If I am not mistaken the SHIPS are registered in the Bahamas, NOT their human cargo! A person does not lose their nationality just because they traveled away from home. Countries have a duty to their citizens and the Bahamas has to push back on this!!

If I am not mistaken the BAHAMAS wants to have them registered/flagged here, but NOT be responsible for them.

... again the SHIPS are registered, that has nothing to do with the people on the ship who are not crew. The ships should not be allowed to go into foreign ports that will not accept them, but the citizens (passengers) should be repatriated to their country of origin by any number of means!

OK you really ready to receive (say) 500 or so Coronavirus patients here?

We have thousands of IBC foreign companies registered here too. That doesn't give them any right to bring their employees here to work or to carry on business in The Bahamas. Registration is not citizenship. This is an outrageous and illogical decision by the US.

Spot on!

And to add insult to injury, these states of the US with seaports, i.e. Florida, Georgia and South Carolina, along with the US Coast Guard for the Southeastern US, are all claiming they don't have the resources to cope with this problem of persons infected with Covid-19 stranded at sea, yet they would have the world believe the Bahamas has adequate resources to contain the risks and treat the very ill. If Minnis and D'Aguilar assume any responsibility for the people on these ships, after they have been rejected by all of America, then we know full well that our elected officials don't give a damn about the safety and well-being of Bahamians.

Interesting. We want all the benefits of having these ships register in The Bahamas. But, not any of the responsibilities. Anything new here to see?

@BahamaPundit above is right on this one. If a ship was registered in the US and carrying a group of terrorists with a detonable atomic bomb, you can be rest assured it would not be allowed to dock at any US seaport. Minnis and D'Aguilar need to recognize, as the US apparently does, that the stranded people on those ships infected with the Red China Virus are the equivalent of a detonable atomic bomb that could easily spread the virus and at the same time wipe out a fragile healthcare system. And I can't think of a more fragile healthcare system than the one our small nation has right now.

To reiterate, If Minnis and D'Aguilar assume any responsibility for the people on these ships, after they have been rejected by all of America, then we know full well that our elected officials don't give a damn about the safety and well-being of Bahamians.

Are the people on the ships USA citizens? If so how can they turn away their own
people?

Kinda like how the border here in the Bahamas is closed to Bahamians. BTW it is against United Nations Human Rights law -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement

same way we blocked ours.

Which is precisely the reason we cannot accept these ships being in our territorial waters or give refuge to their foreign crew and other persons on board them who are either known to be infected by the Red China Virus or are likely infected by it but not yet showing symptoms.

We would be "idiots in the FIRST degree" to agree to bring sick cruise ship passengers to our MUCH more limited health resources in The Bahamas...

There are already two populations in colony. The **regulated 400,000 and the unregulated 500,000.** How are we to manage **another 50,000 stranded at sea** cruise ships passengers with suspect ill-health!
**Shouldn't the deep pocks** cruise ships owners **corporate greed** not bear great financial responsibility for allowing passengers to continue boarding their ships long after the dangers virus had become known around entire globe?
Also, the potential extra financial strain placed upon government's health care system and Toilet's-papers supplies by the **thousands Work Permit Nationals** remaining idle in country although the company employed with is now closed for period stretching into month August.
These are all robust logistic issues be talked about among comrades PopoulacesOrdinary. Nod once for yeah, twice for no?

I bet carnival is re-evaluating the Freeport deal because of denial.

There are private cruise islands where they can dock. If they dock elsewhere, they should stay on board. If they come off, they have to be transported with minimal contact to a closed hotel. All must wear masks if not full coverings disembarking. At least we'll have evacuation cruises parked for storm season if need be.

Chances are we are going to lose the registry because of this, however, it was crazy of FL to expect our hospitals to absorb the patients.

The benefits of registration comes with a price The Bahamas should help these people and further the same measure in place to isolate the Bahamas have two big empty hotels lots of room fly en cuba doctors

Florida allowing ships to dock off shore. U s residents allowed to disembark and those who are sick are taken to hospitals. Foreigners are to be booked on charter flights and taken back to their home country.

Fake news?

**Prepare Homeland's Royal Navy's fleet war ships!**
Seems colony's seas are to become more busy than just cruise ships adrift as the US begins flex its muscle by dispatching US Battleships, Destroyers, Aircraft Carriers and Submarines to fight what Trump has defined as an anti-drug crackdown in the Caribbean to deal with what he called a **growing threat.**
Ma comrades, if you should find yourselves out on colony's high seas - just be prepared duck. Can't make this crazy sh#t up. Just, **can't.** Nod once for yeah, twice for no?