by Rick Lowe (http://www.weblogbahamas.com)
The US Health Care Debate and the discussion to move the port in Nassau are heating up.
Here's a couple links that might be of interest.
John Mackey of Whole Foods on the US Health Care Debate
At Whole Foods we allow our team members to vote on what benefits they most want the company to fund. Our Canadian and British employees express their benefit preferences very clearly—they want supplemental health-care dollars that they can control and spend themselves without permission from their governments. Why would they want such additional health-care benefit dollars if they already have an "intrinsic right to health care"? The answer is clear—no such right truly exists in either Canada or the U.K.—or in any other country. [More...]
See Mr. Mackey's unedited piece here...
Earl Deveaux on the debate over moving the port in Nassau
I have parsed recent newspaper articles and have also obtained a flyer entitled The Future is Now ....The Committee to Protect and Preserve the Bahamas for Future Generations".
Jerome Fitzgerald and the proposed relocation of the container port to Arawak Cay and the harmful impact it will have on the surrounding Environment our communities and us, the Bahamian people.
The AD is headlined with the words "There have been so many questions and we have received so few answers."
The Government, and by extension me have been described as “…Secretive and criminal…” according to Jerome Fitzgerald “…Lacks transparency…” according to Glenys Hanna Martin.
Here are the questions in the flyer and my answers: [More...]
