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You forget my friend that billions of dollars and millions of hours are wasted on the U.S. election cycle as a result of its use of fixed dates for mid-term and national elections. The mainstream and social media enterprises in the U.S. make out like bandits while most Americans must endure what seems to be a never ending elections process. We avoid this dreadful waste of a society's resources by not having a fixed national election date under our system of government.

They have much more to gain from us than we could ever have to gain from them. They have for decades stymied the development of our nation by sucking out of our economy infinitely more than they have contributed to it. We should have long ago pivoted to focusing the development of our tourism sector on wealthier stopover visitors.

Unlike the land based hotels, the exploitative cruise ship enterprises employ relatively few Bahamians and their budget conscious passengers put just about all of their vacation money in the pockets of their foreign shareholders. They have bribed, greased and coerced our more corrupt politicians to get whatever they want and to hell with the Bahamian people.

And to add insult to injury, they give us their environmentally hazardous pollution in exchange for the privilege of paying us a derisory passenger-head tax. Every retail shop and restaurant in downtown Nassau and every conch, fish and beer shack at Arawak Cay would be a goldmine for our economy.

Just think, we would have night clubs and restaurants owned by Bahamians with live entertainment from local musicians, etc., etc., to pocket for ourselves and our economy the mega millions of dollars taken away from our shores by the many entertainment and other offerings on board the greedy cruise ships.

Same goes for The Nassau Guardian, the owners of which probably now control The Tribune.

As is Davis himself!

***Answer:*** To install a solid gold toilet seat in its aft restroom for Stumpy Davis to plant his royal tush on when he needs to take a dump while inflight to Cat Island to campaign.

Spoken by a true proponent of slave labour and one who obviously has no faith in Bahamians being capable of acquiring construction related skill sets from government sponsored trade school programs for which they would be qualified to receive a fair day's pay for a fair day's work. I have to wonder if you have skin in the foreign slave trade.

The worthless cruise ship enterprises that are sucking our country dry should be taxed to death to pay for the revitalisation of Downtown Nassau as well as their pollution of our environment. The cruise ship enterprises have Chester the Jester in their pockets and Pintard really needs to hit on this subject hard, and I mean very hard!

The Tribune's business reporter (Fay Simmons) should have investigated the impact that the bankruptcy of the Red Lobster restaurant chain in the U.S. has had on crawfish exports and the Spanish Wells community.

nothing but a hideously placed paid ad. i didn't even have to read to figure this one out. LOL