I heard a rumour that he was white too.

I agree. 60% of the food is actually a low, achievable target. Show me any tourist who would rather eat a frozen burger than fresh fish at a comparable price?
Australia farms fish in the sea on an industrial scale. It is easy and cheap. Technology is perfected. Why do we not do it?? Simple lack of education.
The government should take a lead and mediate long term contracts between fish farmers (and all other farmers) and the hotels, where the hotels get what they want at a fair price and the farmers get security. It is soooo simple.

Where have you people been living for the past 50 years? On Mars? How can it be news to anyone that there is a power cut in the Bahamas??? Have none of you heard of generators????

Instead of thinking of creative solutions and trying to position ourselves at the vanguard of technology, we just talk bollocks on fori and write cretinous comments.

FFS, we are 400k people. Why do we need cash at all?

Simple solution: register every Bahamian individual in a national data bank. Cost: minimal.
Give every individual an account with the CB. Abolish all cash.

That way I can transfer any amount of B$ to anyone else via smartphone. Give a simple terminal to all retailers. That way you can buy anything throughout the Bahamas without cash money with a simple swipe of your phone.

All problems solved. Instant costless transfer to anyone anywhere. No more VAT dodging by retailers. No more Immigration problems: as illegal Haitians could not register, they could not get paid. Who is going to work for nothing?

Whole system would cost not even a few B$million. With added bonus of being able to tell leeches like RBC to go fuck themselves when they want to charge you B$50 to transfer some money to another B$ account.

I completely disagree. In fact every visitor with an intended stay of over 8 hours should be subject to a work permit application.
That is because they are almost bound to need to take a leak and pissing on the country is one of the jobs Bahamians do best.
We do NOT need the competition from foreigners in this key activity!

The argument here seems to be that if you are black and you pull a gun out at a black policeman, he shoots you; but if you are white he...salutes you and asks you if you are lost?

Sounds reasonable.

Keep on taking the meds.

Typical sensational story to grab headlines. There is a well known process by which damages are assessed. Since our friend here earnt almost nothing and is a bum, he will be lucky to get $10k in distress money.

Lets make it a rule that you can sell your property to the Ministry of Finance at 20% less than they appraised it. For cash. Bargain for them, right?

Then those useless idiots would be slightly more careful.

PS: there is nothing automatic in this world. Us not being members of WTO is another reason why large companies steer clear of offering any online services in the Bahamas. The absolute stupidity of our currency controls is another. People could just not be bothered to screw around for the sake of a market of a few thousand people.
That is why we need the WTO. That is why we need to abolish currency controls. That is why we need to bend over backwards to enable ease of doing business. To remove the excuses.
The first step is the WTO. All other steps are dependent on that first step.

I am not in authority, otherwise, believe me, I would do it.