some good points made on the red tape, but I say let them go to UAE. that place doesn't hold a candle to the Caribbean. Abaco marinas have been doing very well despite. And prices and red tape are also increasing in bvi, usvi, etc. Maybe it is just basic economics and the dock rates are too high? or maybe nassau is a @#%hole and no one wants to be there anyway...?

some sale LNG is worse for the environment than Coal... not even going into the BUH shenanigans.

time for hawksbill agreement to sail into sunset. it is failed, time to move on. get over it. it benefits like maybe 6 people.

It won't affect family islands, we aint gat no DHL buddy

why doe the young have to pay taxes? they don't have any money and work entry level jobs and cannot afford to buy anything. if you are going to single out 1 demographic you open up the door to all sorts of things and then the whole system falls apart. every disabled, blind, wheelchair, drug addled, street bum person should be exempt from tax, I agree. sic.

yep, $120k a year is a drop in the bucket these days. And DIR wants more and more of that to feed Davis & Co. spending habits.

Meanwhile somewhere like Elbow Cay and Green Turtle Cay where the entire economy is built on vacation home rentals be like what?!!! the small hotels on those island work with everyone else unlike these hotel guys who just want to ruin the whole thing because... Well I don't know why. Tourism requires a cricital mass to be successful. if hotels want more airlift you need more beds and more beds are easier to add with a vacation home rentals than a full blown hotel, spreads the risk too and extends the season for the hotels. shoot foot to spite face.

import duty exemptions, VAT input credits, tourism free advertising, shall I go on?

Hotel does not pay any annual property tax. A homeowner vacation rental owner does pay large annual real property bills. until the playing field is levelled this conversation is a red herring.

Another slap in the face to the business world and implying that the CPA's are frauds and that their audited financial statements are not worth the paper they are written on. Absolutely disgusting to target the real estate brokerages BEFORE the law firms who actually handle all the money and the legal filings, registrations and disclosures. You know why they did not target the law firms right - obviously viewing real estate as low lying fruit when they don't have the balls to go after the real meat... I would guarantee this fishing expedition revealed absolutely nothing useful at all and just caused grief and stress for the real estate accounting departments for no reason at all. Once again revealing that DIR has absolutely NO IDEA what they are doing or how business functions in this country.