In the Commonwealth of the Bahamas where the business enterprises are operated involving free market forces there will be more businesses operating in long established corridors like East Street. East St. for historical records has always been filled with all businesses and is easily located where every customer can find the store they are looking for in relation to more older established stores. Other corridors main roads include Carmichael Rd. and Wulff Rd.

In free competitive market conditions along the well known main established East St., Wulff Rd., Carmichael Rd., there will according to numerous other customer businesses that manage to operate their businesses at levels to still be operating for numbers of years. These businesses employ thousands of Bahamians, pay Business legal Licenses, electricity bills, NIB taxes, Rents for some store locations, supports more employees working in the large liquor factories, Pay advertising agencies - artists, ad designs, photographers and ad operations, and support lots of families who pay school fees and groceries from those are employed.

NIB, National Insurance of the Bahamas, a government entity that pays people medical bills and pensions is a major shareholder in a liquor manufacturing business that earns diviidends fron these liquor stores selling liquor.!!!!!

Businesses always locate in common sense business corridors to make money. On the matter of having people "loitering" or just chillin in front of stores whether they are in rumpled clothes it is entirely Bahamians Constitutional Rights to be where the want to wait or walk unless not permitted and unlawful. If yinna ain't want to look at any business entity, jus keep yinna eye on the road. If yinna don't like to go in a commercial business enterprise wid its mom an pop stores that feed the Bahamians for decades and a economic stability, then find another competing store in Lyford Cay area or P.I. and pay their prices, simple.

This so strange. For five years nobody notice?

A liquor store and a bar are different. I AM of the view that purchases can not be opened in a liquor. .

Happy to see that the Minister has been given permission to speak.
Perhaps he can now disclose who instructed him when he was minister of Immigration to" step down and get loss" when his immigration officers were knocking on the doors of some 50 plus illegal (invisible) workers. Was it the same Authority who would provide the safe passage of Illegal Columbian Cartel Product through the Bahamas Airports enroute to America for a two-Million-dollar fee per shipment????

Lots of hot air and fullup jokes here. So who gets to decide who is the solitary lucky liquor store owner and who loses out big time when their business license gets yanked. so much for free market enterprise and a free open economy. This is just nanny state and crappy business people who can't take the heat of competition. if you take out the liquor stores does he really believe that the corridor will magically sprout wholesome family clothing stores and wellness centres HA! if the innercity could afford a weekly massage and pedicure i'm sure they would but all they can scratch out is couple bucks for stichy. someone may want to go back to highschool economics class and start over. Furthermore some of the most famous tourist destinations in the world have a row of eating and drinking and entertainment establishments in one place - like covent garden, bourbon street, King St. in charleston, Paris, how about Via Lammbertesca Florence. shortsighted teatotalling bible thumpers do not understand anything about business.