The economy is quickly drowning, more and more people are being evicted, families are going hungry, crime is already trending to above peak levels, and police are doing walkabouts in the east warning residents to secure themselves and brace for more crime.
The government is now **forced** to recognize, acknowledge, and turn to locally owned small businesses to carry the country, but it is too late. Too many Bahamians have been blocked out of participating in the local economy by successive governments for too long.
Over 5 decades how could so many college-educated business professionals supposedly "learned" "honorable" men and women have been so stupid not to acknowledge and push for the development of small businesses? Didn't they know It's common knowledge that small businesses drive economies? Why did they systematically block Bahamians out of owning a piece of the economic pie?
The PLP and FNM could not see any wisdom in empowering Bahamians to become the largest stakeholders of our economy. Make no mistake, decades of corruption, stupidity, and mismanagement, coupled with Dorian and COVID-19 has laid our country bare in neck-deep do-do!
After decades of Bahamians being denied a piece of the tourism and economic pies by successive governments, their asinine stupidity and insistence on giving everything lock, stock, and barrel, to foreigners have finally come full circle to bite them squarely, deep in the arse!
Only a blind person couldn't see 3 months ago that small hotels and airb&b's would become the catalyst to jumpstarting the tourism industry, regardless if Trump shut down the US economy or not to get Covid-19 under control. Obviously, tourism could only start as a trickle, not a gush, which translates to small hotels and airb&b's "if anything" at all.
Now, the very same small hotels and airb&b's that get no government incentives, and the big hotels wanted to destroy, are now being relied upon to jump-start the tourist industry.
The fact that we will have no more lockdowns is not because we don't need them, but because the government is broke and cannot afford to feed and care for folks under further lockdowns.
MOT "VIP" restrictions are consistent with Jamaica's tourist Covid-19 policy. Jamaica tried a "resilient corridor" concept allowing visitors to traverse certain portions of resort areas. That failed, and they reverted to VIP as well.
The government needs to face the reality that the only possible solution to our tourist_Covid-19 problem, is to implement the new $5.00, 15-minute COVID test, have tourist sign COVID-19 wavers, and let them vacation freely as normal. Nothing else will work.
This is nothing new. Dorian just amplified crimes committed by Haitians. Haitians have run circles around the government and Bahamians for 5 decades. They work illegally, deal drugs and arms with impunity, build where and what they want to without permits, habitually deal in fraudulent documents, and steal more than any Bahamian can begin to imagine!
Successive governments knew about all these problems and did nothing to stop or prevent the country from ending up where we inevitably now find ourselves. On the contrary, they encouraged illegal Haitians to come by rewarded them with the equivalent of a year's income in Haiti if caught and deported!
Abaco is reaping what they sowed for hiring illegals and giving them refuge for decades. Stolen goods are used to rebuild new "high-end" shantytowns and are being shipped to Haiti right under the defense force noses.
We can thank PLP and FNM leadership for their service to the Bahamian people!
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Regardless of the government and hoteliers' optimism, major hotels won't ever be able to get the volumes needed to reopen until the U.S. AND the Bahamas gets control of the Covid-19!
SP says...
Just this man warning staff – "Don't Take Issues Public" should set off alarms and be reason enough that the prison is investigated.
One of the main problems in the Bahamas is festering corruption because of too many cover-ups in high places!
On Prison boss warns staff – don't take issues public
Posted 21 September 2020, 1:55 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Did anyone stop to wonder how a killer virus made it around the whole world in record time only affected and locked down 1 city in China?
https://www.facebook.com/1011530375/pos…
On 193 cases over weekend and five deaths confirmed
Posted 21 September 2020, 1:47 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
The economy is quickly drowning, more and more people are being evicted, families are going hungry, crime is already trending to above peak levels, and police are doing walkabouts in the east warning residents to secure themselves and brace for more crime.
The government is now **forced** to recognize, acknowledge, and turn to locally owned small businesses to carry the country, but it is too late. Too many Bahamians have been blocked out of participating in the local economy by successive governments for too long.
Over 5 decades how could so many college-educated business professionals supposedly "learned" "honorable" men and women have been so stupid not to acknowledge and push for the development of small businesses? Didn't they know It's common knowledge that small businesses drive economies? Why did they systematically block Bahamians out of owning a piece of the economic pie?
https://groundfloorpartners.com/the-dri…
It seems as if they purposefully destroyed our country! Why? What now? Who accepts responsibility?
On Government hopeful smaller hotels can jumpstart tourism
Posted 20 September 2020, 4:21 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Look at the previous 50 years and Imagine the Bahamas with complete government autonomy and lead by the PLP and FNM, with no-one to answer to!
"Mass Exodus" isn't the words. Everybody with any means whatsoever will have the Star Ship Enterprise beam them somewhere else PDQ.
On A COMIC'S VIEW – Big news in Barbados: That coulda been us . . .
Posted 19 September 2020, 8:34 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Lol.....thought I was the only one that never understood anything Tal says.
On Government hopeful smaller hotels can jumpstart tourism
Posted 19 September 2020, 8:21 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
The PLP and FNM could not see any wisdom in empowering Bahamians to become the largest stakeholders of our economy. Make no mistake, decades of corruption, stupidity, and mismanagement, coupled with Dorian and COVID-19 has laid our country bare in neck-deep do-do!
After decades of Bahamians being denied a piece of the tourism and economic pies by successive governments, their asinine stupidity and insistence on giving everything lock, stock, and barrel, to foreigners have finally come full circle to bite them squarely, deep in the arse!
Only a blind person couldn't see 3 months ago that small hotels and airb&b's would become the catalyst to jumpstarting the tourism industry, regardless if Trump shut down the US economy or not to get Covid-19 under control. Obviously, tourism could only start as a trickle, not a gush, which translates to small hotels and airb&b's "if anything" at all.
Now, the very same small hotels and airb&b's that get no government incentives, and the big hotels wanted to destroy, are now being relied upon to jump-start the tourist industry.
The fact that we will have no more lockdowns is not because we don't need them, but because the government is broke and cannot afford to feed and care for folks under further lockdowns.
MOT "VIP" restrictions are consistent with Jamaica's tourist Covid-19 policy. Jamaica tried a "resilient corridor" concept allowing visitors to traverse certain portions of resort areas. That failed, and they reverted to VIP as well.
The government needs to face the reality that the only possible solution to our tourist_Covid-19 problem, is to implement the new $5.00, 15-minute COVID test, have tourist sign COVID-19 wavers, and let them vacation freely as normal. Nothing else will work.
https://www.fiercebiotech.com/medtech/a…
On Government hopeful smaller hotels can jumpstart tourism
Posted 19 September 2020, 8:19 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
This is nothing new. Dorian just amplified crimes committed by Haitians. Haitians have run circles around the government and Bahamians for 5 decades. They work illegally, deal drugs and arms with impunity, build where and what they want to without permits, habitually deal in fraudulent documents, and steal more than any Bahamian can begin to imagine!
Successive governments knew about all these problems and did nothing to stop or prevent the country from ending up where we inevitably now find ourselves. On the contrary, they encouraged illegal Haitians to come by rewarded them with the equivalent of a year's income in Haiti if caught and deported!
Abaco is reaping what they sowed for hiring illegals and giving them refuge for decades. Stolen goods are used to rebuild new "high-end" shantytowns and are being shipped to Haiti right under the defense force noses.
We can thank PLP and FNM leadership for their service to the Bahamian people!
On Abaco residents can expect 'drastic turnaround'
Posted 19 September 2020, 6:24 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Food Aid Programme To End Next Month **=** Crime Will Greatly Escalate End Next Month!
On Food aid programme to end next month
Posted 18 September 2020, 5:09 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Wow, tons of comments were deleted from this blog!!
On First vaccines for key staff
Posted 15 September 2020, 9:11 a.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Regardless of the government and hoteliers' optimism, major hotels won't ever be able to get the volumes needed to reopen until the U.S. AND the Bahamas gets control of the Covid-19!
This is not rocket science.
On 'Major wrinkle': Sandals re-open to January 28
Posted 14 September 2020, 8:46 p.m. Suggest removal