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Why no cost benefit analysis to accompany solar suggestions?

There is a popular opinion that The Bahamas can easily move to solar energy as our source for electricity. After all we're still burning diesel fuel, in some cases Bunker C, to generate power for our daily lives. While we've been carrying our green bags to the supermarket for years,... Read more →

Utility Unions

Sir, It is noticeable that the workers at our two major utilities; water and electricity, seem to have a knack for picking the wrong leader of their respective unions; we have Dwayne Woods at Water and Sewerage who apparently encouraged workers to withdraw their labour in support of an employee... Read more →

The Essential Adam Smith

by James Otteson Adam Smith (1723–1790) is widely hailed as the founding father of the discipline now known as economics, and he is widely credited as the founding father of what is now known as capitalism. Smith’s 1776 book, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of... Read more →

Bahamas Power & Light

Dear Mr. Editor, I’m not sure who the management of BPL is trying to fool. Rather than trying save energy, it would appear to this ignorant power consumer that the intention is to destroy customer’s electrical equipment. If this is not the case perhaps the powers that be in BPL... Read more →

The Butcher, The Brewer, and The Baker Book Talk: Community Revival in the Wake of Disaster

Bahamian Professor Virgi Storr talking about revival in the wake of hurricane Katrina. In this Charles Koch Institute The Butcher, The Brewer, and The Baker book series talk, Virgil Storr and Stefanie Haeffele-Balch discuss their new book Community Revival in the Wake of Disaster: Lessons in Local Entrepreneurship. Watch the... Read more →

One State Repealed Its Entire Regulatory Code. Now What?

Idaho just initiated a regulatory reset, where the government eliminates all regulations and then brings back the ones it decides it wants. by David Henderson This article was originally published on FEE.org. Read the original article. My friend and former student Paul Gerner suggested to me a few years ago... Read more →

The State Of The Teaching Profession

by Dr. Donald M. McCartney, D.M. The teaching profession, we all may agree, is not what it used to be. In fact, in its early days, teaching, for many, particularly people of colour, was the profession of choice. Teaching was and still is the "mother" of all professions. I challenge... Read more →

Fred Smith and Haitian illegals

Sir, It would appear that a little bit of fame and notoriety has gone to Fed Smith, QC’s head. I presume we will also have to assume that geography was not one of his better scholastic subjects. Mr. Smith the Commonwealth of the Bahamas may cover some 100,000 sq. miles... Read more →

Public polices supporting entrepreneurs

I often find myself disagreeing with public policy primarily because once agencies are implemented to "solve" a problem they never go away if they do not solve the problem they were created to deal with. Generally, they just keep getting larger. Take the Bahamas Development Bank. Their mission is "To... Read more →

Government Can't Solve Our Problems, but Civil Society Can

...trust in the federal government’s ability to solve problems is at its lowest point in decades. by Richard William Graber This article was originally published on FEE.org. Read the original article. A recent Gallup report revealed a paradox of today’s national political debate: While a number of candidates on the... Read more →