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Minnis: Govt Has No Plan To Protect Baha Mar Contractors

Tribune Photo We’re told that Dr Hubert Minnis “castigated” the Government because they don’t have a ”contingency plan to protect the interests of local contractors who are collectively owed millions of dollars for work performed on Baha Mar.” Excuse me? When did this become Governments responsibility? This is a most... Read more →

Racism is stupid

S3S sent this along and it was too good no to share. Read more →

Talk Is Cheap But Crime Is Exacting A Heavy Price

SOME time ago, I said that The Bahamas is a powder keg. Today, I believe in that statement even more than I did then. Our society is imploding and we have reached the point of absolute crisis. There is no other description for the criminality and mayhem happening around us... Read more →

Terrorism, climate change, and the hubris of risk analysis

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, had a very good article in The Week and makes a few excellent points. Here’s a couple: "...The risk of terrorism can be managed, if we just defeat every water bottle that gets near a plane. The risk of climate change can be managed, if only we put... Read more →

The Wrath of PM Christie. When politics tries to trump logic

In the wake of the release of the pwc review of the proposed Sanigest National Health Insurance scheme it was suggested there would have to be a “death panel” to “decide who would be treated or not for catastrophic diseases (CD) under its proposed National Health Insurance scheme" which the... Read more →

Matt Ridley, blazing a trail

Photo of Matt Ridley by Peter Walton I just picked up Matt Ridley’s latest book, The Evolution of Everything and can’t wait to get to it. At the same time Mr. Ridley has recently written two brilliant columns (not that all his writing is not excellent). The first is Wind... Read more →

Under The Cover of Darkness

In yesterday’s post we included a link and reference to a return to Daylight Saving Time (DST) in an effort to reduce crime. According to a recent study in The Review of Economics and Statistics shows in part, “Regression discontinuity estimates show a 7% decrease in robberies following the shift... Read more →

Myopia or total blindness on the rise?

Editor, I really think everyone in this Government suffers from severe MYOPIA or total blindness. I don’t think they have a clue, nor really care, that what to them is of paramount importance, is a complete and utter disaster to someone else. As an interested party in a Bay Street... Read more →

Will Solar Energy Plummet if the Investment Tax Credit Fades Away?

"Many solar supporters say the loss or reduction of the credit will be a ‘cliff’ for the industry. But others say the credit’s impact is overstated and solar will continue to grow." Read the pro and con of the discussion here… Read more →

PM Christie’s threat to civil liberties

After a record setting year of murders - 133 as at November 13, 2015 - the desire to appear to be concerned and simply doing something about it, must be overwhelming so Prime Minister Perry Christie on Friday threatened the freedom of movement of people in The Bahamas in order... Read more →