Firstly, unfortunately, the Bahamas political architecture is transitory with no established long term tourism development plan.
For decades with every change in government, the new ruling party takes years attempting to identify the way forward for tourism development. By the time they conceive a plan and begin implementation they are voted out and the cycle repeats all over again.
Secondly, neither government has had the humility and enough common sense to listen to "on the ground Bahamians" like Elizabeth “Pinky” Wilson-Robinson and Olivia Bain!
These ladies and many, many, others over decades have tried in vane to point the government in the right direction as to what is "actually needed" to improve our tourism product.
However, with Parliament mainly consisting of "high hat" doctors, lawyers, and accounts the likes of Elizabeth “Pinky” Wilson-Robinson and Olivia Bain are totally ignored.
The result is exactly what we have now. Pig headed, politicians with absolutely zero hands on experiences in tourism "brainstorming, and making decisions" that are totally irrational and bound to fail!
For many decades the single biggest complaint from visitors, cruise operators, and airlines is there is not enough to do in Nassau. How our genius politicians interpreted that as a need for more hotels downtown remains a mystery.
How difficult is it to simply look at competing regional resort destinations like Mexico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, and Jamaica, to see how they have perfected the art of using entertainment to extract huge revenue from tourists.
For instance Cuba profits more from tourism entertainment than room revenues! There is more entertainment in six city blocks in Cuba than exist in the entire Bahamas!
Elizabeth “Pinky” Wilson-Robinson and Olivia Bain are 1000% correct.
We need to focus on more entertainment diversity downtown, not more hotel rooms.
Why would China and the Bahamas waste time responding to U.S. Claims?
It is common knowledge that World Bank and IMF loan debt traps always come with ridiculously high interest rates, geopolitical strings, U.S. corporate influence peddlers, and a quagmire of politically compromising conditions.
Africa has also gotten wise and is now ditching western loan institutions like the plague after suffering decades of high interest IMF and World Bank debt trap deals with crippling austerity measures, and forced national corporate privatizations.
The chaos rocking Kenya right now is a prime example of the damage U.S. lending institutions leads to.
Congratulations PM Davis for not falling "further" into the US debt trap!
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Why is the Bahamas always hell bent on reinventing the wheel ?
Reviving Bay Street and its once vibrant nightlife is not rocket science. If we simply copied a variation of Key West tourism business model lock stock and barrel, Bay Street would likewise become successful.
It should be mandatory for all of the “courting investors” to visit Key West to experience real live tourism products on the ground.
**"20 percent of teens have attempted suicide, and nearly 25 percent have contemplated it".** This is only what they know about and actually translates to more than 50% of our youth being suicidal. This also explains the record high adult suicide rate.
Everybody trying to tip toe around the elephant in the room. **Decades of Failed leadership!**
Where are all of the usual smart alec, one line comebacks, from the sweet mouth politicians? Every one of them past and present should stay under the rocks they've quickly crawled under and stay there forever.
**"it's the economy, stupid"**
Politicians are now forced to stop playing dumb and ignoring the impact and multilayered economic and social damages tens of thousands of foreign blue collar workers disenfranchising Bahamians of jobs are having on our people.
Children are a mirror of suffering, unemployed, and underemployed, parents! It would be an interesting exercise to quantify suicidal tendencies between Haitians vs. Bahamians.
We didn't get to this point overnight. This is a serious, unquestionable, indictment against the countries 5 decades of leadership.
No amount of slick political jargon and ducking can save them this time.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Youth depression is directly related to financial circumstances in the home as they watch underemployed and unemployed parents drown in debt!
Depressed youth see parents and families driven to disfunction due to lack of employment opportunities and financial hardships.
When they see parents can't survive, they have no hope for themselves, and are driven to suicidal tendencies.
**“This is not about blame" ?**
To the contrary. **This is all about 5 decades of failed leadership**
🤣 I knew one of you political apologist would be stupid enough to attempt shifting the blame of "political failings" to protect low skilled jobs for Bahamians on parents.
Literally 10"s of thousands of low skilled jobs now occupied by expats should have been reserved for Bahamians only!
No Bahamian will will EVER be granted a low skilled blue collar job in Asia, Latin Ameica, or Haiti!
If foreign employers don't like black domestic workers, they shouldn't be here. They can carry their ass's to another country. We will survive just as well without them too, because their Asian, Latino, or Haitian employees send remittances to home countries which doesn't benefit the Bahamas.
Unemployed, desperate, Bahamian youth's have no alternative but to turn to crime for survival.
Don't act surprised if **Y-O-U** wake up one morning to the barrel of a gun!
To resolve the problem government needs to simply keep bringing in more Asians, Latinos, Haitians, and others to disenfranchise more of our youth from jobs, hope, and opportunities!
You hit the nail square on the head! Nassau has the same problem only worse, with expats and second home owners.
They could care less about our laws, and why should they when there's no penalty and nobody has been fined for hiring illegals, secondly, immigration can't go into gated communities to look for illegals anyway.
The country is buried in illegals from all over the place being facilitated by expats and second home owners looking for the cheapest labour.
SP says...
Firstly, unfortunately, the Bahamas political architecture is transitory with no established long term tourism development plan.
For decades with every change in government, the new ruling party takes years attempting to identify the way forward for tourism development. By the time they conceive a plan and begin implementation they are voted out and the cycle repeats all over again.
Secondly, neither government has had the humility and enough common sense to listen to "on the ground Bahamians" like Elizabeth “Pinky” Wilson-Robinson and Olivia Bain!
These ladies and many, many, others over decades have tried in vane to point the government in the right direction as to what is "actually needed" to improve our tourism product.
However, with Parliament mainly consisting of "high hat" doctors, lawyers, and accounts the likes of Elizabeth “Pinky” Wilson-Robinson and Olivia Bain are totally ignored.
The result is exactly what we have now. Pig headed, politicians with absolutely zero hands on experiences in tourism "brainstorming, and making decisions" that are totally irrational and bound to fail!
For many decades the single biggest complaint from visitors, cruise operators, and airlines is there is not enough to do in Nassau. How our genius politicians interpreted that as a need for more hotels downtown remains a mystery.
How difficult is it to simply look at competing regional resort destinations like Mexico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, and Jamaica, to see how they have perfected the art of using entertainment to extract huge revenue from tourists.
For instance Cuba profits more from tourism entertainment than room revenues! There is more entertainment in six city blocks in Cuba than exist in the entire Bahamas!
Elizabeth “Pinky” Wilson-Robinson and Olivia Bain are 1000% correct.
We need to focus on more entertainment diversity downtown, not more hotel rooms.
On 'Activities, not hotels, is what Downtown needs'
Posted 16 July 2025, 7:20 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Why would China and the Bahamas waste time responding to U.S. Claims?
It is common knowledge that World Bank and IMF loan debt traps always come with ridiculously high interest rates, geopolitical strings, U.S. corporate influence peddlers, and a quagmire of politically compromising conditions.
Africa has also gotten wise and is now ditching western loan institutions like the plague after suffering decades of high interest IMF and World Bank debt trap deals with crippling austerity measures, and forced national corporate privatizations.
The chaos rocking Kenya right now is a prime example of the damage U.S. lending institutions leads to.
Congratulations PM Davis for not falling "further" into the US debt trap!
On China: Is there a US loan proposal on the table?
Posted 15 July 2025, 9:16 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Why is the Bahamas always hell bent on reinventing the wheel ?
Reviving Bay Street and its once vibrant nightlife is not rocket science. If we simply copied a variation of Key West tourism business model lock stock and barrel, Bay Street would likewise become successful.
It should be mandatory for all of the “courting investors” to visit Key West to experience real live tourism products on the ground.
Enough blah. Let's get moving.
On DPM: ‘We’re going to bring back downtown nightlife’
Posted 15 July 2025, 8:46 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
This sure makes Canada and Panama look a whole lot more attractive!
On ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ adds $250 to US visa cost
Posted 9 July 2025, 3:32 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
**"20 percent of teens have attempted suicide, and nearly 25 percent have contemplated it".** This is only what they know about and actually translates to more than 50% of our youth being suicidal. This also explains the record high adult suicide rate.
Everybody trying to tip toe around the elephant in the room. **Decades of Failed leadership!**
Where are all of the usual smart alec, one line comebacks, from the sweet mouth politicians? Every one of them past and present should stay under the rocks they've quickly crawled under and stay there forever.
**"it's the economy, stupid"**
Politicians are now forced to stop playing dumb and ignoring the impact and multilayered economic and social damages tens of thousands of foreign blue collar workers disenfranchising Bahamians of jobs are having on our people.
Children are a mirror of suffering, unemployed, and underemployed, parents! It would be an interesting exercise to quantify suicidal tendencies between Haitians vs. Bahamians.
We didn't get to this point overnight. This is a serious, unquestionable, indictment against the countries 5 decades of leadership.
No amount of slick political jargon and ducking can save them this time.
On Education director finds suicide stats ‘shocking’
Posted 8 July 2025, 7:43 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Youth depression is directly related to financial circumstances in the home as they watch underemployed and unemployed parents drown in debt!
Depressed youth see parents and families driven to disfunction due to lack of employment opportunities and financial hardships.
When they see parents can't survive, they have no hope for themselves, and are driven to suicidal tendencies.
**“This is not about blame" ?**
To the contrary. **This is all about 5 decades of failed leadership**
On Pintard: Emergency over Nation’s youth
Posted 7 July 2025, 4:11 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
🤣 I knew one of you political apologist would be stupid enough to attempt shifting the blame of "political failings" to protect low skilled jobs for Bahamians on parents.
Literally 10"s of thousands of low skilled jobs now occupied by expats should have been reserved for Bahamians only!
No Bahamian will will EVER be granted a low skilled blue collar job in Asia, Latin Ameica, or Haiti!
If foreign employers don't like black domestic workers, they shouldn't be here. They can carry their ass's to another country. We will survive just as well without them too, because their Asian, Latino, or Haitian employees send remittances to home countries which doesn't benefit the Bahamas.
Unemployed, desperate, Bahamian youth's have no alternative but to turn to crime for survival.
Don't act surprised if **Y-O-U** wake up one morning to the barrel of a gun!
Carry on smartly.
On 1 in 5 teens has attempted suicide
Posted 5 July 2025, 4:25 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
**"as usual they will blaim the parents"**
To resolve the problem government needs to simply keep bringing in more Asians, Latinos, Haitians, and others to disenfranchise more of our youth from jobs, hope, and opportunities!
**plp & fnm - all the way to nowhere !**
On 1 in 5 teens has attempted suicide
Posted 4 July 2025, 6:35 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
You hit the nail square on the head! Nassau has the same problem only worse, with expats and second home owners.
They could care less about our laws, and why should they when there's no penalty and nobody has been fined for hiring illegals, secondly, immigration can't go into gated communities to look for illegals anyway.
The country is buried in illegals from all over the place being facilitated by expats and second home owners looking for the cheapest labour.
Government is a total joke to these people.
On Abaco Cays’ growing immigration crisis ‘at boiling point'
Posted 12 June 2025, 8:26 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Only Bahamians are unable to find employment and are ending up homeless and begging for survival!
Haitians, Asians, and Latinos, enjoy full employment.
The Bahamas needs Trump to step in and put Bahamians first!
On Laroda: Disturbing rise in cases of mothers prostituting their daughters
Posted 10 June 2025, 5:13 p.m. Suggest removal