*Third Lie being worked on as we speak: there is no need to worry about a threat from Cuba. Watch and see.*

Wow, this took less that than I thought

*provides an “excellent” opportunity for the Bahamas to “focus on improving the quality of our tourism product”.*

Our problem is corruption Minister Wilchombe, its granting a contract to a company with the express intent that they deposit money to your account or "donate" to a specific "charity" etc., its giving a job in ministry of tourism for example to a campaign worker who has NO qualifications, work experience or talent to handle the position. You want to position the Bahamas? get rid of production, quality will follow

"....get rid of **corruption**, quality will follow"

Ask the Minister how his court case id going against Larry King and CNN ,ask him if he and "not so pleasant "Bridgewater paid back BOB for that failed loan foe universal distributers

Lord have mercy on us!!!!!

We allowed ourselves to get too complacent ............. now we are at #5 and falling ........... and still believe we are the best!!!!!!!!

................................... Your Hopelessly Delusional At Best ..........................

Perry dem hasn't had anything under control from day one and certainly have no grip whatsoever on whats about to happen.

With 20+ years hands-on airline, wholesale travel and destination management experience, I can unequivocally tell you Perry dem are just as lost as all before them for the past 40 years.

Bahamas didn't lose market share and fall to number 5 position regionally in 30 years because Perry and Ingraham dem had tings under control.

These idiot genius's better concentrate all efforts fully on creating fun destination resort activities, theme parks, night life, cultural & native shows etc. to our tourism product or Bahamas will continue on this downward spiral.

**......................Absolute unadulterated Malarkey, Smoke and Mirror Bullshyt .......................**

Let's Be Frank Here, Ask The Hard questions, Face reality, Facts And Stop The Horseshyt.

Obie Wilchcombe might be a nice guy, but in reality what experience does Obie have in tourism? What profession is Obie really qualified for "when" he is kicked out of politics? In fact what experience did successive "Ministers Of Tourism" have in tourism?

if Obie and the others had any clue what they SHOULD HAVE BEEN DOING, why has Bahamas slipped from the number one position in regional tourism to number five....and continue slipping daily?

Firstly, only the USA have a problem with Cuba.... Cuba is already a tourism mecca in it's own right realizing very high annual occupancies from international markets. The fact is, even if fully opened today to U.S. markets, Cuba does not have the capacity to accommodate an increase in tourism to appreciably negatively affect Bahamas market share.

This smoke and mirror bullshyt about joint destination travel between Bahamas and Cuba is total asinine foolishness. If it were possible, the best classic example is Bahamas and Disney Florida. Where is the "joint destination travel".

Joint destination tourism with Cuba is a pipe dream attempt to deflect attention of fools and the ignorant to buy time.

Cuba has it's own family of Islands just as we do, and can offer more for less. Why would they need to consider joint destination tourism with Bahamas when they can have it all?

The Bahamas must "NOW" focus all efforts on developing a resort infrastructure aimed at creating fun activities, theme parks, upgraded & improved points of interest, NIGHT LIFE, NIGHT LIFE, NIGHT LIFE, NIGHT LIFE, NIGHT LIFE, NIGHT LIFE, etc. to dramatically increase in resort spend, which will also create much needed jobs with the added affect of lowing crime.

PGC needs to swallow his pride, forget friends, family and lovers and **seriously seek out those many Bahamian entrepreneurs** with proposals for theme parks, touristic ventures and other proposals that would positively impact our tourism product.

The end game is PGC will continue to rapidly sink, lose popularity and eventually lose the government with **NO CHANCE OF RETURN!**

Nightlife doesn't necessarily mean hedonism, to me anyway, it just means something interesting to do

**.............................................. What Church ? ......................................**

Are you referring to **THE GROUP OF LUNATICS** running around calling themselves the christian counsel that prophesied GOD himself told them he would bring certain destruction on the Bahamas if government legalized Sunday shopping?

Want to listen to them?.....**O.K. then!**

Preach it. Amen

**.. FBI Exposes PLP And FNM Use Of "Consultants" To Facilitate Bribery And Corruption ..**

http://www.topix.com/forum/world/the-ba…

This is the main reason our country is in a mess............. **PIRATES AT THE HELM !**

.............. **Mr. Greenslade..........Do your job and send these BASTARDS TO JAIL** ..........

First we can start by cleaning up all the garbage around our city, looks nasty im sure tourist notice

The clock is ticking for The Bahamas. Years of mis-management by successive governments, continued corruption across the whole of society and a growing sense of entitlement amongst the populace has brought the country to the brink. Enjoy the last few years of relative prosperity.

This may be an opportunity but why tourism? The Bahamas could find other industries to make it self profitable by not relying solely on Tourism, first we need to find ways to feed ourselves. With a country that has sun year round I don't see why we don't look into cutting down on food export. Secondly medical tourism could be an industry for the Bahamas, and thirdly the Bahamas could try their and beef up the retirement community that could rival places like Arizona and Florida. Just throwing things out there but there is plenty more ways to make the country profitable.

**No question several alternatives exist in diversifying Bahamas economy.**

However, in the immediate and short terms, the most profitable and easiest means of increasing GDP is firstly to increase tourist spend by focusing on creating resort activities that encourage visitors to leave cruise ships and hotels and allow them opportunity to spend more.

Government consideration of granting Carnival Cruise Lines a license to develop theme parks or more private Islands stopovers is the absolute **DUMBEST THING THEY CAN DO**.

Bahamians must own tourist products **NOT FOREIGNERS**.

This PLP government has turned away several proposals for theme parks from qualifying Bahamians with solid foreign expertise/investors for no other reason than friends, family and lovers were not involved.

Secondly, another ignored golden opportunity for government to improve on the economy is in renewable energy.

Despite **"talk"** about being serious with job creation, IDB recommendations and regionally proven trends, government continue to refuse to implement solar Net Metering & renewable energy alternatives which literally would produce two to three thousand jobs virtually overnight, alleviate suffering of hundreds of households due to inability to pay enormous light bills and put a dent in the crime epidemic.

**The biggest deterrent to improving Bahamas as a resort destination, and job creation is government themselves.**

**.................................... Cuba Tourist Arrivals Hit Record In 2014 ...........................................**

http://news.yahoo.com/cuba-tourist-arri…

**..................... The PLP and FNM are total undeniable failures in tourism ..............................**