Category Archives: Blogs by S3S

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

Posted on July 24, 2022 by weblogbahamas

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 … Continue reading →

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

Posted on July 15, 2022 by weblogbahamas

“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 … Continue reading →

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

Posted on May 17, 2022 by weblogbahamas

    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 … Continue reading →

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

Posted on January 31, 2022 by weblogbahamas

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 … Continue reading →

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

Posted on September 9, 2021 by weblogbahamas

"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 … Continue reading →

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

Posted on April 19, 2020 by weblogbahamas

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 … Continue reading →

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

Posted on September 10, 2019 by weblogbahamas

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’ … Continue reading →

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The Five Imperatives we must address to enjoy WTO membership

Posted on March 12, 2019 by weblogbahamas

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 … Continue reading →

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

Posted on February 5, 2019 by weblogbahamas

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 … Continue reading →

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

Posted on September 10, 2018 by weblogbahamas

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 … Continue reading →

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