The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune.

JUST a few years ago every month there used to be one fund raising Lottery or Game of Chance for established charities or churches - today I believe that one is now three per month and usually the individual one has to obtain an extension of time to sell their tickets because there is so much competition out there.

Name them from the Red Cross - every Catholic parish - Crippled Children AIDS/RED Ribbon and on and on all able to sell an average in the case of the larger exercises some $50-60,000.00 worth of tickets. So three-games of chance a month with revenue/sales of $50,000.00 = $150,000.00 monthly.

The incredible groups who daily feed over 50,000 residents of Nassau at say an average cost of $3.00 a meal (although some are the donated food from the great programme supplied from the hotels and restaurants) that means daily somehow $150,000.00 a day is found or a whopping $1,050,000.00 a week or $54m a year it comes from somewhere and certainly these figures combined from the games of Chance to this feeding programme does not come from an unchristian people as this is massive in any language.

If we did not have this christian generosity imagine what would be the state of certain urban areas in the centre of our city of Nassau - you think we have problems now imagine without this enormous act of Christian love pouring from us and the Corporate community and the non Bahamian residents who give without getting any business tax deduction, that is right off the top of their profits of their shareholders.

The scholarships granted by various groups - aren’t they also acts of Christian love? I find it very questionable that anyone is questioning whether we have changed and trying to deduce because there is a large local community still hurting from our own storms they seemingly don’t have rights to ask – well we still have leaky roofs, other damage to our homes some destroyed totally or beyond repair.

It is clearly evident the public would have preferred Government to write a cheque and let that be our commitment, but is it Christian that we know there are other islands, smaller than Dominica, that have also been severely damaged and we don’t even mention their names in passing?

We feed almost more than the total population of Dominica a day.

W THOMPSON

Nassau,

October 5, 2017.