Please elaborateI did alreay.. but like i said.. you point is taken.... enough said...

need more clues than that, but if its PC then SpamStopper might be able to access the video, depending on which house it happened at .. which is why he asked. Plus nobody called SpamStopper yet so .. the news said they believe the guys was lurking through Hollow street i think that the name.

Yahooey, man I can see more gabbage collection bbut it is more then that.. it is the grime, filt..
There is a problem with these food stores.. useing these plastic bags...
There is a problem with these styrofoams that we Bahamians love to eat out...
There is problems with cars that are spilling bad odours in the enviroment...
Gabbage collection, cars on the streets..... stray dogs, Nassau is too dirty.. it needs to be clean up and we are moving too slow....

Problem is too much 'a 'yinna bungle-up in 'lil Nassau and een enough gub-ment regulations to curb da nastiness. There needs to be de-centralization of government offices so erryone could stop running to Nassau for one job. Put Argriculture in Andros, Tourism on Grand Bahama, Social Services in Eeluthera, etc. And, we need to have injunctions against:

Harmful emissions from broke down cars
Derelict vehicles on roadside
Food-selling without permit
1 house, 4 persons, 6 cars
Certain class and size of vehicles
Overgrown and blighted vacant buildings and lots
Dingy walls


Of course, one of the easiast ways to fix tings is to observe how other like-jurisdictions handle their own situations - but dat may not work for us either; cause we already know erryting!

Problem is too much 'a 'yinna bungle-up in 'lil Nassau and een enough gub-ment regulations to curb da nastiness. There needs to be de-centralization of government offices so erryone could stop running to Nassau for one job. Put Argriculture in Andros, Tourism on Grand Bahama, Social Services in Eeluthera, etc. And, we need to have injunctions against:

Harmful emissions from broke down cars
Derelict vehicles on roadside
Food-selling without permit
1 house, 4 persons, 6 cars
Certain class and size of vehicles
Overgrown and blighted vacant buildings and lots
Dingy walls

Of course, one of the easiast ways to fix tings is to observe how other like-jurisdictions handle their own situations - but dat may not work for us either; cause we already know erryting!

*Sunny pushin' Jesse on two mangra crate set up as a makeshift soap box and given him ta tuck shop meagaphone so dey could hear dis post* :bouncy:


BAN those wafer thin cheap plastic bags.
FINE buggas who leave trash after a day at the beach.
NO GLASS BOTTLE AT SPORTING OR LARGE EVENTS!


Mandatory EMISSIONS INSPECTIONS for ALL vechicles. If they don't have a sticker on the windshield with proper date of the last inspection FINE THEM!

Problem is too much 'a 'yinna bungle-up in 'lil Nassau and een enough gub-ment regulations to curb da nastiness. There needs to be de-centralization of government offices so erryone could stop running to Nassau for one job. Put Argriculture in Andros, Tourism on Grand Bahama, Social Services in Eeluthera, etc. And, we need to have injunctions against:

Harmful emissions from broke down cars
Derelict vehicles on roadside
Food-selling without permit
1 house, 4 persons, 6 cars
Certain class and size of vehicles
Overgrown and blighted vacant buildings and lots
Dingy walls

Of course, one of the easiast ways to fix tings is to observe how other like-jurisdictions handle their own situations - but dat may not work for us either; cause we already know erryting!


PREACH!!

Agreed. Now, are you going to help the government with this situation?Yes. Through the private sector. Present government structure is largely inefficient and needs to be revamped.

How do we fix the parents? Relieve them of their responsibilty and them what? Left to their own devices they will destroy everything before the first wunderkind ever graduates from a boarding school.Future generations should be made a top priority. There is too much dysfunction in some of these homes (and I used that term very loosely) for reasonable change to be made.

Relieving the responsibility of SOME of these parents is easy because they never had any in the first place!


Do we FORCE every parent of EVERY child in boarding school to attend training classes? Do we throw them in jail if they don't? You can't force an irresponsible adult to change their ways without giving them the ability to get themselves out of the cycle of dysfunction that they have put themselves into.

For example: Female has child directly out of high school. Father of child is not helping. Opportunity to attain a sensible job is severely limited due to lack of skills. College demands too much time away from the home and hiring a babysitter is out of the question. Frustration is let loose on child. Meets married man who is wiling to pay some of the bills. Another child is born. Kids eventually grow up with this type of life and the cycle continues.

OR.

Young man with average high school performance graduates. Tries to find work in hotel. No luck. Not interested in intellectual advancement, so college is out of the question. Finds menial job paying $400 a week. Saves up to buy car/motorbike. Has girlfriend who needs hair, nails and shopping money. Still living at home, but baby is born. Struggling with new responsibilities, his boys approach him with a way to make some quick "dough". Criminal life ensures. Kids grow up in an environment of ducking and dodging, thinking this is the norm. Cycle continues.

Such examples are becoming more typical as our materialistic society continues to produce overwhelming mediocrity as opposed to achievers.


Progress can't happen in a vacuum. The parents have to be fixed and taught how to parent while the kids are being trained.I see your point, but progress in this country has to happen in a "vacuum" of sorts. The root of the problem is too embedded within this small society for any reasonable change to be made otherwise. Boarding schools automatically would alleviate many of the stresses that parents complain about (not saying that kids are stress, but you get my point). In effect, boarding schools would be taking away any negative influence presently imposed upon these kids and ensuring for the most part that only a positive influence prevails. By the time those kids leave that educational system, they will be self-sufficient. Parental influence would be minimal. (Private school systems will remain an option, but it is expected that even they will shift to the new model, if this is implemented.)

The Bahamas has an opportunity to become a model for the rest of the Caribbean and depending upon the success of these systems can become a nation where kids from other countries are sent to our school systems to be educated.

This concept cannot be explained in a few paragraphs, but it can and will be successful, whether implemented here (or in another country). The boarding school system works, so why not use that structure with modifications to ensure its viability for quality, free education for all Bahamians?

*Sunny pushin' Jesse on two mangra crate set up as a makeshift soap box and given him ta tuck shop meagaphone so dey could hear dis post* :bouncy:
BAN those wafer thin cheap plastic bags.
FINE buggas who leave trash after a day at the beach.
NO GLASS BOTTLE AT SPORTING OR LARGE EVENTS!
Mandatory EMISSIONS INSPECTIONS for ALL vechicles. If they don't have a sticker on the windshield with proper date of the last inspection FINE THEM!

"]]*Walking in a 8ft circle, right hand on 'kimba while wiping forehead with back of left...bending over occassionally to catch his breath; wile waiting for Sonnyjohn to bring da Kalik.....cause is soon time to row dem jungliss again and ya gonna hafta run again![/[/SIZE]I]

YOU are right a little goes a long way.. but I am talking about the urgency about the situation.... the beaches, every where .... plaastics are killing sea life.... etc.... the government has to develop a national policy and them implement the plan...

Stop saying but and just do your part, everything else will fall into place....Rome was built in a day...nor can it be destroyed in a day!

Stop saying but and just do your part, everything else will fall into place....Rome was built in a day...nor can it be destroyed in a day!

Watch ya sef gal u is werry philosophical!!! lol :jawdroop:

Watch ya sef gal u is werry philosophical!!! lol :jawdroop:


BOL.....see if we start to accept rresponsibility for our part the world will be a better place....but as usual we like to "pass da buck"!

BOL.....see if we start to accept rresponsibility for our part the world will be a better place....but as usual we like to "pass da buck"!


Well we ga soon run outta bucks to pass as ting tuff and da dollars is gettin short!

Well we ga soon run outta bucks to pass as ting tuff and da dollars is gettin short!

True!

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YB,

I see your points. Programs Like Deacon Jeff Lloyd's YEAST program in Andros has proven that an intensive boarding school can work in our country.

Deacon Jeff does run another school right in Nassau that does not require its stuudents to board.

I agree with you partially. Some of our kids do need to be removed from their "parents" (a term I use loosely for the group).

Perhaps 10% of our kids need to be moved into a boarding-military-boot camp type educational system that fosters self-respect and discipline along with a cutting edge curriculum of tech, arts and science. Why not target those racing toward a stay in Williemae Prat/Sampson Pennand the hangmans noose?

Another 15% could do without the boot camp but need to be bordered because their parents are incorrigible and need extensive therapy.

The rest though - How about a serious of public charter-magnet schools along with science/art academies?. The same cutting edge curriculum could be presented. Parental involvment would be mandatory and become the norm as a culture of true scholastic excellence sweeps our nation.

Whatsayu?? Can ya picture it!

Stop saying but and just do your part, everything else will fall into place....Rome was built in a day...nor can it be destroyed in a day!butsmall measures are good, each and every one of us doing our part.. we need a national policy.. because the big businesses are part of the problem... they are the ones who is destorying the enviroment... they should be charged with a price to recycle these plastic bags... small measures but in the mean time BIG measures are hurting us seriously..... BUT keep up your good work... we must and need to do more...

My problem with Dr. Minnis is simple.. and all know it.. IT is the enviroment.. Nassau ti too dirty.. ONE year later and Nassau is worst.... a plan has to be developed to clean up the city RIGHT AWAY... BUT IN DOING SO.. the enviroment needs to be protected.. a GREEN policy has to be developed....
My brother check out what they did on Charles Saunders Highway and Seabreeze Dr.
I hear that the land was BULLDOZED for a "PARK" if indeed it is for a "PARK" why the devil bull doze all those native trees?
I cannot for the life of me understand how some one can take a virgin piece of land and just clear cut, I did my rounds around this little Island of ours and the "PARKS" are depolorable, basket ball courts and swings sets and plastic play sets under the BLAZING sun.
My God, Parks should be lush and inviting.
I agree with you 100% we need a GREEN policy and enforce the law!
We as a people may wake up, hope it wont be too late.