Carnival paid millions and millions of dollars to the State of Florida in fines and penalties for repeat offenses in dumping hazardous contaminants and shiit in our territorial waters, but has not paid The Bahamas one red cent towards restitution. And just about every resident of The Bahamas with a private pilot's license who has been flying on a fairly regular basis over the last 30+ years has witnessed countless instances of these illegal discharges into our waters.

And just ask any of the retired and current pilots of Bahamasair for corroboration of the many illegal discharges by these cruise ships while they sail between The Bahamas and South Florida.

These facts alone should tell us all something about the extent to which the corrupt and very remorseless cruise ship industry now 'own' our corrupt and incompetent political ruling class, whether they be of the FNM or PLP persuasion.

The corrupt cruise ship industry is an economic and polution burden our nation can no longer afford to bear. We are paying a dear price for not having long ago pivoted away from sea arrival visitors to air arrival visitors. Our dumb arse incompetent elected officials have never understood that these monstrous floating hotels are actually our most ruthless competitors in the tourism industry. The "all-for-them" business model of the cruise ship owners and operators literally sucked the life blood out of Downtown Nassau many years before the pandemic came along. Wake up Bahamians!

Number one priority is the environment and compliance?!?!?!?!? That is a bold face LIE. As a publicly traded company, their number one priority is increasing their shareholder's value and increasing the stock price of the stock. All other priorities fall way, way down on the list after profits, revenue, and increasing the share price of the stock. Saying that the environment is priority number one is the farthest thing from the truth!!!!!!

I'd position Carnival Cruise Line President Comrade Sister Christine Duffy saying the corporation’s **“number one priority”** is compliance and care for **duh environment,** right out there cruising alongside denials of **former KGB intelligence officer, Comrade Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin's** $1 billion 459ft Mega Superyacht, **has not altered its course be heading into UK Colonys' territorial seawaters,** ― Yes?

This Woman should resign out of respect for the Bahamian People if the Environment is truly Carnival’s first and foremost priority … but she won’t as Carnival is the “worst of the worst”, so instead our Penalty should be settlement of our National Debt, failing which a complete Ban of ALL Carnival “Group” (ie. all Brands) Ships from our territorial waters … something tells me we might finally be debt free!

Good article about cruise ship pollution:

https://www.geekyexplorer.com/cruise-sh…

Thanks

The history of the cruise lines action/inaction coupled with that of the government of the Bahamas has been one of greed and complacency.
We’re nothing more than dumping grounds, and the overeagerness of our corrupt officials as they line up at this trough an embarrassment that dogs every attempt to turn the tide of the disaster we’ve created.
Every new ‘Act’, committee, and department have proven to be just a means to mire any good faith efforts by kicking every issue down an endless road of bureaucracy and made instantly redundant by refusing to grant any of these waystations the teeth, the power to fulfill their so called mission.
We continue to kill our golden goose and we allow our egos to be stroked by those who blame everyone but ourselves.