Recommended is actually 2 hours according to their website, cutoff is one. I've been denied boarding for a domestic flight on a different carrier being to the airport right before an hour though, so I always try to arrive as early as possible. Air travel in this country is a giant hassle compared to when I lived overseas.

I always have to laugh at the "evil colonizer" rhetoric of these kinds of articles considering that the British did everything they could to undermine the UBP government and implement majority rule (this happened not only here but in Rhodesia, S Africa, anywhere that had a system of White minority rule really). Majority rule would not even exist if it weren't for the British.

That being said, I haven't read the original article referred to but quite frankly critics of independence such as myself don't really give a shit about artists, actors, or any of that superfluous nonsense. We remain critical of Bahamian independence because we have a powergrid that cannot function in the summer (maybe even in the winter sometimes) and that burns up thousands of dollars worth of appliances and equipment every year, water systems that shut off while you are bathing, out of control crime that worsens every year, corrupt governments that worry about nothing else but awarding their friends and lovers no bid contracts for the most part, declining standards of living, etc., the things what really make up a nation. For as much of a clownshow as the UK government has been lately, several of our administrations would have been dissolved on the basis of corruption (like what happened in Turks) had we not been independent. The Bahamian middle class has been dying an agonizing death since the Recession and the recent years of higher than usual inflation is putting more strain than ever on the little bit what remains. Why does anyone think that young Bahamians with a chance will leave if they get the opportunity? Simply because this country is becoming much more economically stratified (not that that process isn't happening abroad either).

The tone of this article reminds of our government who ride around in fancy luxury vehicles going to banquets in three piece suits while there are Bahamians still shitting in the bush and using community pumps. Is everything doom and gloom? No, but don't pretend that things on a national scale aren't much worse off than better and that critics of independence don't have a right to be critical.

How is it going to stay afloat as the Bahamian demographic collapse finishes? The problem with NIB, and a lot of wealth redistribution schemes, is that it really is nothing more than a somewhat elegant Ponzi scheme that depends on consistent population growth to be viable (which is quite frankly not happening here, nor anywhere else in the developed world). Even if the government didn't just simply piss away whatever money they received in contributions, young Bahamians are too financially stressed on average to maintain the fertility rate needed to keep it afloat. The government will continue to raise rates but truthfully that is not enough, and payments will have to be slashed/age raised/or some other measures taken in order to account for the fact that long term the Bahamas is shifting to a top heavy demographic pyramid. Mass immigration is not a solution, as first world countries are starting to figure out, as most immigrants are nothing but a net tax negative on the host country, defeating the purpose of bringing them there in the first place. Raise the tax burden too much and people will just simply emigrate if they have the opportunity. The original critics of NIB saw all of this, and their criticisms were certainly valid. It might work for a time, but simply is unsustainable on a large scale in the long term.

Justice will catch up with Minnis and the rest of the crew that were in favour of such nonsense one day. A lot of people have not forgotten the BS what went on a couple of years ago.

Fr, there is no coming back when you lose FNM strongholds like Central & South Abaco, N Eleuthera, Montague, seats that even voted for Tommy T, as a sitting FNM Prime Minister. I would have resigned from politics entirely out of shame.

Get Starlink if you can, it is miles better than anything BTC or Cable have to offer on the Family Islands.

I never expect a project of this size could be staffed with all Bahamians, the problem is just that Treasure is probably the worst community on Abaco when it comes to immigration violations. Americans, Mexicans, Haitians, you name it have all been working in that community illegally. It is sadly largely encouraged by some of the second homeowners that live there.

How did A-TEC end up? In any case, I honestly don't think Kovats is a good fit for Treasure. The first big problem is that most of the community was opposed to him getting it. Homeowners (locals and second homeowners) have a lot of influence in day to day operations, so you have to consider their opinions to a certain degree. The second is that Kovats does not come off as an experienced hotelier to me. You need someone with experience to deal with a project of this size, which is why I always believed Craig Roberts would have been the best developer if he could have pulled it off. Who gives a shit what other business he is involved in, the fact is that he has produced a good tourism product with proven results; that experience is mandatory when developing a project of this size. In any case these people out of Jacksonville come across as serious, no nonsense developers so I think that they will do a good job with it.

Ideally there would be some form of independent body responsible for ensuring that the reports are accurate in addition to being filed on time. Filing a bunch of foolishness just to say you filed and met the deadline is pointless and does nothing to benefit this country. One somewhat recent case what comes to mind is when Brent Symonette declared a net worth of 156 mil in 2017, which is unbelievably low for him tbh. It wasn't just him that cycle, I am just using it as an example to illustrate the point. Doing things just for the sake of doing things benefits no one.

I only hope that any developer of Treasure Cay is interested in supporting local Abaconian businessmen and professionals and not just bringing in their American buddies to steal all of the good paying work.