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Revised Business License Taxes & Regulations need a re-think

It was about 8:45am when the phone rang. The voice on the other end sounded in a bit of a panic. "I operate a small business - 5 employees and three delivery vehicles - operating on a shoestring, but I pay my taxes". I respond telling her that she's lucky... Read more →

Stratfor: Cracks in Putin’s Kremlin as the stress on Russia grows

"Summary: We tend to see the complex politics of America but assume Putin rules a simple autocracy. Here Stratfor describes the fragile Russian state, under incredible pressure from the collapse of oil prices — while a struggle appears to have begun to control its future." Read more here... Read more →

Project Read Bahamas - Please help

by Rick Lowe We all confront the scourge of illiteracy in our country more often than we would like to admit but one organisation helping is Project Read Bahamas, a non-profit, volunteer organisation, founded in 1991 by the Rotary Club of East Nassau to confidentially teach adults how to read... Read more →

Pilot’s Death In Haiti Jail Raises Questions For Mitchell’s Ministry

Christopher Adderley by Adrian Gibson The tale of the death of Christopher Prescott Adderley, affectionately known as Scottie, in a prison in Port-de-Paix, Haiti, is a harrowing tale of negligence, a callous disregard for the pleas of a distraught mother by the Bahamas Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) and has,... Read more →

The View from 1787: What would Madison make of Donald Trump?

"Donald Trump sits atop national polls for the Republican nomination, with supporters arguing he is precisely the person to fight special interests, return power to the people, and “make America great again." If he were alive today, James Madison would surely disagree. The writings of the nation's fourth president offer... Read more →

The European Origins of Economic Development at Development Research Institute (DRI)

"European colonialism involved atrocities for the indigenous people who lived on the land on which Europeans settled. It follows that the effects of colonialism would persist hundreds of years later. One way to look at the effects of this history is to analyze the relationship between economic outcomes today and... Read more →

How the Affordable Care Act Continues to Fall Short: New at Reason

"The government always fails to deliver on its promises. "Of the seven main candidates running for president, only one wants to keep the Affordable Care Act in place: the Democratic kind-of-front-runner Hillary Clinton. Everyone else wants to get rid of it. Read more here... Read more →

Time to Face up to Mortality

by Richard Coulson First published in The Tribune Business and posted here with the kind permission of the author. Being Mortal, by Dr. Atul Gawande, was published in 2014 and surprisingly became a New York Times non-fiction best-seller. Already read by many members of the Bahamian medical community, it should... Read more →

Unintended Consequences of Government Intervention

"When policy starts with a respect for individual freedom and private property rights, and recognizes the limits of government action, then policymakers are apt to enhance markets and foster productivity. But big government and the regulatory/welfare state undermine individual responsibility, encourage rent seeking, and slow economic growth. A new, special... Read more →

Swift Justice: A Response

by Adrian Gibson THIS week, Attorney General Allyson Maynard-Gibson released a non-responsive, vacuous retort to my last column, where I advocated for the independence of our judicial process and dismissed her version of swift justice as nothing more than a farcical nightmare, a headline hunting, political scheme and catchphrase. I... Read more →