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Satire: The Bahamas' Five Year Plan for Education

by Rick Lowe (http://www.weblogbahamas.com)

You don't want to miss this excellent commentary by Joan Thompson over at the Nassau Institute.

It certainly makes one stop and think about the possibilities for education.

Is it naive and theoretical to think that the entrepreneurs in society will care more about our children than a government bureaucracy that has been running education the way it has for decades now?  

Hope you enjoy it.

Please leave a comment over there. 

Cuba: July Anniversaries of Two Massacres

by Cuba Archive (http://www.weblogbahamas.com)

Reprinted with the kind permission of Cuba Archive an initiative of Free Society Project, Inc.

Cuba: July Anniversaries of Two Massacres
Unpunished, but not forgotten

July 6, 2007, Summit, New Jersey.

Among the most flagrant atrocities committed by the Castro regime in its long history of human rights’ abuses, two incidents stand out –the Canimar River Massacre of 1980 and the Tugboat Massacre of 1994. Both took place in the month of July and poignantly illustrate the Cuban leadership’s profound disregard for human life and their egregious violation of the fundamental right of citizens to leave their country.

Lessons in Freedom: Looking Back to Gain Perspective!

by Tibor R. Machan (http://www.weblogbahamas.com)

As one who tasted both a bit of Nazism and Communism, today's economic fiasco strikes me as relatively mild as human disasters go.  For starters many in America remember the Great Depression and the Second World War, both of which had devastated millions of lives, destroying the bulk and arresting even more. The concentration camps, the gulags, the bombings and the wreckage left in their wake across the globe simply aren't anything like what we are experiencing now, economically, mostly, but not exclusively. And the fallout from the loss of all the wealth is yet to be counted up.

Economic Logic continued...

by Rick Lowe (http://www.weblogbahamas.com)

You might recall I asked this question on Thursday past:

Why do governments wish to challenge companies they believe are "too big" through anti-trust legislation and want to bail out others because "they're too big to fail"?

Well I received a few private e-mails with some answers.

James Bartholomew: The Welfare State We're In

Lessons in Freedom: Egalitarian Fallacies

by Tibor R. Machan (http://www.weblogbahamas.com)

"As the late Murray N. Rothbard pointed out, in his book, Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays (1977), that equality is simply everywhere and cannot be erased if for no other reason than the simple one that those doing the erasing of it would enjoy vastly greater—unequal—powers from what those do who are subjected to the erasure."

Very few duplicities are as blatant as those exhibited by academic champions of egalitarianism. This is because most of them are extremely well positioned in the academy, published by the most prestigious journals and book publishers, invited to the fanciest conferences, and otherwise singled out for privileges unknown to others, especially to those who do not advocate egalitarianism.

Bahamas Public Education's 10 year plan

by Joan Thompson (http://www.weblogbahamas.com)

In his recent speech to the government school teachers and education bureaucracy Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham said:

“I believe it is noteworthy that, like health, education has been one of the largest recipients of government funding in every budget cycle since before independence.”

In spite of vast sums of money poured into education, increasing the compulsory attendance from 14 to 16, the level of achievement could hardly be worse. In fact it is a National embarrassment.

Independence, Citizenship & Responsibility for The Bahamas

by Bahamas B2B

First published in the Bahamas B2B weekly newsletter on Thursday, July 9, 2009 and republished here with their kind permission. Visit the Bahamas B2B web site at www.bahamasb2b.com.

"This was adapted and rewritten from a number of old quotes and sayings on citizenship, and first  published in the BahamasB2B Newsletter in 2003, on Independence Day."

Independence, Citizenship & Responsibility

If a citizen demands wise government, he must recognise that wise government is the product of an intelligent citizenry, and nothing else.



If a citizen demands that crime be in the cell and not in the streets, he must support honest law enforcement without any personal reservations whatsoever.

Happy Independence Bahamas

by Rick Lowe (http://www.weblogbahamas.com)

The following blog is an excerpt from a weekly column from 1998 that I used to write for The Bahama Journal. It is remarkable how true the saying is that, "the more things change the more they remain the same".

At forty years of age, I have very little in common with the leaders of our country from the 1970’s. I do remember however, the Abaco Independence Movement where I lived at the time, and the negativity that surrounded our nationhood. Looking back, I wonder if the idea could have been “sold” more effectively to the entire nation.

But today all 270,000 of us can hold our heads high when we consider what has been accomplished. To paraphrase Dr. Cleveland Eneas who wrote in his post script to Bain Town, “The time is rapidly dawning when we Bahamians will…… have a story to present to the rest of the world”.

Lessons in Freedom: Truncated "Liberty"

by Tibor R. Machan (http://www.weblogbahamas.com)

"Genuine liberty means being in full control of one's life not being accorded the privilege of not always suffering the intrusions of one's oppressors."

Some people seem to believe that when they aren't being directly oppressed, meddled with, intruded upon, interfered with and so on, they are then free. Americans often have this conception of being free because their various governments often leave them be. Only 40 percent of their resources is being taxed! Their bars can be open until 1 AM or even later in some places. Blue laws apply only here and there, on certain days. So, hurray, we are free!