I think the rest of the world was angry at the study in the UK, that used variable that should have mattered, but no one cared about, placing one of the most backwater nation as the most happiest. This one factored in wealth and stuff, things people actually think about, or things at least the civilized industrialized world cares about.

And Yet Europe still sucks...lol

I guess your happiness in this country just depends on the way you view things, and for some people, which party you follow.


Actually if you go to the page Denmark and Switzerland tied for first, followed by Austria and Iceland who tied for third, then The Bahamas Finland and Sweden who all tied for fifth. So Europe is well represented taking five of the top seven spots. And some people consider Iceland to be a part of Europe also even though it is stuck out there on it's own similar to Bermuda and the Caribbean.

for those of us who are actually working within the urban renewal program, we have grown a number of bahamian new media entrepreneurs in the past few years, now running cybercafes and wifi shops and tech support centres and web design agencies. even the centres at fox hill prison are successfully rehabbing prisoners and training the defence force on computers. not all of the news is bad, despite the headlines ;-).

Actually if you go to the page Denmark and Switzerland tied for first, followed by Austria and Iceland who tied for third, then The Bahamas Finland and Sweden who all tied for fifth. So Europe is well represented taking five of the top seven spots. And some people consider Iceland to be a part of Europe also even though it is stuck out there on it's own similar to Bermuda and the Caribbean.


Ok to rephrase......Britain still sucks

Ironically, most of the world thinks our urban Renwal program is actually working.

Most of the world doesn't read The Punch and The Tribune. They are able to judge objectively based on actual results. They also can judge a program based not on which party puts it forward but on its actual merits. It is entirely possible that Urban Renewal could be one of the best things to ever happen to this country if Bahamians would just give it a chance to succeed. I guess it is more important to make The PLP look bad than to provide opportunities for those that so desperately need them.

BTW what is so fundamentally bad about the Urban Renewal program that noone here seems to see any merit in it.

for those of us who are actually working within the urban renewal program, we have grown a number of bahamian new media entrepreneurs in the past few years, now running cybercafes and wifi shops and tech support centres and web design agencies. even the centres at fox hill prison are successfully rehabbing prisoners and training the defence force on computers. not all of the news is bad, despite the headlines ;-).


My sentiments exactly.

it depends on whose Bahamas your talking about because from what I see there is more than one Bahamas
1. the foreign "its better in the Bahamas" experience
2. the black elite and their circle experience
3. the white elite and their circle experience
4. the poor and downtrodden..outside toilet...water bucket toting experience
5. the outislander...independent and neglected but still surviving experience
and I though the our kind of people mentality was confined to the states...my heart aches...
notice how I numbered the different Bahamas'...it is a hierarchy scheme ;)

SHut up negative :haiti: tom

SHut up negative :haiti: tom

You must be one of dem elite!

Ironically, most of the world thinks our urban Renwal program is actually working.
:shhh: Bey.

SHut up negative :haiti: tom

My Bahamian brother I love you too! :p :D

Most of the world doesn't read The Punch and The Tribune. They are able to judge objectively based on actual results. They also can judge a program based not on which party puts it forward but on its actual merits. It is entirely possible that Urban Renewal could be one of the best things to ever happen to this country if Bahamians would just give it a chance to succeed. I guess it is more important to make The PLP look bad than to provide opportunities for those that so desperately need them.
BTW what is so fundamentally bad about the Urban Renewal program that noone here seems to see any merit in it.
Cause its been wayyyyyy more effective than One Bahamas. :D

My Bahamian brother I love you too! :p :D
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There was another survey by a social psychologist who ranked it 48th or so. I guess it depends what variables you use.


I found a reference to the study you are talking about. It had the nation of Vanatu ranked first. Incidentally it seems to have been done by the same foundation.

edit that study is an environmentalist survey that takes into account things such as consumption etc. We are a consumer driven economy so we ended up 75th

LOL

I mean it probably is.....

I'm not the one in desperate need. And the only thing In Freeport I see from urban renewal is the new Ford Focuses running around. In my head Urban Renewal is a textbook concept ;totally and physically reconstructing a community, while this one is supposed to focus on people. And the worse case senario (that people ususally run with) is that this party is using urban renewal for their own political tactics (yeah who give you that job again?). And of course, if you were somewhat negatively affected by the old PLP, this is how some might think now.

LOL

I mean it probably is.....

I'm not the one in desperate need. And the only thing In Freeport I see from urban renewal is the new Ford Focuses running around. In my head Urban Renewal is a textbook concept ;totally and physically reconstructing a community, while this one is supposed to focus on people. And the worse case senario (that people ususally run with) is that this party is using urban renewal for their own political tactics (yeah who give you that job again?). And of course, if you were somewhat negatively affected by the old PLP, this is how some might think now.


What you are missing is that there won't be that many people receiving jobs to affect any election results. Anyone that suggests that Urban Renewal is just a political play to get votes should consider that for a moment. What would make it be an effective political ploy? It can only get votes if it is an effective and beneficial program. Noone votes for a party based on failed and flawed programs. If that is the case you should consider the motivation of The FNM claiming that Urban Renewal is simply a vote getting exercise. They are trying to discredit and derail a program that could mean votes for The PLP. What will that mean for the persons that that program would have and should have helped. Think about that for a moment and then if my logic is flawed please let me know.

Well it was just my sugestion, not that I believe it.

Im suggesting that the politically bias would never see the bad as bad, and the good as good. Politacal biasness never factors individuals and their need, esspecially the ones below. But even beyond the job factor one can also say that plastering the program all over the media is being used as propoganda to convince that the program is good, and that if it was good as the government proclaims, they should be able to see it themselves (which they probably wont, because they are politically bias).