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Larry Smith, AKA Tough Call over at BahamaPundit rants

by Christopher D. Lowe Larry Smith AKA Tough Call, over at BahamaPundit had a great rant yesterday (read it by clicking here...) and it appears he might be getting as incensed as we all should be? Here's my two cents.. On the courts: ...If this spreads to the out islands... Read more →

A Rant: Bahamian society and disturbing trends in lawnmowers

by Christopher D. Lowe I’ve noticed a disturbing trend over the last 10 years or more, I’ll call it “Belligerence coupled with ignorance and machinery”. Somehow, we Bahamians have come to believe that he who shouts loudest wins. Another version is he who intimidates best wins. Most will lie to... Read more →

Are 55 People responsible for all The Bahamas woe's?

by Christopher D. Lowe I came across the following article, reportedly written by Charley Reese, for the Orlando Sentinel Star. For some reason it has a familiar feel to it, and begs the question; Are 55 People responsible for all The Bahamas woe's? Of course the 55 people in The... Read more →

More on Politicians versus Business

by Christopher D. Lowe Further to this post... it's Obama and his predecessors in government that created the financial fiasco precisely by giving cheap credit which, even being cheap, many could not repay in the first place. But, back to home: I am getting tired of producing in spite of... Read more →

Bahamas on the road to becoming a Socialist welfare state?

by Christopher D. Lowe "A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result... Read more →

Read the news in Nassau for me would ya?

by Christopher Lowe It appears that I have read my last paper Tribune, yesterday, February 10 2009. it appears that we who live in the out Islands/Family Islands will only be able to read it online as a web page or website of some sort. It will not be the... Read more →

Petrocaribe. Changes afoot for participating CARICOM countries

by Christopher Lowe Who would have thunk it? From MSNBC: One of Chavez's biggest international initiatives has been the PetroCaribe pact, which sells oil to Caribbean and Central American countries largely on credit, charging 1 percent interest over 25 years. Venezuela has financed more than $2 billion in sales to... Read more →

The Ubiquitous Bahamas Import Duty (Excise Tax) in the Spotlight

by Christopher Lowe One reality is irrefutable: Nothing is for free. If the government gives it, it was taken from someone else first. Perhaps the same one receiving the “gift”. Every Bahamian is aware of Duty, the import tax, but beyond a passing aversion to it and its association with... Read more →

The Silver Lining for The Bahamas

by Christopher Lowe There is one, faint though it is, in all this Global Meltdown / confidence shaking/confusion. The average Bahamian is being affected, and some are asking “why?” Our lazy stream, meandering through the softest rock, is now faced with turbulence, restriction and stagnation that have caught most completely... Read more →

Deeply disturbing comments about Freeport, Grand Bahama, by Mr. Hubert Ingraham, Prime Minister of The Bahamas

The following article was sent as a Letter to the Editor of the The Nassau Guardian, The Tribune and The Freeport News. In response to the recent news article which appeared in the June 19 2008 edition of each of your respective newspapers, I respectfully offer the following as a... Read more →