Need a manual for bus drivers and car drivers, aslo. Need a code of conduct for preist , pastors, policemen and women, teachers whom sleep with students, politicians whim look out for themselves, family , friends and lovers , and the beat goes on. We all need to go to the priests and pastors to hear the good word.

Oh, a safety manual, that is sure to solve the problem!

🤣.....😂 Yeah, right!

Like these fella's can read. LOL. Better to get Ice Cube to make a tiktok video on this if you want our youth to have any interest in it.
Maybe Phil Stubbs can put it in a song??
Other than that, this manual is as useful as cheap toilet paper.

**Another manual**?

Letter to the Tribune August 2016 by "Concerned Vistors"

*WE ARE lucky enough to have visited The Bahamas many times over the years, but during that time we have watched Cabbage Beach deteriorate from one of the most beautiful beaches in the world into a very compromised stretch of seafront.*

**One obvious reason is the multitude of noisy, smelly, dangerous jetskis and other motor craft. We have seen the jetskis repeatedly breach the safety barriers and it is probably only a matter of time before they slice a snorkeller’s head off.**

*But, perhaps even worse for The Bahamas’s long-term tourism prospects, an ominous change to the seabed appears to be well advanced for much of the length of Cabbage Beach.*

*Underwater, away from shore, the undulations of pure white sand soon give way to a yellow-brown encrustation. Above water, the limitless aquamarine vista of the past has been reduced to just a narrow strip close to shore, succeeded by a murkier discolouration which has no place in Bahamian waters.*

*Unless there has been a major oil spill, could it be that the constant drip of oil from dozens of engines, day after day, year after year, has left a permanent layer of pollution on the Cabbage Beach seafloor?*

*We have recovered several samples of sand and water and, while they are awaiting analysis, their disgusting appearance does nothing to dispel this suspicion.*

*While we appreciate that the operators of pleasure craft are just trying to make a living, perhaps employment could be shifted towards providing non-polluting, non-motorised watercraft, such as kayaks and stand-up paddleboards. Otherwise, beautiful Cabbage Beach may just become a memory, as will the tourists.*

agreed. but we got a manual now!

All well and good, but until the law is enforced it won't matter. And this is another item that no one will pay attention to. We won't do anything until a fatality happens. Then it will be to enforce the law for a day or two (maybe longer if a tourist) and then back to normal until the next time.

Right, these fellas that don't bother to get permitted, carry insurance, train and/or drug test their operators are going to read a manual??
Why not take the expense of this latest book of toilet paper, the time and monies spent writing up such lunacy and hire an inspector??

Wonderful idea!

But will it be enforced? And by whom? With real consequences? Or will this be yet another "fix" that is business as usual?

Acting Port Controller Berne Wright needs to be fired because he can't seams to clean up potters cay and remove those sunkin vessels

🤣 **I call BULLSHYT!**

I am totally ashamed as a Bahamian to watch tourist interacting with some jet ski, hair braiders, and other beach vendors. I certainly would not have any dealing with these animals!

So which ONE of the below "F' average jet ski operators is going to TRANSLATE the new "safety manual" to the low life bunch of hooligan jet ski operators?

Let's get real for just once. **The root of the problem** is the Bahamas government and ministry of tourism are allowing the lowest of the low, dumbest of the dumb, and ***MOST*** ignorant of the ignorant, to be front line in the tourism industry!?!?

What serious resort destination in the world would allow a "herd" of absolute, total idiots, to represent their front line in the most vital sector of their economy?

These jet ski guys are so stupid, they are a danger to themselves!

The **GOVERNMENT** needs to step in and make it **MANDATORY** that anyone working in front line tourism is firstly presentable, educated to C level or above, and has **PASSED** the Bahamas Host program at an above average score.

It's not like sensible people are not available to fill these jobs. Given the right pay incentives, higher quality individuals will be very happy to work in the jet ski industry.

The ministry of tourism continues doing the one step forward two steps backwards meringue with the number one industry and lifeblood of the economy!

Make it make sense. The PLP and FNM have unquestionably proven, beyond any doubt whatsoever, that they have absolutely **NO IDEA** how a resort destination functions.

It is no wonder cruise ships advise passenger **NOT** to get off in Nassau!

Well said!!!!

ban them all. unregulated drivel that is annoyance to everyone else. why do jetskis always attract the lowest rung of intellect?