A sensible cautionary note.

I think he is being overly optimistic. Many people will be unwilling to fly, unless they have to, until there is a vaccine. That likely will be more than a year. Cruise ships? Forget it.

Thanksgiving? I don’t think so. Next Easter? Well ... maybe.

I think there are people who will want to change scenery after being confined. The question is how many and can we assure their safety

**A top very credible banking executive like Comrade Gowon or not it's a much too optimistic** plan for a rushed six months time period rebound colony's economy when eighty percent economy will be predicated upon how quickly air and sea tourism travel rebounds and we could be talking a bare minimum 12 months to 36 months if ever to meet just rooms breakeven operational costs colony's major hotels.
**Even if the government eased up on ban to allow all stores and businesses to reopen today** they will be lucky to operate at the 35 percent pre coronavirus levels and also afford to hire staff, pay their past due and current bills until PopoulacesOdinary have returned back and begun to earn the range salaries they had previously enjoyed and first played catchup on stacks unpaid bills. **Thirty percent of stores and businesses will not make it across other side coronaviruses. Thousands PopoulacesOrdinary will forever lose their workplace private extended health car insurance and pensions.**
The coronavirus will forever change how vacationing moods and demands millions and if they're going be comfortable to travel by air and, or sea. Nod once for yeah, twice for no?

Overly optimistic, cruise ships alone may be a year in dry docks, in addition, this pandemic is hardly been subdued

“Man makes plans . . . and God laughs.”

While he is sayin 6 months, the Ministry of Health is preparing more beds for Corona patients. New infections in the US continue to be in the thousands and several thousand deaths yesterday . So it may be end of summer even before the ‘all clear’ for the Bahamas alone is declared . And that is the danger for persons who are taking out new loans to ‘save’ their businesses. In the US, for example, many of these loans have been consumed even before the businesses have been allowed to reopen. So by the time they do, they will be facing double or even triple the debt. Restaurants and bars are being told to pay staff and rent. But can you imagine paying 6 months of staff and rent? What you doing is artificially keeping these things inflated. In six months the lease may be worth half of what it is now so when the business does reopen it is still not viable because all the businesses around it are paying half the overhead, including staff and rent, and are not saddled with an oversized loan. And as Warren Buffet would say, stay debt free as much as possible, it not completely .

This sounds about right, although many people are still wanting to travel here. It doesn't put a complete damper on tourism with a solid controlled plan for how tourism can proceed, as locals are discussing now. We have a viable plan to proceed that will help small business and locals sustain, however the government isn't being optimistic enough. They tend to slow down Process and evolution of the Bahamas by sticking to old and outdated strategy that simply doesn't work for today's economy and generation of people. The people have the answers, the government just feels too bougie to listen to them, especially the women.

The reality is the pandemic is just beginning in The Bahamas.
And we're talking about opening up for business?
A laudatory goal, but aren't we putting the cart before the horse?
If all you have is a hammer, everything else starts to look like a nail.
Spend your whole day, everyday around made up numbers and loans, and that's all there is, I suppose.
Hopefully the warm weather will knock this down.
As far as social distancing, our government seems to want to gather as many people in one place as possible. I have a hard time understanding their thought process, if there is one.
How do you define the term reactionary?

Gowan Bowe is masquerading as a financial expert ………. but he is just a closet 2022 candidate for the PLP …………. He is secretly hoping that Minnis dem mess up, anyway.

*Repost:*

Bowe used to be about as FNM as they come; but today, like so many of us, he probably has as much disdain for the Minnis-led FNM government as he has always had for any Pindling or Christie-led PLP government. Bowe does admittedly have one significant attribute in common with most politicians though. He just loves to hear himself talk....almost as much as I enjoy posting comments to this website!

Mr. Bowe stands correctly, the Bahamas needs to re-open by May 1st. People will be less reluctant to fly to other colder countries such as Europe. The hotel industry will take a major hit in the Bahamas economy.

Is the government able to support the Bahamian people financially in the next 6 months to 1 year?

If not, Bahamian economy will drop. So! economy needs to re-open as long as people continue to follow the social distancing guidelines. The United States is re-opening business and more. Trying to get people back to work.