Quo Vadis Bahamas?

Posted on April 12, 2013 by weblogbahamas

Crime Scene

A symbolic moment of silence for our little country.

Maybe we need a local Guardian Angels Chapter?

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10 Responses to Quo Vadis Bahamas?

  1. S3S's avatar S3S says:
    April 13, 2013 at 2:46 am

    Short answer: ‘nowhere, fast’!
    Longer asnwer: ‘to serfdom by way of tried and tested routes to failure …’

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  2. Rick Lowe's avatar Rick Lowe says:
    April 13, 2013 at 4:55 am

    Absolutely.

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  3. Norman Cove's avatar Norman Cove says:
    April 13, 2013 at 5:44 am

    To put it another way….. Just like Jamaica……

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  4. S3S's avatar S3S says:
    April 13, 2013 at 6:41 am

    My heart cries for our beautiful little country. We must all fight ‘tooth and nail’ to ensure the below worst-case scenario does not arise in the next 10 years:
    “Jamaica at 50
    On your marks, get set… oh!”
    http://www.economist.com/node/21559348

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  5. Rick Lowe's avatar Rick Lowe says:
    April 13, 2013 at 7:29 am

    The Jamaican Road to prosperity (or should we say pauperism) and the Road to Serfdom to be sure gents.
    It’s also very interesting to note that the IMF is proposing business income tax to our government as well.
    The same road Barbados has traveled.
    Of course the government can blame the “dastardly foreigners” at the IMF for “imposing” this on us, while ignoring it’s their bad fiscal policies that has gotten us in this shape in the first place!

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  6. Ominous's avatar Ominous says:
    April 13, 2013 at 8:07 am

    The IMF, along with poor national Governance
    put Jamaica right where they are.
    Wouldn’t I just love to Get a loan, in your name, from a bank?
    Whether you knew about it or not is irrelevant, because if/when you did find out, you did nothing about it.
    Then I did it again, and again……..
    Governments tout GDP, and leverage it to death,
    having long since forgotten that it isn’t theirs…..
    It is Ours.
    Our Productivity, effort, capitalization, planning,
    So how will this backfire on us?
    Devaluation.
    Government has no choice, or perhaps we should say Government made their choice long ago.
    We are expendable, in order to preserve their status quo.

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  8. Tradewinds's avatar Tradewinds says:
    April 13, 2013 at 9:59 am

    Why can’t people recognize political tyranny when we see it?? Foresighted Jamaicans left the “Pearl of the Caribbean” in the late fifties just Before Independence.. Did they see something we cannot see today?? Today there are more Jamaicans living outside of the island nation than in it.. With over twenty percent of Jamaican nationals live in Brooklyn and Queens, New York, its is easy to see why Jamaica has become an economic basket case.. The productive class and professionals know there is little opportunity for them back home.. Many upon retirement would like to return to their homeland, but upon their return they become the targets of the underworld, criminal class.. It does not take long for the word to get around that Jamaica is a dangerous place for retiring Jamaicans wanting to come home.. When reminded of what is happening in America, their only reply is that it better than back home at least for the time being..
    It is become apparent as it was to many Jamaicans in the late fifties that the nations of the Caribbean today are in serious trouble as debt, deficits and dollar decline are the destructive forces that are forcing the financial collapse throughout the region.. With no real answers to this self-imposed economic destruction, individual freedom is being lost as the forces of tyranny again seems to be raising its ugly head..
    SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS

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  9. Ominous's avatar Ominous says:
    April 13, 2013 at 1:33 pm

    By the way, Jamaica did try to warn us on the crime front,
    The then Commissioner B.K.Bonamy went to a Caribbean Crime/security conference there, a few other Bahamians were invited also….
    The Jamaican Police chief warned us directly that it was coming for us too, the main address of the conference.
    They had not acted, and were trying to cope but we could, before crime got to their levels……
    When was this? The mid 70’s……..
    Efforts were made by the private sector to help, all but ignored by the powers that were, BOTH Administrations well into the 90’s!

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  10. Sick & Tired's avatar Sick & Tired says:
    April 16, 2013 at 11:14 am

    Just what the IMF wants,just wait till the VAT !Why why,why ?

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