> Carnival had a net income of $3.2
> billion in 2018

#Carnival had $3.8 billion PROFIT, after it had paid all its bills including taxes. Yet this government was paying this cruise line to bring passengers to the Bahamas to enjoy our sand, sun and sea. And this cruise line was still dumping illegal contaminants into out waters, including sewerage and plastics and food wastes causing harm to the environment and threatening the country's fishing industry. And how many cruise lines are there? So why is the country's national debt still climbing when these companies are making $3 plus Billion a year. So lets see, there's the space overhead usage fees, the royalties from sand and salt and aragonite and yet the national debt is increasing at near a Billion a year and the average bahamian cannot afford to keep the lights on, even BPL ain't load shading.

Absolutely John. It is sickening that we are paying a profitable company to come here and pollute our waters. They have absolutely no respect for us or our country. We should make it very clear that if this happens again then they will no longer be able to cruise in our waters AND that they will be fined $20million plus the cost to clean up their spill AND all of the coastlines of every island they use. In fact, they should be made to sponsor beach clean ups and provide the volunteers with shirts which say SOME OF THIS IS CARNIVALS SH*T!

Yes there dumping and polluting was awful and they should have to pay us .However we never paid Carnival to come here !! They pay us a departure tax for every guest they bring here .We collect about 300 million a year in this tax from cruise ship .Now if you are talking about tax concessions for the private islands remember there are other sun ,sand a sea competing for them ,Caymans , Turks ,,etc etc .We make money off every guest they bring through our waters w the per person tax ,plus what they spent on shore puts it over 400 million a year ,,everyone is entitled to their own opinion however everyone can,t just make up their own facts

I'm amazed the US can fine them for crap they do in another country and we don't have anything on our books to fine them. We are a jokey nation.

Carnival will dump its shit in Nassau Harbour ........... and our Government will still do nothing.

They will dump what ever they wish and Mr. Dark Shadows will look the other way and
thump his chest and say how great he is because he has taken plastic bags from shoppers

It is all good for the peoples time voters. They did not even give them duty free washing
machines. so that the rich man in the house of assembly will make more money from his duty free
machines.

What is the difference between Rubis dumping diesel in Marathon ......... and Carnival dumping shit in our waters????????? ......... Ask the politicians to judge this for WE - THE PEOPLE.

Comrade Sheepee, the Imperialists red shirts and PLP have monopoly backaroo on always blame each others as their respective way justify their own bad governing ways, yes, no.....

$20 million is a mere pittance of the costs Carnival would incur each and every year if it properly disposed of its sewerage waste and contaminants through the much more costly required processes and procedures.

It's all too obvious Carnival was able to excert great political pressure on U.S. District Court Judge Patricia Sietz through its 'funding' of the 'right' corrupt politicians in the U.S. By her ruling and the relatively small fine she imposed, Judge Sietz has effectively declared that it's okay for cuise ships to treat our Bahamian seas like one big toilet!

And there would certainly seem to be a quid pro quo for Minnis, D'Aguilar and Carl Bethel to all turn a blind eye to Carnival Shiiting all over the Bahamian people!

If proper sewerage and contaminant discharge facilities are required at out ports to prevent illegal dumping in our pristine waters, then the main cruise ship industry companies should be heavily taxed by the Bahamian government to pay for such facilities. It's utterly absurd that we currently pay Carnival a fee per passenger for the privilege of their passengers getting to have their shiit float about in our sea currents. Effective immediately, we should, as an absolute minimum stop paying all fees of any kind to these major poluters. If they want to take their shiit and dump it on other countries, so be it. We will be much better off in the long run.

And since the judgment has already been made against Carnival this government can impose fines based on that judgment precedent. But no, w they hug them in the sunshine and give them their own private port to do more dumping.

Lest you comrade bloggers urges too strong willed be levying fines does forget some important stuff, yes, OK......... likes remembering where hell did the October 2015 paid $1.5 million fine go that had been levied against Bahamaland Telecommunications Company (BTC) by the Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA), yes, no.................