What about all the lonely, frustrated heterosexual men that can't find sexual partners in the Bahamas, because Bahamian women are too difficult? They are called Incels (Involuntary Celibate) in the US. I think they deserve a march before the gays, because at least the gays are having plenty of sex.

Once again a foreign company and foreigners know more about what's going to happen in our country than we do. A type of insider traiding that provides non Bahamians an informational advantage over locals. The politicians seek foreign investors to gain the advantage over their own people. Is it really the people's time?

More important than this, Airbnb is likely using this "Experiences" platform to make its hosts more akin to resorts. This will enable foreign hosts that own second homes in The Bahamas to put small resorts owned by Bahamians out of business. Airbnb isn't trying to compete with Baha Mar but with small Bahamian resorts, hotels and motels.

Economist Your reasoning is not very valid. The main reason Cayman, BVI and Turks & Caicos are thrashing The Bahamas is because they remain British Colonies. Their success has very little to do with WTO. If your argument was correct, The Bahamas would be left behind by Barbados, Jamaica, Haiti, Trinidad, and this is not the case.

"We look at poor countries like Haiti, but are doing nothing to keep up with the rest of the world and will fall back into that position."

Haiti is a member of the WTO!!!

You used Haiti as an example of a failed nation but Haiti is a WTO member. If you need to join WTO as a catalyst for change that means you are lazy and unproductive and joining the WTO will destroy your economy with outside competition. You should be fit and ready when deciding to join an international organization. Your argument is saying you should enter the Olympics because it will make your terrible team better. Not going to happen! You'll just get rolled out!

Agreed. Uber please!

Add to this list: 12. Running on a platform of anti corruption legislation and not passing a single piece of said legislation: No Freedom of Information Act, no Campaign Finance Reform Act...

This shows The Bahamas Government should have let BOB collapse and covered the 80 million. It would have been much cheaper to the country this way.

There is no excuse whatsoever for these blackouts period! The FNM has failed the Bahamian people. Nobody in the party has the balls to admit this failure. The bare requirement for any Bahamian Government is to keep the lights on. The planning was not completed during the winter months for the hot summer. The FNM cannot blame anyone else but themselves for this failure. Symonette sees the writing on the wall and is jumping the sinking ship, like Pinder did when the PLP was going down. The FNM has failed worse than Christie's PLP. They must confess their sins and seek forgiveness.