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International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Click image for pdf poster Theme for 2013: "Forever Free: Celebrating Emancipation" See the original post at the UN site here… "For over 400 years, more than 15 million men, women and children were the victims of the tragic transatlantic slave trade, one of the darkest chapters in human history.... Read more →

BEC to absorb cost of CARIFTA electricity because taxpayers have a social responsibility to a sporting event?

"We have a social responsibility to the people of The Bahamas and we must continue to give back in tangible ways to the community." Leslie Miller (PLP), MP & BEC Chairman (from The Tribune, Saturday, March 23, 2013). Since when is a public company that is reported to be on... Read more →

The iNMATES - Song of the week - I Can't Sleep - March 25, 2013

The iNMATES released their LP First Offence in 1979 and the sound of early Rolling Stones immediately struck me. Hope you like I Can't Sleep (digitised from my LP) below. Visit their My Space page here… and I sure hope you will buy some of their music. I Can't Sleep Read more →

Russ Roberts paraphrases Hayek on Cyprus

"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to Cyprus and the EU how little they really know about what they imagine they can design." See the original post at Cafe Hayek, here… Find out more about F. A Hayek here… Read more →

Bahama Parrot. Photo of the week

What a beautiful species. Taken in South Abaco. Rick Lowe Images by Rick Lowe is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at www.weblogbahamas.com. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://www.weblogbahamas.com/. Find more photos at Through The Lens Read more →

Voyager 1 Interstellar Mission nearing edge of the solar system?

Wow. 35 years later it's estimated the Voyager Space Probe is 11 billion miles away from the earth's sun in what's known as the heliosphere. Hang on to your seats. This could be another "giant step for mankind". Here's… what The Week says about it. Read what NASA says here…... Read more →

What on Earth is The Nassau Institute?

Recent presentation to the Rotaract Club of South East Nassau by Rick Lowe, Vice President and Treasurer of The Nassau Institute. See the original post at The Nassau Institute site here… The Nassau Institute was founded in 1995 (known originally as the Institute For Economic Freedom). Since then it has... Read more →

Budget Transparency

by Edward Hutcheson I do not know how a responsible government can agree with any of its members saying that the mid-term budget practice should be stopped. Are they suggesting that we go back to the end of year exercise, when everyone is too busy to keep a close watch... Read more →

The Illusions of Wealth

Laissez Faire Books has done it again. This time with the release of The Illusions of Wealth; Ludwig von Mises on The Business Cycle, edited with an introduction by Robert Murphy. You can download it free by joining the Laissez Faire Club here… In the 12-Minute Executive Summary I received... Read more →

Lessons in Freedom: Welfare Rights are Wrong

by Tibor R. Machan Ever since John Locke developed the theory of natural individual human rights, there has been an ongoing attempt to change his idea to something very different. For Locke the natural rights all human beings have are basically prohibitions. They forbid people from intruding on other people--from... Read more →