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45 lessons life taught me

by Rick Lowe

I'm not sure if this was actually written by the person noted, but they're neat thoughts any way.

Sometimes we need some positive thoughts.

Hope you enjoy it.

The Bahamas and regulatory reform of electronic communications. A Town Meeting

The Bahamas Judicial System...a chilling account

by Rick Lowe

Check out this post at the Nassau Institute.

The topic is a speech about the Judiciary by Mr. Maurice Glinton, an attorney from Freeport, Grand Bahama, Bahama.

He raises some chilling issues. I wish there were more suggestions for improvement included though.

Click here... to listen to the the entire speech.

Let the audio load completely before starting to listen.

Difficult days in The Bahamas as FNM Government releases the 2009, 2010 Budget

by Rick Lowe 

Ballooning deficits and declining GDP is leaving public finances in The Bahamas devastated, further enslaving future generations to a public debt that will exceed $4 billion before we read John Maynard Keynes, 410 page treatise, General Theory of Employment Interest and Money and Ludwig von Mises 930 page masterpiece, Human Action, A Treatise on Economics, from cover to cover.

Lessons in Freedom: "It's Only Money!"

by Tibor R. Machan

How is it you never hear prominent critics of Western materialism and capitalism defending the likes of Bernard Madoff with the exclamation, "It's Only Money!"? If their disdain for money is honest, if they consider it something dirty and unimportant in human life. at least in a decent, exemplary human life, then surely it should be of no great significance that some people like Madoff steal if from people big time.

Larry Smith, AKA Tough Call over at BahamaPundit rants

by Christopher D. Lowe

Larry Smith AKA Tough Call, over at BahamaPundit had a great rant yesterday (read it by clicking here...) and it appears he might be getting as incensed as we all should be?

Here's my two cents..

Flooding in Nassau, Bahamas a serious issue with multiple effects

by Ian Mabon

First published in The Tribune, Saturday, May 23, 2009 and republished here with the kind permission of the author.

As we await the start of the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season in two weeks time, I couldn’t help but notice the considerable flooding that resulted today (May 19, 2009) from a mere two inches of rainfall. At certain locations on East and West Bay Streets, downtown and in the Dowdeswell Street area it was almost knee deep for a while, glaringly highlighting Nassau’s inadequately maintained storm drain systems.

Don't miss the Nassau Institute event tonight at The Nassau Yacht Club

Mr. Maurice O. Glinton, Freeport based Counsel and Attorney, will provide an interesting perspective on The Judiciary here in Nassau on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 6:30pm at The Nassau Yacht Club, East Bay Street.

His topic is: The Case for a Politically Accountable Judiciary .

For more details click here...

Lessons in Freedom: Bad Deja Vue

by Tibor R. Machan

I was born on the eve of World War II and once I could think a bit for myself my life was surrounded in Budapest with the disaster of Soviet style socialism. One standard feature of that system is that everything is run or strictly managed by the government. This was even true with the press--what is today the media. And a constant, relentless offering in the state run newspapers included nasty cartoons depicting rapacious, viscous, ugly, gross capitalists. Every day you opened the papers on the editorial page you found some drawing in which American or Western capitalist were caricatured as the scum of the earth. As if they were child molesters or something truly vile, not the usually hard working financial experts, wealth care professionals these people actually were and still are.

PLP forms committee to investigate itself?

by Rick Lowe

According to The Nassau Guardian:

"The National General Council (NGC) of the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) has formed a committee to examine the report commissioned by high-ranking party members following the 2007 general election after inquires on the report were made by former Exuma Member of Parliament George Smith. There is a certain element of the party that is concerned that the findings and recommendations of the report have been largely ignored, and the leadership of the party has shown no real effort to reform the organization, since its defeat in the last general election. The Nassau Guardian has learned that the NGC approved the request at the party's council meeting last Thursday. The leadership of the party has had the report in hand for nearly two years."