One of the greatest contributors to the state of disenfranchisement is the get rich quick dreams of sugar plums which are touted by the web shops and numbers establishments. Monetary gain without the pain of having to work diligently is the enticement. The pain that results when the house wins and the customers money is gone adds to the frustration felt and the cycle of putting more and more money into a proven losing pastime the desperation becomes real when these people lose not only money that they might have set aside in their minds to play (win or lose) but when they use moneys that are for home, mortgage, food, school, taxes, transportation, and then their actual properties and possessions go on the block to finance what has become for them an addiction. This addiction like all others affects not only them but the poverty and despair resulting from their behaviours affects all other members of family and thins out their stock of friends. Blame is attributed to any and everything other than themselves and often behaviour drifts to the dark side, actions which would previously be considered unthinkable are being considered and becoming a way of life - and making money. The companions they make will use their misfortune as either a means to their own financial ends or others to justify their similar situations. In all, the downward spiral of self esteem and vision for the future is available to those who court it, and though there are many roads leading to this state, this is only one of them.

The government should sell the Bahamasair albatross to a company that knows how to manage this business properly and profitably. All that the government appears to be interested in is image. How can the Bahamian public trust a group of people incapable of running a country to run an air carrier service?

This government stinks worse that a week old dead rat.