I predicted that the Robinette Biden administration would be a disaster for the Bahamas. Now we have the first measure being put in place and this is just a start of what’s to come. Hotels understand this and are closing again. Where are the fools who supported him?

Don't worry they can just flee to the US with Haitians, Dominicans, Cubans and everyone else. Open borders under Biden, until the US collapses into complete ruin.

The shrinkage in tourism industry has literally nothing to do with Biden. You 2 have to be the same person it can be two of y'all.

In 2016 Pamela Musgrove got into a very good discussion with Obie Wilchombe on our then tourism numbers. It was clear Mr Wilchombe didn't have a clue who Ms Musgrove was, repeatedly trying to belittle her points. What she was trying to show him from waaayyy back in **2016**, was that Tourism was waning. The numbers were still looked good but the return was not, the client was changing, the number of overnight visitors was decreasing and GDP impact lessened.

In 2018 numerous persons were begging the govt to, instead of increasing VAT and looking for more ways to tax the people, look at ways to grow the economy. Zhivargo Laing went on a rampage telling us that 1% growth was by definition "growth" so the economy was indeed growing, Tourism was just fine as it supported us fir decades and noone calling for growth could suggest any viable alternatives to it.

Here we are in the COVID aftermath with everyone including the govt acknowledging that growth **was** dismal, COVID just made things worse, and desperately looking for answers for "growth". If govt would just be inclusive and stop listening to persons who tell them what they want to hear we could move light years ahead. A few years ago Donovan Moxey told them don't waste time training Bahamians in tech, itll tske too long, bring in Indians. And here we are.

You do know that it is the Trump administration that has put that in place right? Last time i check he is still the President. Don't try to blame Biden for something he has no part in. Let's be factual.

Jor Biden has issued a ‘One Hundred Day Challenge.’ Not just to vaccinate as many Americans as possible, but to get everyone to wear a mask. The challenge will also involve the discouraging of large gatherings, social distancing and frequent hand washing and sanitizer. With the US having about 1/3 of the COVID-19 cases and deaths, the world cannot recover until that country (USA) brings its cases under control.

Good Luck getting the USA under control with COVID when you have Open Borders under Biden to let anyone with COVID in 😂...they can just walk across the border and spread it freely. Already a caravan of 9,000+ are due to cross the southern border on inauguration day. They've demanded Biden keep his promises of citizenship and free money, that's just his first day. Expect illegal immigration to the US to 100X and that means more COVID coming our way too as the usual suspects take the Bahamian route to get to America.

Challenge sounds so good.....who the hell wants to wear a mask all day for 100 days?...just the start so we can get used to taking orders. Remember the TWO WEEKS LOCKDOWN last March...that is all they asked for and we all complied without a beep. I know it is Biden is asking for this like President Trump asked for two weeks and this country followed like sheep.

More bad news from the Biden administration:

"Biden poised to undo Trump directive lifting travel ban on most of Europe and Brazil"

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news…

As well he should. It is clearly the right decision.

Darrin Woods is another lost soul way out of his depth trying to make sense of the tourism industry with absolutely no hands on experience at the wholesale travel level!

Contrary to Mr. Woods's statement "It seems like the deck is being stacked against us right now". Every competing destination in the region has the exact same obstacles and play by the same rules.

The Bahamas saw a steady decrease in tourism compared to the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Cuba, Panama, Haiti, Barbados, and virtually all other regional competing resort destinations due to successive governments' "firsthand" ignorance of tourism, coupled with a pigheaded inability to listen to front line industry professionals with decades of hands-on experience.

Successive governments were repeatedly warned loudly for decades that our tourism product was losing its appeal with the loss of every native show, night club, duty-free shopping, Bay Street is a disgrace, the inner city over the hill is filthy, jet ski operators and other front line vendors are among some of the most unpolished individuals the country has to offer, etc, etc. ect,.

After 5 decades of Ministers of tourism, **NOT ONE** can identify an initiative implemented by them that improved the tourism product and visitor experience!

A simple 1975 to 2020 comparison of tourism development between Nassau, Ft. Lauderdale, and Key West shows the frightening remarkable level of ineptitude of successive governments.

Last week the Candian government reported despite COVID-19 recommendations of essential travel only, large numbers of Candians continue overflying the Bahamas to destinations of Jamaica, Mexico, The Dominican Republic, and Haiti.

Ironically, all these destinations offer deep cultural experiences and offer relaxed prohibition laws on marijuana use.

The politicians refused to listen, sat on their hands, stood in Parliament talking bullshyt, cracking jokes, legislating for their own personal gain, and allowed the tourism product to go to hell. Now we find ourselves standing around pointing fingers and making excuses about why we have such dismal tourism arrivals.

What are the side affects of this vaccine?

LOL at the Biden rhetoric. Tourism was already waning before the pandemic. COVID just made it clear to everyone what a precarious position that we were in. Is it recoverable? Only if we had some sensible people in government who were not afraid to act to diversify the economy including diversifying tourism. But we don't have any of those kinds of politicians.

As far as the caravan of refugees from Honduras is concerned, the Al Jazeera network was reporting this morning that the Guatemalan military is in the process of blocking the highway and sending them back to Honduras by bus.