EDITOR, The Tribune.
ONE must comment on the content or lack of content on our Talk Shows - some really should not be aired and others simply need a radical improvement and a commitment to stop broadcasting inaccurate concepts and proposals.
Can we deal with some of the obvious - production of Sea Salt.
Long established from the earliest of days that Inagua is the best location in the Bahamas for many reasons - basically good long periods of sunlight, essential for the evaporation - a good level of rainfall, within the limits not to damage the stock of sea salt.
Those criteria are essential to a good productive location - compare Inagua to Long Island - A-Z difference and check does Long Island have the all important attributes that Inagua has? Long Island salt production failed.
Try a salt plant in Andros - Abaco - Cat Island - will it work as well as Inagua ?
If it could don’t you think either the business people in Inagua would have expanded or someone would have?
Aragonite - Ocean Cay was the sale location till the sale to MSC which produced Aragonite and exported the product.
Do you really believe the owners of Ocean Cay would not have taken the fullest advantage of their substantial sea bed lease if there was a global export market and have taken advantage of that?
These theorists need to be more educated and balanced in their opinions – the Show Hosts seem to be exceptionally gullible.
My fear is that no one counters these opinions and Joe Public believes every word sprouted.
All false News or false facts.
W THOMPSON
Nassau,
October 9, 2017.
Comments
sheeprunner12 6 years, 6 months ago
Salt was being produced in Rum Cay, Exuma, Ragged Island, Long Island etc. long before Inagua ......... Just read your history ................. Inagua came as an afterthought once Turks Island seceded in 1848 ........... Inagua does have excellent natural and investor resources.
The traditional salt-making islands can produce salt if there is investment ........ Long Island salt plant failed because the PLP and unions drove the foreigners out ....... know the truth
baldbeardedbahamian 6 years, 6 months ago
Rose Island still has the remains of a salt pond constructed to produce sea salt on a small scale. It was not economically feasible and fell into disuse many decades ago. It can be seen on the western side of the circular canal known as the doughnut.
sheeprunner12 6 years, 6 months ago
Our Bahamian sea salt should be packaged and sold in stores ...... just go and read up on what is actually contained in processed Morton Salt that we buy in the foodstores ......... It is the same material used to make bombs.
ThisIsOurs 6 years, 6 months ago
I wish the government would commission a professional study on natural resources and make the findings public. Get COB involved. From what I understand having a natural resource doesn't mean the country automatically becomes wealthy, Trinidad has oil and minerals.so does Venezuela.
A whole lot of factors go into "success", greatest of which is the right People and not least of which is absence of entrenched corruption. After seeing the questionable appointments by this change government (part of the government's objective is to boost the tourism product in GB and they appointed Macalpine chair of hotel corp...has to be a joke) , I've lost all hope that we can ever get to a point where people are hired or awarded contracts based on performance. If you don't have the ?Right People you're wasting your time. Looks like Government in the sunshine is only give you sunburn.
sheeprunner12 6 years, 6 months ago
Tons of pure sea salt, marine sand, aragonite are exported from our country ........ what is the gross income from those valuable entities each year??????? .......... Lobster, conch and scale fish are poached by the tons ............. the 200-mile EEC is fished by American and Japanese at will with NO returns to our government ............. The lumber industry has gone nowhere (despite the talk) ...... No attempts to develop sun, wave and wind energy for mass consumption ....... the only mining that seems to be popular is quarrying our hills in Nassau and the islands ......... and indiscriminate dredging our coasts by foreigners with special interests......... The Government must DO better.
TheMadHatter 6 years, 6 months ago
I hear a lot of Bahamians now applying for Haitian passport - so they can get good jobs.
killemwitdakno 6 years, 6 months ago
What is sheerunnee running on with. Morton salt is Bahamian salt.
There was some in Ragged Island too.
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