Wait, so Mr. Major said that 50 Million would be injected into the Economy? Ummmmm, if we are looking at a total of 90 Thousand Carnival goers, and lets assume they all paid the $15 entry fee, then we can conclude that they made roughly 1,350,000 Million at the gate. So.....Ummmm, where would the balance of roughly $48,650,000 Million come from?

Obviously, its not just admission fees, but moneys spent on food, buying costumes, tourist (if any) arrivals, nights in hotels (if any), renting cars (again if any) etc. I'll admit though, $50 million seems a bit of a stretch. Wishful thinking.

Timing was off, should happen when schools are out - summer vacation for "visitors".

............... 4 days = 90,000 ..................... 22,500 per day. Say each one of them spent on average $100 = $9 million .................... thats Perrynomics 2.0

@ Caribuy

It was a rhetorical question

This spreadsheet may not come out so well but... just some very rough numbers to see what I could come up with (and I couldn't come close to $50 million and these are some pretty generous assumptions). I guess you would have to add how much the vendors spent on food and how much gas the taxi drivers bought, and how much the police got paid in overtime etc. etc.

Number of people $ spent total spent on what?
90,000 $50 $4,500,000 entry tickets
10,000 $300 $3,000,000 tourists on rooms
10,000 $10 $100,000 tourists on taxis
90,000 $50 $4,500,000 people on food and drink
10,000 $300 $3,000,000 people on costumes
10,000 $300 $3,000,000 tourists on restaurants
10,000 $75 $750,000 tourists on airport fees
10,000 $100 $1,000,000 tourists on gifts
**TOTAL $19,850,000**

10,000 BJC tourists???????? from where???????????? Stop talking SHIT!!!!!!!!!...................... BOL

10,000 tourists for BJC is a bit too generous, maybe a couple hundred. lol

Is it possible Paul's low on batteries calculator may have added 40,000 invisible spirits to appear da naked eyes?
Comrades a crowd attendance estimate by police is for FREE events, not paid ticketed events, so why in hell would Paul, who during just about every interview he did on talk radio, went out his way to brags about how much he is a numbers man's) to be relying on "police crowd statistics?"
Since we can take it that the Music Masters concert was NOT a FREE admission but ticketed event, at say only $30 ticket x 50,000 tickets sold generates 1.5 million dollars. All Paul, the numbers man's has do hold on to his 50,000, is to count the damn monies, and if he can't reach 1.5 million dollars, then he ain't using PAID ACCURATE TICKETS SOLD attendance reality statistics?

I am not saying its done the right way, but if 90,000 people show up and are willing to spend money, that is a good thing.

Comrade GrassRoot judging by what is reported to have happened at the gas leak Elizabeth Town Hall, it sure as hell seems likes the PLP cabinet has the charter bus operators programmed into they's cell phones speed dial? Yes, 90,000 bodies is quite a reasonable numbers, but what did they contribute toward making any sense of Paul's now grown to 90 millions dollars? Cuz you knows if they bused them, they is also fed them free food? That free loading bunch would've even bought a single damn cold bottle cream soda pop from a vendor. But who am I stop you from believing, or should I say in humouring ya self?

Say "speed dial"...LOL LOL

Comrade ThisIsOurs, okay lets do some mathematics together. We Commonwealth of the Bahamaland's total population of NassauTown happens be no more than 255,000. Throw in all in we capital city Freeport and all 700 other islands, cuz we entire population can only adds on another 105,000 souls. The Numbers would mean 90,000 attending (tourists included) would have made it the most well attended event per percentage of total population ever held by any nation in entire universe. Are you telling me it is possible that the Financial Secretary to the PLP's cabinet, really into believing these far-fetched ticket paying numbers? For this all be true, this PLP cabinet would all have had their numbers pre programmed in the Creole language to people not yet accounted for by immigration authorities? They selling and I ain't trusting what amounts to impossible ticket revenues.

I'm sure "they" believe their numbers. It's only scientifically compiled dept of Statistics figures they question. #BlackRepublicans #scienceBad #jumpindaline

95% of the 90,000 patrons of Bahamas Carnival were barefoot, peasy-head broke-ass Bahamians ....................... where they getting these millions from????????

It is baffling the $60 million the guy said Carnival could generate...how is that even possible? Even the most generous guesstimates is between $2 - $10 million.

Well contributor *ohdrap41* wrote a few days ago that he could personally verify tourist numbers

"*ZNS interviewed two "Columbians" in Freeport who won tickets on facebook. They loved evrything and must be back in "Columbia" by now. Somone said there was an Argentinian in Arawak cay, but he was probably trying to start a fire there.*"

LOL

We are adults. Why are these people telling us fairy tales?