Get the cruise ship companies like Carnival, Royal-Caribbean and Norwegian to arrange and pay for the fix. It was afterall the force of the huge water displacements attributable to their gigantic floating hotels moving in and out of the harbour that caused the weakening and eventual breach of the breakwater barrier. Fair is fair. Bahamian taxpayers should not be saddled with this cost when these cruise ship companies have contributed so little to our economy in relation to the environmental damage and pollution they cause and the enormous profits they have enjoyed from the use of our country.

And why does the IDB continue to put its lending teats (tits) to the sucking lips of our corrupt politicians?!

tribanon, you must be extremely young and lacking in the art of research. You would not remember the size of cruise ships between the time of construction of the breakwater and the time of the breach. We did not have the mega ships at that time - and it was a weather condition that tumbled the breakwater. Admittedly things are very different now, I would like for us to do like Key West and ban the mega ships and put in place a size limit to the ships in port with the demitting of passengers to be held at a reasonably controlled level. We need quality visitors - not quantity.

The breaker barrier was weakened by the incredible forces from the huge amounts of displaced water by passing cruise ships over many years. The breached part of the barrier just happened to be the weakest point at the time of the storm due to the boulders having shifted earlier from their original positions. And I can only wish I were as young as you think I am.

If Key West saw the wisdom in kicking our large cruise ships we should too!

And what you gonna do if the cruise companies decide to bypass us? It's not like there is a lack of islands for cruise ships to visit.

Are you kidding?! What we really need are stop-over tourists who arrive by air, stay at our hotels and resorts and quite often shop and dine at non-hotel operated business establishments around our country. They each spend on average 20 times what the sea arrival visitor spends. And in case you haven't noticed, the very greedy and unscrupulous cruise ship companies have been allowed by our corrupt politicians to move to the all-inclusive model on land for their passengers. We get stuck with the costs of their smoke stack pollution and irreparable damage to our seabeds, not to mention the shiit and contaminants they dump into our seas.

Totally true. Quicker we kick them out the better. Should have happened years ago.

For short trips they need to stop abroad to avoid US regulation. And they largely can not go to Cuba and they can't go to the Turks as their waters are too shallow. So people will have to just visit us by air and stay in hotels which is much much better for us. In the long run if all islands kick them out following Key West we can be rid of them completely, this is what island wide groups like CARICOM are supposed to be able to co-ordinate.

So tribanon in essence you are saying the cruise ships caused the damage to the break water, and not the past storms Cruise ship Wave penetration in the harbour do not cause damage to Junkanoo beach, so how can the cruise ships be blamed for the damages. . While i agree that the cruise ship companies should help pay for repaires, APD and the government should bear the brunt of the cost. with the cruise ship companies being slapped with an environmental fee for all the damage they cause in our waters daily

Yes, I'm saying the cruiseship traffic over many years prior to the storm was indeed the root cause of the breach. The storm was merely the straw that finally broke the camel's already weakened back at its weakest point.

This damage was done in the early nineties by the record storm surge that brought water up on Bay Street and destroyed homes along West Bay Street. It has sat there in that dilapidated state, as one of the first sights visitors see upon arrival into the harbour, for four terms of FNM and two of PLP governments. Discgraceful!
One would have thought that this repair would have coincided with the Arawak Port Development project or the ongoing Port and Bay Street Development projects. Arawak Port is making millions on ships entering the Harbour and should be made to contribute. As for government's failure to do anything for almost thirty years? What else is new?

The ocean surge of 1992 is correct.

But it was not the root cause of the breach. It was merely the straw that finally broke the camel's already weakened back.

I blame this on the pirates from back in Woodes Rogers days. They should have built a good a proper breakwater from that time. Now we are saddled with this expense. Surely there are some descendants of those pirates?

Let's do a genealogy search and find out who they are, and tax them in particular. My belief on the matter is that they owe us reparations for the failure of their ancestors to foresee and protect our tourism industry. They were boaters and should have known better.

Let's start a campaign to get this done. #taxthepiratekids

Bravo! Yes, a thorough genealogical search must be conducted, to identify and locate all descendants of Blackbeard the Pirate, Bluebeard, Fred Beard, and Popeye the Sailor Man.

Tax them, assess, them, fine them and then keelhaul them until they cough up every last tuppence and florin to fund the new wall.

Thanks for the great chuckle. As a regular visitor to Nassau, I well recall when the breakwaters and Arawak Cay were constructed. For all we know, Jimmy Hoffa's buried beneath!

All the best.

Don't worry...many of us who now have a much clearer picture of what's been going on since 1973 are working full-time on expelling the new breed of pirates who think they can continue to prey on us with impunity. LOL

**Not a single point herein below is made-up stuff!**
Why are some still not grasping as to why in wake of all the COVID financial pressures with now **done more than 600 in the hospital's morgue,** why PopoulacesOrdinary at large POAL goin' sees it as an **an insult to reason and logic** each time another **for-profit** player be's positioning be jumpin' to the front line likes empty pockets beggars lookin' financial handouts?
**Shakehead** once for Yeah could've thought Papa Hupert's redcoats' regime had done filled their pockets more than sufficiently, Twice for Not so when the Port Authority on another out island still operating under the 1950's Hawksbill Creek Agreement sought out for Colony's PopoulacesPurse to repair their corporate-owned airport's damages caused by HurricaneDorian?