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Ben Harper with Charlie Musselwhite - Song of the week - June 24, 2013 - I'm In, I'm Out and I'm Gone

Just picked up the brand new release from Ben Harper with Charlie Musselwhite entitled Get Up! and all I can say is, oh yeah!!!! Enjoy, I'm In I'm Out and I'm Gone [The Machine Shop Session] from the the bonus CD below. Please visit Ben Harper's site here… and buy... Read more →

The Effect of Tax Increases and Spending Cuts On Economic Growth

Veronique De Rugy recently testified before the United States Senate Budget Committee, and she offered up some useful suggestions and information that our government should consider. Of course it appears like we will just keep doing the same thing and expect different results. Visit the Mercatus Center here... It's a... Read more →

Photo of the week: Broad Winged Hawk

Taken at the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge Boynton Beach, Florida a couple years back. Not a great pic, but a beautiful bird. 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... Read more →

The Bel Canto Singers in Concert at Christ Church Cathedral, today, Saturday, June 22nd

The Bahamas Mortgage Corporation. Albatross or Liberator?

Mr. Elcott Coleby, Deputy Director, Bahamas Information Services, recently corrected reports that The Bahamas Mortgage Corporation (BMC) will be building 127 "low-cost" homes for $60 million ($480,000 each). He assured taxpayers that they will be built for $10 million ($78,741 each). The $60 million being borrowed from the National Insurance... Read more →

What it means

by Edward Hutcheson Who do we deal with or how do we frame our questions when things go wrong? As a nation less than a month away from celebrating 40 years as a nation, this is one of the questions that we will have to address. It seems that nothing... Read more →

Government largesse: a double entendre

by Ian Mabon The Government recently announced amnesty for Real Property Tax evaders ranging from complete write offs to 50% discounts depending on whether or not those in arrears had not been previously accessed or were more than three years delinquent. Those of us who have religiously paid on time... Read more →

Investing in human capital

The Nassau Guardian editorial of Saturday, June 15, 2013, implores trade associations to facilitate training programs as done by the BCA and BTVI", and while I used to agree in principle, that is no longer the case. Here's why: "…Several years ago I served on the Government’s Vocational & Technical... Read more →

Freeze public spending for five years to achieve growth

Mark Littlewood of the Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA) in London, recently reported that Liam Fox "called for a more radical plan to tackle the deficit and encourage economic growth." Mr. Fox noted that "tough-sounding rhetoric about getting the nation's public finances under control is not being matched by the... Read more →

Duane Allman - Song of the week - June 17, 2013 - Goin' Down Slow

Duane Allman, yes of Allman Brothers fame, lays it down in this blues standard written by James Burke "St. Louis Jimmy" Oden. I transferred this from my LP of The Best of Duane Allman. Hope you enjoy Goin' Down Slow below. Please visit this web site… dedicated to him and... Read more →