Thank you, PLP and FNM for ruining, and driving our tourism product into the ground!
Bay Street doesn't all of a sudden need deep cleaning and a coat of paint. For decades we have been begging and pleading with successive governments to pay more attention to our tourism product!
We repeatedly pleaded, and warned them not to sell cruise companies private Islands lock stock and barrel without Bahamian partnerships, begged them to create initiatives to encourage Bahamian nightlife and entertainment, did all we could to get involved with excursion tours, asked 100's of times the jet ski, taxi, and other front line vendors are improved, etc, etc, etc, they never paid any attention to us.
Given our proximity, culture, and climate, the Bahamas should easily be the number one foreign competing resort destination to Florida!
When we compare the growth and development of Key West, Ft. Lauderdale, Orlando, Jamaica, Cayman, Dominican Republic, Paradise Island, Bermuda, Mexico, Barbados, and even Haiti to Nassau and the Bahamas over the last 50 years, we would have to conclude successive Bahamian governments deliberately destroyed our tourism product!
The economic effects of Covid-19 simply accelerated Nassau to where we were always headed anyway. Only a complete imbecile couldn't figure out the cruise industry was developing their own island getaways because the Bahamas tourism product had not only totally stagnated, but regressed. There was more to do here 50 years ago than there is to do here now!
Regional competitors copied what we had 5 decades ago, improved upon it, and continued developing new world-class tourism products, while our politicians refused to allow Bahamians into the tourism market, chased investors to competing countries, strutted around, heads thrown back and chest stuck out in the House Of Assembly talking bullshit and cutting deals for friends family and lovers!
Bahamian taxpayers paid these people to "lead". They failed. Someone should be held accountable.
Thank you, police Commissioner Paul Rolle, and the team of officers for the meal vouchers.
Unfortunately, 200 meal vouchers are a minuscule drop in a very big bucket of hungry, traumatized, people that have no clue where their next meals are coming from, also knowing we are entering peak hurricane season!
Using the police is a good way to distribute vouchers but they would need to distribute 20,000+ meal vouchers on a sustained base if they realistically expect to make any impact.
Our country is in a tailspin with no light at the end of the tunnel, and no end in sight.
The only good thing Covid-19 has done is to expose 50 years of political stupidity.
Why are our people still getting sick and dying from Covid19 when it has been proven a regimen of vitamin D and Zink will prevent people from contracting the disease, and in the right amounts cure the virus in a matter of days?
Why are our people still getting sick and dying from Covid19 when it has been proven a regimen of vitamin D and Zink will prevent people from contracting the disease, and in the right amounts cure the virus in a matter of days?
The national debt ballooning to $8.24bn for the fiscal year 2019/2020 in the fourth-quarter fiscal is a **full-length feature movie series,** not a *"snapshot".*
The Bahamas need to come to grips with and urgently put new innovative plans in place to address our ballooning debt in the most serious posture possible. This is no time for politricks, and playing political favorites.
**every remotely able hand** is needed front & center on deck, or we all go down!!
With the tourism product as our number one industry having been albeit totally ignored for the past 50 years and allowed to seriously regress by successive administrations, Covid19 has unquestionably forced this government to remove the blinders, sit up straight, and start paying undivided attention!
This government should be "nose to the grinder" at the table trying to identify as many ways possible for more tourists to increase spending in our country.
No more of the "give everything to foreigners" stupidity will work. Bahamians MUST become owners and operators of our top industries our we will find ourselves in this very same untenable position again, and again!
If Bahamians are initially unable to deliver world-class products, the government needs to acknowledge and accept that they themselves are the reason Bahamians may be deficient due to inexperience caused by decades of being left out of sharing the tourism pie.
Jamaica and the Dominican Republic had to overcome the very same deficiencies with their people producing food and tourism products. They both came from way, way, way, behind us, and surpassed the Bahamas in local food production and tourism products.
The only thing holding Bahamians and the Bahamas economic growth back was our own government that insisted on giving everything lock, stock, and barrel to foreigners and regulating Bahamians to workers instead of owners in our economy.
Thanks to the Covide19 pandemic, the chickens have now come home to roost and successive governments many, many, failures, and utter stupidity, are laid bare for all to **feel and examine!**
I though I was the only person that noticed the huge disparity of justice in our country. A Bahamian is lynched compared to a slap on the wrist for a foreigner that commits the same crime.
To put things in some perspective, let's not forget they also rewarded illegal Haitians with a years income if caught and deported!
To add injury to insult, I personally know someone that signed up for a Covid test but the line and wait was too long, so they left without getting tested. However, low and behold the clinic called them several days later and said they'ed tested positive!
The system simply doesn't work. There's absolutly no way I'm trusting these clowns with a "trial" vaccine especially after Dr. Fauci warns **NOT** to rush with trial vaccines!
SP says...
Why would anyone trust the politicians and globalists risking an unproven vaccine when all they need is 25mg Zink and 5000 IU vitamin D-3?
They'll have to ungag the 1000's of doctors around the world for open, frank debates before I am remotely convinced to submit to the vaccine!
On INSIGHT: When a vaccine arrives we have to ensure it is available to all
Posted 14 September 2020, 6:53 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Thank you, PLP and FNM for ruining, and driving our tourism product into the ground!
Bay Street doesn't all of a sudden need deep cleaning and a coat of paint. For decades we have been begging and pleading with successive governments to pay more attention to our tourism product!
We repeatedly pleaded, and warned them not to sell cruise companies private Islands lock stock and barrel without Bahamian partnerships, begged them to create initiatives to encourage Bahamian nightlife and entertainment, did all we could to get involved with excursion tours, asked 100's of times the jet ski, taxi, and other front line vendors are improved, etc, etc, etc, they never paid any attention to us.
Given our proximity, culture, and climate, the Bahamas should easily be the number one foreign competing resort destination to Florida!
When we compare the growth and development of Key West, Ft. Lauderdale, Orlando, Jamaica, Cayman, Dominican Republic, Paradise Island, Bermuda, Mexico, Barbados, and even Haiti to Nassau and the Bahamas over the last 50 years, we would have to conclude successive Bahamian governments deliberately destroyed our tourism product!
The economic effects of Covid-19 simply accelerated Nassau to where we were always headed anyway. Only a complete imbecile couldn't figure out the cruise industry was developing their own island getaways because the Bahamas tourism product had not only totally stagnated, but regressed. There was more to do here 50 years ago than there is to do here now!
Regional competitors copied what we had 5 decades ago, improved upon it, and continued developing new world-class tourism products, while our politicians refused to allow Bahamians into the tourism market, chased investors to competing countries, strutted around, heads thrown back and chest stuck out in the House Of Assembly talking bullshit and cutting deals for friends family and lovers!
Bahamian taxpayers paid these people to "lead". They failed. Someone should be held accountable.
On Downtown Nassau needs ‘deep clean’
Posted 11 September 2020, 6:19 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Best idea since voting PLP & FNM!
On ‘Vacation in place’ - but not quarantine: Tourism rebranding mandatory lock-ins for Oct 15 relaunch
Posted 8 September 2020, 7:03 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
No one understands what the government is doing. But what Australia is doing is what we probably should be doing too!
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australi…
On 30 new cases of COVID-19, one additional death reported on Saturday
Posted 6 September 2020, 6:33 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Thank you, police Commissioner Paul Rolle, and the team of officers for the meal vouchers.
Unfortunately, 200 meal vouchers are a minuscule drop in a very big bucket of hungry, traumatized, people that have no clue where their next meals are coming from, also knowing we are entering peak hurricane season!
Using the police is a good way to distribute vouchers but they would need to distribute 20,000+ meal vouchers on a sustained base if they realistically expect to make any impact.
Our country is in a tailspin with no light at the end of the tunnel, and no end in sight.
The only good thing Covid-19 has done is to expose 50 years of political stupidity.
On Police hand out meal vouchers
Posted 4 September 2020, 5:37 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Why are our people still getting sick and dying from Covid19 when it has been proven a regimen of vitamin D and Zink will prevent people from contracting the disease, and in the right amounts cure the virus in a matter of days?
https://www.facebook.com/1011530375/p...">https://www.facebook.com/1011530375/p...
I will continue asking this question until someone from the MOH provides a reasonable answer!
On 59 new cases of COVID-19, two deaths reported on Tuesday
Posted 2 September 2020, 9:10 a.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Why are our people still getting sick and dying from Covid19 when it has been proven a regimen of vitamin D and Zink will prevent people from contracting the disease, and in the right amounts cure the virus in a matter of days?
https://www.facebook.com/1011530375/pos…
On One more death and 50 new cases
Posted 1 September 2020, 8:49 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
The national debt ballooning to $8.24bn for the fiscal year 2019/2020 in the fourth-quarter fiscal is a **full-length feature movie series,** not a *"snapshot".*
The Bahamas need to come to grips with and urgently put new innovative plans in place to address our ballooning debt in the most serious posture possible. This is no time for politricks, and playing political favorites.
**every remotely able hand** is needed front & center on deck, or we all go down!!
With the tourism product as our number one industry having been albeit totally ignored for the past 50 years and allowed to seriously regress by successive administrations, Covid19 has unquestionably forced this government to remove the blinders, sit up straight, and start paying undivided attention!
This government should be "nose to the grinder" at the table trying to identify as many ways possible for more tourists to increase spending in our country.
No more of the "give everything to foreigners" stupidity will work. Bahamians MUST become owners and operators of our top industries our we will find ourselves in this very same untenable position again, and again!
If Bahamians are initially unable to deliver world-class products, the government needs to acknowledge and accept that they themselves are the reason Bahamians may be deficient due to inexperience caused by decades of being left out of sharing the tourism pie.
Jamaica and the Dominican Republic had to overcome the very same deficiencies with their people producing food and tourism products. They both came from way, way, way, behind us, and surpassed the Bahamas in local food production and tourism products.
The only thing holding Bahamians and the Bahamas economic growth back was our own government that insisted on giving everything lock, stock, and barrel to foreigners and regulating Bahamians to workers instead of owners in our economy.
Thanks to the Covide19 pandemic, the chickens have now come home to roost and successive governments many, many, failures, and utter stupidity, are laid bare for all to **feel and examine!**
On National debt reaches $8.24bn
Posted 31 August 2020, 3:52 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
I though I was the only person that noticed the huge disparity of justice in our country. A Bahamian is lynched compared to a slap on the wrist for a foreigner that commits the same crime.
To put things in some perspective, let's not forget they also rewarded illegal Haitians with a years income if caught and deported!
On EDITORIAL: We haven't tackled obesity - and now it's proving our downfall
Posted 30 August 2020, 10:26 a.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
To add injury to insult, I personally know someone that signed up for a Covid test but the line and wait was too long, so they left without getting tested. However, low and behold the clinic called them several days later and said they'ed tested positive!
The system simply doesn't work. There's absolutly no way I'm trusting these clowns with a "trial" vaccine especially after Dr. Fauci warns **NOT** to rush with trial vaccines!
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/24/fauci-s…
On Nurse 'had to pay for private COVID test'
Posted 27 August 2020, 6:49 p.m. Suggest removal