I agree, this is very good and will lead to a fairer tax regime. Some companies now ( like grocery stores and gas stations) that have high turnover but low profit margins pay a huge percentage of their profits in business license fees. In some instances they pay more in business license fees than the company earns in net income.

Yeah right. Wake up. Atlantis made its fervent opposition to this project clear, you really think any employee would feel comfortable publicly supporting this project? More likely would be as it appears they felt allegedly intimidated and coerced to toe the company line and speak out against RCL. Government needs to ignore all these special interests against this project and if it passes environmental mustard and is in the economic interest of the Bahamian people approve it post haste.

I agree, he had no problem with tearing up acres of our precious Bahamian seabed around Bell island when BNT was allegedly given a million dollar donation by the Aga Khan, and how much is he being paid by Atlantis now? Can’t trust a word he says.

Thank you to the tribune for finally having this long overdue issue addressed.

Gowon Bowe opines about everything under the sun but can not utter a single word about the promised share split? What is going on with Fidelity? At the AGM he told shareholders the split would take place no later than September of last year. Ducking this issue is not acceptable to shareholders, we expect better leadership and deserve an explanation.

Why is it that he owes $863k to AML foods in the first place?

So they are selling shares to foreigners before offering shares to Bahamians. Terrible, won’t be drinking sands anymore.

The writer of this letter is woefully misinformed, the commercial export of conch was banned in January 2021.

Mr. Smith’s project is less Bahamian than RCL’s! How many Bahamians will have an equity ownership in his project (10 at most?) vs the thousands of Bahamians that will have equity ownership in RCL’s project? Toby wants Bahamian crown land, will he give the Bahamian govt an equity ownership in his project as compensation like RCL is doing? RCL’s project is a much better opportunity for Bahamians to share in the wealth creation of the Bahamas than Mr. Smith’s project which is only for a select few!

Yes they did, from ewnews: Royal Caribbean on Sunday outlined its environmental plans for its beach club development at Paradise Island, which it claims will be a 100 percent renewable energy development by the year 2030. The company said in a statement that the six key components of its environmental plan for the beach club development are zero waste-to-landfill, renewable energy, wastewater treatment, protecting and enhancing the surrounding habitats, and environmental monitoring.

The company projected that the development will contribute zero waste to the New Providence landfill.