killemwitdakno 9 years, 9 months ago on Miller: BEC customers may see cost reduction in July bill
Miller: BEC customers may see cost reduction in July bill
Did Miller pay his remaining $200k yet?
banker 9 years, 9 months ago on A LIFE OF CRIME: Why do we kill?
A LIFE OF CRIME: Why do we kill?
We have marginalised the young, Bahamian male. We have disenfranchised him and separated him from the realisation of aspirations and dreams. He is functionally illiterate. He is jobless. He is the product of a single mother. He has never had a father figure. He lives in a society that has no moral compass. The corruption of the government is visible to anyone with half a brain. He knows that the rules can be breached with "grease" everywhere in Bahamian society, the civil service and the world that he lives in.
The first victim of such an environment is truth. The second is the human goodness within us. The third is respect for the law.
Putting a gun or a knife in the hands of a person describes above empowers him. It gives him ultimate power -- the power to remove someone from the Earth.
Why do we have this erosion of the veneer of civilisation, enlightenment and altruism? It is because there is dissonance in the messages of value programming and the everyday life experience. The message is "respect the law" and the living example is "people who bend the rules get ahead in life".
The ultimate reason, as iterated before has its roots in the economy. Bahamian people are shackled economically. They have a monolithic economy consisting entirely of low-skilled manual labour. There are virtual no knowledge or information age jobs. They have a dollar that is useless everywhere in the civilised world. You cannot spend it anywhere but the Bahamas and trading for a convertible concurrency costs too much.
There is no upward mobility. Mass media touts the "American Dream" of work hard and you can make something of your life. This is not true in the Bahamas. The education system is inferior. 75% of the households in the Bahamas at last census were of single mothers with children from more than one man. The fabric of the family has been rent asunder.
There is no power dynamic in the Bahamas where one can cause a shift in ones life, by triumphing economically. Or is there? Drugs. Selling drugs. Selling guns. Gangs. Copper thefts. Robberies.
It doesn't take a large study to figure this out. Like the deeply embedded tap root of a wart, the stagnant, backward economy of this archipelago, is the root cause of disenfranchisement and the human ills and misery of the people. And that is true where ever you see the erosion of altruistic human values.
Romrok 9 years, 9 months ago on Miller wants BEC privatised
Miller wants BEC privatised
Most logical thing he has said yet. Dismiss all the staff and sell the whole thing. Have the new company train staff that actually want to work.
DillyTree 9 years, 10 months ago on Bus passengers are warned to be ready for chaos
Bus passengers are warned to be ready for chaos
Take away all the jitney franchises and make them one public transportation company. Hire drivers that will follow the rules or be shown the door. No union nonsense, and no racing to pick up riders. One ticket for every route or bus and even a monthly pass or whatnot that is good on ALL jitney buses. Make it a professional operation with established routes and only pick up at designated bus stops. Where are the police when this nonsense occurs.