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The players and the play

by Edward Hutcheson It should be apparent by now that those who we have elected are more interested in foreign investors than they are in Bahamians or the Bahamas. Bahamians are being threatened by elected officials and those who were not elected because they beg to differ on particular points... Read more →

Lessons in Freedom: A Precis on Public Finance

by Tibor R. Machan In a free country public finance pertains to how the proper tasks of government must be funded. The first issue is what amounts to bona fide public finance. Since the job of government is to secure the protection of the rights of the citizenry, public finance... Read more →

Material for thinking

Statue of The Thinker at the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania So much good stuff has been passing through the inbox lately I thought I would share the following three pieces.Hope you enjoy them. Why the Government is So Often Vicious and Foolish by Aaron Ross Powell Research fellow at the... Read more →

The Bahamas slow decay

by Tradewinds Sometimes our comments deserve to be posts on their own. This is one of them. In the Bahamas both political parties support the same thing, bigger government and greater control over the people. Both political parties seek to gain greater political power through higher taxes, more debt and... Read more →

David Shelley and Bluestone - Song of the week - July 29, 2013 - When I Was Your Superman

Whenever we visit Florida we like to find some live blues to listen to and the last time we were there we got to see David Shelley and Bluestone. Their new (2nd) CD, Trick Bag, is out and When I was Your Superman is the opening tune. Hope you enjoy... Read more →

Kayaking in and around Bonefish Pond

On Saturday morning we had a great treat, kayaking around the Bahamas National Trust's Bonefish Pond. It was a beautiful morning and we actually saw a tri-coloured heron "colony" for lack of a better explanation. We counted seven or eight of the herons of various ages and then stumbled upon... Read more →

Better news for Hope Town District Council, Abaco, Bahamas

But "the elephant in the room", government's blissfull spending, still exists. Earlier this week, Chief Councillor for the Hope Town District Council, Mr. Jeremy Sweeting, was advised their budget would be slashed 27% in wake of the governments fiscal problems, but according to this story in the Nassau Guardian of... Read more →

White Heron in the Glades - Photo of the week

Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge Boynton Beach, Florida 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... Read more →

Bahamians are going to be marginalized in their own country

by The Oracle Posted as a comment to this recent blog but it raises some interesting points so we thought we should post it as the blog for today. The sad thing really is that VAT has been selected (Some years ago BTW) to replace the tax revenue system that... Read more →

Local government budget cuts for Hope Town District Council, Abaco, Bahamas

As entourage after entourage of politicos make treks all over the world, like Roman Emperors of old, the budget for the local government district incorporating Hope Town, Man-O-War, Great Guana Cay, Tilloo Cay, Lubber's Quarters, Scotland Cay and Baker's Bay has been cut by almost 30% according to press reports.... Read more →