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SP says...

This guy and all the trans-gender others need psychiatric help. His pretending to be a woman does not make him a female any more than my pretending to be rich makes me wealthy!

Running away from reality never worked for anyone, and certainly will not work for him. He will associate with others in need of the same psychiatric help he needs, and at the end of every day, he will still be the same as when he was born dressed as a woman wearing a wig.

SP says...

Arawak Cay fish fry is supposed to be a "Bahamian experience" too, but it has overwhelmingly become a little Port Au Prince, Haiti!

On innumerable occasions, we refer guests asking about Bahamian food to the fish fry and after visiting Arawak Cay the guests come back asking what language do Bahamians speak.

It is infuriating to visit Arawak Cay because all one hears is Creol spoken throughout the fish fry.

Businesses at Arawak Cay were initially all Bahamian. What happened? How did the government allow original vendors to sublease their businesses to Haitians? What kind of resort experience are we trying to provide for tourists?

SP says...

Taxi drivers are among the biggest thieves in the country! These people have no scruples and couldn't care less about tourism.

Taxi drivers are on the front line of visitor experiences. In far too many instances tourists arrive at a hotel with a negative perception of the Bahamas because of unprofessional, crooked taxi drivers.

I don't know how the government intends on policing this group of pirates, but something has to be done with taxi and jitney drivers, and immediately.

There has to be a written fee structure published for taxis to abide by, and anyone caught overstepping the boundaries should have their license revoked. Either we are going to be serious about tourism or not.

There is no room for wrist-slapping and multiple warnings. The bad apples must be weeded out as quickly as possible.

On Taxi drivers face ‘code of conduct’

Posted 28 April 2023, 5:25 p.m. Suggest removal

SP says...

Decades of mismanagement of the fund are quickly coming home to roost!

SP says...

360-degree jackass Bell must be fresh off the mail boat. He needs to stop standing around saber-rattling and **ACT**!

Bell warned illegal Haitians to leave and the dam Haitians turned around and invited all their relatives and friends to come and join them in the Bahamas.

Persons advertising positions at low salaries locally with all sorts of ridiculous requirements attached and then hiring a non-Bahamian at a significantly higher salary, plus all kinds of perks has been the norm for decades.

It is common to find Asians and Latinos employed as domestic employees that do not speak one word of English. The government is sending a message loud and clear that Bahamians are too stupid to fill domestic jobs!

Mr. Bell should explain to the nation how it is possible that Asians and Latinos that speak no English are employed doing jobs Bahamians can do.

When the PLP came to power in 1967 there was over-employment. Bahamians had the luxury of having two or even three jobs if desired. The PLP decided the country was underpopulated and as many of them were and still are of Haitian heritage, opened the floodgates encouraging Haitians to migrate to the Bahamas.

The construction industry was the backbone of Haitian infiltration, putting Bahamians out of work, and a $250.00 repatriation bonus for Haitians was the incentive for Haitians caught illegally in the Bahamas to return with even more family and friends.

The government then allowed Asians and Latinos to dominate the domestic industry, causing even more unemployment for Bahamians.

The impact of these immigration policies of the PLP and FNM is double-digit unemployment for decades which forced Bahamians to lives of crime for survival and the high serious crime rate we now suffer as a country.

The PLP and FNM are true architects of crime!

SP says...

Free National Movement deputy leader Shanendon Cartwright is making a bigger ass of himself more frequently than ever. Any jackass can stand around pointing fingers and talking crap.

Mouth could say anything. Why doesn't Shanendon Cartwright present his crime-fighting to the people? If the FNM had any such plan, they certainly kept it under wrap during their tenure.

SP says...

They need to stop the ridiculous policy of locking up people with small amounts of so-called "dangerous drugs" and get all the petty drug offenders and others with minor offenses out of prison to make room for these hardened murderers.

SP says...

Thank you, **FNM** for creating the bail-for-murder laws to get one of your Lyford Cay supporters convicted of murder out of prison that are destroying the very fabric of my country!

SP says...

I am 110% with former Minister of Tourism and Aviation Dionisio D’Aguilar mainly because Bahamians "supposedly" can invest in the project and hold equity up to 49 percent.

This is a long overdue very significant no-brainer approach for Bahamians to become owners of our tourism product on the road to developing our country as a resort destination, which will enable our people to make profits and reinvest in diversified, badly needed resort amenities.

For 5 decades successive governments ignorantly misunderstood "what a resort destination should be". This misguided ignorance caused them to focus on visitors' "hotel experience" totally oblivious that nobody travels to resort destinations for "hotel experiences"!

Case in point, firstly, Disney Orlando literally developed a swamp into amusement theme parks ......**THEN the hotels followed**.

Meanwhile, the PLP and FNM were working ass backward for 50 years focusing on visitor "hotel experiences", totally unable to figure out why our tourism product consistently declined.

This is regardless of the fact that airport exit surveys in 1980 revealed the biggest complaint of visitors was a lack of things to do in Nassau, while Florida, Cuba, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Mexico, and other regional competing sun destinations clearly significantly benefited from, nightlife, attractions, and theme park resort amenities.

The cruise industry, Atlantis, and Baha Mar understood the importance of "**resort amenities**" and developed water theme parks and Bahamian Cay destinations. Had the government been focused on developing these things.....Hotels would naturally have followed.

What the government should have, and now mostly needs to encourage is Bahamian-owned "attractions" which would increase "resort spend" and revenue across the board.

The government and Bahamians need to focus on creating an "amusement environment" capable of extracting $200.00 from every visitor to our country.

**This is actually very easily accomplishable once we can get politicians and special interests on a level playing field.**

Royal Caribbean International’s Paradise Island Royal Beach Club project and hopefully any such future resort developments with 49% Bahamian equity is an absolutely fantastic start!

SP says...

Too many people "minding their own business" in the Bahamas now is the main reason these corrupt politicians continue getting away with destroying our country and getting compensated for doing so!