"*The corporate defendant here ignored the court, choosing instead to thwart the compliance plan that was put in place to protect our environment. As this probation violation proceeding demonstrates, the government will not tolerate defendant’s blatant violation of court orders.*

A 40m fine for dumping in OUR waters would pay for the baseball stadium.

That was paid to the US government. We do not have the balls to charge them.

Yeah I know. Was saying if we had proper controls, if we didn't let them do whatever they want it would pay for a baseball stadium. Its laughable really our response to this was to enact legislation to say absolutely positively under no circumstances would dumping be allowed... unless they asked. And yiu can imagine how that conversation would go... *tuition at Stanford is expensive*... 4wks later:... *yes we knew they dumped they were given permission the law allows it*

When you consider the immense and massive tonnage of refuse, contaminants and shiit dumped by Carnival in our territorial waters over many decades, our government could easily justify a fine against Carnival well over $100 million. But even this would not stop Carnival from continuing to abuse our environment in the most terrible of ways. They really need to be banned from our seas, period. The same applies to Royal Caribbean.

The bilge and scupper systems on these gargantuan filthy floating hotels have over the decades poisoned the waters around Nassau Harbour and Arawak Cay. This is the reason why every summer in recent years we have had to deal with serious health issues arising from people eating poisonous conch that were kept alive in the seawater in these areas.

Tribanon I guess you'll advocate for these million dollar yachts that sail in and out of Albany, Lyford Cay, Old Fort Bay & Paradise Island to banned as well.

ZZZZZzzzzzz.....

Should have been at least $30million fine paid to The Bahamas government. Carnival is a blatant and repeat offender who app so does not intend to mend its ways. The benefits of breaking the laws far outweigh the fines levied against Carnival, when they are caught and fined. And local fishermen have confirmed that the quality of all seafood ,including conch and lobster, had improved tremendously during the two year absence of crud ships.

the ahamas has probably more lawyers per capita than anywhere else in the world. but it is not a real place

Drop in the bucket. Carnival should pay 100,000 million for such an atrocious crime. They intentionally dumped garbage in our waters. Our waters is our bloodline . You destroy our bloodline, you destroy a country.

A Bahamian registered ship gets fine by a foreign government for dumping in Bahamian waters and the Bahamian government does not get 5 cents? Can not make this up.

Bingo!

Is there anyone monitoring what the cruise lines are doing around their private islands throughout the Bahamas?