Oh boy! Holiday in a quarantine hotel! I think we ‘d better keep working on this one, my friend ... 😎

What do you do if a tourist fails the screening and their return flight reservation is a week or two later?

Joe, it already takes a tourist about 1.5 hours to clear Immigration, baggage claim and Customs. Now we’ll add an antibody medical testing checkpoint at Arrivals? And what do we do with those who don’t pass?

Sorry, my friend, but that’s a recipe for disaster.

Illinois population: 13,000,000 ... Bahamas population: 385,000

Dude, you’re about as bad with math/logic as you are with humour.

But this building is in washington!! i’ve been in a few D.C. embassies, most of ‘em are beautiful.

But Mr. Bannister admitted in the story that the Bahamas did not have $$ available to “hedge” oil futures when the market bottomed, so we lost out.

I simply do not believe he is fielding calls from airlines claiming to have planeloads of tourists looking for hotel rooms. Sorry. I read a story in the NYTimes this morning, a guy flew from Tampa to LaGuardia in New York City, he was the sole passenger on the plane. Just him and the flight crew. So ... do the math.

I hope you are right.

Well said.

Three realities:

1. The Bahamas likely will lose next year’s tourist season as well as this year’s. Best plan for that revenue loss.

2. The Bahamas’ cruise ship industry may never recover, and if it does it will take many, many years. Best plan for that revenue loss.

3. The Bahamas will no longer be able to get away with charging tourists the highest taxes, fees and prices in that part of the world. Best plan for that revenue loss.