The Tribune's A Felicity Ingraham reported on Tuesday that nearly 100,000 Bahamians--or about 28% of the country's population--are using the Internet. This figure represents nearly a 610% growth rate between 2000-2005.
In the Caribbean, Ingraham reports, Jamaica has the highest number of Internet users (1.67 million, or 39.6% of the population), while Barbados has the highest percentage of users in the Caribbean, with 56.2%.
As businesses in the Bahamas learn to effectively use new electronic tools that are already available--such as blogs, websites that actually work for them, and podcasting, for example--I suspect that Internet useage will continue its solid growth.
It's only a matter of time.
