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"Investment attachés to be posted at Embassies will improve the ease of doing business in The Bahamas" - Not so fast, Mr PM!

By S3S The captioned article focused on a pronouncement by the current Administration of an initiative designed to “improve the ease of doing business in The Bahamas”. Any efforts to make the country more attractive to foreign investment must be applauded. However, our very new administration may be over-optimistic and... Read more →

We are nearly 50 years old, it's time we grew up!

“Economic dependency is an unending situation in which countries, economies and economic agents depend on each other and a variety of different economic and non-economic factors for economic and non-economic reasons” (Collins Dictionary, 2012). As we approach our 50th Independence Anniversary approximately one year from now, we are as far... Read more →

Why use of the term 'real world' in Higher Education must stop!

The Misnomer created by the hackneyed term "the real world" There is a stubborn vocabulary of hackneyed terms and phrases that assaults our ears on a regular basis in Higher Education. I have witnessed a reckless abuse of such terms in HE in the UK for the past 18 years,... Read more →

One Beautiful Little Country facing 12 Ugly Giant Evils – The Bahamas

On the surface, The Bahamas is a young, progressive and wealthy country, as it approaches its 50th Independence Anniversary from Great Britain. As an early beneficiary of mass tourism, its economy grew steadily from the 1950’s. However, over the past five decades, the rise of regional competition, the pace of... Read more →

The Unsavory Union of Corruption and Hypocrisy - Meet the new Poster Boy

"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean”. Matthews 23, v.27 A union of corruption and hypocrisy came to light in August 2021... Read more →

Necessary and Laudable actions to address Covid-19 but are they Sufficient?

By S3S In times of extreme crises, there is no greater comfort than to be governed by experiential knowledge, especially when that knowledge finds a near perfect fit with the resulting challenges and problems. Such is the situation in The Bahamas, at the moment, where we are fortunate to be... Read more →

Thirty years of Hurricanes: is the time not right for a Public Inquiry?

Since ~1990, we in The Bahamas have been a destination, birthplace or ‘thoroughfare’ for 15 major hurricanes and hurricanes. We are ‘battle weary’ from surviving these natural disasters and have achieved the dubious distinction of ‘knowing a thing or two’ about these dangerous tropical storms. However, it can be argued... Read more →

The Five Imperatives we must address to enjoy WTO membership

Nobody doubts the benefits that World Trade Organisation (WTO) membership brings but to reiterate a key previous argument, benefits are not automatic nor are they fairly or equally distributed, especially when it comes to small island developing states like The Bahamas, which do not have the capacity to participate fully... Read more →

A Balanced View of Trade: Why The Bahamas Must Re-think WTO Accession

ECONOMIC LIBERALISATION actively promotes the flawed premise that free trade, generally, and membership of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), specifically, constitute the Holy Grail of sustained economic growth for all countries. Of course, for developed countries, with large and diversified economies, mature industries, large and diverse enterprise stocks, mature firms... Read more →

The Bahamas: One Beautiful Little Country facing many Ugly Giant Evils

In 1973, our little country embarked on a journey that promised to take us ‘Forward, Upward, Onward, Together’. The simple but galvanising mantra was visionary and optimistic, and instilled a feel-good factor in all of us at the time. After 45 years of relatively exemplary democracy, political stability, steady economic... Read more →