Guy from southern bahamas here. We don't have cable internet here but we do have BTC and i have to say both companies are full of it. I had issues with my internet for a good 2 or more years where it barely worked. the tech guy here did his best, coming to my house and going up the poles and checking things out everywhere he could but the problem was never found. When i saw Starlink was finally available i jumped at the chance to get it. Not sure how the service is in Nassau but if their service is even half as bad is it is here, they have no one but themselves to blame. Provide a good service and people won't run from you. using BTC here it would take a few hours to download 5 gigs, starlink? Well i've downloaded 100 plus gigs in just under and hour. What makes me laugh is both BTC and cable had the market for YEARS and did little to get up to starlinks level and it's not like they were unaware of starlink coming. if i knew of it years before it droped they for sure did to and yet STILL they didn't improve their services to be somewhat on par with starlinks at LEAST in Nassau

If the world is so concerned about the people of haiti then the world should take them. I swear i can't understand what this world is coming to. It's getting more and more populated with people who act so righteous and yet they want OTHERS do deal with problems. I feel for the people of haiti but taking them in will not solve anything and frankly, it would likely cause more problems. The bahamas already faces unemployment. yet others expect us to take them in and put even more strain on the country? America, the land of opportunity, the country that has all sorts of industries where they could find work halted them at their borders yet WE are expected to take them in? I understand they've had a great deal of misfortune on them over the years but how can a country like ours that's barely taking care of itself be expected to take them in?

How about we talk about how all the money that gets sent their way never getting to the people? . Let america and canada pick them up and take them in. It's high time "the world" start putting it's money where it's mouth is and DO something if they're so concerned.

I understand we need to take care of the environment but these people who push for renewable energy seem to have a habot of underestimating how big a task that is. Not just powet but also cars and the like would need to be changed and i sure as heck dont see the bahamas moving to electric or hydrogen cars anytime soon. Then there is the matter of solar and wind being very inefficient and unreliable. The tech is making progress but its stillfar away for a country like ours. I want to see more renewable energy but i wont kid myself into thinking its a simple task.

The election brought Covid to inagua period. Cases started poping up 5 or 6 days after the election. This whole situation showed how backwards the leaders of this country is. There is no reason what so ever to have people who are away from their island to come back and vote. In this day and age they should be able to vote right there in naussu and have their vote counted for whatever constituency they belong to. The ones running for those constituency have no reason to come here. given the situation, they should have set up camaras and monitors and have whatever presentation over the internet rather than a blasted rally that had people gathering like there ain't a pandemic going around. And the final nail in the coffin. from BEFORE the first cases popped up there were rumors that the one running for the plp for MICAL, a NATIVE of inagua had covid. They are now keeping it covered but the entire island knows it's true at this point. The VAST majority of covid caes were from the PLP camp. Even assuming this isn't true, the PLP failed inagua by not locking the island down after the first few cases. I am fed up with these people running this country, i will never vote again. FNM and PLP can burn in hell.

You guys are going to hear that place closing in a few years. Mark my words.

I personally see no reason to rush and get this thing they slapped together that has no long term testing. Fact is, this things kill rate isn't as bad as they made it out to be. I'm more concerned over possible side effect of a vaccine 5-10 years later. This is one reason why a normal vaccine takes so long to push out normally.

If safety measures are heavily implemented and rapid response teams are put in place to handle issues ASAP are implemented, I'm all for oil. The bahamas has limited resources and it's tourism could come under threat. The world is slowly moving away from oil but there is still plenty time to make use of it (30-50 years at least imo) to boost our tourism. If we let this opportunity slip by the bahamas could have some real issues depending on how the certain things in this region go in the next 20 or so years. Our capital needs a serious uplift in terms of appearance and tourism should be expanded beyond nassau and freeport.

The only issue is this: can the government actually be competent for once and make sure the oil is exploited safely and used to better the bahamas as a whole?

I wish them the best of luck. Our country can use another means of income. In light of Biden most likely winning the US elections, and how he was part of the team that was trying to open Cuba back up, if he continues to do so, the bahamas MUST do something to make more cash and strengthen it's tourism industry. I assure you, IF cuba opens up, and investors start dumping resources there, the bahamas can have a hard time in 10-20 years. Something must be done NOW.

This is exactly what i was saying for years. The bahamas really only has a convenient location going for it. There are MANY other places that provide what we do and more. I always railed on our government for not doing more to beef up our tourism. Every island in this country has something to call its own, some have ssports fishing, others have bird watching, some have beautiful reefs or blue holes to explore. Yet the focus is always nassua, a place where tourists, upon leaving Paradise Island quickly see a drop in beauty depending on the direction they go. Cuba opening will either end us or push us to be better and for the sake of everyone, we better hope its the latter

Be it trump or Biden, i assure you, America is screwed either way