And the people of South Andros will never move out of the dark ages so long as they have the talking suit for a representative and the PLP in government, though as you point out, at this stage Peter ain no better than Paul!

Let us also not forget all of Toby's work giving back to the community at large by restoring a number of Stephen Burrows's beautiful sculptures which still grace a number of prominent intersections around the island namely the flamingo, rooster, conch shell & white crown Pigeon.

What have RCCL done for us recently aside from providing some free beers and cheap tee shirts at that disgraceful town hall meeting in Eleuthera when grabbing up the other Lighthouse Beach property?
Prime beachfront for RCCL, swamp and honeycomb rock for Bahamians, well kiss my grits!!

"Most of the perceived elites here in New Providence, inclusive of those in the so-called gated communities, simply love their Filipino and/or Jamaican maids!"

Ya don't say Bodie? You wanna know why they in love with their Filipinos and Jamaicans?
They work hard and they don't teif!

Despite what Pindling said all those years ago about Bahamians no longer being toters of water and hewers of wood, there always has been and still is a need for people to fill these so-called menial positions and there is nothing demeaning about honest labor.

Lighthouse Beach Nassau version! Unfortunately, the same result for the natives, no seat at the banquet laid on by the government and eaten by Royal Caribbean for locals, just a seat at the window looking in and the offer of the few crumbs remaining.

No Brotherly Love there Mr. Smith, just more might is right, they got the gold mine you got the shaft.

More Union garbage.
Of course they, like any other employee, can be made redundant, or does the Union think their members have a job for life?
Of course the buildings will be painted again, just by a painting contractor who will do the job for a fraction of what it costs the University in salaries to keep a bunch of lazy self entitled Union people on the payroll.

As someone else with a fairly extensive technical background, I agree wholeheartedly with the author.
The next question that comes to mind is who is the drilling contractor as they are not exactly thick on the ground here and I can't think of but one or two that would have either the equipment or the expertise to drill and case Wells to those depths and to the specificications required.

Sheep ma brudda you right on, why dese peeps catching feelings now? It ain like the 'teifin start yesterday, the rot set in from Pindling time and NO government from then had the balls to crack the whip and put manners on our people.
As someone who born in the fifties you couldn't get away with none of the stupidness our people get away with now, throw ya teifin ass in jail in a heartbeat and cut ya ass before they do it!
Our people today don't have no respect for themselves nevermind the police or the government.

Das we peeps, always looking for new ways to 'teif, 'teif Jesus off the cross given the chance, its a way of life here now, ain no turnin' back!!

Good questions Mr. Thompson,
Unfortunately, so long as there are politicians, misogynist clergy and neanderthal types specializing in the exploitation of under-aged girls amongst us, equal rights for women, marital rape, same-sex marriages, and child protection laws will remain where they currently are, at the bottom of the political and social agenda.

Interesting reading, but rather ambiguous.

" white supremacy continues to infiltrate our political structures and most of all the political imagination of Bahamians. We see this trope of white superiority manifest itself in the Bahamas daily as whiteness receives unlimited access to Bahamian resources while “darkies” are kept on the outside with unimaginable forms of bureaucracy which limit progress. Similarly, we see white supremacy through the mass accrual of concentrated wealth among whiteness while “darkies” live below the poverty line"

Of course, there are no poor white people in the Bahamas, not now, never have been.

Once again trying to place the blame for the last 50 years of our successive black governments' failure to lift us out of "Colonialism" and create the level playing field they keep telling us about and the pundits' constant deflection whenever the topic of racism or color is raised.

Do the issues black Bahamians supposedly have with poor self-esteem really stem from lack of whiteness, "brightness" and good hair, or have they more to do with a failed educational system, voodoo economics, and continued tribalism?

Last time I checked we have plenty of very wealthy and socially successful BLACK Bahamian role models to fashion ourselves after, and the color of money and envy is, and always has been, green not black or white.