Comrade minister of da Tourists, ya government's solutions is so simple. 'Nationalize' all the American fast food franchise outlets, cause even the Hotel's eateries is empty of guests ......they all heading over to Ronald McDonald, Colonial Saunder's and the rest them franchises.

Minister that's what you get when you spend millions of dollars to attract Mr. & Mrs. Vacationing Cheapos to Bahamaland.

I ain't know why some enterprising native is not selling pretty little bottles cooking oil to them 'unsuspecting' tourists, as Bahamaland's Own Suntan Oil?

if it was me, I'd put on a fancy tropical-looking label, that it has we Bahamaland's own 'Secret Healing Powers Oils' in we formula ... proven to be a sure-cure for ya cheap asses, arthritis pains.

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This is nothing new......... It is just that nobody wanted to listen to the small business person.....
The Government has made it next to impossible for the Small business person to operate..
The Rents on Bay street is ridiculous...
The tourist are stuck in the BAY STREET QUADRANT.....and there is nothing for them to spend
their money on.
Those who do visit, choose not to disembark of the ship....
then you have the ships who get in around 11am and leave at 5pm
The newer ones arrive at 6am and leave at 2pm....
The Passengers never have enough time to shop or spend any money.....
The BUSES take them to Atlantis and various day attractions (which is prepaid for on the ship)
and there they spend three to five hours.. and they return them back to the Ships
So it is not a shopping trip for our tourist and to add insult to injury ,those who do venture out , Are instructed to stay clear away from places like the Straw Market............
If they need incidentals ,they buy it on the ship.
"THE POINT IS .WE AS A COUNTRY IS NOT "SHOPPER FRIENDLY" ANYMORE
Studies show that TOURIST spend more money at night between the hours of 5pm to 1am
At five pm in the Bahamas , the entire town is shut down......
At six pm in the Bahamas ,the Harbor is empty........

Mr Minister of Tourism we are getting the ca ca end of the stick............
the facts are there , we don't need a rocket to scientist to figure this one out.....

Comrade Exuma1959 neither the PLP or the red shirts seem to understand that the cruise ships are advising their guests NOT to venture off the ship, unless under an organized tour ... much less with them to park their ships at the docks overnight, allowing tourists off the ship to roam our crime infested, murderous Bahamaland.

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"we have to make sure that our vendors be much more productive " ,,now our MPs can not speak proper english .?? I heard someone on the news last night representing the gov , talking about navel strings as a way of saying where they desended from ..Geez ..There is no navel string its an imbilicule cord ..We are going backward .....

The cruise lines have been getting away with too much for far too long. They control what tours are sold on their ships and for what price. They also went as far as copying all of the local tours and duplicating them on their private islands. Then they set the prices in Nassau and Freeport higher then their tours on their private islands. To add more salt to the wound, then the cruise lines come back to the local operators demanding new tours. When the local operators cannot comply the cruise lines go to the government and say that there is nothing to do or there are no quality local tours. The MOT takes their word for it because they are either too lazy or too ignorant to check the facts. About 8 years ago a few local operators got together to fight for equality. They got no support from the government and got picked off by the cruise lines one by one. I used to work for one of those companies. Out of all the original local tour companies, only a handful are still here. The rest have either closed down on their own were were put out of business by the cruise line. On top of the issues with the cruise lines, the local operators have to compete with foreigners comming in with Bahamians fronting for them. All of this privy and under the eye of the government.

i say lets crank up the anti foriegn rhetoric to make the masses feel better and secure there votes ..really us bahamians are too special to even have those wicked foriegners amongts us .lets not let foriegners invest or even visit our pure shores ,,PGC whip sandals and CWC some more ,the masses love it ,,,,,,,,,,lmao

how can a country expect to survive when 90% of our income comes from foriegners ,but to secure votes and feed our insecurities we constantly put them down .....

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