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Doongalik Studios Art Gallery Newsletter

The June Newsletter is out. Download and read it here... Read more →

Policy Ideas: Georgia's "Rose Revolution". An example for The Bahamas?

Georgia's president-elect Georgy Margvelashvili, right, and Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili attend a news conference in Tbilisi, Georgia. Picture: REUTERS After 1991, Georgia struggled with its integration with the rest of the world. Socialist inefficiency was exposed and thousands of factories closed. Gross domestic product (GDP) dropped 85%. Georgian politicians and... Read more →

KILL The Interception of Communications Bill (ICB), 2017 (Known locally as The Spy Bill)

"Across the Bahamas, civil society organizations, legal experts and prominent individuals warn that in its current form, the Bahamas proposed Interception of Communications Bill, 2017 may violate every citizen's constitutionally protected right to privacy and strike a mortal blow to civil liberties in general. "While accepting that effective law enforcement... Read more →

Rise of a New Police State

Dear Editor, Allyson Maynard Gibson’s defense of the controversial ICB lacks credibility as she states that the authority for the above would be placed “solely in the hands of the Independent Judiciary.” This is laughable as the government has openly shown their disdain, disrespect & disregard for the Judiciary by... Read more →

The Digital Surveillance State: Vast, Secret, and Dangerous

An eye opening series of essays from Glenn Greenwald, John Eastman, Julian Sanchez and Paul Rosenzweig. “And as we acquiesce to more and more sacrifices of our privacy to the omnipotent Surveillance State, it builds the wall of secrecy behind which it operates higher and more impenetrable, which means it... Read more →

The Surveillance State Seen through a 'Black Mirror'

This article was originally published on FEE.org. Read the original article. The Netflix series, Black Mirror, has garnered a great deal of attention recently for its Twilight Zone feel which leaves many viewers both slightly disturbed and intrigued. Complete with the same bizarre plot twists that Twilight Zone provided to... Read more →

Frederick Lightbourn and Original Review

Restaurant owners and operators can now track customer satisfaction in real time thanks to Bahamian Entrepreneur and restaurateur Frederick Lightbourn, with a new software called Original Review. How it started: “After 30 years operating and owning restaurants in Nassau, Bahamas, Frederick Lightbourn knew this age-old adage to be true. He... Read more →

The Real Adam Smith

From Free To Choose TV Real Adam Smith? And why should we care? In this two-hour, two-part documentary, Swedish author, commentator and Cato Senior Fellow Johan Norberg explores Adam Smith’s life, his ideas about morality and economics, and how the concepts he discussed in his books and lectures are still... Read more →

The urgent push to go green

Looking at electricity rates around the world it seems there is no cost savings for the consumer in those countries “pushing” green energy like Germany. Without a proper cost benefit analysis it’s difficult to know the effects if the Bahamas Electricity Corporation attempted to provide wind and solar power. One... Read more →

Links of interest. Fusion Power. ObamaCare's Unraveling & Being Progressive and Racist

Fusion Power is very close… Business Insider shared a video on the possibility of fusion power, in the not too distant future, that could be a game changer. The quiet unraveling of ObamaCare… The Week shared an interesting and bleak synopsis of problems with ObamaCare. Progressive and Racist. Woodrow Wilson... Read more →