Mike Hunt itches.

It’s a puzzle, isn’t it? A TalPuzzell.

Tal ... if you insist on continuing with all that colony-etc.-crap, can you *please* learn how to spell “populace”? Please? You’re pretty smart, this shouldn’t be all that difficult for you!

Agree with both of you: Only a complete idiot would board a cruise ship right now, and “cruisers” spend very little ashore in Nassau or the Out Islands where they have “private beaches,” etc.

Andros close, too.

Sadly, that could be true. And likely as not the government’s cure will be something along the lines of advising Bahamians who do not have a government job to grow tomatoes in their backyard and make a living selling them to each other. And be sure to charge that VAT!

What can you say about a nation in the year 2020 when its prisons do not have running water or basic plumbing, and its inmates are required to defecate into a bucket? And its leaders shrug their shoulders and say, “Well, nuttin’ we can do ‘bout dat.”

They have $1 million to invest in “security and communications equipment” but can’t manage to install a toilet?

OMG. OMFreakin’G.

I fear you’re right, Banker. The loss of tourism revenue is staggering, will remain so, and will “trickle down” to every layer of society. This is going to take the sort of deep, coordinated commitment that the USA instituted during the Great Depression — and good luck with that.

Figuring out what a news story in The Tribune might mean is something of a full-time occupation. Editors? What editors?

While I have a great deal of sympathy for anybody in this situation, I found it ironic that Ms. Bain would complain, “I ask couple people for help but everybody crying poor mouth” — while she, herself, is “crying poor mouth.”