Guardian Radio Today - August 6 2025

[00:00:00] Speaker A: The views and opinions of the hosts and guests are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the. [00:00:07] Speaker B: Management and staff of Guardian Radio. [00:00:21] Speaker A: And welcome, welcome, welcome to another edition of Guardian Radio today with your host, Kahunan Kusara. This is the August 6, 2025 edition of this show. And of course, we are on Guardian Radio 96.9. Fresh news. Smart talk all day. Thank you. So pray that you are staying safe on the streets. If you're driving right now. Seems like we have some scattered showers and much needed showers because it's. Last night was hot. I don't know what I have to add. I have to add that in it. It was hot last night. Right. And so we need the rain, and I'm grateful for the rain today. We want to have an open line. There's a lot going on in the country. It's a lot going on in the world. I want to say happy independence to our Jamaican brothers and sisters. August 6th is their independence. And so, you know, you may want to celebrate some Jamaican independence with some good Jamaican food today. Any excuse to eat some good Jamaican food, but happy independence to them. We also. Today was also the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki in Hiroshima, Japan. So they have been observing the loss of life that happened in 1945, the ending of World War II. And it's important I'm mentioning these things because, you know, every. Every cultural identity has things that they remember. Every cultural identity has things that they deem important to their social fabric. Right. You know, here in the Bahamas, we Emancipation Day or acknowledged it. Some people, you know, care about it, others don't. But I think it's important that we as a people, with everything going on in the country, you know, you got to slow down and pay attention to what's really going on. There was just study done recently, and I know it's been talked about, but I don't know if there's been how much uproar. You know, the Ministry of Health in the Bahamas recently released findings from the Global School Health Survey. This Global School Health Survey. What is it saying about us, right, as a country? If the children are struggling, then surely the adults must be struggling because things are not necessarily what they ought to be. And it's been that way for a while now. It's not anything political. I'm not trying to get political. [00:03:29] Speaker B: And. [00:03:29] Speaker A: Make sure I'm still being heard. I'm still being heard. Kermit. Yeah, I'm still being hurt. [00:03:35] Speaker B: All right. [00:03:36] Speaker A: I don't know. I think my Headphone went out, but let me just switch headphones. Okay. All right. I think this is a little better. Yeah, but there's a lot going on. And as we, you know, talk about the various issues that we have facing us as a country today, I think it's important that, you know, as we look at the news, as we look at what's going on in the world that we focus on. Sorry, I'm just getting my headphones sorted out. All right, good. I'm good now. Right. We look at the realities of taking place in the country, and I want to get a kind of a barometer on where we're at. You know, a lot of people are struggling in this country, and, you know, as we, as a Bahamian nation, as we strive to reach this common, loftier goal, you know, what is it that's going on in your world? You know what I mean? I mean, this Global School health survey, it really brought a lot of things to light. Anybody who's raising children in this country understands the significance of the economy not being what it could be and how it affects the household. I was reading something recently where it talked about, you know, in 2024, they say you need what, 10,000, $10,000 a month to. To. To function in this country. I mean, who makes that kind of money? Some people do, but I don't think most people do. Right. At one time, $10,000 could take you, you know, through the year. Right. But as. As. As I pay attention, you know, even to. To what we call pop culture. Right. What, what. What are you seeing in your homes? What are you seeing in your schools? And. And why should we be having this conversation? We're heading back to school soon. I mean, this month, I'm thinking a lot of people are going to vacation and they are, you know, trying to get away, trying to just get that last little whiff before. Before you jump back into the rat race, which starts the end of August, or I think, ironically, September 1st. Many children are going back to school. Exactly. On September 1st. But as we look at what is taking place around the country today, I want to start at this survey, this Global school health survey, 2025, and it's highlighting concerning trends in adolescent health. Now, what we like to do oftentimes is just blame the children, as if the children raising themselves. But I'm looking at it as a sign that, you know, the children, you know, people give their last for their children. So if you see children struggling, where are the adults? What's really going on with the adults? Right. If the children are struggling, right? These. These adolescent health. Are these trends in adolescent health, they say, particularly regarding nutrition? So are we eating how we're supposed to be eating? How many of us actually have established some type of backyard garden or actually visit? I know the farmers market has grown, you know, a lot over the past few years, and that's a good thing. You know what I mean? That's a good thing. That's a beautiful thing. But how many of us are taking our nutrition, you know, seriously, right? These are some of the. Some of the indicators, right? Our mental health, right? The mental health. What does that even mean, right? Is. Is mental health something that you guard or when you are mental, mentally fit, you take on whatever comes your way or know what to move away from, you have the ability to discern, right? A lot of times we find, I think in this country, we kind of like a dog chasing its tail, right? We get frustrated and there's a lot of misplaced anger, right? We're not able to be where we want to be as individuals. And so what happens is we got to blame the politicians, right? If we ain't blaming the politicians, then we got to blame the pastas. We can talk about all this today, right? If we ain't blaming the pastors, then, you know, we could blame the children. You know, these children so hard hair. These children don't listen. These children so no manners. As if we ain't the ones as adults that ain't. That's responsible for raising these children. But how many of these children raising themselves? So mental health, all right, is something that was looked at in the study, right? And then there's substance abuse. Now, let me tell you what, in the Bahamas, substance abuse is a part of our cultural identity. I said it. We have songs that celebrate being drunk, right? We don't have too much marijuana songs, but we get plenty alcohol songs. And we okay with people having hangover, and we okay with people sipping and driving. I saying the police okay with it. I'm just saying culturally, that's something that if you. If you. If you. If you travel at all and you hit Florida or you hit Georgia or anywhere in the US Or Canada or wherever you go in some of the habits that you have while you're driving here in the Bahamas, you have to kind of put them on the shelf when you travel. They can lock you up for what we do here in the street if we just keeping it honest. So substance abuse, in many instances, it's almost like a way of treating some of the anxieties Treating some of the mental health, treating some of. It's a way of escapism, right? People are going through what they're going through and, and it's normal now to go have a drink. You see what I'm saying? And then, and, and, and, and, and then people get fixated on these drinks or nowadays whatever they smoking and it's just, it just becomes the norm. So this is another thing that is looked at in the youth because, you know, they find out that a lot of these young people, they drinking, they drinking, they smoking, you understand? But this, this is a marker or barometer for what's going on in the homes, right? If the children are struggling, then what about the adults? I want to talk about adults too. I don't just want to talk about the children, right? But these report indicate that many Bahamian teens are not consuming the recommended amounts of fruits and vegetables. That's something that sounds very cliche. Eat your fruits and vegetables, right? But you need your fruit and vegetables. Now the problem with fruits and vegetables now is that you got all these seedless fruits, right? You got these veggies that aren't necessarily their original genetic state, right? You don't, you don't have the heirloom seeds, right? They're producing, make sure that they're heavy and they're pretty, but nutritionally they're very, very deficient. And so what does that cause in the human body when you're eating but you're not getting any nutrition, right? What happens when you drink in some of these sugary drinks, right? And, or substances as they refer to some of these drinks in this study, right? What happens when these things are stripping your body of vitamins and minerals, right? What happens is you, you get irritated. You don't know why you irritated, right? And I may be speaking to someone today, I pray I am, right? But why am I agitated? Why am I irritated? You may be malnourished at a certain point, you may not actually be getting the proper nutrition, which is making you agitated, which is making you irritable, right? So I listen to talk shows, you know, often and then I listen to people calling and, and many times our conversations are not solution oriented, all right? We like to just talk, to hear ourselves talk and it's just kind of way of venting, right? And there's nothing wrong with venting. You know, from time to time I think I. Everybody vents, right? You got to have somebody vent, right? My wife and I, we vent each other, right? I have friends who, I get called at specific times and we vent, right? Nothing wrong with venting, right? But at some point after you finish venting, you gotta say, okay, what's the solution? [00:13:56] Speaker B: Right? [00:13:57] Speaker A: What, what are we going to actually do to change the circumstance that. Because that's my question for us politically, that's my question for us in the religious arena, that's my question for us in the education arena, that's my question for us socially, right? That's my question for us culturally, right? What is the agenda? What are we actually working towards? Or is everybody trying to survive? Everybody just trying to figure out how they can just make it through the day or the week or a month or a quarter or a year, Right? Pick, take your pick, right? What is it that we are actually doing? Right? So some of the key findings in this study, right? And one of the most disturbing findings, they say a significant number of students have considered or attempted suicide. Now we've been seeing the rise of suicides in the country and there are a lot of reasons why, you know, people attempt or actually commit suicide. You have professionals here in the country that speak to that, right. That actually deal with that on a day to day basis. And I know Dr. David Allen, he talks about shame, right? This idea of shame and carrying shame. And oftentimes our very innate characteristics, how we look, how we talk, how our hair grows, the color of our skin, the shape of our nose, the shape of our lips, right? The pitch of our voice even, right? All of these things in a society that demonstrates that it prefers a European standard of beauty. When you look at yourself in the mirror and you don't meet those standards, it can bring shame, it can bring pain, it can bring a mindset that makes you want to escape. And it doesn't have to be that way. It doesn't have to be that way, right? So some of the key findings and some of the things that I think in this country, you know, we need to pay more attention to as far as solution oriented, conversation, nutrition, right? We are very fortunate that we live in a grow food so easily. Like I have family in, you know, the upper parts of the United States and like they gotta get their food growing, you know, like around this time in the summer and going into fall. Cause by the time it's October, November come, that's it. They can't grow no food or they gotta grow food inside the house. But we don't have that issue, right? There was a time when we in the Bahamas grew much more food than we do now. But somehow we've got fixated on bringing in you know, a billion dollars worth of goods every year to service our appetites, to service our desires, right? This idea of pop culture, this idea of actually watching the television, you know, to the point where we diss our own local stations, right? Like our news ain't all of that, our sports ain't all of that, right? I've been a part of that. You get used to watching the people who have much bigger budgets. So they are, they are, their look and their way of presenting the news or the sports is crisp, right? And so you get used to that and then you look at us trying around here and you're like, eh, right? But the reality is we are all we have. We all we have, right? And so, and so this idea of nutrition, I notice in the mornings, I'm up, you know, most mornings are pretty early and people are walking, right? I see a lot of people take their health seriously, you know what I mean? Life expectancy can go up, but if you're not able to actually function as an older person or you have to depend on people, I don't think that's kind of what you, you, you want. So it's good to see people walking. But, but this idea of nutrition, right? When you go, when you, when you watch the children walk into school in another few weeks or, or being dropped to school, you see the vendors, right? And I'm not knocking the vendors for trying to make a living. So don't, don't, don't miss what I'm saying. The vendors will sell whatever the children are buying. So if the children want more healthy foods, more healthy snacks, the vendors will get it and they'll sell it to children. The vendors are just going to sell what the children want because they got to make money, right? And so I encourage the vendors to, to try to bring some more healthier snacks, right? On the, on, on the school path. Bring some drinks that are not as sugary, right? And this may sound like a conversation that doesn't bear much on the state of the country today, but this is where it starts when you talk about solutions. All right? If you're trying to figure out why the behavioral patterns of some of our children are so erratic, all you got to do is study how white sugar affects. Even before you get the children, you could just study how they affect lab rats, right? All the white sugar, right? I think the daily recommended amount of sugar you supposed to have is about 25 grams. I want you all to pay attention to these drinks with you all picking up and drinking 25 grams. Many drinks have much more than that. And me drinking two and three of them a day or more. And so we wonder why diabetes is what it is today. We wonder why high blood pressure is what it is today. You wonder why these non communicable chronic diseases are what they are today. We are not paying attention to what is supposed to be put into our bodies. We don't pay attention to self. See, a lot of times when we start talking about knowing self, like people like to get, you know, deep and metaphysical and, you know, self, and you got light incense and you gotta sit in a certain position and then you gotta, you know, that's, that might be a part of it, but, but knowing self, right? If, if, if I was to ask, you know, 10 people in this building today about various things, whether it was cars or whether it's about their favorite sports team or whether it's about some type of clothing that they like or their favorite bike or, you know, what's the favorite, what's your favorite place to go and eat? Like you could get ANSWERS. You know, 10 out of 10 people can give you answers, right? But if I ask most people, and I'm not saying this because I know all the answers, I'm saying this because, you know, this type of question was put to me and I had to smile, you know, like, how well do you know your body? You know what I'm saying? If somebody was to ask you, like I just said, you know, how much sugar your body supposed to have in, in a given day, right? How much salt is your body supposed to have in a given day? Like, how many of us know that off the top of our heads or even care to know what that is? Now you may hear this conversation and say, man, I ain't dying. This is boring, man, I need to hear this. Then you begin to understand how you mistreating your body. Dr. Myles Monroe May rest in peace. He talked about the fact that anything that is not being used the way it's supposed to be used is being abused. And so we are abusing our bodies. We are abnormally treating our bodies, right? And so nutrition. Only a small percentage of teens meet the daily recommendations for fruit and vegetable intake, while a large majority regularly consume sugary drinks. Now, many of us really don't understand how much these sugary drinks affect us, right? Mental health. Mental health. A concerning number of students have considered or attempted suicide, according to the report. [00:23:18] Speaker B: Why? Why? [00:23:24] Speaker A: This is an opportunity for us to share physical activity. Many students are not getting enough physical activity. Now this one is a tricky One, because back in our day, we had the opportunity to just to go out and play. Like they could wake you up first thing in the morning and we could go and run and run. We only come inside to get water, right? You keep your cup, you drink your water or whatever you was drinking and you go back outside and play. Today, a lot of parents don't necessarily feel safe. I know I don't. With your children just outside every 15 minutes, every half an hour, you checking on and see where they at. Because seeing community, we don't have the same society that we did when I was growing up. I grew up in the 80s, born in the 70s, but, you know, I was an 80s baby in terms of growing up. And so this idea of physical activity, if the child ain't walking to school, call, I see you coming right now. The child ain't walking to school. And if they just on their device all day, the physical activity isn't there. But these things are affecting us. Right. Let's run to the phone line and we get to some text. I see some texts coming through. Call. Are you on Guardian Radio today here on 96.9 FM. What say you? [00:24:56] Speaker B: Hey, gracious. Usual. How you doing? [00:24:58] Speaker A: Hey, great, man. How you doing? [00:24:59] Speaker B: Greater chief. Yeah, I just want to chime in on one or two topics you have, right? [00:25:04] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:25:05] Speaker B: With the food there is the problem is we are eating too much processed foods. [00:25:09] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:25:10] Speaker B: In the morning time, the typical local dietary food for Bahamian is potato chip, hot potty, coke, soda, My lord. Lunch break, bamboo shark. Or probably McDonald's dinner, more likely bamboo shark. All that is processed food, everything attached to it. [00:25:32] Speaker A: Hey, just say fast food because I ain't trying to. [00:25:33] Speaker B: Okay. No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not being negative. [00:25:37] Speaker A: No, I bet you, I bet you. [00:25:38] Speaker B: I'm just being real about it. Yeah, yeah, I got you. No problem. Let me make you off from there, Right? [00:25:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:25:43] Speaker B: The problem with that is, right, the average human citizen, right, wants to eat properly, right? Two things happen. One, you're either too tired from work or too frustrated to go home to cook. Two, right. The healthy foods are too expensive. So you pretty well can't afford to purchase the healthy foods that you want to. [00:26:04] Speaker A: True, true. [00:26:05] Speaker B: Right. Second thing I want to chime in on is the kids. [00:26:08] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:26:09] Speaker B: The problem is with the kids nowadays, right? We have this very bad habit with children nowadays, right? Where you see is resonating with basically every parent now, as soon as the child hit approximately about one to two years of age and the child begins to make Noise. The first thing you do is you shove a tablet and put it down in the child hand to replace the parent because you don't want the child to make noise and you're too tired to pay attention to the child. [00:26:38] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:26:38] Speaker B: Not that you don't want to pay attention to the child, but once again, you're too fatigued from work. You, you probably work hard all day long. You try to cook or you try to clean or whatever so you don't have time for the child. So now the parenting skills takes the place of a tablet. Only God one knows what that child sees on that tablet because anything could pop up. You see the problem in us, right? [00:27:03] Speaker A: Yeah, huge. [00:27:03] Speaker B: All right then, so that's the problem. The tablet is now replacing the parrot. [00:27:09] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:27:11] Speaker B: We don't have proper things to put security features on these targets. You know what you see on the target? I'll give an example. I know you from Kingsley Academy, right? [00:27:22] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. [00:27:22] Speaker B: You, you might not remember me, but I remember you. [00:27:25] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:27:26] Speaker B: When me and you were younger, right, we had something called a satellite dish. [00:27:30] Speaker A: That's right. [00:27:31] Speaker B: Most people don't know about it nowadays. It's a very big circular diameter dish that goes in the back of your yard. [00:27:38] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:27:38] Speaker B: When we were children, Right. I can talk it. When your parents went to work, right? [00:27:47] Speaker A: Yes. [00:27:47] Speaker B: Where did that satellite dish go? [00:27:49] Speaker A: Up in the air. [00:27:50] Speaker B: That was pointed directly vertical in the air. [00:27:54] Speaker A: Anybody who I is know what up in the air mean anyway. F4. [00:28:05] Speaker B: That's what I'm trying, I'm just trying to give you an example, right. Of what kids do, right. That's what kids do, Right. Kids automatically gravitate towards the most negative things humanly possible. [00:28:21] Speaker A: No, children are curious. So, so the minute you say, listen, that ain't what you should be watching or that ain't what you should be doing, we would know why. [00:28:29] Speaker B: All right then, so. So if you're too tired to explain that to the child, the child would just keep on watching. Watching, watching and learning. [00:28:39] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:28:39] Speaker B: So now the children nowadays are actually learning from the Internet. They, they, they smarter than menu, but they weaker than menu. [00:28:47] Speaker A: Yes. [00:28:48] Speaker B: I'll give you another prime example, right? You know why the killings happen nowadays? Why these kids nowadays can't differentiate the difference between reality and tv. Wow. They actually believe in their head that the things in the action movies actually exist and they can actually do it in real life. Think about it nowadays, right? These people, when we're gunshot that few in between, the first thing you do is duck. [00:29:20] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:29:21] Speaker B: What these kids do nowadays they going out towards the gunfire to take a picture. Wow. [00:29:27] Speaker A: Bringing together phone. Yeah. [00:29:29] Speaker B: With their phone. Yeah. They won't take a video picture of the auction of a gun shooting. What's going on? This is crazy. [00:29:40] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. No, I wish you caller. [00:29:42] Speaker B: And. [00:29:42] Speaker A: And so these. I got to take some more. Cause I appreciate you, definitely. Yeah, man. But what the caller said is so important. Right. As parents. I ain't gonna lie. Just be tired. Like you really want to feed the children properly and you want to. But my Lord, just be tired, you understand? And then things expensive, but you know what I mean. Let's run back to the phone. 323-623-2325-431632-54259. Of course, in the family of islands. 242-300-5720. Our text lines are open at 422-4796. Powered by BTC and Standard Tax rates to apply. Caller, you're on Guardian radio today. [00:30:29] Speaker B: Yes, sir. Good day, sir. [00:30:31] Speaker A: How you doing? [00:30:32] Speaker B: Not bad. Great. You know, the issue with the children and especially with the eating right has to do with the adults who allow them. Like, like, like, like, let's say the things. Like, like the fast food. [00:30:46] Speaker A: Right. [00:30:47] Speaker B: You understand everybody's eating fast food and there's no lead. No lead. Nobody's legislating fast food. You see, don't run. [00:30:54] Speaker A: Don't run past that point. That's the point. Point. You say legislate fast. Explain what you mean by that. [00:31:00] Speaker B: Fast food. [00:31:02] Speaker A: I mean, when you say legislate, like, you mean we should have some policy in place to say, listen, man, this food, this food is. [00:31:08] Speaker B: Is. [00:31:08] Speaker A: Is adversely affecting us. That's what you're saying. [00:31:11] Speaker B: Yeah. Not. I mean. And I'm saying that's what's the difference between fast food and sugary food. [00:31:16] Speaker A: Yeah, it's the same. Yeah. [00:31:18] Speaker B: Food. [00:31:18] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:31:19] Speaker B: You know, and, and then that's, you know. You know what I love for you to do? [00:31:22] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:31:23] Speaker B: I love for you to. You going to be a wild everything because Christopher Howard probably be on vacation or something. Right. I love for you to do a show on neocolonialism. I know a progressive liberal and a neoliberal. Okay, you see? Yeah, but because see, are you think that all of our parties are neoliberal parties. You see? [00:31:49] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:31:49] Speaker B: Progressive liberal party is not a progressive liberal party. They are neoliberal party. Hence why they. They privatize and everything. They privatize and they're foreign eyes in our economy, you know? You understand? [00:32:06] Speaker A: I wit you. I wish you, that's some transformation. [00:32:08] Speaker B: Even the, the whole sailing and you know, whether they're the, the, the, the, the the from privatizing people from the south or wherever. It's privatization. [00:32:20] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:32:21] Speaker B: You know, by economy. Right. And our resources are more than our results. Utilities. [00:32:29] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:32:30] Speaker B: You know when, when we were colonial, you know the government owned in the government was British. The government. [00:32:36] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:32:37] Speaker B: So now they come back for their things, you know, so, so I think they never live. It's. See, I know you ain't afraid of no visa. [00:32:46] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:32:46] Speaker B: You ain't fair no losing no visa because there's more place to go to. No place to go down to the north. At least you could go north. But you know what I'm saying. [00:32:55] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:32:57] Speaker B: Right. So. So we need to start calling out the imf. The, the, you know, me and, and, and World bank and our politicians who selling us out to this organization and they, they bring their policies to the Northern. Their policies and then they want us to say we're independent. Right. How could we be independent? [00:33:16] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:17] Speaker B: You know we, our politicians day the time they got self determination. [00:33:25] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:25] Speaker B: But they make the decision to submit to the colonial system. Come on now. The only thing we did was wholesale what you call it, what the word is we still holding on some of our social programs. [00:33:46] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:48] Speaker B: And hence this the reason why, why ain't the national health insurance payment yet? It's because of this neocolonialism. The fact they're afraid of the private insurance. You see, people want private insurance, let them have the private insurance. But then they have both. I mean they have at least national health insurance. [00:34:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:34:07] Speaker B: That's the way it's done. [00:34:10] Speaker A: I think that falls right back on the economy. [00:34:12] Speaker B: You know, we gotta stop selling that because we really ain't. [00:34:15] Speaker A: I appreciate you. [00:34:17] Speaker B: And don't tell me that the US is dependent. The US ain't. I mean interdependent, they dependent on nobody. You know, they choose who they want. At least they might need something, but they won't want to trade for they going to take it. [00:34:34] Speaker A: Hello? Yeah, I. I wish. [00:34:36] Speaker B: You know, they have exam. What you call it, nuclear power plants and one nuclear power plant, three, four reactors. So it's European. They need those resources, they go and take it. [00:34:53] Speaker A: That's racism. [00:34:54] Speaker B: White supremacy, that is that, you know. [00:34:57] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:34:58] Speaker B: And see, we fail to be industrial. You see we as a country. Why are we not an industrious nation? Why not? You see our politicians, they follow the neocolonial thing and they oh, we're going to do tourism in banking and that make us dependent. [00:35:20] Speaker A: I appreciate you caller. [00:35:22] Speaker B: Thank you. [00:35:23] Speaker A: And these are some of the things we talk about some of this on Friday. But we definitely can jump back into that comment, today's open line so we could talk about anything. But I was just using this, this study to, to kind of springboard into these conversations. But let's run back to the, to the phone lines. Good afternoon, Uncle. I am enjoying your show. Please stay balanced in your comments. Yes, I will do my best. I will do my best. All right. All right, let's go back to the phone lines. 3236-2323-2543-1632-54259. In the family of violence. 2423-00-5720 Calling you alive on Guardian Radio today, caller. Going once again Drew caller. [00:36:14] Speaker B: You there stacking what's along you brother Uncle. [00:36:17] Speaker A: Hey, how you doing Elder the monster. [00:36:19] Speaker B: And I'm right here. You know, I think the big problem we have is the people that provide the force also established food. Most of them are being genetically modified. [00:36:40] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:36:40] Speaker B: And that's a problem. [00:36:42] Speaker A: Big problem. [00:36:43] Speaker B: Big problem, you see, and nobody looking into it. [00:36:46] Speaker A: And once it's genetically modified, it's no longer food. They call it an organism, a gm. Yeah. [00:36:51] Speaker B: And you know, and what gets me, right, the authorities like the doctors, right? The people that bring the food in, right? They know what's happening, but they don't care about, you know, the human race. They only care about that dollars which is very much poor. [00:37:12] Speaker A: So let me, let me say this, Elder Bremen, right? That may be true in some instances, right. But I could guarantee you that there are people in high places that want to have better food in the country and there's only so much they can do as an individual, right? There's only so much that can be done when the population, when the populace, when the majority of the people don't seem to care or don't even educate themselves about, okay. So now when you in a position, you gotta live too, right? If you up there making money and taking care of your family, you see what's going on. But, but you can't necessarily change it because you don't have enough outcry from the people. The people have to. We don't understand our power as a people. [00:38:05] Speaker B: But a lot of, a lot of our people don't know. Our children don't know what I've noticed. I would go places, the shops and stuff to buy stuff, right? And a child would come in there and they would say well, give me one, one of those red drink or those green drinks without knowing the, you know, the flavor, the name of the flavor. [00:38:28] Speaker A: No, but you know that, you know what, what trainers enter that is service stations and they have these slushie. The slushie don't have no name on it. You got to pick a color. [00:38:39] Speaker B: But that is wrong. The government should look into that. And because the government would give people license to bring those stuff into the, to, to the country, the government, Let. [00:38:50] Speaker A: Me tell you who the government are. Government is us. We, we got a demand from our politicians, from our representatives that we want these things done. You see what I'm saying? The government, the government steeped in all kind different things. So if, if people don't look like they paying attention to it, government ain't going to say nothing. [00:39:07] Speaker B: The people don't have the understanding. [00:39:09] Speaker A: Well, this is why we, this is why we having the insurance today. That's why we have an issue today. [00:39:15] Speaker B: The thing is, a lot of our elderly people, they have the same, they work through the same situation in which, you know, like some of them don't have good sight or you and stuff like that. [00:39:31] Speaker A: Well, what happened is, what happened is after eating a certain way for so long, the body, it gets to a point where it can no longer sustain. [00:39:44] Speaker B: Because it's the same thing. The people not being educated how to eat and what to eat, why to eat, right? [00:39:51] Speaker A: But this, this is why, this is why I, I put this conversation on the table. Like I said, today is open lines. We could talk about anything. But I put this conversation on the table today because I think we, we don't. The things that we do care about, like we love politics in this country, we love church in this country, right. We love partying, we love anything that seems to, you know, get a rise out of us. Like that's what we love. But it takes us slowing down and having these type of conversations to get to the solutions. So like you say, a lot of people are not aware, but if you're not aware, then you're not going to make the changes. No, you see what I'm saying? If you know your body supposed to have 25 grams of sugar a day, and in most of these sugary drinks you're getting that or even much more in one drink. And you got some people drinking three, four, five, six of these drinks a day, you have to have diabetes by the time in your 20s, 30s, 40s, you gonna have diabetes because high blood pressure. Yes. But if you don't know and see what they so they so deceptive of doing is putting natural on it. Oh, it's natural. But then go check the label, right? Yeah, but I got some more callers coming through. Man. [00:41:13] Speaker B: Something else I wanted to say. [00:41:15] Speaker A: Go ahead. [00:41:18] Speaker B: Saying right, these youngsters would causing problem in the country. Mm. Nobody are looking into situation as such. You see what I'm saying? They know who they are, but they ain't doing anything. You know, they need to just get some of these people and put them behind bars if it's only for a few hours to make them to understand that's not the right way to go in our country. [00:41:45] Speaker A: Yeah, well, I mean I see the police, I see the police on the road. I mean I think they doing what they supposed to do or trying to do what they supposed to do. But I do hear you right. There are a lot of situations that are not properly addressed. The police are overworked. The police are overworked. You understand? All of these things are fact. Because guess what we gotta ask the question is the police, are they eating properly? [00:42:13] Speaker B: That's the other thing. [00:42:14] Speaker A: They being stressed out on a day to day basis. Imagine right when we go into these businesses to solicit, when we go to purchase things in the country, the customer service level is very low right now. In some places that I go, it is very good. But in many instances it's very bad. All right, Imagine that bad customer service and the way that zaps the energy out of you. Imagine that being your job to just deal with people who have bad, bad customer service. That's what the polices do. They got to deal with all type of different spirits and personalities every day. All right, thank you so much for calling Bremen. I think we got another call on the line. Let's, let's, let's, let's get to this caller. Sorry for having you wait so long. Caller, you're on Guardian Radio today. Caller going once. Hello, how you doing? You're live. [00:43:10] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm on, on my, on the air. [00:43:11] Speaker A: You're live. Yes, thanks for calling Guardian Radio today. [00:43:14] Speaker B: Yeah, your last caller was very, very. He made the point about legislating health. Yeah, I think it's important that the Ministry of Health legislate fast foods. I mean you have to regulate them, checking to make sure that they have the right oil and so on and so forth. Also restaurants that use seasonings, for example, like msg, which is very dangerous to the health of this country. And persons who are eating and doesn't know what they're eating, they have to have a team from the ministry, if they have to create a special team with experts to inspect these restaurants and to ban. And I must say we need to ban msg because at the end of the day, you know, persons have to rely on the health care of this country and that's why the health care costs so high. [00:44:03] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:44:03] Speaker B: So we need to, shall I say, police fast foods now and the restaurants with these seasonings. And we have to ban certain seasonings. Yeah, okay. [00:44:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:44:14] Speaker B: Because at the end of the day, the government is saying, hey, the hospital in trouble, people, too many people coming in sick. Well, if we attack the diet and if we eliminate and ban certain things, then you will see some changes in the needle, you see? So, so there are two important things the government must, must investigate these seasonings. The fast food chains, exactly what they're doing. And if it's unhealthy, they have to change their oil. I think United States now under Kennedy, I think now they are now mandating to change oil and fast foods. Okay. [00:44:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:44:51] Speaker B: So we have to be serious about it. I hope the minister, I'm going to call him. I know I'm pushing late. The minister is listening very clearly. We must legislate that and we'll cut down the cost of health care. Okay? [00:45:02] Speaker A: Yes, yes. [00:45:02] Speaker B: Thank you. [00:45:03] Speaker A: Thank you so much. It's so important in so far as making people aware, right. That these things can actually assist us in having a better life in this country. Like if you eat properly, the level of irritability, the level of sickness that decreases. Right. And then certain other issues begin to fade away. Right? Let me talk about some of the initiatives that the ministry talks about in this study. Right? They have a school water access project. They call it swap. Right. The ministry is launching a pilot project to install water fountains in public schools to improve access to safe drinking water, aiming for nationwide expansion. Now, I know there's some schools where you bring your water bottle, right? And you can fill your water bottle up. Because I remember when we were small, we just used to put our mouth on the water fountain and drink it. Right. I think, I don't think we need to be doing that. But even if you, if you sending your children to school with a nice thermos and they know that they could fill their thermos up with some cool water when they run out because again, things are expensive. Right? But Access project is something that the government is looking at, a pilot project. There's also a health promotion and wellness bill. This recently tabled bill is designed to promote healthy lifestyle, strengthen nutrition policies and establish a national food and nutrition commission. So call out. I think there are some things that, that you talked about that may be in this bill. Kermit, we got another caller. Yeah, let's just run to the phone. So my apologies, caller. Caller, you're live on Guardian Radio today. Caller going once. All right, I don't know if they stepped away from the phone. All right, we'll just give us another call back. 323-623-2325-431632-54259. I see another caller coming back through. Let's run. Let's run straight to the phone lines here on Guardian Radio today with host Kahunaku Sara. Yes, caller, you're live. [00:47:22] Speaker B: Chime in on a topic pertaining to foods. Right. You realize once we place a ban on certain foods, right. Basically the food store will be empty. I'm telling you it's based on the fact that you read about or heard about in California is now doing a ban on certain foods like cornflakes, cereals, Gatorades, candies. Because they found out that in the UK they actually use natural fruits and vegetables. Right. To form the coloring for the cereals like Fruit Loops, M and Ms. And stuff like that. But in the States they found out that the Decaturates and Fruit Loops and all that are made out of certain substances that are actually not ready for human consumption. I don't know if you read or heard about it is a ban. The California bond. I think it took place about last month or something. Either last month or month before. [00:48:17] Speaker A: I'll look it up. [00:48:18] Speaker B: California is actually putting a bond. You have to actually put a label on certain foods. Not Tostitos, Doritos. Are you sure you heard about that? The M&M's. That is actually going to be label placed on it. Not ready for human consumption. The humans actually don't even suppose eat it. Wow. [00:48:37] Speaker A: But look at our. [00:48:38] Speaker B: I know in the UK like I said, the UK they actually use natural. They found it in the UK products in their cereals, drinks and really candies rate actually use a different products than in the US it's crazy. [00:48:51] Speaker A: Yeah. And I remember in the 90s when I went to the UK the GMO 4s were, were just kind of getting popular then. And in the UK they had a section where they explain exactly what the GMO was and they kind of put a warning over the food so that if you went to purchase this food you would be aware that hey, this is GMO food. This is not regular food. Right. I didn't see that here in the Bahamas or I didn't really see it in the US but in the UK I saw that. Right. Let's run to a break. Today is an open line. We're not only talking about food today, but that has been the justice conversation. But we're talking about whatever you want to talk about. We're going to run to the text when we come back from the break here on Guardian Radio today with host Kahunan Kusara.9 FM. [00:49:59] Speaker B: This is Guardian Radio. [00:50:01] Speaker A: 96.9 FM streaming on guardiantalkradio.com and the Guardian Radio app. Nassau, Bahamas Hungry for a deal that. [00:50:11] Speaker B: Hits the spot and your wallet? Then stop by Wendy's and grab our 1595 media deal for two. 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You can eat any junk food and don't get sick if you exercise regularly. You will never get sick because it's being burned out. So, Dexter, I appreciate the text and I do understand, I guess, the logic behind your text. The body, however, requires fuel, right? It requires proper nutrients, proper vitamins. Now, exercising will delay it. You know, when I was younger, I could eat, you know, I could buy all large pizza and eat it by myself and two hours later I was hungry because I was swimming. You know what I mean? But eventually it'll catch up to you, right? So if that is, you know, the way that you live, and I pray that you add some, some nutrition into there and keep exercising, but add some nutrition. Right, let's run back to the phone lines. 323-623-2325-431632-54259 and the family of islands. 2423-00-5720 caller, you're on Guardian radio today. [00:54:07] Speaker B: Hi, how are you? [00:54:08] Speaker A: I'm well. Thank you for calling. How you doing? [00:54:09] Speaker B: Okay. I just want to reply to you had a caller who called a few calls back in reference to the government having to check or do some investigation on these fast food. [00:54:23] Speaker A: Yes, yes, yes, and we really listening. [00:54:25] Speaker B: Okay, first of all, right, it's. It's up to us and where we choose to eat and what we eat. [00:54:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:54:33] Speaker B: All right. I don't think the government is going to ever converse again on what kind of food. [00:54:40] Speaker A: Well, they have. There's a health. There's a health promotion and wellness bill that was recently tabled. So the government is looking into it. But go ahead, make your point. [00:54:50] Speaker B: Yeah, my point is, right, as a person, we choose to eat what we eat. All right? If you know fast food or junk food is not good for you, then you just stay away from it, you understand? [00:55:02] Speaker A: But what about. I agree with you, right? I agree with you. Right? Call it. But what about that, what about that struggling parent? Can you hear me? Can you hear me good? [00:55:11] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah. [00:55:12] Speaker A: What about that struggling parent who they have, you know, three, four, five children, they gotta feed and it's just easier to get fast food to make sure that they full so that they could function. Like what, what, what are we saying to those, to those parents because they want to eat better, but then if they go to buy the, the more nutritious food, it's just so much more expensive. [00:55:37] Speaker B: So you open up a can of one for me. My discussion as we speak right now, right in the gentleman, I was saying to him, the Government decreased back to 5%. Right. [00:55:49] Speaker A: On certain items. [00:55:50] Speaker B: Yes, certain items. If you were like me, I was feeling very good about it. I was having a party. Okay. In the food store. [00:56:00] Speaker A: Right. [00:56:01] Speaker B: A month after that, you go back in the food store and it seems like everything went back up. I don't know if you or anybody else noticed that, but I do. Okay. [00:56:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:56:14] Speaker B: Everything went extremely high. And I. My reason for that is right. If you as a government. Right. You just can decrease that without making it affordable for everyone, including the food chain. Because, however, they probably didn't give them the exemption or whatever they didn't do. I plan to do my investigation. Right. Starting with Mr. Robert Store. Right. If you want to increase back to 5% and they having a challenge with reducing their food and food store, then we all have a problem. [00:56:49] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:56:50] Speaker B: Okay. That's like meditation. They were having conversations with the pharmacist. Right. Not too long ago. Right. Nothing changed. [00:56:59] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:56:59] Speaker B: I was telling him. And it's the truth. I got seven pain tablets from the pharmacy yesterday and I take 25 toilets. Okay. Wow. Medication is extremely. I don't know what sort of thing they call what. They call it the what. It's a real one. It is the what? [00:57:18] Speaker A: Oh, you have the generic. The generic. [00:57:20] Speaker B: Generic, Right. I don't know. I don't think it was a generic. Right. But back to that again. Persons always go to the food store and the kind of food that they would choose to want to buy, they can't because they can't afford it. [00:57:37] Speaker A: Right. [00:57:37] Speaker B: So we need to fix that in this country, man. You understand? Because if you say, and this is me talking now, it's not the Cornish you talk show again. Right? [00:57:47] Speaker A: Right. [00:57:48] Speaker B: But to be frank, right, if you saying you trying to make it better for me as a Bahamian in my country. [00:57:55] Speaker A: Right. [00:57:55] Speaker B: There are some things that concerns me. And what concerns me is the price of living. It is so expensive. And I am a mother. Yes, I have grown kids, but it's poisons, like you said, with the little children who have to shop for three and four kids. Genuine. I wonder when I go in the food store, how could you? Could prison go in there and shop? [00:58:17] Speaker A: Are they surviving? [00:58:18] Speaker B: You could barely show up for yourself. You understand? [00:58:20] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:58:21] Speaker B: How? How you need to fix that. [00:58:23] Speaker A: Yeah, I agree. [00:58:24] Speaker B: Ain't nothing changing. And then we still going back to the poll and we going to vote. I giving you. No, you still coming to me, asking me for another chance. [00:58:33] Speaker A: Right. And the price for what? Exactly. Exactly. Everything. [00:58:38] Speaker B: I'm telling you, this is what Concerns me. [00:58:41] Speaker A: Yes. Me too. [00:58:41] Speaker B: When it's time for me to go on the floor the food store and buy food. When I get sick and I gotta go to pharmacy and I need medication to get well. [00:58:50] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:58:50] Speaker B: Okay. Or when I got be sneaking around looking to see if anybody robbing me or want to kill me or something like that. [00:58:57] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:58:58] Speaker B: We have to change the things that happen in this country. And until that change, I don't mind. And like I tell them behemoth will never go to same prime minister twice. They may not believe me, but they will never do it. I ain't gonna do it. I'm gonna give Paul a chance. [00:59:14] Speaker A: Yes. [00:59:15] Speaker B: See what he could do. And if I put him there and he do the same, I can tell him back on the side and I'm gonna find another person. [00:59:22] Speaker A: Yes. [00:59:23] Speaker B: And I think that's how we move. And I don't care what nobody say, I don't care what they do. You had the opportunity and blow it. You finish? [00:59:30] Speaker A: Yeah. Back on the side, the record agrees with you. Yes. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. The record agrees with you, caller. Because the past few elections have been about voting out the existing government more so than voting in a new government. Right. But you talk about the cost of living, right. You know my. One of my favorite sites is behavior.com Bahamianology.com right. This is an article from Bahamianology.com and it talks about the cost of living. The Bahamas cost of living, $10,000 per year in 1968 to $10,000 per month in 2024. Right. In 1968, the colony's chamber of Commerce, such as it was, warned of sharp rises in its new cost of living measure for a Bahamian Family of three to live reasonably in 1968 was estimated at $10,000 a year. Family of three, $10,000 a year. Between the commencement of 1966 and September 1968, it was further estimated that the cost incurred in the Bahamas colony had increased by approximately 25 to 30%. Consequently, the cost of living for Bahamians reached another untenable milestone in 1968. Back in the 1960s, the effects of rising rents and land prices. Does this sound familiar, people? All right. Like, are we going through the Same Rigmaro in 2025 that we was going back, that we was dealing with in the 60s? Back in the 1960s, the effects of rising rents and land prices, inflationary pressures on goods and services, a dominant US Dollar and new money pouring from foreign investors were having a significant impact on the local economy. It drove overall prices up. Added to this was a new majority rule political mandate to lift tens of thousands of poor and lower class behemoths, which is shrinking today. Government debt rose sharply to meet new social policy aspirations. 1967 was arguably the last period of a treasury surplus for the colony. So as soon as we get majority rule, there was no more treasury surplus, according to this article. Right. So think about that. All right. We're talking, you know, the well being of the country, food, the economy, etc. Right. 1968, you needed $10,000 with a family of three. Could you imagine? Now you need $10,000 a month and very few people making $10,000 a month. Right. This taxi says, might this be us feeling the effects of the USA tariffs on items going into the US and then we are buying it from them? It could be. I know they talk about the small businesses in the United States, right, really feeling the effects of these tariffs because, you know, whatever Donald Trump is deciding to do to make America great again, it's going to affect us because our dollar is pegged to the US dollar. Now, I'm not an economist, excuse me, Mr. Lang. He definitely will touch on such questions. I love to hear him chime in on these economic questions because ultimately, the reality of what we are dealing with with regard to the country and with regard to what we're facing economically, Right. Like one of the previous callers just said, we had a point now where, you know, another general election is we're on the eve of another general election. So people coming around and knocking on your daughter, asking for your vote. Right. If we ain't addressing the price of life in this country, Right. If we're not addressing the crime, if we're not, and everybody would say that they're doing it, but we need some hardcore evidence that that's what's taking place. Now, the question for me, for the economists out there is what are the indicators? How will we know, right, in the Bahamas that the cost of living is starting to move in the right direction? Right. I know C. Allen Johnson has a editorial and I think it's in today's paper talking about a digital account. This might be him now. I know. Let's run to the phone lines. 323-6232, 325-431-6325. 4259 in the family of islands. 2423-00-5720. Our tax line today is always is 422-4796. Caller, you are on Guardian Radio today. Caller Going once. [01:04:43] Speaker B: Oh, sorry, sorry. Yes. Yes. Sorry. [01:04:45] Speaker A: How you doing? [01:04:47] Speaker B: Good afternoon, Anku. I hope you're doing well. [01:04:49] Speaker A: I'm doing well. Good to hear your voice. [01:04:51] Speaker B: Good. Same here. Listen, it's an open line, right? [01:04:53] Speaker A: Yeah, man. Yeah, man. Yeah, man. Whatever you. Whatever on your mind. [01:04:56] Speaker B: Yeah. What is on my mind is how some of these public government schools, these principals are running these schools like these, They're. They have fixed some. I understand that C.R. walker School. Right. They are requiring the female students to have their skirt bands no bigger than 2 inches. You're a former teacher. I'm a former teacher, yeah. What does the size of a band have to do with a child's ability to understand and to learn? What does. I. Yes, I'm all for modesty and whatever it is, but what does. Having to squirt down to the ground in the school is when the child gets home, they still put on their poofing shorts. [01:05:52] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:05:53] Speaker B: Like Dr. Miles said, you can't change a man from the outside in. Only the Holy Spirit can change him or God can change him from the inside out. This. This principal must understand that they are. These are public schools. [01:06:08] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:06:08] Speaker B: This is not their money. This money that is running the school. I hope Glenn is. Hannah is listening to tell these principals that the education law says every student under the age of 16 has the right to be in the school. And they can. You can't stop a child from coming to school because their school band is three inches or two and a half inches. [01:06:40] Speaker A: Now, when you say the school, you're talking about the waistband, right? Like the waist part for the skirt, Right? Yeah. Now, because some of the children, they, they, they, they, they, they heavy, right. They. They may be overweight and. And that band may just be something to help keep the stomach in a little bit to make them. You know what I mean? Like, there's different reasons why, you know. [01:07:01] Speaker B: Uncle ISO. Right. And I. I made a shirt for a prefect shirt for one of the students and they sell because the color of the button was wrong. [01:07:14] Speaker A: Majoring in the minor. Majoring in the minor. [01:07:17] Speaker B: You majoring in the minor. This don't make sense because I'm on. I was listening. I was listening to Kenny on her show. She had this lady on, Ms. Thompson, she has this. Isaac, this has a funny name school. And she was saying, man, she allowed the students to. To, you know, she don't put them kind of restrictions. The boys can come with their hair braided and in locks once they keep it nice and clean that the children can wear, you know, Their hair braided. Listen, slavery over. [01:07:51] Speaker A: You know exactly. We being free now. [01:07:53] Speaker B: Tell Mr. Whoever is charged, you see our Walker, Glenn and San Martin, tell them slavery over. [01:07:59] Speaker A: Remember that people did. [01:08:00] Speaker B: Come on, man, stop putting all of these foolish laws and place. You know, just like the penal code, what I listen to sometime and them laws, what they call an uncle, they been for 300 years. My Lord, I. I hope. Ms. Hardens Martin, please let these principals know that they are only managers of these schools. Okay? Yeah, that's what I want to say today. [01:08:24] Speaker A: But I appreciate that, man. I appreciate that. 323-623-3254. 316-3254. The family of islands. 2423-00-5720. I remember they had a campaign. Boy, what's the name of it? The young lady with the puff something puff. The puff campaign around CR Walker because the young lady had a natural big thing that. That went viral all over the world. But I agree with the caller. It's difficult managing all those different personalities. As an administrator, I think obviously you want to have a uniform standard. You know, being a former administrator, a former dean at a carefree international academy, we definitely strive to have a level of uniformity, a level of discipline with regard to the school uniform. But one thing I could say with my mentor, Dr. Jacinta Higgs, she also, she taught me that you don't major in the minor, son. You know, you don't. We're the garden of souls. That's what a Kaepern International Academy represented for these children. It still represents that today. And so I don't know what's going on at Seattle Walker or any other school. School, but if we, if we majoring in the minor, we go right back to this report I was reading about with all these different issues that these children have, and that's what we need to be focused on. All right, let's. Let me just take a text and then I run back to the. To the form, to the phone lines. Taxi says who are. Who are the real criminals? Let's see. You see weed still $5 a half bag for decades, yet my veggie party has gone from $5 to almost $10. Come like the weed man need to run the nation. Oh, boy. That, I guess, ain't no inflation on weed. All right, let's run back to the phone lines here on Guardian Radio today. Caller, you are live on Guardian Radio today. [01:10:33] Speaker B: Well, you text is right. As a little boy, when I used to experiment. [01:10:37] Speaker A: Yeah. And on jits, you know what I Mean, I was there, too. I used to be under the tree. [01:10:44] Speaker B: We all could relate to that garbage. [01:10:46] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [01:10:47] Speaker B: You know, you know, someone would chime in and really seem to address, would we have been better off today had. [01:10:55] Speaker A: We stayed under the British pound? [01:10:57] Speaker B: You know, the euro is stronger than the dollar right now, and it's been that way for quite some time. Right. And seeing what's going on in the United States, States now, you know, it appears as though, you know, we know that the dollar isn't a currency. You know, the dollar represents an agreement. It's like kind of like a covenant. And right now, Mr. Donald Trump's actions seem to be threatened to unravel that covenant, like leaving smaller nations exposed to a lot of vulnerabilities. This is where he appears. He's going to. So, so, so, so, you know, we were once anchored, but it appears as though that we are now going under the anchor of. [01:11:39] Speaker A: Off the, off the. Off the ground. [01:11:40] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, you know, I want to leave you with a parable to consider because I've been doing some research. [01:11:45] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:11:45] Speaker B: And this might help us. A fisherman once traded his British compass for an American tide shot. I'm talking about English. And now being pegged to the dollar. Right. Point to tradition, which is what's, what's in our past, our history, and all that filth that mixed with it. But the chart, the American tide chart predicted opportunity. So we kind of, like, bought that. Right, Right. But now guess what happened, Uncle? When the storm came, you see, it wasn't. It wasn't the direction that saved us. It was knowing when to move. [01:12:23] Speaker A: Wow. [01:12:23] Speaker B: You follow that? [01:12:24] Speaker A: Wow. [01:12:25] Speaker B: So, so, so we need to figure out now, are we going to stay under this situation where some guy is trying to win again at all costs, disrupt the system that was working so perfectly because he wants to make sure that he's able to, you know, impose martial law, and then there'll be no midterms. Wow. You see? You see? You see where he's heading? [01:12:49] Speaker A: Yeah. 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[01:15:42] Speaker B: Fresh news SM. [01:15:55] Speaker A: And we're back here on Guardian Radio today, the August 6th edition. Again. We want to say happy independence to our Jamaican brothers and sisters. You know my daddy went to JC man, so my parents was married in Jamaica. I got, I got, I got some, some, some real love for Jamaica. You know what I mean? So I want to say happy independence to our Jamaican brothers and sisters. Today we have an open line. We've been talking about some of the challenges that the children have been having based on a report that came out this year. You talked about the food aspect of the report and the Substance abuse. There's another trend that's troubling, and that's the. The amount of sexual partners that these children are having. We're talking about children. I think the report goes from up to age 18, 16 or 18. I'll have to find that number out. But in any event, these are high school children. And they say while the report highlights many challenges, it also notes some positive trends. This is. This is a positive trend, right? They say, such as a decrease in the proportion of teens reporting multiple sexual partners. So that. All right, that's a beautiful thing because, you know, when I was. When I was in high school. Yeah, when I was in high school. Yeah, I remember. I remember when Magic Johnson made that announcement that he had a. He was HIV positive. And I remember my parents, when I went off the bus, you know, I received a large bag of condoms to go off to school with. And I'm. My son, you know, some people saying, but my parents were very realistic. They said, you don't got to use them now, but if you gonna use that particular organ on your body, use these with it, all right? You want no disease, and you ain't want, you know, un pregnant. You understand? So that's. That, that, that. There's been a decrease in teens reporting multiple sexual partners. Now, I don't know if that means, you know, they, they. They just stick into one partner. But in any event, you know, these children are not the children of yesterl. These children are being exposed to things that many of us were not exposed to until we were adults. You know, we had a caller call in earlier who talked about the era of satellite tv, and when you catch the channel properly, you'll sit there and you watch the fuzz, if you know what I'm saying. Move up and down, right? But today, these tablets, these computers, this technology exposes these children to so much at such an early age that they're not psychologically prepared to deal with it. You understand? And this is part of the issue that we're dealing with today. So we got to talk straight with these children. Let's run back to the phone lines here on Guardian Radio today. Call her your life. Okay. Okay, we come right now. Okay, here we go. Here we go. Call her life. [01:19:18] Speaker B: Yeah. Give thanks, Tango. [01:19:19] Speaker A: My lord. [01:19:21] Speaker B: It's a multifaceted conversation, but let's relate to the food and the children and the proliferation of the alcohols, the liquor stores in the inner city, and then the social fallout with the collapse of the home and as far as the family structure. And so the Children are susceptible to so many vices until there's a social crisis. Right? [01:19:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:19:43] Speaker B: And then the pundits look on in amazement. That really hurts me because you have induced this. Right. And you know, it's amazing for me at this age right now, ready to go in the grave. Right. I'm not trying to be around you forever, you know. No, because I mean, it ain't really worried. I don't hear from my children. But I'll share this with you. Right. Very learned person. Right. I say things. See, what I hate is negroes. We don't know the truth when we hear it. Sometimes they call the talk shows. I would say things. I would say words in order to talk them to talk. To make it shorter. I would say things. Right. And so there's a social engineering project going on with humanity and this technology is running away with our children and us and all right. Wow. [01:20:24] Speaker A: Yes. [01:20:24] Speaker B: Yeah, man. But most people don't want to realize it. [01:20:26] Speaker A: Now you. You talking to. True. [01:20:28] Speaker B: Yeah, but, but, but sometimes people say like, like what? 52 on. Because they're in the shallows and they don't want to get into the deep. They wasting Bo Peep. They didn't want to go look for the sheep, but they run in too deep. So we animize one another, you see. And this was a cycle for me. I'm not the enemy. Social media has become the enemy because the boy from the States got all kind of people name calling on the social media. I don't know how they can deal with that. But that's another story for another day. But I want to highlight some injustices that the educated masses and status quo is inflicting upon the masses. Right. Firstly, I'll say boldly and audaciously, and I love a debate with anyone, the scientific community and the international community at large. Belaya. But I wouldn't say that because I've learned this from PBS and also reading over the years and using common sense, given the fact that AIDS is an RNA virus, they have never been intellectually correct about the origin of aids. And I don't care what nobody see, they know that. Yeah, they know that. All right. It's a socioeconomic imposition. And so you know what a challenge study is, right? Ankle. [01:21:31] Speaker A: The specific. [01:21:31] Speaker B: The challenge study. But you mentioned it before the challenge study. But you, you. Well, obviously you know, because you, you had mentioned the challenge study with the SARS CoV203. [01:21:40] Speaker A: Oh, yes. I didn't know that. [01:21:42] Speaker B: That is known as the challenge study. [01:21:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:21:43] Speaker B: So there was A challenge study with SIV and hiv. You're familiar with that, right? So the monkeys were infected with HIV and they didn't become sick, but when you infected the humans with siv, they became sick. They showed they were symptomatic. All right, so I'll leave it at that. But I don't want to sound too scientific and then scared with some of the people who think that they should control the information and you shouldn't ask them anything. Hence we arrive at scientific dictatorship. Correct or incorrect. Now, if I can't question you, that means it's dictatorial. [01:22:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:22:13] Speaker B: And so the fact that you've been away to medical school for 50 years means that somebody can't ask you something or can't. Can't question you about something. That's what I'm saying. So I've been using the term scientific dictatorship. When you're ready. For long now, from before, when Calvin Smith and them, everybody was on. So, so, so I jump from here to there because these are the concerns. But you have a phone in your hand. You should be able to discern truth from lie, even if you don't know it. The kind of Questions My little 9 year old is asking me about religion and Jesus and why he's white. Every white curly hair and blue eye and all that. All kinds of questions. [01:22:45] Speaker A: And yes. [01:22:46] Speaker B: About God and different things. I'm. I'm like you say. I'm realizing what you're saying. We don't have time to really police what they're watching. They're learning things before the gun. They're pronouncing words before they can spell them. So we see the fallout. Right. But we call it all good. And then we. The question is, who is to blame? Anko, you brave the world in 1984 is now. [01:23:09] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:23:09] Speaker B: In the 21st century, the black man is still his own enemy. The question is, how do gay people get so powerful? Why is it that females, they will be mad? And I was having a conversation, a roster. So I thought I'd bring this up because I don't know if you have time to do it. They would. They would lambast a man if he's 50 or he 100 and the girl 20, they'll be hot with that. But that's jealousy. But they would lambast. Oh, let them be the way they want to be. That's. They won't be woman. They'll be Mario. You understand? [01:23:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:23:44] Speaker B: So we. So we. We have a moral decay in which there's a spiritual delay. [01:23:48] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:23:49] Speaker B: You see? So I Just thought I would bring it up. Maybe society need to think about where it's headed because the human. Nah, I don't care who get mad or who glad or who like or dislike. Keep those things to yourself. But I'll share this before I go on to the radio areas even with you with your religious critique. I know it's true, you know. But what I hate is when people critique you in ignorance. So when we going to come and you know what? I would wish that they would stop entertaining people who call talking about callers without critiquing them factually about something versus your visceral bs. That's not going to get us anywhere. We need to keep those things of the airwaves. If you if I said something incorrect or I think it should enlighten the public and somebody would say well this is incorrect of this particular fact but we need to keep our personal things off of the railways and let's get ahead with most of needs critical thinkers and people who could listen and really respond to what's going on. The country is thinking, nobody's thinking. Every route on the corner is drinking. You see what I'm saying? [01:24:42] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:24:42] Speaker B: Surrounded and exposed. But you expect from the past the liquor store or the candy shop every day and don't say nothing. Figure this one out angle. Bill Clinton say he smoker but he didn't heal it. So there was a drug bus the other day for £230 or something like that and they said it was value 430 and I was trying to figure out how they arrive and then my. [01:24:59] Speaker A: I don't know what I heard about that. Yes, yes, yes. We, we, we are going to take this final break and then we're going to jump back to the phone lines. I see the phone lines are lit up so we're going to keep it moving. Right here on Guardian Radio today is an open line. Keep it locked. [01:25:27] Speaker B: When it comes to hearts at Cleveland Clinic, you can't miss a beat. You seek the best care possible, work. [01:25:34] Speaker A: With the brightest minds and leave no stone unturned to get to the heart of the matter. [01:25:41] Speaker B: Because understanding is always the first step to overcoming for every heart in the world. [01:25:48] Speaker A: See how teacher of heart care at CL Cleveland Clinic today. 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[01:26:41] Speaker B: We need to report what we receive you a lot when you call Crime Stoppers. [01:26:44] Speaker A: They just answer your call in Miami so then we can report everything. [01:26:48] Speaker B: Guns, where they hiding the drugs, who. [01:26:50] Speaker A: Shoot who, who part of which gang or who disturbing the peace with the loud music and the motorcycles. Then our neighborhood will be the best. [01:26:57] Speaker B: In the Bahamas and everybody gonna want to come live here. And then our house price will go up. Gal. So what we waiting on? What's the number? [01:27:04] Speaker A: If you see something, say something. Let us all pitch in and stop the crowd before it's your time. Call 328-8477 from Nassau or 2423-008477 from the family islands or text us through the crack crime Bahamas app. Stop the crime before it's your time. This is Guardian Radio 96.9 FM. Fresh news smart. [01:27:34] Speaker B: Foreign. [01:27:37] Speaker A: Welcome back to Guardian Radio 96.9 FM. Fresh news smart talk all day. Let's run right back to the phone lines for this last segment of the show. Caller, you are live on Guardian Radio today. [01:27:50] Speaker B: Good morning, buddy. [01:27:51] Speaker A: How you doing man? How you doing long time. [01:27:54] Speaker B: How you love your sister doing? [01:27:56] Speaker A: Ah, she hanging in there, man. She hanging in there. She. [01:27:59] Speaker B: You need a break a back to co host the show sometimes. [01:28:02] Speaker A: Yeah, that, that's. That's actually a good idea. [01:28:04] Speaker B: And every time I listen to you, I think about your sister, man. [01:28:07] Speaker A: I know you know we used to do the show plugged in. [01:28:09] Speaker B: Yeah, way back. Yep, I think about that show. So what's a wonderful show? Yeah, yeah, bring it back sometimes. But you know you're talking about provincial, right? Provincial garden. [01:28:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:28:24] Speaker B: And it all but goes back to good parenting. Like you mentioned. Your parents guide you? My parents guide me and guide other people from immorality. If you do. If you do watch the newborn to watch, you'll cut it off or we'll get spanked. So no matter how advanced the Internet is, it all is based on discipline. My all my sisters then allowed their daughter, my nieces to use the Internet until they get about responsible like adults. Yeah, that could be teenagers too. That would be 21 for the responsible adult. And they check what they go on and they see. They kept on, kept focus on, stay on, stay on the children's thing, whatever research, they stay in that direction. And that's the reason why I think Brendan Knowledge want to introduce these late Brendan Knowledge want to introduce a thing called parenting school. Parenting how to be a parent. [01:29:34] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:29:35] Speaker B: I graduated one of the national service for one of the purposes. Because being you are the grandmother who look at us and a mommy and daddy who look at us. [01:29:46] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:29:47] Speaker B: But all they all are not fortunate like that need school. Some of them school classes. [01:29:53] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:29:54] Speaker B: Be honest you. Because of the functionality dysfunctionality in our. [01:29:58] Speaker A: Society so far we got children having children. So yeah, that's needed. We have children having children, so it's needed, right? [01:30:06] Speaker B: Definitely. There are those that need it. Yeah, you know, there are definitely. And we need to up, up upgrade our law on these grown men who go go on his children. Yeah, I call them children. [01:30:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:30:21] Speaker B: Underage. [01:30:23] Speaker A: But I mean we got, we have the laws. We just gotta, we just gotta be serious. [01:30:26] Speaker B: But no step up penalty. Step up penalty. [01:30:30] Speaker A: Okay. [01:30:31] Speaker B: Because getting away with it and it can be. You could have the court at 16 and you can't wait until 18. You sound make sense. [01:30:40] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:30:41] Speaker B: So they got to be 18 down the line because some men who pray, you got men who pray they'll wait till they get 16, but they still ain't, ain't grown Uncle. They still learn it. [01:30:54] Speaker A: But see, I agree with you. If you are a grown man, you need to leave, you know, children alone. That definitely, right? [01:31:00] Speaker B: Oh yeah, definitely. [01:31:02] Speaker A: The problem comes in when you have the teenagers experimenting with each other. Right. So I, I, I don't think you can stop that, you know, you know. [01:31:12] Speaker B: You know, you know, you know you can stop that the law. Look at that parents. If you're not responsible parents, what the state should do, what the state, what they do in the United States to state all our state should take away the children. [01:31:28] Speaker A: What do you think that can, that can solve? [01:31:30] Speaker B: I mean extreme, extreme cases child on the street. [01:31:34] Speaker A: On the street. [01:31:35] Speaker B: Okay, right. I'm not talking about stuff extreme. They're not disappointed. They don't know. No, no, they turn go like the, the TV to say do you know your turn where your turn is after 11:00'? [01:31:45] Speaker A: Clock? Yeah, I remember that. [01:31:46] Speaker B: You sure you got what, 10 o'? Clock? [01:31:48] Speaker A: Yes, baby, yeah, 10 o'. [01:31:50] Speaker B: Clock. Because we advertise all antenna. It was, you know, satellite antenna. [01:31:56] Speaker A: I used to climb up on my Antenna to get on the roof. [01:32:01] Speaker B: Yeah, you. You don't fall that old man. [01:32:05] Speaker A: I am 48 years old. [01:32:07] Speaker B: 48. You still got antenna flow. You still antenna 48. [01:32:11] Speaker A: We had antenna and then we get satellite. [01:32:13] Speaker B: You're already moving to satellite. So you. Yeah, yeah. You're the 17. [01:32:16] Speaker A: I got one more call again. Get any of them. [01:32:18] Speaker B: So yeah man, but good to hear your voice last time. Okay. [01:32:22] Speaker A: Yeah man. I let. I let her know you asked for yes boy Pumpkinita. I haven't talk spoken to him in years. Let's get to this next call here on Guardian Radio today open line. Good day. How you doing caller? [01:32:39] Speaker B: Right here, man. You know, I just called you and I normally don't call two days or so. [01:32:43] Speaker A: Yes. [01:32:44] Speaker B: What I saw happening around here, right? [01:32:47] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:32:47] Speaker B: Now that gentleman who called about the child with the uniform. [01:32:50] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:32:51] Speaker B: I. I don't agree with him. [01:32:52] Speaker A: Okay, let me hear your point. [01:32:54] Speaker B: You got. You got to have law and order. You see. You know some things what the school do, we don't want to do. That's where law and order start from. Right in the school. [01:33:04] Speaker A: Okay. [01:33:05] Speaker B: So. So you got. Okay, let's say you have you had a child going to St. Augustine QC. And if that teacher say your skate could be what is what I bet you it could be done. So you understand me? [01:33:18] Speaker A: I with you. And I don't know. I don't think the call is against what you're saying. You know I think the, the. The problem with some of the rules are they. They. Sorry sorry say the, the. The call. You could hear me better now. The caller. The caller was making a point point that some of the rules are just so almost petty. Not that the lane of the skirt isn't important that that was an issue. [01:33:43] Speaker B: Well anyhow. [01:33:44] Speaker A: But I hear what you say. Gotta have low. I agree with you. [01:33:47] Speaker B: Yeah. Anybody do what they'll do, the boys will come with their pants. With the, with the no belt in their pants. Just let anything buck up. [01:33:54] Speaker A: No, you can't do that. [01:33:55] Speaker B: Right. So I agree. Not many I called for. [01:33:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:33:59] Speaker B: They all about housing. They ain't got no land for housing and so forth. And I don't know if you want me come pick you up, I'll do it. That's how serious I am. [01:34:09] Speaker A: Yeah yeah. [01:34:10] Speaker B: Rest of Bacardi Road. That's a good piece of property there for them to put some low cost houses. Acres and acres of land. Yeah. But right now is the eyesore. [01:34:21] Speaker A: Wow. [01:34:22] Speaker B: Somebody got all up and got much of the land and it ain't in the back. [01:34:27] Speaker A: You know I see it. [01:34:28] Speaker B: I see it. You see? [01:34:29] Speaker A: Yeah, I know what you're talking about. [01:34:31] Speaker B: Right. Come on. We say we have a house's crisis and you can take this property and give to some. You can let somebody go and build this thing right in the front of Carmichael Road. Then down for it you got a couple houses with God solo panel on it and and then you got the legal immigrant in the back. [01:34:48] Speaker A: Now I don't know if all those are connected. I know, I know that there's some construction going on so they ain't finished yet. I know that much. [01:34:55] Speaker B: Yeah but, but, but then again why didn't give that person some property on Fire Trail Road or somewhere? That's how this our good land. We said we have a housing crisis. We could have used that, cut down and build some. You know. I don't know if you see where you're coming from. [01:35:08] Speaker A: No, there's an. I agree there's another subdivision right next to that that I know. [01:35:13] Speaker B: Yeah. The other subdivision right next to that. [01:35:15] Speaker A: Yeah. They had started they didn't get to finish it but they had started building the that subdivision. [01:35:22] Speaker B: I said I think I know you made it with the car security though. Yeah but, but you see what that property is what that place. I saw the amount that looked terrible and the shiny demand look like you say you know it is that's what I really called for to show how slack is a very roaring but we can't build no cost houses. [01:35:41] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:35:41] Speaker B: Take that on that land. Yo. It don't like I say it don't make no sense. You might as well take that down and let them go Fire Trail Road and build some good houses there man. Cu the bus and thing run right there, you know. [01:35:55] Speaker A: Yeah. But anyway I appreciate you I, I. [01:35:57] Speaker B: I, I think I need to be revisit whoever give that person all our land and we thought we need land to build out and you taking that G boy TR them old pilot paid up as I saw man. Anyway, take care. [01:36:08] Speaker A: Yes, yes, yes. Thank you so much. Got a text here. This is an open line day. An open text day. Question do you think the government would remove the tracking number from the ballot card for the general elections as was recommended by the international observers who were observing the last elections? We can't call out. They know how we voted. I remember this conversation being hot since I must see was a teenager before. That's a great question. And if it's not being removed and I don't know if they're going to start now but to your point, we cannot call our elections free and fair if they know how we voted. I don't know the answers to those questions in terms of whether or not they're going to remove it, but I do agree. If they do know how you vote, we all know how victimization works in this. In this country, you understand? And if they know you voted or if you didn't vote, whatever the case may be, that affects a lot. So I don't know, maybe Mr. Lang could touch on that. He's a political expert. Let's see this next text here. Let me see. Let me read this before I read this out loud. Oh, Lord. Anyway, I ain't gonna go there today. I ain't go there today. Textile, they talking about certain type of lifestyles and where the lifestyles are. I ain't touching that right now, you understand? But ultimately, today's show has been about having the conversations necessary to. To have some solutions. Right. I think in order for us. Yeah, you're laughing, Dexter, Right. I think in order for us to really have the kind of conversations that we could have this Freedom of Information Act, I mean, to be able to really see what's going on, like, today, all through the news today, you have this conversation about whether or not the deal in Grand Bahama, is it done or not. Like, people asking, Right. But you don't know. You know what I mean? And so difficult to even have a respectful conversation when you just don't know. I don't just mean about that, but a lot of things are being done, and it's not being. It's not transparent. Right. And so it's difficult to have fair conversation. It's difficult to assess what's really going on. And so I used the example of the recent study with children to kind of give an example of what can happen when we actually know what's going on. Like, we know what's going on in the schools. I see the government has begun to put in some preemptive or some different responses to what they're seeing in the study. Right. The school Water Access Project, the Health Promotion and Wellness Bill, they're collaborating with Ministry of education and PAU, and then it goes on and on. But if we want to build this country and get it to where we know the country can be, we got to be able to have the kind of conversations that allow us to have solutions. We can't just be stuck on politics. We can't just be stuck on gossip. We can't just be stuck on complaining. And there are a lot of people who want a certain level of critical thinking and critical conversation in the country. And anytime I have an opportunity, I will bring it to the fore. My name is Calhoun Ankus has been Guardian Radio today, and I pray that you enjoy the rest of your day and keep it locked. Here to 96.9 Guardian Radio fresh news, Smart Talk all day. Namastu. Guardian Radio Today is brought to you. [01:40:21] Speaker B: By Alive, Burger King, the Cleveland Clinic, Commonwealth Bank, Janae's Uniform Center, Printmasters and Wendy's.