The Bahamas moving at a snale's in the area of renewables. One year after the gov promised to make a small island like Ragged Island 100% solar and renewables. we have yet to get an updated report. Countries like Costa Rica now gets 99% of their electricity from renewable sources. Countries like Iceland and Ethiopia are at 100%. We need a renewable energy policy with a plan and objective timetables with deliverable dates. That's what other countries are doing. Big countries like China is at 25% and the USA is at 14%.we maybe still below 2%. Putting LNG at clifton is a step in the right direction but even that source is not considered renewable Our neighbor Cuba who is still facing an embargo is around 4.2% in renewables. . The world is eating our lunch in this area.

When you aint gat much native food choice, and you surrounded by fast food joints. and you dont have the prep time for native foods foods because of the fast pace of city life, Ya taste buds does change over time....Kids today for the most part only know fast food. Ya see we want be like americans, so we eat like Americans... so now we getting american deseases. We dont make make their salaries so cheap food and all the peservatives and antibotics in them have replaced native food unless you still live in a southern family island.

The Central Bank facts says it all. Over 90% of Bahamians do not have or have less than $1000 in their Banks Accounts. Over 4000 Residential and Business mortgages in arrears or have failed . The increase in persons depending of social services. The slow growth in the economy since the recession began. If you live in Nassau you would see there is a noticeable increase in street beggars on most corners or around the shopping areas. The statistics above only explain the tip of the icebearg. The effect that Gambling has on Families and house holds is just beginning to emerge.. I am sure you have heard the stories coming out of Freeport. .

The good news for mother Earth is In 2012, the world relied on renewable sources for around 13.2% of its total primary energy supply. In 2013 renewables accounted for almost 22% of global electricity generation, and the IEA Medium-Term Renewable Energy Report 2015 foresees that share reaching at least 26% increase in 2020. The improtance of oil as a energy supply is decreasing as the years pass.

You missed out the Russian effect on world oil prices, Russian supplies 12.6 % of the total. The US follows with 12,2%. OPEC leader Saudi Arabia leads with 13.4% of the total. world supply.. Russia president Putin has signed an agreement with the Saudi's to cut back oil production. That is the main reason for the rise in global prices..Russia needs the price to go up to boost its economy.. Sanctions from the west has caused Russia to cut back on military spending.

The middle 40% you speak of have been reduced to 20% since the recession began in 2008. The bottom 40% have also expanded to 60% .....real talk.

Boy JOHN...thats some reality stuff from back in the day. I was able to figure out your age range from that one paragraph. Take it easy senior citizen.

These statistics are not surprising, we are a happy go, lucky go people who like to party, smoke, drink, Live like the jonese's and flim flam each other. Financial literacy is not thought in the public school system. The majority of Bahamians lack the discipline to pick up and read a book after leaving the school system, i wont mention doing online research to improve their personal financial knowledge. We go in the Banks for loans and max out our pay checks with salary deductions. We put our signature on what ever the Bank manager tells us to sign with out reading the fine print. We try to impress fake friends who 90% of the time we wont see or hair from if we get in dire straights. We want easy money to fall in our laps so we gamble with falls hope. Retirement planning is something we think the government should take care of. We need the latest cell phones, Name Brand this, Name brand that and we let our kids dictate the name brand they want to us.instead of teaching them the value of sacrifice, and we take out loans for vacation parties, and other pleasurable needs and then we seek to consolidate the loans when the depth gets to high and the cycle continues until we reach fifty and the bank say we cannot borrow anymore. Untill we dissipline our selves the percentage us who can't make ends meet will continue to rise.

The Video shows that countries around the world are experiencing the same poblems . The immigration issues can certainly be applied to the Bahamas

"Rights Bahamas" should be renamed to "Rights Haitians" .....The principals in that group sure does not have the interest of This country at heart. They anti everything true true Bahamian in this country. We need to pass laws on who or what can use the word Bahamas in their name. Certainly not deceptive groups with take over intentions..