Cruiseships are horrible for our environment and economy

Looks better like this. The Government shouldn't be responsible for this. There are bigger fish to fry.

Should never have been legalized. Wouldn't be surprised if all this gun violence is linked to these gambling bosses.

Tell us who

These are the foot soldiers. To stop this the general/bosses/leaders of these groups need to be targeted.

Lack of education and poverty has created a large pool of desperate people who are easy to recruit and be made a pawn.

Slum under the bridge.

Curious if building codes are upheld in this area. I recall when the Government first built these stalls; they were simple. Over the years operators transformed the stalls into enclosed buildings. Do they follow the same health and safety codes as restaurants? Do they have proper ventilation, kitchen equipment, fire suppression, emergency exits etc...? I assume no, they don't even have a bathroom for you to wash your hands before eating.

The goal should be to elevate ourselves to the standard tourist enjoy on Paradise Island. Governments' only role should be to create an environment where private citizens are empowered to meet or exceed the standards they enforce.

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The more we invest in infrastructure for cruise ships the less bargaining power we will have. Cruise ships can threaten at any time to stop coming if we don't meet their demands and thise multimillion-dollar investments would be worthless without the cruise ships.

This is a trick and I hope the Government sees this. The cruise ships should pay for any infrastructure to support their operation. If Atlantis and Bahamar could sail away anytime things got tough Bahamas would be in rough shape.

The cruise ship industry is destructive to the Bahamas. How many Bahamian jobs per tourist is created by the cruise industry versus the hotel industry? Most of the people working on the cruise ships are foreigners.

Why should anyone pay bills now that the economy is crippled?

Great article and well said stislez. Ignorance is bliss and allows many to continue living in their "paradise". Tourism (our primary industry) trains servants. Slavery never ended it evolved.

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A similarly insidious pattern has developed in recent years among the countries serving as offshore financial centers. Many, like the countries affected by the resource curse, are former colonial states struggling to stay fiscally viable... For these economically and politically fragile countries, the influx of cash provided by involvement in international finance seems like an unmitigated blessing, offering jobs and revenues for a relatively small investment in infrastructure... But as many are finding, becoming a tax haven has unexpected costs. Precipitous economic, political, and social declines have occurred so often in such states that observers have coined a new term for it: “the finance curse.” When the "finance curse" strikes a country, there is a recurrent pattern: While its democracy, economy, and culture remain formally intact, they are increasingly oriented to and co-opted by international elites. In other words, such countries gradually become organized around the interests of people who don't even live there, to the detriment of those who do. The services produced by these countries protect cosmopolitans’ wealth, but the riches never flow to the the local producers, undermining their capacity for self-governance and social cohesion, as well as the development of infrastructure and institutions.