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Bahamas Prime Minister Ingraham - Some government corporations face 'cut backs'

I always feel uneasy when I find myself privately cheering on a politician, and when I found myself giving Prime Minister Ingraham a standing ovation this morning, I wondered if I was losing it. Here's why I lost my composure. Prime Minister Ingraham is reported in The Tribune of Thursday,... Read more →

Can the Bahamas Government get more revenue by taxing less? Part II

This is Part II of a series that Dan Mitchell of The Cato Institute recently prepared for the Center for Freedom and Prosperity. This video is titled, The Laffer Curve, Part II: Reviewing the Evidence. Thanks to Don Boudreaux for getting the message out that this video was available. Read more →

CFAL Bahamas petitioning government for pension reform

CFAL, better known as Colina Financial Advisors Ltd, an impressive local financial management and advisory company, with some high powered principals has laid the gauntlet down to the government over pension reform. In a full page ad in the press on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 they wrote: "CFAL has often... Read more →

Can the Bahamas government get more revenue by taxing less? Part I

Dan Mitchell of The Cato Institute recently prepared the following video for the Center for Freedom and Prosperity on understanding the theory of The Laffer Curve. Thanks to Don Boudreaux for getting the message out that this video was available. Part II coming soon. Read more →

Bahamas Government 'promoting' farming again in Andros

The Bahamas government has reportedly bought 502 acres of farm land in North Andros from Kerzner International to 'promote' farming. It's amazing that we don't seem to learn from history. Larry Smith reminded us about governments failed hand at farming in his essay, Tough Call, last week about South Eleuthera.... Read more →

Gordon Lightfoot - Song of the week - February 25, 2008

My wife and I were fortunate enough to see Gordon Lightfoot live at the now famous Massey Hall. I hope you enjoy Minstrel of the Dawn below. It's one of my favourite Lightfoot tunes. Sorry but I couldn't find an official Gordon Lightfoot web site. Read more →

The PLP and National Health Insurance (NHI) for The Bahamas

At the PLP's recent convention they spent considerable time lamenting the fact that the FNM have not implemented their much ballyhooed National Health Insurance scheme. Their intention, if re-elected in May 2007, was what amounted to a hostile take over of the health care industry. Promising that no Bahamian would... Read more →

A World Enslaved

The introduction to E. Benjamin Skinner's essay for the March - April 2008 of Foreign Policy Magazine notes that: There are now more slaves on the planet than at any time in human history. True abolition will elude us until we admit the massive scope of the problem, attack it... Read more →

Bahamas National Insurance Board (NIB) Conducting "Annual Audits"?

I received a phone call earlier this week from a very polite lady informing me that it was time for NIB's annual audit of my account for our housekeeper. Having just gone through this process last year when it was uncovered that I had not paid a couple months and... Read more →

PLP Bahamas Convention 2008

Political conventions tend to be quite trivial in our country, and serve little more than a soapbox. And the PLP convention that started last night, February 20, 2008, is no different. Very few of the speakers offered any tangible ideas or policies on how to improve the country. In fact,... Read more →