Boom? Stop smoking that crack and come back to reality, where are the jobs?

IAAF relays more like it. No one is coming for carnival, they"might" happen to be here as holdovers from the relays or have been coming "anyway". But there is no mass influx for Carnival. I hope the "Festival Village" is not that bunch of unsightly haphazard clapboard structures some misguided person allowed to be built on Junkanoo beach. Just what the tourism product needs, more tshirts, cheap beads and greasy food.

This is all smoke and mirrors. They say that room revenue is up 11%. Here is how they calculate it. They take the total revenue, and divide it by the number of total rooms. So if the number of total rooms goes down, the revenue is higher. For example if one gets $100 total revenue on 5 rooms, then the room revenue number is $20. If you take one room away, then the room revenue is $25. Voila! You have just had a 25% increase in room revenue without any more money changing hands.

So now the average room in the Bahamas rose by 8.9% to $268.11 and the number of rooms decreased then of course you will have a rise in room revenues as well.

The $268.11 cost per night is very scary. Just looking at the Cuba room rates (single occupancy) Old Havana - $200 per night; La Nacional - $126 per night; Santa Isabel - $115 per night; Melia Cohiba - $151 per night; Melia Habana - $138 per night and the list goes on. These rates are for the month of April, 2015 -- this year. Dominican Republic is even cheaper.

Tourism boom? Ha! Sad to say, but this is junk reporting. The Central Bank and Wendy Craigg are PLP pawns told to report positive news. The subtext in this article is that it will be impossible to fill Baha Mar unless we get more airlift, and there will not be more airlift until demand strengthens. It is a chicken and egg scenario and there are no chickens and no eggs, except the goose eggs on the increase in profitability numbers.

The Central Bank, in its disingenuous commentary also noted that with VAT the cost of living increases were "moderate". With a high unemployment rate, do they consider VAT as moderate ???? And they also noted that the government's deficit had risen to over $290 million in January, calling the overall growth of the economy as "firming up". Whatever they are smoking, I want some of it. People are hurting, the country is dying a slow painful death, crime is increasing, endemic corruption is almost at the same zenith as during the Pindling years, and the Central Bank puts out this vomit? God help us.

Yes indeed... This is nothing but spin.

AH well you folks do not want anything good for the Bahamas. But good will come in spite of what you may wish or wright.,

of course we do. do you think we want our kids to be unemployed and gang members? or living off the bread crumbs the numbers boys leave behind or learning Chinese, so they can understand their bosses? When do people start to understand that sustained growth does not come from large enterprises such as Atlantis, Baha Mar, etc., but from entrepreneurial initiatives, ideas, hard work, good education, and perspectives. Brick by brick, step by step.

^^What a STUPID thing to say. We are Bahamians. How would we benefit from a failed government? This statement proves what a small intellect you really have, PLP or nothing, right Birdie. FOOL! It seems that it is you who would sell out the country for your beloved PLP. Tell me if I lie?