PR...not that they aren’t planning on full steam ahead, but I doubt 130 mil is sufficient capital to start and complete.

So when will the offering be open to all Bahamians, and not the selected few?

The cruise industry isn't going anywhere. The current players have raised impressive capital, but even if they were to seek bankruptcy protection, the industry itself will survive. Smaller ships would be a net positive to the port development.

a promise is a comfort to a fool. so many hands will have to be greased to get this done and the people whom should benefit from it won't. Only the politicians in the Bahamas can legally insider trade and get away with it. The politicians , there sweethearts , friends and families will benefit from the top jobs and under the table contracts , not the masses. Again, quite disturbing.

One only has to read recent articles in the business sections of The Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times to understand that large scale leisure travel in the over-sized floating hotels will likely go the way of the extinct dinosaurs. The CDC and other health organizations have already accepted the basic fact that these mammoth passenger cruise ships are impossible to keep clean and are therefore the ideal breeding and spreading ground for all sorts of harmful viruses, including the deadly pathogen Covid-19. Only foolish investors, including certain foolish governments, are attempting to keep the cruise ship industry afloat. But there simply aren't enough foolish investors out there who will be willing to keep throwing good money after bad money in an effort to achieve the impossible task of keeping this industry afloat going forward.

Even many of the largest commercial airlines will be lucky to survive Covid-19 given the very costly transformational changes they will forced to undergo. The permanent loss of most business travellers is going to make airfares prohibitively expensive for the few remaining leisure passengers who will not be willing to fly to their vacation destinations anytime soon.

Except the Virus won't be with us for more than a year. This isn't our first pandemic. What happens when its gone and people want to say, I don't know, take an affordable cruise to the Bahamas? Perhaps it makes sense to plan for that day and build in the meantime? Just a thought.

The cat is out the bag with these Communist China bio-engineered viruses and the havoc they can wreak on western democracies and capitalism. Lots of people in confined spaces is going to be a thing of the past forevermore. There will be no immunity to the lab created viruses to come, which will be increasingly targeted by their sinister creators to individuals other than the elderly and those with underlying medical conditions.

It's an entirely new world now. And the Bahamas can ill-afford to keep all of its eggs in the tourism basket, especially when you consider the lowly contribution the cruise ship industry has been making to our economy and the Bahamian way of life for decades. We were better off decades ago without the gargantuan floating hotels of today loaded with their invisible filth that creates the perfect environment for harmful and deadly pathogens.

Scientists need to be scrambling to develop an effective vaccine against the **Bay Street Gold Rush-20.**
Begin with trials on the comrade offsprings UBP's, **and the being newly minted red coats well-connected Bay Street Boys.**
Yet thousands PopoulacesOrdinary at large POAL are daily being left behind to hustle **under the threat of imprisonment** for a day's single meal. Nod once for Yeah, Twice for No?

The US saw their biggest surge in Corona cases yesterday than since the pandemic began. NY and other states plan to quarantine or limit visitors from hit spits states like Florida and Texas. The highest number of cases are now among the 29-30 age group who are going out to bars and getting in crowded areas, not wearing masks and not practicing soci distancing. Health experts are concerned as cloud of Sarrah dust moves across the US along with an Artic heat wave as it may cause respiratory problems and make some people more susceptible to Corona

Might as well have stated to have it ready for the boom once people start traveling again.