By ADRIAN GIBSON

ajbahama@hotmail.com

OF late, the economic crisis besetting the country has shown that there's a need for a greater commitment to the creation and strengthening of our internal dynamics and the empowerment of Bahamians by strategic planning mechanisms. Indeed, in recent years economic hardship and a lack of regulatory enforcement has led to a greater manifestation of the ever-present parallel economy - for example, the proliferation of phone card vendors, street vendors selling food from vehicle trunks on road sides and on construction sites, peanut vendors, fish vendors, makeshift roadside stalls, etcetera.

Undoubtedly, the government must take small steps to become ...

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