Yep we need an active Government instead of a reactive one!

bey they ein even good at reacting, all they know how to do is throw up smoke and mirrors

so in a couple days the PLP has done what they couldn't do since the 80's? really i ain't holding my breath on this one I say let the legal operators enforce it themselves = nassau getting like the family islands if you don't do it yourself it ain't gonna get done

The jet ski's need policing in the worst possible way. It is well known that a few sell drugs and it is also well known that a few molest women. they also ride like complete idiots, close to other boats, the shore and docks at breakneck speed. Their machines are not well kept, I know as I have towed a number of tourist in to the beach after they have broken down. The entire industry is just shady!

"Mrs. Hanna Martin said her ministry has now formed a committee comprised of licensed water sports operators to fix the problems plaguing the industry." Stop delegating lazy woman and put policies in place for the operators. Jezuz! You mean to tell me that this wutless government cannot get an enforcement team, made up of defenses force officers to police these guys? How the hell can you leave it up to the watersports association to deal with this problem. Next thing you will have vigilantes trying to resolve the problem on their own and even worst Bahamians fighting with each other in front of tourists. I mean...This woman is the worst! She should never, ever run for public office again! She certainly doesn't have any traits from her father or mother.

These machines must be banned. I would like an AK47 but I am not allowed to. Give owners 180 days to get rid of them and never allow them into the country.

And we should have an overwhelmingly popular revolution to remove them.

In 2012, DNA managed to siphon off enough votes to give the PLP a 29/9 victory. IF you take all the DNA votes and put them in the FNM column (lets be honest, ain't no PLP voting for DNA) IF all those votes went to FNM, the result would have been FNM 24 - PLP 14. If Bran runs a full slate in the next election (38 candidates) then PGC gets an easy win. PLP FOREVER....get used to it!

Maybe we needs to go to Spanish Wells, North Abaco or long Island to recruit jet ski operators. Then that will solve the problem.. Maybe Ed fields can tell the nation how many of his staff has been assaulted by visitors: spit on, slapped, kicked and other wise physically assaulted. And how many property damage has been done. Do they seek to ban these people from Atlantis, or Paradise Island or the Bahamas? where is uncle Tom? Then lets talk about the carnival Ed fields is administratively active in importing to the Bahamas. Carnivals are know to attract pimps, prostitutes, pick pockets drug heads, perverts and parasites. We have our problems in the Bahamas, yes but we don't need to castigate every Bahamian and deem them unfit to interact with the world.

You have a point but the problem with this type of reasoning is, it has no weight. "life isn't fair", a friend said that to me long ago when I complained about bias on the job, "if you start off with that premise you will do better". Don't expect the Americans to treat us "fairly" it will never happen. Just do better so they have nothing to say.

When Black soldiers claim they are treated better as POW than they are treated as citizens in their own country; that speaks volumes. Say it ain't so.

Exactly my point, life isn't fair and sometimes it's downright ugly. Your reaction to it is altogether something else

AMERICA is a GREAT country! But that portion of the US y'all fear so much no longer has the power they think they have. Anything you need from the US can be bought on line for 1/3 the price it costs in the US and secondly most of them who putting out the advisory and who they sending it to will never visit the Bahamad (at least in a way it benefits the country)any way. Finally what ever happened to "innocent until proven guilty"? One claim against a young Bahamian makes Erry other negro a dudpect? Pee on that!

If the US had no power, we wouldn't be discussing this story.

There's the mindset that's set us back decades. If it were happening on US soil every country would do what they did. We included!
Facts man. Tourism is our bread and butter and this nonsense been ;happening for far too long!
And when we start growing our own food, have cattle, produce milk and everything else we need then you can start yapp'n about the US. Until then you best open your eyes.

Whoever wrote the headline summed up the entire saga. "Jet Ski Operators To Take Action **AFTER** Alert".

The minister sending the fox into the hen house to root out his friends somehow does not make me feel all warm and fuzzy.

There is no way for anyone to know a "licensed" jet ski from one not licensed. My God we can't even identify vehicles on the road. Nor is anything ever done about the unlicensed one if found by accident. If people with licensed guns wandered around town with them how would anyone know except they show the stamp on the license and you compare the serial number on the gun and certificate. These craft have got to be outlawed. They are impossible to police.