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!
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.
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
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