I'm revisiting this topic, only because others are making a HUGE deal about the fact that I corrected an error made by two major newspapers. FACT: I worked as a facultative reinsurance broker wt Ballantyne Mckean & Sullivan in 2001. There, I broke for millions & millions of dollars for companies that I will not mention for their own protection. I corrected that story for a very important reason. We may seem like a small country but there is so much power that emanates from us in terms of our history, and from the type of people that hail from our shores; people like Sir Sidney Poitier, Beyoncé and the list goes on and on. If we allow our minds to contract to the point of believing that we are just now doing things that were done by Bahamians decades ago, it's a sign of regression. Saying that she is the 1st to do something done by persons who preceded me is like Christopher Columbus landing on San Salvador and saying "Now this place exists because I stepped on it." Remember please, that people from all over the world live here. If they look upon us as doing something in 2014 that people from other small countries did decades ago, it makes it seem like we are advancing at a snail's pace. If it was important enough to print twice, then it's important enough to be corrected.
vbowleg says...
I'm revisiting this topic, only because others are making a HUGE deal about the fact that I corrected an error made by two major newspapers. FACT: I worked as a facultative reinsurance broker wt Ballantyne Mckean & Sullivan in 2001. There, I broke for millions & millions of dollars for companies that I will not mention for their own protection. I corrected that story for a very important reason. We may seem like a small country but there is so much power that emanates from us in terms of our history, and from the type of people that hail from our shores; people like Sir Sidney Poitier, Beyoncé and the list goes on and on. If we allow our minds to contract to the point of believing that we are just now doing things that were done by Bahamians decades ago, it's a sign of regression. Saying that she is the 1st to do something done by persons who preceded me is like Christopher Columbus landing on San Salvador and saying "Now this place exists because I stepped on it." Remember please, that people from all over the world live here. If they look upon us as doing something in 2014 that people from other small countries did decades ago, it makes it seem like we are advancing at a snail's pace. If it was important enough to print twice, then it's important enough to be corrected.
On Making her mark at the top of the trade
Posted 28 August 2014, 1:29 p.m. Suggest removal