”I have friends in real estate, blah, blah ...” If your assumptions were correct, the islands would be teeming with tourists right now. How’s that working out for you?

Shake head 3 times if you have even the vaguest idea what Tal is talking about.

They went to dinner at La Boug last weekend, were the only people there. And you miss the point: If you go for a weekend or a week or two weeks as a tourist, you are in quarantine the entire time. Yeah ... some vacation.

While it’s true Eleuthera has only a few small resorts, it has a HUGE rental home market, as well as Harbour Island, and those are mostly all empty.

A. Very few people go to the expense of flying to the Bahamas from the U.S. or Canada for a weekend.

B. Your “understanding” of the status of Family Islands resorts is off-base: I’m in contact with close friends on Eleuthera who say there are virtually no tourists, or even expat homeowners, on the island right now. The restaurants that are open are virtually empty.

This is sad in too many ways to mention.

I blinked on that, too. “Boaters”? Uh ... no. RIP, tho.

BPL, Cable Bahamas and BTC may all be a joke ... but, on the upside, they are ungodly expensive. So at least they have that going for them.

Mr. Bogart, it really is unseemly for you to write in fake-minstrel style. Really ... leave that drivel for TalRussell. You’re better than that.

And: “If it sounds too good to be true, it is ...”

One correction ... regarding how the schemes “originated in the U.S. ...” Yeah, they did, like 100 years ago. Today, though, these schemes almost always track back to the notorious scam-artists in Nigeria, who make it look like they’re legit U.S. operations. The Nigerians are relentless web scammers and have been since the earliest days of the internet. No. 2 are the phone scammers from India.