1st you'll need an educated work force pool

... having people prepared to work instead of those looking for a job would help too!

I am old enough to remember back in the day when the Bahamas had construction workers waiting for work, can't say the same today

Here's a game changer:

Kick out the cruise ships and then visitors will have to stay in hotels where Bahamians can be employed to serve them, clean the rooms, make food etc. instead of the foreign workers who serve them on cruise ships!

Why is this so hard? For decades his country has let its #1 industry be taken over by the cruise industry with continued permit approvals for them to expand. Hopefully this is the opportunity to get it right and put the economy back on track, which is really SO simple.

So who is going to finance and build the hotels? And where are they going to build them. Successive governments have failed to invest outside of Nassau when it comes to building the infrastructure that would be required before any significant building of large hotels can be accomplished. Or, are you expecting them to be built in Nassau, where infrastructure (and available land) is already at capacity.

If only it was as simple as you think

You look to the government for everything and have zero faith in the private sector's ability to do anything. For decades now the government has literally prevented the local private sector from working in tandem with foreign investors to build a vibrant, thriving and well diversified economy. Political interference by incompetent greedy "cup in hand" buffoons has held our county and its people back and made us that much more vulnerable to economic shocks.

Morons like you look to the government for everything. Grow up and stop sucking on taxpayers' milk from your baby bottle!

@Mudda....ya hav to drain the swamp. Many attempts for diversifying has few taking grip ....having to deal with critters...snakes...frauds..hoops....little legislation to protect ....no financial ombudsman...etcetc. Surprising always these decades by persons wheeljng, dealing, advising making numerous very good advices as paid employer expert position..even starting back to advising relative on saving newspapers money and despite still having to lend to newspaper ......... Ironic decades when any prospective entrepreneur could quickly get big loan for expensive luxury car than get loan for business....why even had one foreigner banker telling that financial institution is not venture capital and yet intenting to stay and remain as valuable Bahamas status to build....why for decades the Govt and all its its Nation building salaried Govt quasi boards sat on their behinds made economic predatory foreign institutions have programs for their profits giving loans for second hand cars...instead of other sectors..why even govt with regulayor allowing bank it controlled with unusually large potiticians with loans default and bailed out with taxpayers money assets valued much less.....diversification...repeatedly solution but little traction...why even goes back to BARTAD independence gift for farms to take place in Andros but the cows wind up starving on the sides of the road.......unless swamp is drained.......on and on and on...

Or have smaller Bahamian owned and sensibly regulated Viking-sytle cruises within the Bahamas.

Bahamian owned ?

Who ?

The Bay Street Boys are all GONE

No worry we Out Islanders can buy some them Sea Diving Goggles and head Andros for returning back to Sponging.
Why not, If it was once before the colony's leading economic driving force - why not give try again.
Would be made lots easier kick-start, if any one you comrades could search for some **trace of that $1.118 million** put aside back in 2017 by the Inter-American Bank (IDB) for the revival we sponging industry.

forget about a focus on tourism big or small

well not forget but not the singular focus, my argument (again) is for building intellectual capital. Bahamian brains are no different than Asian Caucasian or Indian brains. They just haven't been exercised as much.

Ma Comrade ThisIsours, there could be strong evidence support that the **first and second generation post Independence** - took full advantage but thereafter, it's as if brain's we own went all soursop. It's almost like someone yanked out plug connected their receptacle portal. **Nod once for yeah, Twice for no?**

it take alot of brains to come up with a plan to rob a store in Bahamar. But you see the evidence that the brain needed more exercise when the culprits got caught within a week... or you could be right and it was evidence of the soursop transfirmation

The bottomline is that people need BASIC needs …….. food, water and shelter ……… Just like the Arawaks of old ……….. Forget the 21st Century gimmicks ………. Survival of the Fittest.

Niggers will always be crabs clawing each other down afraid to venture that’s why shit aint moving every plp including Perry than hoard all the money and put country last. Say what you want but Dr. Minnis has been the most honest and care about country first

Phew! You must be smokin' some serious stuff if you believe Minnis puts our country and its people before himself. Yep, totally delusional.