You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear. No one has brought up the Albany offer to build a new plant for 750 Million. Presumably its own money ? Why not.

The officers are in the station houses enjoying the a/c and color television. Stop by any police station if you don't believe me.

This lady should speak with the Konaris Brothers who put several million of their own family savings into "Elizabeth on Bay". Total dead loss now. We need old Mr. Carroll the street sweeper to come back and clean the place up. And the employees, in what shops are there, are too stupid to realize that when they park their car in front of where they work, there is nowhere for a potential customer to park. Governmnet HAVE to set the rules, once they figure out what has to be done. AND they have to find another location for Junkanoo, the way it is managed now. Chain link fencing surrounding the shops for two weeks every Christmas is an insult to any shopper. Bahamian or Foreign.

Vacation home renters are all over Nassau and I am sure the out islands too. When you hear people talking and you don't understand what they are saying its a good bet its a European visitor. The Hotel Guests by contrast are encouraged NOT to leave the properties and most don't. Even a lot of cruise passengers don't get off the ships anymore. These people probably spread more money around the country ( including VAT ) than most tourists.

Tal mussy off today.

Tal, you ain't got any sense anyway but try this. Between Parliament and Charlotte Street south side of Bay Street, a whole row of formerley high end luxury shops owned by the Solomon Family are all closed now and out of business. Who is the owner of these properties. The new PLP slumlord. You can't change the stripes of a Tiger.

It had to be a PLP legacy Honestman. Just thirty days after winning D'Aguilar was signing an MOU with Airbnb. The people wanted a Freedom of Information Act but this came first.

It is high time now for RBC to retire Nat Beneby who has shown himself to be unethical and bereft of any sensibility. Fire his incompetent arse. And Andrew Rodgers should close Nassau Glass and stay at Ocean Club the rest of his life.These people are less than the basest animals in this country. Patricia Hermans could carry her crooked arse out of here too. My God. All should be jailed.

Level the playing field suggests that competition exists between the Airbnb Host and the hotels. This is patently untrue and simply shows that Mr. Russell knows very little, if anything, about the vacation rental business.
The suggestion that by taxing the Airbnb business “it will help address issues of parity, pertaining to cost of product and services” is another unfounded statement that further demonstrates that Mr. Russell knows nothing about this business. Since when has the Ministry of Tourism marketed to New Zealand, Australia, Italy, France, U.K., Sweden, Denmark, mid-west USA, West Coast USA ?. While our Governments have been paying millions of dollars in advertising, Airbnb has developed a very successful social media business for very little money. Our Tourism Minister is having the AG’s office bring legislation to tax approximately 1,200, mostly Bahamian, Airbnb Hosts. Just because he thinks they are making money. Talk about a black crab syndrome ! The Minister says …. and ensure those landlords are in full compliance with local rules and regulations. Just when has any arm of government been successful in regulating anything. The huge success of Airbnb is that it is “self-regulating” on both the Host and the Guest. Each publishes a scorecard of their experience, and if something is not right for the Host or the Guest they will be kicked out. The referrals are public, so potential guests can see what has happened with the host they are thinking of renting from, and the host can see what other hosts have experienced with the proposed guest. And no one needs the Ministry of Tourism at all. Sorry !!!! Whenever you impose regulation, you open the door to corruption. We are seeing it every day now. You can’t get a Physical Planning inspection without waiting days and weeks on end, and finally you buy lunch for someone, and you get your certificate. I would like to invite Mr. Russell to go on a tour with me of places that I would like to show him, that don’t have fire alarms and extinguishers and sanitation records, and everything else that is inspected once and never again. He must think that Bahamians are really stupid and will buy anything you tell them. Just look what the regulation and so on did with “Fyre Festival”. That was not an Airbnb deal my friend. Finally, Mr. Russell notes that it is a thriving business. Yes it is, and it thrives without yours, or anybody else’s help. If the Government get involved it will be over for the Bahamas. And no, the Airbnb guest is not going to book at Atlantis or Bahamar or Grand Lucayan or Pink Sands. They are a different kind of tourist and you meddle with them at your peril. They will just go elsewhere. And you will earn nothing and the former hosts will earn nothing. But the people will know who killed the goose.

Some need to be Jailed !!! and taxed for our losses.