We are doomed under Minnis.

**Yesterday, Haigang Yin, a top Chinese embassy official, welcomed the impending end of the travel ban. “The epidemic has totally ended in China,” he said. “I believe it’s safe to allow Chinese tourists or visitors to come to this country. **

Well said, Minnis is back to listening to his Chinese Communist Masters, only a complete idiot would dare open borders to the U.S, let alone Red China where the deadly Chinese virus originated from, who on earth would believe that China has taken care of the virus. Minnis needs to do all of us a favor and resign and go into a retirement home, it seems as if his peanut sized brain has turned into mush due to him being drunk from power!

Bringing the Chinese back into this country along with the citizens from the U.S is a big mistake, Minnis will have alot of deaths in his hands because he's an incompetent buffoon

A person of average intelligence would be embarrassed to make such doltish and shortsighted decisions. Maybe he doesn't know that he does not get to decide who will be affected. On the other hand this may be another way to have new political leaders emerge!

The Colony is among **213** countries that report their official new virus counters. Surprisingly, The Colony out of the **213,** seems to be at a standstill, and maybe all alone, with **zero new cases** to report. Once for Yeah, Twice for No?

One minute Minnis need to open up the country, covid is a hoax... the next week, Minnis letting people in, he crazy aye....the mob is fickle.

The mob may be fickle but at least they're not certifiably looney like Minnis and the likes of his few supporters like you.

Seems the politicians are now just trying to justify their existence! “Behave“ they say - wow what are we children?!. Puppets to the red state and others -yes for sure.

The comments under this article are nonsensical at best. If we’re accepting tourists from the world leader in COVID-19 cases and deaths (the U.S), a country with a federal government doing virtually nothing to slow the spread, why would we not accept tourists from China or any other country? Especially when they’re for the most part succeeding in bending the curve in their respective countries? Think Bahamas, think.

...we should not be accepting tourists from any country until we have well established protocols for pre-testing or rapid kit testing here. China has been fudging numbers and research from the very beginning!

Secondly, if we import large numbers of people who may be potentially positive that also severely impacts health care reserves in this country. Has the ministry even procured additional supplies in anticipation of a surge in cases? Probably not and with global shortages in masks and everything else how will we cope?

I fully agree with your POV. Ideally, we should remained closed like the Cayman Islands until we have the rapid testing and health care infrastructure in place to deal with a possible surge. But you and I know after decades of poor governance and wasteful spending, we’re not financially stable enough to last that long without dire consequences.
My point was it makes no sense to freak out about accepting visitors from China or European countries. If there’s once place we should be making noise about, it’s the US.

@My2Cents: The very sinister and most evil Communist Party of China isn't paying you enough for your dribble because it's not even worth 2 cents.

Sir ... the word is “drivel,” not “dribble.” “Dribble” is what basketball players do with a basketball. Otherwise, I’ll not argue with what you say ... 😎

It's also what babies do!

It's also what babies do ;-)

LOL. Keep trafficking in conspiracy theories and deluding yourself into thinking the US under grossly incompetent Trump is in better condition than China as it relates to COVID-19.

The Communist Chinese fabricate numbers and lied since the release of the virus from their country in December 2019.
The CCP wants to enter this county to 1) Buy and or long term lease more Bahamian land 2) Spy on the US. 3) Sneak into US either legally or illegally

The Bahamas was made sterile, minimal deaths from the virus, but at the cost of a devastated economy. Any viruses, flus, colds, ect from outside visitors will spread though out this population who quarantined for so long and diminished their immune system response.

Stay strong Bahamas.

government officials , make your best decisions. whatever you decide, I agree with. there is no wrong decision only a decision to keep Bahamians safe. That is the best we can do.

Keeping Bahamian safe right now, especially given the Covid-19 flare up in states like Florida, Texas and Arizona, just to name a few, means keeping our borders closed to all travellers from North America and of course from the constantly lying Red China.