Make the Bahamas a Province of Canada. Under the Canadian transfer payment scheme, the Bahamas would benefit enormously. There would be a huge influx of Canadian tourism. The RCMP would research and squash any old-boy corruption in a hurry.
The Bahamian culture would remain intact. Look at Quebec to see how that works.
Your observations are correct. The concerns are that the trend is towards the government not being able to pay their employees and there being no public healthcare because the tourism industry will die.
The stabbing is not an isolated incident but part of a pattern.
So let's summarize. A shooting in front of tourists (the Disney Dream was in port with many children). Visitors being robbed and in some cases murdered. Homicides at the rate of about 4 per week. Baha Mar very late, with scuttlebutt that much of the building cannot pass code and rumours that it may never be finished or ever used. An airport which is currently losing money at the rate of about $55,000 USD per day. A new vacation destination opening for Americans in a location where crime is dealt with severely: Cuba.
ScullyUFO says...
Dude: turn signals are the rhythm section.
On Stop the speeding drivers
Posted 29 May 2015, 5:24 p.m. Suggest removal
ScullyUFO says...
Make the Bahamas a Province of Canada. Under the Canadian transfer payment scheme, the Bahamas would benefit enormously. There would be a huge influx of Canadian tourism. The RCMP would research and squash any old-boy corruption in a hurry.
The Bahamian culture would remain intact. Look at Quebec to see how that works.
On Ingraham ‘not coming back’
Posted 29 May 2015, 5:02 p.m. Suggest removal
ScullyUFO says...
Your observations are correct. The concerns are that the trend is towards the government not being able to pay their employees and there being no public healthcare because the tourism industry will die.
The stabbing is not an isolated incident but part of a pattern.
On Man stabbed to death at Potter's Cay Dock
Posted 21 May 2015, 9:15 a.m. Suggest removal
ScullyUFO says...
Correction: out of habit I said "shooting". It was merely a "stabbing".
On Man stabbed to death at Potter's Cay Dock
Posted 20 May 2015, 11:38 a.m. Suggest removal
ScullyUFO says...
So let's summarize. A shooting in front of tourists (the Disney Dream was in port with many children). Visitors being robbed and in some cases murdered. Homicides at the rate of about 4 per week. Baha Mar very late, with scuttlebutt that much of the building cannot pass code and rumours that it may never be finished or ever used. An airport which is currently losing money at the rate of about $55,000 USD per day. A new vacation destination opening for Americans in a location where crime is dealt with severely: Cuba.
Conclusion: prosperity for all Bahamians!
On Man stabbed to death at Potter's Cay Dock
Posted 20 May 2015, 11:35 a.m. Suggest removal