No one in my entire family has been contacted or has ever seen anybody from the census bureau, so a huge number of illegals and in-house foreign domestic workers were also not counted. This census has to be way off.
Successive government's behavior of painstakingly protecting irregular migrants to any lengths instead of supporting the rights of Bahamians points to "a criminal plot" underway "to change the demographic makeup of the Bahamas".
**firstly, hats off to the Bahamians that made numerous complaints about the number of foreign workers on construction sites.
This is the best news for the year so far** as finally, Bahamians have begun to voice their disapproval of the unfair practice by Bahamian contractors and foreign property owners hiring illegals to the detriment of Bahamians!
Immigration should have had the contractor's license suspended and the property owner should have had his project stopped, building plans and immigration status revoked, while both of them are hauled before the courts and heavily fined for violation of immigration laws.
This same property owner will also hire illegal Asian and Latino domestic workers!
360-degree jackass immigration Minister Keith Bell is one of the biggest mockeries in Parliament!
All this blah, blah, blah, blah, on the floor of the House, and this idiot cannot report one employer that has been fined for violation of immigration laws. The PLP and FNM are afraid of these foreign people that consistently break numerous Bahamian laws without consequences.
Why would these people stop hiring illegals if there is no penalty for doing so?
social Services Minister Obie Wilchcombe's statement that "ambulance supply" was the problem is disingenuous.
There are no shortages of ambulances.
Anyone with half a brain can Google "ambulances for sale" to find innumerable used, and refurbished ambulances for sale, or visit arvambulance.com for new ambulances.
Please stop insulting our intelligence with bullshyt.
@ Emilio26.....This is the main problem. Both PLP and FNM governments have absolutely no knowledge of tourism and are too busy playing "politrics" to accomplish anything tangible for the sector!
Successive governments have appointed Minister's of tourism with 0% actual knowledge of tourism. These Ministers then appoint political trolls to lead, decision-making positions (like Dr. Whats his face now) and our tourism product continue backsliding.
The government's focus is misdirected on the "hotel experience". However, no one travels to sit inside a hotel 24/7. People travel to experience foreign destinations and cultures.
Our leaders are 100% off course and have not an iota of a clue what they should be focusing on for the Bahamas as a destination in the very competitive business of resort travel!
The government needs to be made to understand the importance of improving our tourism product, focusing firstly on the quality of what we do have and rapidly increasing daytime and nighttime entertainment opportunities.
For example, daily hundreds of tourists visit the West Street Bay Caves. Firstly, the "caves" are no more than a small hole in the ground to start with, and secondly, and most egregious the caves are not maintained! Beachgoers from across the street use the caves as toilets. It is a disgusting "very popular attraction." This sort of lack of quality is due to inept management by the government.
Somehow, we need to get the government to realize that 5 decades of **"talking tourism"** has failed miserably, and we are about to become the worst destination on the market as the ever-increasing arrivals document their dissatisfaction with the Bahamas as a destination.
Why they are incapable of simply copying, Cuba, Bermuda, The Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and the Cayman Islands is the biggest mystery of all time.
The government is totally oblivious that we have been in deep trouble for decades and it will only get worst with higher volumes of tourists!
ROYAL Caribbean International CEO Michael Bayley acknowledgment that Nassau ranks in the bottom ten percent of destinations customers are satisfied with is an ongoing serious issue that has plagued Nassau as a destination since an early 1980s airport exit survey revealed that the single biggest complaint of visitors was "a lack of things to do in Nassau"!
Along with other veteran tourism professionals, I have been advocating right here with **every administration** for decades to focus on improving our dwindling tourism product without an ounce of success.
Obviously, successive governments have absolutely no idea what they are doing with tourism and are only interested in "optics" when it comes to our number one industry!
In fact, we have consistently gone backward for the last 5 decades. The sole reason the Bahamas succeeds as a tourism destination is because of our **proximity to 400 million** North Americans and very little to do with marketing and promotions.
One fact that the government seems unable to comprehend is the importance of entertainment and quality attractions. There is more entertainment in a few city blocks of our main regional competitors like Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico than there is in the entire Bahamas!
Adding insult to injury, with the new healthy increase in cruise and air visitors, it is inevitable the Bahamas will expeditiously continue the downward spiral of dissatisfied tourists due to the higher volumes of dissatisfaction.
That said. The ROYAL Caribbean International Paradise Island, Coco Cay, developments, and all others should be 49% owned by Bahamians to allow our people to create the necessary income to invest in diversified attractions throughout the country.
We must get rid of special interest ownership of our tourism product if we intend on developing a diversified, well-rounded tourism product that benefits the Bahamas and Bahamians.
Absolute chaos at NIB, and Inland Revenue. Trying to call either of them is a harrowing experience. No one answers the phones and the automated answering system is 100% more irritating and equally ineffective than the live receptionist who actually did answer the phone by mistake from time to time.
How the hell are they ever going to sort out the mess they created due to inefficiency if they can't even answer the damn phones? So we need to physically go to these places to get anything remotely done!
Now the government is talking about digitizing Customs entry and exemption forms for the "convenience" of traveling citizens and residents.
This is going to be another huge fiasco!
Thank GOD for online shopping and courier services or we would all go stir-crazy.
SP says...
No one in my entire family has been contacted or has ever seen anybody from the census bureau, so a huge number of illegals and in-house foreign domestic workers were also not counted. This census has to be way off.
Successive government's behavior of painstakingly protecting irregular migrants to any lengths instead of supporting the rights of Bahamians points to "a criminal plot" underway "to change the demographic makeup of the Bahamas".
On Migration a major contributor to increase in population according to census report
Posted 18 April 2023, 7:23 a.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
**firstly, hats off to the Bahamians that made numerous complaints about the number of foreign workers on construction sites.
This is the best news for the year so far** as finally, Bahamians have begun to voice their disapproval of the unfair practice by Bahamian contractors and foreign property owners hiring illegals to the detriment of Bahamians!
Immigration should have had the contractor's license suspended and the property owner should have had his project stopped, building plans and immigration status revoked, while both of them are hauled before the courts and heavily fined for violation of immigration laws.
This same property owner will also hire illegal Asian and Latino domestic workers!
360-degree jackass immigration Minister Keith Bell is one of the biggest mockeries in Parliament!
All this blah, blah, blah, blah, on the floor of the House, and this idiot cannot report one employer that has been fined for violation of immigration laws. The PLP and FNM are afraid of these foreign people that consistently break numerous Bahamian laws without consequences.
Why would these people stop hiring illegals if there is no penalty for doing so?
On Work permit violations found on work site
Posted 13 April 2023, 7:05 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Make it 49% Bahamian owned or cancel the damn project! The cruise industry could care less about the Bahamas and Bahamians.
Only politicians and their friends, family, and lovers, profit from these foreign-owned tourist developments!
On RCI DEFENDS PI PROJECT: Cruise line addresses environmental concerns over $100m beach club
Posted 13 April 2023, 6:26 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
social Services Minister Obie Wilchcombe's statement that "ambulance supply" was the problem is disingenuous.
There are no shortages of ambulances.
Anyone with half a brain can Google "ambulances for sale" to find innumerable used, and refurbished ambulances for sale, or visit arvambulance.com for new ambulances.
Please stop insulting our intelligence with bullshyt.
On Minister startled that local govt responsible for Family Islands firefighting equipment
Posted 13 April 2023, 6:19 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
All of what you say is the responsibility of the government as leaders. They have simply failed!
On Nassau ranks low on visitor satisfaction
Posted 13 April 2023, 10:34 a.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
@ Emilio26.....This is the main problem. Both PLP and FNM governments have absolutely no knowledge of tourism and are too busy playing "politrics" to accomplish anything tangible for the sector!
Successive governments have appointed Minister's of tourism with 0% actual knowledge of tourism. These Ministers then appoint political trolls to lead, decision-making positions (like Dr. Whats his face now) and our tourism product continue backsliding.
The government's focus is misdirected on the "hotel experience". However, no one travels to sit inside a hotel 24/7. People travel to experience foreign destinations and cultures.
Our leaders are 100% off course and have not an iota of a clue what they should be focusing on for the Bahamas as a destination in the very competitive business of resort travel!
The government needs to be made to understand the importance of improving our tourism product, focusing firstly on the quality of what we do have and rapidly increasing daytime and nighttime entertainment opportunities.
For example, daily hundreds of tourists visit the West Street Bay Caves. Firstly, the "caves" are no more than a small hole in the ground to start with, and secondly, and most egregious the caves are not maintained! Beachgoers from across the street use the caves as toilets. It is a disgusting "very popular attraction." This sort of lack of quality is due to inept management by the government.
Somehow, we need to get the government to realize that 5 decades of **"talking tourism"** has failed miserably, and we are about to become the worst destination on the market as the ever-increasing arrivals document their dissatisfaction with the Bahamas as a destination.
Why they are incapable of simply copying, Cuba, Bermuda, The Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and the Cayman Islands is the biggest mystery of all time.
The government is totally oblivious that we have been in deep trouble for decades and it will only get worst with higher volumes of tourists!
On Nassau ranks low on visitor satisfaction
Posted 13 April 2023, 10:31 a.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
ROYAL Caribbean International CEO Michael Bayley acknowledgment that Nassau ranks in the bottom ten percent of destinations customers are satisfied with is an ongoing serious issue that has plagued Nassau as a destination since an early 1980s airport exit survey revealed that the single biggest complaint of visitors was "a lack of things to do in Nassau"!
Along with other veteran tourism professionals, I have been advocating right here with **every administration** for decades to focus on improving our dwindling tourism product without an ounce of success.
Obviously, successive governments have absolutely no idea what they are doing with tourism and are only interested in "optics" when it comes to our number one industry!
In fact, we have consistently gone backward for the last 5 decades. The sole reason the Bahamas succeeds as a tourism destination is because of our **proximity to 400 million** North Americans and very little to do with marketing and promotions.
One fact that the government seems unable to comprehend is the importance of entertainment and quality attractions. There is more entertainment in a few city blocks of our main regional competitors like Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico than there is in the entire Bahamas!
Adding insult to injury, with the new healthy increase in cruise and air visitors, it is inevitable the Bahamas will expeditiously continue the downward spiral of dissatisfied tourists due to the higher volumes of dissatisfaction.
That said. The ROYAL Caribbean International Paradise Island, Coco Cay, developments, and all others should be 49% owned by Bahamians to allow our people to create the necessary income to invest in diversified attractions throughout the country.
We must get rid of special interest ownership of our tourism product if we intend on developing a diversified, well-rounded tourism product that benefits the Bahamas and Bahamians.
On Nassau ranks low on visitor satisfaction
Posted 13 April 2023, 9:15 a.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
This weekend's murders certainly make the Commissioner's strategy for fewer murders this year null and void!
On THREE MEN DEAD WITHIN 24 HOURS: Police ‘aggressively searching’ for a ‘Rasta-type male’ related to the country’s latest murder
Posted 11 April 2023, 9:56 a.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
It's all theatrics to control the narrative for weak-minded minions, nothing will come of this.
On POLICE QUESTION EX-PM MINNIS: Investigation into last administration’s food programme confirmed
Posted 6 April 2023, 8:09 a.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Absolute chaos at NIB, and Inland Revenue. Trying to call either of them is a harrowing experience. No one answers the phones and the automated answering system is 100% more irritating and equally ineffective than the live receptionist who actually did answer the phone by mistake from time to time.
How the hell are they ever going to sort out the mess they created due to inefficiency if they can't even answer the damn phones? So we need to physically go to these places to get anything remotely done!
Now the government is talking about digitizing Customs entry and exemption forms for the "convenience" of traveling citizens and residents.
This is going to be another huge fiasco!
Thank GOD for online shopping and courier services or we would all go stir-crazy.
On More ‘operations’ planned for tax dodger crackdown
Posted 4 April 2023, 7:21 p.m. Suggest removal