HarryWyckoff 7 years, 10 months ago on Got him - pit bull owner arrested
Got him - pit bull owner arrested
You realise that the humane society is a volunteer organization right?
It gets zero assistance from government, runs on donations, and can barely stay afloat due to the animal cruelty and pet owner ignorance rife in The Bahamas. (And, clearly, the ignorance of people like yourself)
So, unless you are running a massive overworked, underfunded charity organization with no support from anyone other than a handful of donors and people who work full time for little or no pay, I’d suggest you take your whining a$$ elsewhere.
DDK 7 years, 9 months ago on Insight: Team with a mission to transform our healthcare
Insight: Team with a mission to transform our healthcare
Nobody talks about the people who run the health care system and are employed by the various hospitals and clinics, only the thieving politicians and their crony contractors, and, yes the eternal, or infernal, Board. Why throw away more millions if you do not have responsible, reliable, honest, educated persons in place who actually give a damn about the health facilities? It will be another exercise in futility to even spend $10,000, much less mega millions, if the status quo is maintained in this, and in all other Government agencies and corporations. It is simply the continuing practice of political lip service and throwing good money after bad. The entire civil service needs to be revamped from the bottom to the top, or from the top to the bottom.
joeblow 7 years, 11 months ago on The Mud in flames – again
The Mud in flames – again
The lack of political will to address this immigration issue and all its poisonous fruit is sickening!
SP 7 years, 11 months ago on GAME CHANGER: Miss age deadline and you’ll be permanent resident NOT citizen
GAME CHANGER: Miss age deadline and you’ll be permanent resident NOT citizen
We have no need for Brent Symonette! He has to go!!!
joeblow 7 years, 10 months ago on Prices overhaul in diet offensive
Prices overhaul in diet offensive
It is important to recognize that most young people do not know the value of education, that is why they fail to take advantage of the opportunities they are given. They are enamored with other things. Additionally, post high school education has to be on a foundation of a high school education first! Most young women appreciate the value of an education more AFTER they have children and see how difficult it is to get sensible employment. This is what accounts for the high levels of females in post high school vocational courses! The point is that without persons being interested in getting the education needed to make lives better for themselves in a country that gives them opportunity to do so must leave a segment of our society requiring entry level jobs in fast food etc.
Now concerning my "observation" regarding "most", try asking some of the young female cashiers (since they are mostly young females) in fast food places how many of the workers there are unmarried with children and reflect on their answers!
OldFort2012 7 years, 9 months ago on Save the Bays chairman warns on oil 'dark ages'
Save the Bays chairman warns on oil 'dark ages'
Do we consume oil? Yes, we do. That is just a fact. Do we wish we could move 100% to renewables. Of course. But we all know that that is pie in the sky and that we will be among the last countries in the world to get there. Because we are dirt poor. No one can afford a new electric vehicle and as a country we cannot afford the tens of billions it would cost to move to renewables. We are stuck where we are until renewable costs collapse and that is decades away. Those are just facts. Everything else is wishful thinking and pie in the sky. We will still be driving oil consuming Japanese bangers decades after the rich nations have only electric cars. Fact.
IF (big IF) there is oil, we have no choice but to exploit it. It is also the moral thing to do. Since we consume oil, how is it OK to let others produce what WE consume and take the environmental risk on themselves? Our consumption, our risk. That is the way it should be.
TheMadHatter 7 years, 9 months ago on 120 obtain citizenship in 3 months
120 obtain citizenship in 3 months
Bogart, i would support a complete swap of countries with Haiti. Every single Haitian must leave Haiti and come here and every Bahamian must go there.
That would be great. Haiti is all one connected land. We would save a ton of money on our now duplicated govt services. We would turn Haiti into a tourism and industrial powerhouse.
In three years the sloops would be leaving the Bahamas headed south toward Haiti filled with Haitians "fleeing poverty and oppression".
Well_mudda_take_sic 7 years, 8 months ago on Budget demand for more web shop taxes
Budget demand for more web shop taxes
Here are the well known ingredients of a downward economic death spiral that Minnis and Turnquest refuse to accept:
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Higher taxes results in more private sector business failures;
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More private sector business failures results in greater private sector unemployment;
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Greater private sector unemployment results in more social welfare costs plus significant growth in non-productive public sector employment caused by dumb politicians trying to
buy votes on the backs of private sector taxpayers faced with ever increasing taxes; -
Ever increasing taxes on the private sector results in even more business failures and even greater private sector unemployment;
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And down and down the death spiral we go as our nation's economic well being gets flushed down the proverbial toilet by our dumb politicians who allow themselves to be led
by the nose by international agencies (IMF, OECD, IDB and the like) that represent their own foreign interests without any regard whatsoever for the interests of Bahamians.
We are at the perilous mercy of Minnis (a not-so-good medical doctor) and Turnquest (a not-so-good bean counter), neither of whom is capable of passing an economics 101 class, and neither of whom is willing to downsize the head count and costs of our grossly over-bloated government / public sector. The future holds no hope for us as long as these two clowns (Minnis and Turnquest) are pulling the 'budget strings'.
joeblow 7 years, 10 months ago on Prices overhaul in diet offensive
Prices overhaul in diet offensive
Regrettably, most of the young people in this country lack the skill set to work outside of the fast food industry. Casual observation (and listening to their conversations while waiting in line) shows that most of them are single young mothers.
Excessive taxes on that industry will inevitably lead to layoffs as the companies streamline their operations to increase efficiency and reduce expenditure. What will these unprepared young people do??
Why is governments response to a problem always to increase taxes? Why doesn't Dr Sands try to save money in healthcare by reducing waste and improving efficiency in the MOH and PHA first?
DDK 7 years, 8 months ago on Budget demand for more web shop taxes
Budget demand for more web shop taxes
Does the Government think we will be the only country in the world to refrain from taking to the streets if they dump more austerity on The People while continuing to spend like drunken sailors? Every nation has a breaking point.
joeblow 7 years, 10 months ago on Prices overhaul in diet offensive
Prices overhaul in diet offensive
Guessing you are not understanding the context of the comments made! The issue is not about single mothers, but low entry jobs and how increases in taxes would make it more difficult for some of them to find jobs. Sorry you missed that!
TheMadHatter 7 years, 9 months ago on 120 obtain citizenship in 3 months
120 obtain citizenship in 3 months
"I would guess that 30 of the 35 I swore in last week were Haitian nationals, ..."
Funny Brent. You don't have to guess. You have access to the info (which we don't) and OF COURSE they are Haitian nationals. Duh.
Only half-starved, overbreeding people with no desire for civilized living standards would want to live here.
It's time for any Bahamian with sense to start investigating the 197 member countries of the U.N. and find out which if any would allow us in as refugees. We are being pushed out of our own country, by our own government.
DDK 7 years, 8 months ago on PM calls for love between Bahamians and Haitians
PM calls for love between Bahamians and Haitians
In their DORM, not all over their vehicles in their host country!
Well_mudda_take_sic 7 years, 8 months ago on Budget demand for more web shop taxes
Budget demand for more web shop taxes
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joeblow 7 years, 11 months ago on The Mud in flames – again
The Mud in flames – again
Bahamians need to march down Bay Street en masse and demand that our government does not:
1) amend the constitution re: immigration in any way,
2) withdraw the unconstitutional citizenships that have been given to unqualified Haitian children (regardless of age) and give those persons an opportunity to get their Haitian passports from their embassy and leave the country or
3) start to systematically confiscate their goods and properties as proceeds of crime!
Tarzan 7 years, 9 months ago on Davis slates ‘puerile’ PM in chief justice row
Davis slates ‘puerile’ PM in chief justice row
When will we see the backside of this windbag?
SP 7 years, 9 months ago on PM calls for love between Bahamians and Haitians
PM calls for love between Bahamians and Haitians
Haitians have no interest in assimilating to our culture, refuse to learn our language and could care less about the well being of the Bahamas. All Haitians care about is by hook or crook sending money back to Haiti to support and bring in more of their families. Haitian chain migration will destroy the Bahamas for Bahamians!
WHY are we granting citizenships to Haitians when these people have proven they do not have Bahamians best future interest at heart? The dam Haitian pastors can't even speak English.
Where are the Haitians helping the government to stop human smuggling, drug trafficking and arms running from Haiti? Bahamians invest untold millions of taxpayer dollars spent over the decades to fight these ongoing criminal activities and not one solitary Haitian or Haitian pastor granted Bahamian citizenship has ever stepped forward to expose the major players in these crimes!
Every Haitian knows the perpetrators of these vexing illegal rackets, yet NOT ONE HAITIAN or HAITIAN PASTOR has uttered a single word about who these people are to help us save our country from the operators of this Haitian invasion.
Bahamians have been helping Haitians for decades, but no one can recall a single incident of Haitians doing anything to assist the Bahamas or Bahamians!
Haitians are users, parasites, and an unwanted blight in our country that take whatever they can from the least of us to best of us. They have proven their loyalty remains with Haiti and the Haitian people. THAT will never change.
We need Haitians like needed Pindling, Ingraham and Christie!
joeblow 7 years, 9 months ago on INSIGHT: The hate-driven society
INSIGHT: The hate-driven society
The more I read and re-read Mr Smiths article the more I see its written through the eyes of a person who likes what the Bahamas has to offer, but wants to shape it in his image while giving the benefits to those he thinks are deserving (his Haitian brothers). His complaints are extremely deceptive but he ignores that they are universal in nature. Every culture that finds itself under assault from external forces responds to that stimulus without exception. Haiti itself is a prime example. The Haitian revolution was a violent reaction to the presence of foreign interests exploiting the country and its people for the benefit France. The violence and hatred that is inbred in Haitians is still present to this day as they hack political opponents to death with machetes. When has this ever happened in the Bahamas and he wants to call us hateful? What Mr Smith is advocating is attrition by tolerance. He does not believe we should resist the gradual takeover of our way of life by outside forces. We should yield to the gradual infiltration of migrants who by their sheer numbers will reduce us to beggars in our own country!
Those who cannot see behind his serpentine words are deceived!
Well_mudda_take_sic 7 years, 10 months ago on Pit Bull suspects released
Pit Bull suspects released
The same can be said about Sebas Bastian and Craig Flowers who are killing our society.