More regulation, less freedom.
Typical over reaction driven by complete ignorance.
Gonna Ban Go Pro cameras next? Radio controlled toys?
All the same technology, just different costs.
How about some reasonable laws concerning no fly zones, privacy rights, liability for injury?
Instead we just Ban them.
Aught to Ban Politicians instead!

Our politicians will never eliminate any of their avenues for pilfering,
they'd have to line up and share at what is left!
No matter that the Bahamian people continue to suffer with less and less
opportunity, income, law and order.

As a population we deserve more of the same old stuff floating to the surface to skim off the treasury.
Maybe when we do hit rock bottom we will wake up to the pillaging from within.
A hard and costly lesson courtesy of blind allegiance to trickle down cronyism.
The saddest thing is that everything is fixable, until it is too late and fully broken.
That point is coming fast.

While probably a good idea to have one massive oil/antifreeze/KFC/beer bottle/junkyard environmental waste zone somewhere as opposed to little oil dump sites everywhere,
a Government approach guarantees the former, government inaction gave us the latter.

Lame-assed road traffic dept. without a searchable VIN # database.
Too easy to fudge hand written licenses.
easy solution, prohibit the importation of vehicles sold at auction in the U.S as non-road worthy/parts only.
Some auction cars are sold able to be re-titled as a whole road worthy car, not two welded together!
Importing used parts is questionable but not as un-ethical as a complete car made from damaged cars.

By Volume of theft? NO, Florida wins that by shear volume of boat/engine theft.
What will kill us is the fact that A) there is little hope of recovery or apprehension of thieves and B) U.S. insurers are backing off covering U.S. assets here, in fact most don't anyway unless specifically offered.
Our incompetence and slackness coupled with cluelessness will find us without lunch!
High dollar tourists are what we chased away, aside the Marine traffic/tourist,
now we are ditching them.
Is full blown subsidized 3 Tee for $10 one bottle of rum tourism gonna fund us?
Not likely.

The problem isn't the age, but the condition of these wrecks imported and stitched together from multiple wrecks to make one unsafe but drivable wreck.
Hopefully the law if and when written will recognize antique autos!
Maybe a legal rider barring older broke or broke down politicians from running for re-election!

From the Florida Keys to Tampa, east coast and west, Grand Bahama, Abaco, Bimini, all the islands of the Bahamas, Boat theft has been going on for decades.
Blame crooked people, and supply and demand for parts engines and hulls, high value equipment unattended and easy to steal, for whatever purpose they are used for.
What we need is proper law enforcement, law with the teeth to help ensure compliance with the law.
Same deficiency as every other aspect of society in the Bahamas right?
40 years of self determination with out an ounce of responsibility attached, from the top down, openly displayed for all to see.
So, back to point, what we gonna do about these thieving scum walking away with multi-hundred thousand dollar boats un-impeded which burns off high dollar repeat tourists and visitors?
In days of old it would be called piracy, and pirates when caught were hung.
By whomever caught them red handed.
Something to think about.

Particularly since manufacturers have always footed the major costs of standards certification over decades if not.
Major manufacturers also had input on the creation of standards, something we have yet to be afforded in any way!
Imagine that, private public sector working together!
Importers will foot the costs, for testing, delays, incompetence, which means the end consumers and the economy will get hit.
Accepting the standards of the U.S. and EU makes sense, with as little interference by Government as possible.

Capt. Butler Everything goes into the consolidated fund, a big black hole of mis-appropriation and theft.
Government has also tried to levy Customs duty on shipping containers which are internationally considered "instruments of trade" by international standards!
Our problem is we have no standards, and pay lip service to the standards of international agreements we have signed.
We sign simply to get grants, loans and gifts and end up with little to show for them save increasing pressure to clean up our act.