> However, Dionisio D’Aguilar, minister for tourism and aviation, said the Government will continue with the "bubble" model as it has seemed to work well for other jurisdictions in the Caribbean.

And all that "bubble" model does is re-inforce the "all-inclusive" model the giant land based hotels and monstrous floating hotels having been perfecting in recent decades. Without government policies that support and encourage meaningful linkages to our national economy, tourism tied to the "all-inclusive" model will only put an ever increasing share of the economic pie on the plates of foreign owned corporations. And that of course will do little to help improve the standard of living and quality of life for the vast majority of Bahamians, while leaving our country's finances and foreign currency reserves in a most dismal state.

I've said it time and time again, both D'Aguilar and Minnis are much too easily manipulated by corrupt foreign actors in the tourism industry, especially the cruise ship industry, who greedily want all of the economic benefits from our country's great natural resources (sun, sand and sea) for themselves and to hell with most Bahamians.

Will the cruise ships also operate in a "bubble"?

Thanks to our corrupt and all too easily manipulated politicians, the cruise ships are pretty much in their own 'all-inclusive' economic 'bubble' as it is. Their unscrupulous operators pocket for themselves just about every dollar spent by their passengers on onboard shopping and entertainment as well as beaching and other activities on the land based properties they control in The Bahamas.

Be careful not to confuse the 'health' bubbles our devious politicians and their foreign pay masters are now cleverly using to justify what will be new 'economic' bubbles on steroids with not even crumbs for us poor Bahamians.

Tribanon, you are totally correct. Perhaps it is a good thing that this Covid came and is showing us that we are surviving without the cruise ships. This is because we actually survived without them anyway because we got next to nothing from them.

More and more Bahamians are waking up and realizing the true value of things and learning that all that glitters isn't gold.

Rest assured though, the government will not allow any new industries to flourish here because they won't be able to control them. This aragonite thing that Lincoln playing with will be quashed right away - no way the government gonna let ordinary Bahamians get their hands on any real amount of money.

If you allow a slave to earn enough money to buy a horse, he will buy one and ride away on it.

Well said, Tribanon. Hear, hear.

Added to what tribanon listed is the port. From the minute they mentioned they were putting tbe junkanoo museum right there first thought was why would any tourist go beyond it. Noone is disputting that it will be nice but It's yet "another" private island. And our cabinet swallowed it hook line and sinker. If they had the vision in their head, "*how can we get tourists interested in visiting every corner of the island*" they would have never approved it. Further what if the junkanoo museum was in Freeport? Not replicated but THE only one. You would have even had a local tourist market flocking to the 2nd city. Because that would have been the only place to get that EXPERIENCE. if they were thinkjng.... if... Yes put some nice eateries and native shops at the port but let the big draws be elsewhere to pull the crowd. Will fish fry become a wasteland? If all my native food experience and entertainment right there why go any further?. But these guys have no vision, no compass, whatevers proposed, they just sit there and bang on the desk and say, yeah and lets let them keep that like that for 25 years, look how nice I look in my suit.

3 years in Rahming (who is one of the better ones) just remember pinewood is flood.

This is so VERY VERY funny. As I predicted, this December thing would be a non-starter. Now they talking about first quarter - LOL !!!! So funny. There won't be no first quarter or second quarter pick up in tourists as long as we have this stupid health visa and other red tape preventing both tourists and Bahamians from moving. We can't even go from island to island.

Now government is just eyeing big money on these freezers they wanna get one for each island - LOL. The money never stops on their side does it?

Get rid of the health visa and get rid of the test requirements, or we can all starve together.

the freezers are dead in the water. Wait till the first one breaks down or needs a part replaced like a lightbulb. Watch and see.

Today's bargain hunter tourists' **first landfall sightins'** Mega cement structures is not the same new world horison experience of a colony unpopoulaces out islands, cays and rocks that Comrade Christoper set eyes upon.
**Shakehead** a quick once for upyeahvote **has be a way found** slow pace down, returning back colony's more innocent, natural's simpler times experiences, a slow twice for not? Amen!