longer around?'
Twenty megawatts? Better than no megawatts but plants of this size were common from the 1920s thru the 1950s. Some, such as Manchester Steam Station in Manchester, NH, USA, ran until the 90s and then were shut down.
Yes, indeed, everything is relative and the electrical consumption of New Providence is not that of a state in the USA, but this is still small output in power for the cost, a bit more than four dollars per installed megawatt hour. How does this compare with other installations in areas with similar consumption?
Ask posters above astutely ask, what sort of 'waste' would be burned? Trash? Bagasse? Curious. Look, any megawatts are better than no megawatts, but still and all doesn't the longstanding plant at Clifton Pier feature slow-speed diesel powered generators of thirty megawatts and greater?
What is the efficiency of the proposed 'waste'-to-energy plant? How would the composition of its stack gases compare with oil fired plants of similar size? How readily available and more importantly, how consistent over the long term would be the source of fuel, i.e. 'waste'?
Oil is plentiful. Earth, contrary to the long bleated lies of the eco-reds, is not running out of the stuff, it in fact manufactures naturally occurring crude oil deep within the earth. Seems the old 'oil comes from only couple places what had fossils of dinosaurs' myth has been debunked as, well, a myth.
It will be interesting to see how this venture progresses and one can only wish those who risk their capital for it the very best. The sole caveat being that in the USA, we've seen several massive bankruptcy/money laundering scams involving 'green energy' in companies such as Solyndra and Lightsquared, among many others since 2009. In no way saying that's the case here, not at all. But what often seems 'green', 'eco-friendly', and politically correct often brings unforseen complications unique unto itself.
Paul Vincent Zecchino Manasota Key, Florida 18 May, 2012
Fascinating background. Thank you. Isn't it often useful if one wishes to get a rough idea of what the future portends to look back through history and project the lines forward thru the present day to days ahead?
Paul VIncent Zecchino Manasota Key, Florida 14 May, 2012
Thank you for beautifully expressing your observations. Having spent much time for almost sixty years visiting dear friends in the Bahamas, history yet again shows itself to be a hurrying teacher and an unforgiving, lingering master.
During the late 1960s, some came to the Bahamas in the guise of helpers, but they quickly set about to overturn the good, divide, conquer, and profit from the dissension.
By 1979, when as a young adult I visited beautiful Nassau, the sad signs were in evidence.
When our family visited in 1999 after some years absence, the eye could not mistake all the good that PM Ingraham had accomplished. In just several short years subsequent to his election, PM Ingraham undid that which preceeded him and replaced it with prosperity and the inevitable good will it brings about.
At one time as they may still, physicians took the Hippocratic Oath, "Primum non nocere."- 'first, do no harm.'
From sentiments expressed here subsequent to the 'landslide', doesn't it seem citizens are concerned the wisdom of that oath which applies to many endeavors may be dismissed in favor of return to another era, one prior to that of Mr. Ingraham's '92 coming?
Why do some people who endure bygone troubled eras, during better times yearn to revisit them, and inflict that peculiar yearning on others, young people in particular, at the ballot box?
We see the same phenomenon in America, don't we? Despite prosperity unleashed by one of Mr. Ingraham's stated exemplars, President Ronald Reagan, why do so many here still revere and labor to recreate here what they ironically call, "The Great Depression" of the 1930s?
You know what was 'great' about it? Nothing. It was a decade spoiled by an interventionist, spendthrift president. Yet today, many strive to return the rest of us to that glum, wasted era.
Sometimes, hard though it is as imperfect human beings, in both our own lives and in consideration of the lives of others, it benefits us all to avoid the giddy sayings of others while instead keeping a watchful eye on the history in our rear view mirrors.
Our thanks to our Bahamian friends who made our family's recent visit to the beautiful Bahamas so refreshing, as ever, as we look forward to returning in the near future.
One can only wish Mr. Ingraham the best, and express appreciation for all that he so clearly accomplished.
Paul Vincent Zecchino Mansota Key, Florida 11 May, 2012
It would be far finer, not to mention accurate, to blame five hundred deaths directly upon those persons who choose to traffic in drugs and settle business disputes by killing.
Their deviant actions have nothing to do with the FNM. But it's and old and sadly, effective trick on part of leftists to blame their disasters on innocent parties.
Many of us well recall the period prior to the late sixtes in the Bahamas, when crime was nil. Then came the mobsters, dope lords, and smooth talking communists who adroitly whine like victims when in manner of cobras, they prepare to strike.
That Mr. Ingraham's tireless efforts on behalf of the Bahamas and all Bahamian citizens were coming to fruition was readily apparent by the late 1990's.
But there's always the regressed among us who wish to return to sordid, corrupt, violent era which seems dangerously enticing when viewed thru the pink lenses of age and nostalgia.
The FNM no more causes the killings of those in the drug trade than an open window in Brazil causes a pneumonia outbreak in Zanzibar. Those persons who choose to live outside the law and become criminals in the drug trade bear responsibility for their actions, not the FNM or any other innocent parties, contrary to the phony claims of sly leftist propagandists.
Sixty thousand people out of work? Not good, but miight America's economic troubles, engineered by elite billionaire cynics like 'Boxcar' george soros and the hard-left regime he's using to destroy our nation have played a role? It's no secret that economically, if America wobbles other nations may stumble and some even fall and never get up.
Cynical elite American socialist billionaires engineered our present troubles, which sadly have been exacerbated by many people my age, adults nearing retirement who refuse to grow up. Instead, these former 60s leftists, perhaps because youthful drug abuse has accelerated their senility, now wish to relive the squalid drug-sodden 60s by electing the socialists who hold them in contempt.
We never learn, do we? Perhaps this is why our Creator said, 'it does not belong to earthling Man even to direct his own steps'?
How many of us have in our respective homelands, seen good leaders who work dilligently to improve citizens' lives nonetheless rejected by ingrates who prefer misery over prosperity, bondage over liberty, and who reject good leaders in order that they may cry beneath the heavy yoke of those who rule for self-aggrandizement?
At this point, many in America are saying it's no longer about right/left or repub/demo, but about good vs. evil.
Paul VIncent Zecchino Manasota Key, Florida 07 May, 2012
My family and I wish you the best, Mr. Ingraham, and thank you for all the good which you did for Nassau and the Bahamas. Your shining legacy greets us every time we arrive in New Providence and the Islands to our unending pleasure. Thank you and all the best,
Paul Vincent Zecchino Manasota Key, Florida 07 May, 2012
If the poles melt, ocean levels will likely remain the same or perhaps even lower to some extent. Don't take my word for it. Put some ice in a glass, fill it to the brim with liquid, and watch the liquid level as the ice melts - it drops.
This is just another old spook story told by the internationalist communist ghouls at the UN who hope to scare the world's peoples into surrendering their liberty, possessions, and perhaps very lives to the UN's totalitarians.
This old wive's tale was thoroughly debunked during the 1990s. Why anyone would still believe it is beyond comprehension. It's based on junk science.
Why someone would promulgate it, however, is quite clearly understood: the same old motives of money, power, and control.
I've lived at sea level most my life. Had I even one scintilla of faith in this silly chicken-little tale, I wouldn't.
Al Gore pushed this lie all thru the 90s. So if it's true and the seas are rising, which they aren't and likely never will, then why did Gore recently spend millions to buy a sea-level condominium in San Francisco, an area surrounded by supposedly rising waters?
Because he doesn't believe his own scare tactic tales - he just expects you to swallow them.
Paul Vincent Zecchino Manasota Key, Florida 07 May, 2012
paul_vincent_zecchino says...
Dear Mrs. Bernard,
What a beautiful expression of gratitude. Tthank you for speaking truth with which many agree. Upon return to the Bahamas during the late 1990s for the first of many subsequent visits, New Providence glittered like a jewel of optimism, prosperity and goodwill, all thanks to Mr. Ingraham's tireless efforts on behalf of all.
Thank you
Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasota Key, Florida
22 May, 2012
On Ingraham was an inspiration and a leader
Posted 22 May 2012, 8:57 a.m. Suggest removal
paul_vincent_zecchino says...
Agree. It begins in the home with morals and a healthy fear of the living God and respect for His standards.
Criminals choose to become criminals. Learned people who've studied this report that every criminal they interview admits that at some point, they chose to commit the crime when they could have just as easily chosen to walk away from it.
As you say, any different is hogwash. Blaming Mr. Ingraham for the deviant behavior of criminals is just a typical election-year smear, of which we see plenty in America and elsewhere. A shame that it still works, but that's why they pull it.
Blaming Mr. Ingraham for the deliberate deviant behavior of known criminals, who always resolve their differences with violence, is akin to blaming a pneumonia outbreak in Hong Kong on the guy who opened a window in Argentina - there's no link. Might as well say the crowing rooster caused the sun to rise.
A pleasure to read your comments.
On US report's crime rating blamed on FNM
Posted 21 May 2012, 6:37 a.m. Suggest removal
paul_vincent_zecchino says...
Does blaming the FNM remind you of a slogan oft heard in the USA, 'It's all Bush's fault', until citizens finally called baloney on it?
The problem with blaming predecessors is that citizens know they're gone, and sooner than later they ask, 'so, now that you're in, what will you do about it besides blame people who're no longer around?'
On US report's crime rating blamed on FNM
Posted 20 May 2012, 9:43 p.m. Suggest removal
paul_vincent_zecchino says...
Twenty megawatts? Better than no megawatts but plants of this size were common from the 1920s thru the 1950s. Some, such as Manchester Steam Station in Manchester, NH, USA, ran until the 90s and then were shut down.
Yes, indeed, everything is relative and the electrical consumption of New Providence is not that of a state in the USA, but this is still small output in power for the cost, a bit more than four dollars per installed megawatt hour. How does this compare with other installations in areas with similar consumption?
Ask posters above astutely ask, what sort of 'waste' would be burned? Trash? Bagasse? Curious. Look, any megawatts are better than no megawatts, but still and all doesn't the longstanding plant at Clifton Pier feature slow-speed diesel powered generators of thirty megawatts and greater?
What is the efficiency of the proposed 'waste'-to-energy plant? How would the composition of its stack gases compare with oil fired plants of similar size? How readily available and more importantly, how consistent over the long term would be the source of fuel, i.e. 'waste'?
Oil is plentiful. Earth, contrary to the long bleated lies of the eco-reds, is not running out of the stuff, it in fact manufactures naturally occurring crude oil deep within the earth. Seems the old 'oil comes from only couple places what had fossils of dinosaurs' myth has been debunked as, well, a myth.
It will be interesting to see how this venture progresses and one can only wish those who risk their capital for it the very best. The sole caveat being that in the USA, we've seen several massive bankruptcy/money laundering scams involving 'green energy' in companies such as Solyndra and Lightsquared, among many others since 2009. In no way saying that's the case here, not at all. But what often seems 'green', 'eco-friendly', and politically correct often brings unforseen complications unique unto itself.
Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasota Key, Florida
18 May, 2012
On Bacardi purchasers targeting $90m waste-to-energy plant
Posted 18 May 2012, 8:56 p.m. Suggest removal
paul_vincent_zecchino says...
"Stealing from the home of FNM MInister Byron Woodside...."
Ah well, the pattern's coming clear and surely will come clearer in the future.
"Fishbagged"? Is this waterboarding on a budget? Or a ruse? TIme will tell, won't it.
Alleged murderers who break into the homes of FNM ministers during times of national elections?
Worthy of consideration, isn't it?
Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasota Key, Florida
17 May, 2012
On Lawyer claims accused was 'fishbagged'
Posted 17 May 2012, 9:34 p.m. Suggest removal
paul_vincent_zecchino says...
Fascinating background. Thank you. Isn't it often useful if one wishes to get a rough idea of what the future portends to look back through history and project the lines forward thru the present day to days ahead?
Paul VIncent Zecchino
Manasota Key, Florida
14 May, 2012
On The shifting sands of Bahamian politics
Posted 14 May 2012, 9:29 p.m. Suggest removal
paul_vincent_zecchino says...
Dear Nicole Burrows -
Thank you for beautifully expressing your observations. Having spent much time for almost sixty years visiting dear friends in the Bahamas, history yet again shows itself to be a hurrying teacher and an unforgiving, lingering master.
During the late 1960s, some came to the Bahamas in the guise of helpers, but they quickly set about to overturn the good, divide, conquer, and profit from the dissension.
By 1979, when as a young adult I visited beautiful Nassau, the sad signs were in evidence.
When our family visited in 1999 after some years absence, the eye could not mistake all the good that PM Ingraham had accomplished. In just several short years subsequent to his election, PM Ingraham undid that which preceeded him and replaced it with prosperity and the inevitable good will it brings about.
At one time as they may still, physicians took the Hippocratic Oath, "Primum non nocere."- 'first, do no harm.'
From sentiments expressed here subsequent to the 'landslide', doesn't it seem citizens are concerned the wisdom of that oath which applies to many endeavors may be dismissed in favor of return to another era, one prior to that of Mr. Ingraham's '92 coming?
Why do some people who endure bygone troubled eras, during better times yearn to revisit them, and inflict that peculiar yearning on others, young people in particular, at the ballot box?
We see the same phenomenon in America, don't we? Despite prosperity unleashed by one of Mr. Ingraham's stated exemplars, President Ronald Reagan, why do so many here still revere and labor to recreate here what they ironically call, "The Great Depression" of the 1930s?
You know what was 'great' about it? Nothing. It was a decade spoiled by an interventionist, spendthrift president. Yet today, many strive to return the rest of us to that glum, wasted era.
Sometimes, hard though it is as imperfect human beings, in both our own lives and in consideration of the lives of others, it benefits us all to avoid the giddy sayings of others while instead keeping a watchful eye on the history in our rear view mirrors.
Our thanks to our Bahamian friends who made our family's recent visit to the beautiful Bahamas so refreshing, as ever, as we look forward to returning in the near future.
One can only wish Mr. Ingraham the best, and express appreciation for all that he so clearly accomplished.
Paul Vincent Zecchino
Mansota Key, Florida
11 May, 2012
On Christie not up to the job
Posted 11 May 2012, 9:20 a.m. Suggest removal
paul_vincent_zecchino says...
It would be far finer, not to mention accurate, to blame five hundred deaths directly upon those persons who choose to traffic in drugs and settle business disputes by killing.
Their deviant actions have nothing to do with the FNM. But it's and old and sadly, effective trick on part of leftists to blame their disasters on innocent parties.
Many of us well recall the period prior to the late sixtes in the Bahamas, when crime was nil. Then came the mobsters, dope lords, and smooth talking communists who adroitly whine like victims when in manner of cobras, they prepare to strike.
That Mr. Ingraham's tireless efforts on behalf of the Bahamas and all Bahamian citizens were coming to fruition was readily apparent by the late 1990's.
But there's always the regressed among us who wish to return to sordid, corrupt, violent era which seems dangerously enticing when viewed thru the pink lenses of age and nostalgia.
The FNM no more causes the killings of those in the drug trade than an open window in Brazil causes a pneumonia outbreak in Zanzibar. Those persons who choose to live outside the law and become criminals in the drug trade bear responsibility for their actions, not the FNM or any other innocent parties, contrary to the phony claims of sly leftist propagandists.
Sixty thousand people out of work? Not good, but miight America's economic troubles, engineered by elite billionaire cynics like 'Boxcar' george soros and the hard-left regime he's using to destroy our nation have played a role? It's no secret that economically, if America wobbles other nations may stumble and some even fall and never get up.
Cynical elite American socialist billionaires engineered our present troubles, which sadly have been exacerbated by many people my age, adults nearing retirement who refuse to grow up. Instead, these former 60s leftists, perhaps because youthful drug abuse has accelerated their senility, now wish to relive the squalid drug-sodden 60s by electing the socialists who hold them in contempt.
We never learn, do we? Perhaps this is why our Creator said, 'it does not belong to earthling Man even to direct his own steps'?
How many of us have in our respective homelands, seen good leaders who work dilligently to improve citizens' lives nonetheless rejected by ingrates who prefer misery over prosperity, bondage over liberty, and who reject good leaders in order that they may cry beneath the heavy yoke of those who rule for self-aggrandizement?
At this point, many in America are saying it's no longer about right/left or repub/demo, but about good vs. evil.
Paul VIncent Zecchino
Manasota Key, Florida
07 May, 2012
On 'FNM have made a fairer society'
Posted 7 May 2012, 10:21 p.m. Suggest removal
paul_vincent_zecchino says...
My family and I wish you the best, Mr. Ingraham, and thank you for all the good which you did for Nassau and the Bahamas. Your shining legacy greets us every time we arrive in New Providence and the Islands to our unending pleasure. Thank you and all the best,
Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasota Key, Florida
07 May, 2012
On Perry Christie 'encouraged by support'
Posted 7 May 2012, 9:55 p.m. Suggest removal
paul_vincent_zecchino says...
If the poles melt, ocean levels will likely remain the same or perhaps even lower to some extent. Don't take my word for it. Put some ice in a glass, fill it to the brim with liquid, and watch the liquid level as the ice melts - it drops.
This is just another old spook story told by the internationalist communist ghouls at the UN who hope to scare the world's peoples into surrendering their liberty, possessions, and perhaps very lives to the UN's totalitarians.
This old wive's tale was thoroughly debunked during the 1990s. Why anyone would still believe it is beyond comprehension. It's based on junk science.
Why someone would promulgate it, however, is quite clearly understood: the same old motives of money, power, and control.
I've lived at sea level most my life. Had I even one scintilla of faith in this silly chicken-little tale, I wouldn't.
Al Gore pushed this lie all thru the 90s. So if it's true and the seas are rising, which they aren't and likely never will, then why did Gore recently spend millions to buy a sea-level condominium in San Francisco, an area surrounded by supposedly rising waters?
Because he doesn't believe his own scare tactic tales - he just expects you to swallow them.
Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasota Key, Florida
07 May, 2012
On The poles melt, we drown
Posted 7 May 2012, 9:47 p.m. Suggest removal