NO FISH OR CONCH FOR NOW!

If you read the American victim's tripadvisor thread (pleading the Bahamas govt. to investigate!), he mentions he also swam in another very warm, poorly circulated, nutrient-rich body of water: "The Ruins" at Atlantis. Sounds like pretty good vibrio habitat to me...

Have you ever been to Bonefish National Park in the south of New Providence? You see Haitians swimming there all the time in the flats during the hot weather. That would be my guess as to where one would find the bacteria if it is in Bahamian waters.

@concernedcitizen..I guess it was the Haitians swimming that caused the outbreak in Florida as well?

i would think the Atlantis swimming areas are chlorinated

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There are several 'raw sewerage' areas around New Providence that needs to be addressed immediately before some disease does not break out on the island: As you pass the park between the two Paradise Island bridges, (Malcolm Park) there is a huge green storage tank and you can smell the sewerage. Information is that raw sewerage from Paradise Island is treated here, then pumped into the ocean. This is less than a stones throw from where Potters Cay vendors store their fish and conch in the sea. Then there is a poorly covered drain near the western entrance to the fish fry. Sewerage is constantly flowing and the strong smell of sewerage emanates from this drain day and night. It is suspected that the contents run directly into the sea, untreated. Right in the area where vendors store their conchs to sell. Then as you pass the new Bah Mar site just opposite the Cable Beach police station, the stench of sewerage is so strong it tends to overcome you in the otherwise fresh sea air. Is there some open sewer on the property where the workers are housed? Also further down Cable Beach by the post office and opposite the service entrance to Sandals. There is another large tank that is being used for for sewerage treatment. Just a quick stop to pick up someone from Sandals and you will leave with a sick stomach or feeling ill. How does the people who work in the post office manage all day? Even to eat lunch? I guess when tourist pass these spots they assume that the taxi driver has let loose a few home made bombs.

@ john Paradise island has a treatment plant on Paradise island where the sewage is treated and then turned into grey water for landscaping etc ,,,Paradise sewage is not pumped to Malcom park and then into the ocean ..Seriously where do you come up w/ this stuff .I was a resident on PI from 1982 until 2004 and was good friends w/ one of their senior men at there water and sewage ,Paul Major ,,

I assume your friends who are so happy with BTC's profit margins also live on Paradise Island..it figures..may that's why you cannot name any

There you go trippin again , i now live on a family island . I ,m not naming any more people that sell top up and are happy ,you can ride your OCD about phone card margin yourself , your the only person i,ve heard talk or write about it ,,ride that pony

how many different names do you post under. Never mind the reparation money, Our God and Savior has promised to reward us for what was done to use as a people. Our reward will be in such a way that no man can take it away. Where are you going to hide when the world is on fire?

Is this is more letting the cat out of the bag with fairy tale facts like BTC have cash flow problems? I still live on PI, and when we are sitting on the balcony, and sometimes the sound of the treatment plant pumps are annoying.

However the sewerage treatment plant at the corner of Paradise Island Drive and Ocean Club Drive does provide all of the irrigation water that makes Paradise Island a little paradise. It also has the best display of bougainvillea on PI against the green privacy fence. The nice thing is that PI also has a sub-generating plant also keeps the current on. During power failures and load shedding, we go out on the balcony and look at dark Nassau, and thank our lucky stars that Sol Kerzner blessed the Bahamas.

Don't you have anything better to do during a power outage, concerned citizen, than to look at a dark island? What a life

@Banker ,yeah that bougainvilla is nice , i can,t afford PI now,that was my family but it was nice growing up there ,Harbour dr ,right before George Myers house ..Yeah thanks goodness for Kerzner ..

@concerned citizen: The Ruins at Atlantis is a fish-filled seawater snorkeling site - shallow, warm and loaded with fish waste which fuels algal and bacterial growth.

that could breed fungy

Does anyone disagree that the area by Malcolm Park has a serious offensive odour problem that may be a potential health hazard?

Grey water is water treated and recycled from face basins, showers and baths, Sewerage is basically the stuff that comes from the toilet, human fecal matter is not recycled or mixed with water to be treated as grey water. The solid part, sluge use in fertilizers has been linked to Parkinson's disease and so this use has been discontinued. Sewerage is treated to neutralize anything that may be contained in it including feces, detergents chemicals and other waste matter. The big green tank by Malcolm park *is * a sewerage holding tank. There are no sewers in the area and the tank does service parts of Paradise Island. It was originally built back in the 1970's when some of the first hotels were built on Paradise Island. Singapore is the only country in the world that has tested the use of sewerage water for recycling as grey water. After the sewerage is treated it is pumped in a deep well that leads out to the ocean.

Whatever you say Johnny ,maybe those foreigners could be asked not to cr@p while there here ..

Sounds like a plan, get rid of all the foreign crap. That's what causing all of our problems anyway

As for BTC/C&W: When BaTelCo introduced the QuikCell phone card more than a decade ago, vendors were given a 35% profit margin to share between wholesalers and retailers. Remember the distribution channel is not just New Providence but cards are sold in even the most remote islands in the Bahamas. Nevertheless the margin was later reduced to 25%. Since Cable and Wireless took over BTC some 3 years ago, there have been reductions in vendor profits that brought the margin down from 25% to the current 9 percent. Yet there are talks about another reduction in 2014. The sales on phone cards has virtually doubled since BaTelcCo introduced them 12 years ago. So if BaTelCo could have realize a profit paying vendors *four times* what C&W now pays how do you explain the need for further reductions, except greed and/or a cash flow problem? While BTC does have one or two promotions a year that allow customers discounts on phone calls, the rates on prepaid calls remain basically unchanged..maybe the grand wizard has an explanation: Some say BTC is trying to force the vendors out the market to make way for the new retail store format it is introducing.

@JOHN ,I,M sure its some old white men sitting around in a room ,thinking if these young black guys keep making so much selling phone cards they will soon be moving into lyford cay ..The white man is so wicked johnny ,,,,,,,,,,,OF COURSE I,M BEING TOTALLY SARCASTIC AND FEEDING YOUR EXTREME XENOPHOPIA ,,,This is about bacteria ,,you need to get some meds to help w/ that phone card thingy you got going on ..

Actually it was Marlon Johnson who said, "the card vendors already made enough money" AND no, I don't know if he has an uncle named TOM!

John is right about BTC and the phone cards.

It is a little known fact that the substance which is scratched off the phone card is hazardous to your health.

When it gets into the water it turns into vibrio vulnificus.

So,
BTC is to blame for this and it will soon be revealed (by John) that this is the reason why Tony Rice resigned as head of BTC. PGC knows the facts but is waiting for John to leak it out so that PGCs hands are clean.

And having said this - that means that HAI takes all the blame because he (and the red shirts) sold BTC to the evil foreigners.

@Jack...you had me hooked on "John is right". Thanks for tying the pieces together, that vibrio is nothing to play with. That is the last phone card that I buy! I'm now pushing for Dr Gomez to quarantine all phone card vendors.

@ jOHN could come into the 21st century and put down a 100 dollar deposit ,go post paid and pay as little as 12 cents a minute ,then he wouldn,t have to touch those vibrio tainted cards whitey is pushing ,,lmao

Better than playing with yourself like you, using different names to respond to your own posts..talk about meds! Some Bahamian must really given you the shaft to have you this bitter against all Bahamians, Blacks especially.

@john seriously where do you get this crap ,,"using different names to respond to your own post " Why do you constantly bring up race ??