The posts y’all make confirms that some actions made against the Bahamas may be racially motivated and economically driven. When you refer to people as subhumans and thugs and gangsters, you enter into the arena with a mindset to discriminate against them. Meaning since that is your intention then nothing they do as either individuals or as a nation will appease you. The fact is the American population in general does not have a mindset that most of you here portray. Selling barracuda for grouper? How ignorant can you get? The government claims it has no complaints or communication with US personnel that may have led to the advisory. So a long learned lesson is to not argue with fools.

So is the State Department now going to issue an advisory warning tourist not to stay in the Ritz Carlton hotels?

No one should be surprised at what Cobalt posts because in all the years he has been posting, he hasn’t posted a single thing positive about the Bahamas or a Bahamian. And while he claims the Bahamas is not safe for tourists where is the evidence to prove such a claim? Only ignorance or prejudice can lead him to claim that D’Agular and other government officials are burying their heads in the sand about the tourist product. Even the smallest school child knows the importance of tourism to this country and are taught from an early age to do nothing to damage it. It’s an outright lie to say nothing was done about the jet ski operations as rules were put in place where the operators are no longer allowed to ride with their guests and the renters are required to stay within certain boundaries, among other things. But when you refer to Bahamians as subhumans obviously your problem is of a different nature. If there are genuine concerns with the Fish Fry the state department should meet with the proper officials to see how best to remedy them. A few years ago many tourists, including Bahamians, were robbed in South Florida because employees of the car rental companies were following them and using duplicate keys to enter their cars and steal valuables. The car rental companies responded be allowing customers to randomly select their vehicle rather than having a specific one issued by an employee. The car thefts stopped almost instantaneously.

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When was the last time The IS donated even a bulletproof vest to our police department?

Jewelry stores in the Ritz Carlton Hotel in the heart of Paris, France were robbed when five men wielding axes rushed into the hotel and smashed showcases containing high end jewelry. Alert security guards were successful in activating the. alarm that automatically locked the doors to the hotel, trapping three of the culprits inside. But two escaped with what is estrogen be millions in stolen loot.
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every bahamian should be concerned about these travel alerts the US State Department is regularly issuing for the Bahamas. The alerts always seem to be timed just before a high travel season and what’s more troubling they seem to be telling Americans not necessarily to avoid traveling to the Bahamas but to avoid Bahamians as much as possible. The major hotels discouraged their guests from attending Junkanoo parades. There is the ongoing issues with hair braiders and jet ski operators. Then Bay Street has become so hostile and unwelcoming to Bahamians that many avoid going down there. And now there is an issue with the Arawak Cay Fish Fry. As you know the Fish Fry was originally created for Bahamians but out of their thirst for things native, tourists found their way to the fry and it has become a very popular and safe tourist spot. So does someone in the US State Department have their hands deep in the pockets of someone who wants to totally Hogg the tourist dollar or is it their intention to totally exclude bahamians from getting their share of the tourist pie? With the regular release of these travel advisories against the Bahamas and more specifically against Bahamian operated businesses, what advice and assistance does the US offer in making the Bahamas more crime free and more safe for the millions of Americans that want to visit here? Did they make any statement at all on the two Americans that were evading customs and smuggling guns and ammunition into this country. There has to be more of a joint effort between two countries that claim to have most friendly status, than issuing advisories that basically amount to telling tourists to avoid Bahamians.

The nature of the business requires smaller aircraft on some routes during off/peak periods. And that is why Bahamasair gave up some of the routes to the carriers with smaller aircraft. And in late December a Jet Blue (jet craft) skidded down the runway made several spins and ended in a ditch on landing. The weather was so cold the regular de-icing of the runway was not sufficient to keep it from refreezing before the landing was completed.

If there was a threat of a tsunami in the Bahamas only a very small percentage of the population would have heard the warnings within the time the earthquake struck and the time the tsunami would have hit the Bahamas. Especially given the time of night it happened. And of those who heard about it, very few took seriously the possibility of a tsunami hitting the Bahamas or the Caribbean for that matter. However we must realize we live in strange times with changing weather patterns and other unusual events. Several years ago CNN broadcasts for several hours that a tsunami was headed this was after an earthquake somewhere on the other side of the world. The few people contacted said something like ‘yea ok’ and went back to sleep after being rudely awakened. Then around 6 am CNN announces that it was a test of the emergency broadcast system and even though there had been an earthquake there was no threat of a tsunami in this part of the world. The only threat was to Hawaii and since they gots threats all the time they were prepared for it.

They really should close that runway when there are heavy winds. Because you have the winds coming off the sea side when there’s absolute calm on the land side so the pilots have to do a balancing act. My experience was on Bahamasair that has bigger aircraft than Pinapple Air

@Sheeprunner: YOU are not being honest, you are being disingenuous. You use every opportunity on this site to despise, ridicule spout venom or somehow belittle Bahamians. Your post above this one confirms this. You need to crawl back into your little damp, smoked out cave until you come to reality. BLACK people are just as much a human as you. And since most Bahamians are BLACK, they have just as much rights as you. There are also WHITE people who exercise road rage and sometimes it ends in someone being killed. Kickbacks are not exclusive to the Bahamas and dozens of governments around the world have toppled because of kickbacks and corruption. Likewise pilferage and littering are not exclusive to the Bahamas, and fortunately they are more under control in this country than in many (The amount of plastic floating in the ocean can form a mass bigger than Australia). And if you took a minute and some common sense to find out, a D+ under the Bahamian grading system is still a pass. It is not where our education system should be but these D+ students are not dysfunctional illiterates or incompetent or incapable of finding jobs and supporting themselves. Further a D+ grade is not permanent. Many D= students go on to take college level classes or other courses to improve themselves. You come here to try take control by making Bahamians feel they are below you and incompetent. In Canada over 20,000 residents were without power over the weekend when the temperature was as low as 32 F below zero. In Australia there were power outages when the temperature was 107F. And in California, persons who were lucky to escape raging fires over the past few months only to have them destroyed by mudslides. The point: it is still better in the bahamas! Beyond that there are hundreds of flights ***leaving*** this country everyday.