May 23, 2005
We Hear You bahamian.ebloggy, BUT...
The BahamasB2B Webmaster made a comment on the new blog I discovered and the bahamian.ebloggy guys responded big time. A couple of points I'd like to make regarding their response though.
Not sure who these people are but they sound an awful lot like some of the old gang that used to hang out on the B2B Message Board. Titan, is that you?
Unfortunately, they incorrectly assumed that the BahamasB2B Webmaster was not a Bahamian. They are wrong.
They also said that, "lashing out at the 'Bahamian system' and Bahamian individuals, you are getting nowhere." First of all, we do not "lash out" at anyone, we point out corruption. Second, that's an odd comment from a group who has spent the last three months doing exactly that - lashing out at Bahamians and individuals.
They also say that people like Harald Fuhrmann and other disgruntled foreigners won't get anywhere with their publicity campaigns blasting the Bahamas. I disagree. I daresay that Mr. Fuhrmann alone has cost the Bahamas hundreds of thousands of dollars, maybe millions, in lost tourism and investment revenues. To think otherwise is naive. Believe me, the Ministry of Tourism wouldn't be spending $700,000 in one ad campaign, in NYC alone, if things weren't looking bad for the Bahamas tourism industry.
One thing they did get right is that most Bahamians are, indeed, "Children of a Lesser God, who pray to the Divine in cynicism, mockery, egotism and yet sin against our brothers and sisters in the black sins of hatred, racism, prejudice, intolerance, close-minded weakness and a virtual litany of the 7 deadly sins of Pride, Lust, Anger, Covetness, Envy, Sloth and Gluttony."
Bingo on that paragraph!
It's cute that they think their site has more traffic than BahamasB2B. They say, "I daresay, that our traffic outstrips yours by orders of magnitude." Have they checked the search engines lately? The bahamian.ebloggy site basically gets local traffic only, maybe some Bahamians who live elsewhere. The BahamasB2B Network gets more than a million page views per month. I am pretty sure their site doesn't get near that kind of traffic.
The sad part is they do not realise that we love the Bahamas. That's exactly why we spend so much time working for positive change. But before change can come, the corruption must go. So, that is our first priority.
Well, at least we are all on the same side... fighting for a better Bahamas. For that we commend them.
Carry-on bahamian.ebloggy. We wish you the best of luck.
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