The News sounds encouraging. However as long as The Bahamas insists on a no older than three day rapid antigen test combined with the Health Visa requirements we will never fully recover. It is too time consuming and time limitations to get here affect finding flights and the uncertainty of when the Visa will be approved so people can start travel. There continue to be too many hassles to come to our country especially as people can go to most other destinations without all these rules.

The Royal Visit was a fantastic success and the worldwide publicity is a real help to our country. Prince William and Kate interacted very well with all Bahamians. . It is wrong for the writer to say that Canada,for instance, will become a republic. He shows little or no knowledge about Canada on this subject. . In 1982 the Canadian Federal and Provincial Governments entrenched the Monarchy in the Constitution after wide consultation. It will be extremely difficult to abolish the Monarchy in Canada. This well balanced system has served us well as it has in Canada,Australia and New Zealand. We have an impartial Governor-General, a freely elected Parliament and a high standard of British style courts. Why should we abolish our democratic foundations for a republic? Like nearly all the other countries who abolished our Monarchy they have turned into failed third world republics, often with rigged elections, autocratic Presidents and questionable courts. What investor would want that system as a protection of their investments against the current system? Likely very few. We share a Monarchy with other Commonwealth realms and are equal in status to all of them. Let us kerp what works best .

We shall never return to pre-Covid19 numbers until the Health Visa and all the tests are abolished and we return to the easy access to our country which was a successful policy for decades. The more complicated the entry the fewer visitors we will have. However the Tourism Minister so far refuses to open our borders to a more tourist friendly welcome.

This is an excellent letter outlining the problems to enter our country.It is done in a spirit of goodwill and constructive criticism. We are falling behind because visitors,as he says, can go nearly everywhere else without all the hassles. Tourism is too important for our economy to be ignoring advice from people who actually book visitors to our shores. We have to make the final decision but with Covid19 declining it is sound advice to get our economy up and running again.

It was a wonderful visit to the school and to our country. May they soon return.

It was a wonderful visit to The Bahamas. We are proud to be in the Commonwealth and thankful to The Queen for over 70 years of service building up our multi-racial Commonwealth.

The Health Visa and all the tests should be abolished immediately, We have had two years of complaints from overseas travel agents and visitors how difficult and impossible in many cases to come here. We have lost so many visitors and revenue to our competitors who did not impose the time consuming entry requirements. All the legitimate complaints were ignored by both governments. . No wonder hotel workers did not have jobs and hotels closed. Even regular visitors are going elsewhere now. A tragic error on the part of the Ministry of Tourism and the two Ministers.

The Royal Visit was a smashing success. The dynamic young couple are learning more about the Commonwealth countries and are so willing to help us which is good news. Let us be proud of our history and heritage.

It was a wonderful visitThe Royal Couple mixed with all the Bahamian people so well. The publicity overseas has been so positive for our country. Let us be proud of our history and heritage. We should be thankful for our inheritance from the U.K.of a free parliament and our legal system. Bahamas is a safe place to invest as a result.

We are fortunate to have the democratic foundation of a constitutional monarchy. It has served us well over many years as it continues to do so in our neighbour Canada where there is NO republic talk. How would we benefit by a republic? I can see no advantage. We have a free Parliament, an impartial Governor-General and the British style court system which is the envy of the world. That is why investment comes here. Their money and resources are safe here. The world including some Commonwealth countries have abolished the Monarchy. Most of them have become failed third world republics like Zimbabwe. The economy is in a perilous state there, mass unemployment, little if no investment coming in , a dictatorial President and human rights abuses. But now they are "free" of the Monarchy and have become a total disaster. Let us as Bahamians be proud of our history and heritage. The Royal Visit was a smashing success. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge interacted so well with all the Bahamians and are eager to help us with our problems. The Queen's tremendous record of service to the Commonwealth is to be highly appreciated. We need to look at all the benefits we have under this proven system of government. To the doubters all I can say is "Wake up to the real world". !