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).


All in all Urban Renewal is a wonderful idea. The Government plasters it all over every opportunity they get because they are proud of it.

It is interesting that you feel it is plastered all over the place when the only places you see anything positive about it are at The PLP convention and on ZNS. Every time someone associated with Urban Renewal makes a misstep The Tribune places it on the front page yet they have never mentioned all the lives that it has affected in a positive way.

Urban Renewal can be anything from a program that transforms the inner cities and beleaguered settlements of our country and the people in them in a positive and constructive way or a dismal failure which is abandoned and dismantled. At the end of the day the success of Urban Renewal will depend on the Bahamian people and whether they are willing to support a program conceived by a Party they may not support.

www.happyplanetindex.org

this is where that school got most of their data from to start with, and we are rated 75 on this one .... course both of them are just a joke anyway. BTW these Happy sites are all depressed Brits!

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.


the urban renewal programme has actually been in play since 1999 as a cooperative with the police force, community foundations, service groups, schools and local government councils, so no single POLITICAL party can really take credit for its launch, although the program expanded significantly in nassau to st. cecelia's and fox hill under mother pratt's watch. the freeport version has been doing well under police inspectors stephen dean and robert higgs, with a significant drop in youth and gang crime. inspector higgs wrote a fascinating master's thesis on battling bahamian gang crime that should be publishing later this year. in the meantime, the out island programmes have been kicking butt since 2000.

again, more news that we could use but will never see. no matter fnm or plp, the papers only want to talk about who knifed who on what corner.

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.
Happiness is only attitude....een nothing but and nothing else can make it happen.

Have you read part of my signature?
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." Abraham Lincoln

All in all Urban Renewal is a wonderful idea. The Government plasters it all over every opportunity they get because they are proud of it.
It is interesting that you feel it is plastered all over the place when the only places you see anything positive about it are at The PLP convention and on ZNS. Every time someone associated with Urban Renewal makes a misstep The Tribune places it on the front page yet they have never mentioned all the lives that it has affected in a positive way.
Urban Renewal can be anything from a program that transforms the inner cities and beleaguered settlements of our country and the people in them in a positive and constructive way or a dismal failure which is abandoned and dismantled. At the end of the day the success of Urban Renewal will depend on the Bahamian people and whether they are willing to support a program conceived by a Party they may not support.


Maybe some folk at the Tribune don't want the slums to improve. (It will cheapen their existence, lol) Maybe they like comparing themselves to the unfortunate ones to feel wealthy and powerful :taped:

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

LOL......da land of bad teeth,bad intentions,gray skies,rainy weather and good manners.All at the same time!:p

LOL......da land of bad teeth,bad intentions,gray skies,rainy weather and good manners.All at the same time!:p


LOL, you havent looked at teeth around Nassau lately hey ..

I guess you can't always believe the hype. If the economic boom that is predicted occurs we may be #1 next year.


I certainly believe that we can attain this position. We simply need to work on strengthening our deficiencies such as poor education.

There was another survey by a social psychologist who ranked it 48th or so. I guess it depends what variables you use.


Exactly, it does depend on which variables are used. However, the study was recognised as the first to take a more scientific approach to measuring happiness.

For example, if persons were asked if they were satisfied with the quality of education in the Bahamas, most would've probably answered no. However, it does not look at the quality of education, it considers access to education, and I think we all can agree that Bahamians have access to education. A friend of mine of Haitian parentage once said to me that he was so happy that he had an opportunity to receive an education, a simple, basic human right that would have eluded him in his parents' country.

It's funny how consciously we might be upset at the quality of education but subconsciously happy to at least have access to education.

When was that survey done? Remember the last few years saw some devastating disasters that touched most of us. I am sure that contributed to bringing down our happiness level.


The results of the survey were released at the end of last month

Exactly, it does depend on which variables are used. However, the study was recognised as the first to take a more scientific approach to measuring happiness.
For example, if persons were asked if they were satisfied with the quality of education in the Bahamas, most would've probably answered no. However, it does not look at the quality of education, it considers access to education, and I think we all can agree that Bahamians have access to education. A friend of mine of Haitian parentage once said to me that he was so happy that he had an opportunity to receive an education, a simple basic human right that would have eluded him in his parent's country.
It's funny how consciously we might be upset at the quality of education but subconsciously happy to at least have access to education.

I guess its relative...we complain about it ot being adequate enough and illegal immigrants are so happy they have just that...damn you cant win for loosing. c'est la vie.

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 ;)


Despite our many faults, I do believe we are happy people. Yes we agree that more can be done, but consider this, in the Family Islands, their strong sense of collectivism is what makes them happy. They may not have much, but when a neighbour goes fishing, he may send a few fish to his friend who may have fallen on hard times.

I think this sociologist instead of asking if people were happy, he analysed them on a subconscious level. Yes, one may have to go to a government pump for water, but atlease the pump is conveniently located and the water is clean and free of cholera

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.


Exactly, if we just reflect for one second, think of how we wait for the weekend to go partying. We are "happy go lucky" people. I know about going to parties where I didn't even know the host, simply because a friend invited another friend who invited me...ok ok I crashed the party, but I had fun.

It's the simple things in life that make us happy!

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


So do I