I beg to differ, I live in the U.S now but during my time in the Bahamas and upon travelling home to visit, I never saw a straw shack, Bahamians don't farm enough so how could she say many makes a living do it. so for her to say she travel to the Bahamas and did research, she needs to be call almost anything for trying to down play a major false report.

How this website could have someone that is so uninform about a country write an article, their probably just a want-to-be company in the first place not to proof read and verify and article before posting. On a side not a lot of Americans do think that everybody else in the world lives in straw huts and shacks, she is from Georgia so if she travel that state she would see real proverty in some areas.

That is why Bahamians should go against the green or should I say with the green next election.

If you eliminate customs duty then Bahamians will spend even more money out of the country, even though it is everybody free will to spend their money where they please, a government don't need to make it more easy for them to do so.

I made a post saying the most of the same thing a few months back, I said when local items are available then charge higher duty for foreign produce to encourage people to buy locally, they will complain but they will complain anyway.

Congradulations to you, but most people don't just don't grow stuff themselves. Farming isn't the only thing I see a need for but someday I will be there doing that and more.

Investing in the country is not fiscally irresponsible it is investing in things that is not needed or is less important at the present time, this is a sector other than tourism. Bad management led the U.S down the path that their on not subsidizing farmers,in fact even the money that the U.S gives out to other country is quid pro quo. Look the more product the Bahamas can produce then less people will carry money out of the country to buy it in Florida and other places, more checks and balances have to be apply for the plan to work but if the money stays in the country then that is money circulating around the Bahamas to help the economy.
But on a side note intelligent perspective is always good, that is why a debate will be good during election time.

Finally someone see the big picture that i was trying to talk about in all of my earlier post, one of the major problems Bahamians have is negative a mindset, they wouldn't believe in the best plan if it was preseneted to them. The Bahamas can be prime for a lot of produce and products that can be made from those produce, I live in the U.S and had the priveledge to drive to many states and as I drive I always look at the landscape and what different states have to offer, if a place like Nebraska can produce corn with only about 5 months of good farming time think what the Bahamas could produce with all year round type of weather. Even when I was living home I use to wonder why in the world would a company have to import lawn for landscaping when this could be grown in the Bahamas, so God had me move to educate myself and learn from observing how the U.S work and I think our argriculture industry could strive better than in the U.S with the expertise in the field. Government investment is part of any growing country infrastructure so the educated person that try and tell me to leave the government out of it, I really wonder why he would say that. If we really look at it, most people shouldn't have to buy some of the produce that they buy in the first place because the could grow a lot of these things in our own back yard.

Intelligent post.

You and I got knock around if we didn't behave but we had manners, the kids in these days doesn't have any manners and they also have guns, so i wouldn't advise a teacher to knock around kids in these days.