Monday, November 2, 2015
EDITOR, The Tribune.
Everyone is talking and complaining about the Chinese Pointe. But no one seems to care that the marina planned for the Pointe might interfere with the traffic lanes of the cruise ships and by default, our cruise ship trade.
One does not have to be a rocket scientist or psychic to see the potential negative effect. One merely has to stand on Junkanoo Beach and watch the mammoth ships struggle to manoeuvre and turn in our narrow channel.
How long will the ships continue to stop here when the task of moving in and out goes from difficult to impossible? Can our fragile economy absorb the loss?
PAM HEASTIE
Nassau,
October 29, 2015.
Comments
Publius says...
Not to worry and indeed to worry; the cruise ships will begin pulling their volume of ports of call to Nassau as of next year anyway.
Posted 2 November 2015, 5:03 p.m. Suggest removal
paul_vincent_zecchino says...
In a not so subtle way, the chicoms are doing same as they did with Baha Mar, taking control of transportation by impeding it.
Beyond that, am curious to know what evidence you have re cruise lines reducing visits to Nassau.
Can't find anything about it on the Net, but there is substantial evidence that some ambulance chaser with an animus toward cruise ships is spreading fear about the Bahamas in to promote by covert means, travel to Cuba, the last place any sane person wants to visit.
Whatever the local issues, people we know will gladly visit the Bahamas and avoid Cuba until the last of the communist butchers are gone.
Posted 3 November 2015, 8:06 a.m. Suggest removal
Emac says...
Not sure you are right about people being glad to visit the Bahamas to avoid Cuba. Europeans and Canadians have been opting to bypass the Bahamas and travel to Cuba for the past several years. Many people, including Americans themselves, feel that Cuba has been treated unfairly by America. So Bahamians had better get over that "Oh Cuba is communist so the Bahamas will always be better" syndrome. Cuba is by far a better place to visit:The people are friendlier, crime is almost non existent and you get better value for money.
Perhaps it is time to make the Bahamas a communist state if that's what it takes for Bahamians to survive. :-)
Posted 3 November 2015, 9:25 a.m. Suggest removal
asiseeit says...
The Cruise ships are indeed moving on to greener pastures. They have just opened a new terminal in the DR and have big plans for Cuba. The person that is not worried about Cuba is living with their head buried in the sand, what effect will it have if 25% of the tourist that might have come here go to Cuba, it will not be pretty. The Bahamas is dirty, has a major crime problem, with rude people, and costs and arm and a leg, just the spot I want to relax in. NOT!
Posted 3 November 2015, 10:15 a.m. Suggest removal
MonkeeDoo says...
The Cruise Lines have pressed the Cayman Islands very hard to build docks so they don't have to ferry the people ashore. They ( Cayman Governmnet ) are doing it at a cost of 150 Million Dollars. American US dollars - not Chinese US dollars. We better buck up or we will have nothing left soon.
Posted 3 November 2015, 3:39 p.m. Suggest removal
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