Bahamasair is late every day from Miami. It accumulates delays as the day goes on. The first flight is more or less on time, the second 15 mins late and the last always more than 1 hour. It is a permanent state of affairs. If something breaks on top...chaos.

On the other hand, a return flight is nearly always $300. AA goes up to $1,000. But AA are always on time. I have never had a delay of more than 15 mins.

You get what you pay for.

I think they should just rename it again and leave it at that. BBG sounds good: Better Buy a Generator

One of the longest suicide notes in history. Total claptrap.Typical rubble-rousing from a failed commie brother. While people think this way, there is no hope whatsoever for the Bahamas.

Why stop at medical use? Why not replicate tobacco laws and allow its consumption in all ways. As long as legal and taxed.

Anyone entering this country legally is entitled to the same protection & rights under the LAW as Bahamians. If they entered the country illegally, they are entitled to deportation.

The only remaining question is when does the non-action of a Government (the failure to deport) actually become a de facto granting of those rights. This question should be answered by the Courts. Why not? There is an argument to be made. Not saying I agree with it, bit there is an argument.

Don, the way the system works is that the wealthy (who could afford to install solar) subsidize the poor. Collection rates from the poorest neighborhoods in Nassau are probably in single digits, although they never break that down in official figures.
If they allowed solar to thrive, BEC would go bust in months as everyone who is now paying their bills would install solar and owe them next to nothing each month. Their cash-flow would collapse and they probably could not even afford to buy the oil they burn. Politically, that is unacceptable. But so is turning off the power to 50% of the population for non-payment.

These are serious political problems to grapple with and I feel for the government and BEC. They are truly stuck between a rock and a hard place. Therefore do not hold your breath. It will be decades before they sort this out, I am afraid.

Level of complication = ZERO. You get a tame Bahamian, bung him a grand and he is the occupier. Where is the problem?

Who do you think is going to run Shell? Yes, white people. Where are they going to live? Yes, Lyford. Where are their children going to go to school? Lyford. Where are their wives going to play tennis? Yes, Lyford. So the very idea that they are going to shit on their own doorstep is ludicrous. Don't worry, the pollution here is going to be ZERO. Far less than what we have now with Clifton. It will be MUCH better.

I can't see what the problem is. Technology is here to solve the problem: online registration prior to embarkation, as in the USA. If your destination is not registered for tourism (hotel, registered guest house, etc...) slap an entry tax to be paid before aircraft embarkation. No pay, no fly.

It is more reasonable to expect that the Bahamas will put men on Mars next week than to expect civil servants to do a proper job.
For a start, all this was completely untenable. Who was supposed to keep a register of who resides here for 6 months or not? Secondly, everyone would just have re-registered their homes in a company name. A company is permanently resident.

This is the kind of crap you get when you have civil servants dictate policy. Bunch of imbeciles, the lot of them. All they do is harm.