Rightly so a Bahamian firm is upset that the Government will not give them the time of day.
It has been this way for 50 years.
They' rather use some foreign entity that is more likey to work with some connected person and allow someone connected to make a few $$ on the deal.
Change that approach and we may well start fixing what ails the country.
I wish you luck. Many have tried..........

A floodlight has illuminated the questionable and self serving practices of the Bahamas
Medical Cartel. Should happen more often.
Private Dr.s working at the Government hospitals in order to refer them to their own clinics
is unethical at best. hypocritical behavior hiding behind a Hippocratic oath in far too many cases.

Did anyone in Government reach out to Buckeye/Freeport Harbor in Grand Bahama yet?
They have (or had) the oil booms and remediation equipment on hand,
Just sayin.

Yet another glimpse into our broke down dysfunctional tourism product.
How can you have two minimum wage floors? You can't.
Government ran into a similar problem when minimum wage was first proposed @ $170/week, realizing at the last minute that they themselves would not be compliant, so they lowered it to $150/wk.......
Clean up all the hotel procurement scams, conflicts of interest and layered costs, we may regain and rebuild the industry that built the Bahamas.
The same industry other countries consistently eat our lunch in.

Davis will not be his own undoing, it will be those surrounding him, both inside and outside the Government halls. It always is.

Zero inter departmental communication, forcing the applicant to run around like a chicken without a head between them all, conflicting instructions on which Government chicken (or egg) comes first,
minimum 7 departments if not more, 4 inspections if not more,
Document applications followed by outflow to other departments, followed by document inflow back from same.
All this without the lawyers. Online for some aspects but not others, and let's not forget potential attitudes, hostility and daily unavailability with strange operating hours.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, it is the outcome that inevitably sucks.

It will be interesting if "lockdowns" become a chapter in Economic educational "what not to do"
The Politicians shut off the economic engine before they thought about a restart.
They do not possess the keys to the economic engine.

Between the hotel Concierge desk staff and management only pushing tours from which they earn commissions on the side, to the cruise lines marking up tours for their "take" to the bus companies holding all local tour/venue operators hostage for transport, is it any wonder a $69 tour includes a hot dog for lunch?
Our product is over priced by these practices, and unscrupulous Ship operators dictating what locals must do in the name of their "standards"

Sounds like Mr. Goold is himself hunting treasure and quick riches in the Bahamas.

Who has been in charge of our society for the last 50 years? We have.
We may not have consciously planned to arrive at this point, but we sure have done everything and allowed everything to get us to this point.
We are still operating from a position of trying to catch up, as opposed to leaping ahead in order to deal with it head on. The real issue to be aware of is the potential loss of freedoms, which history will teach can, and usually does, become permanent.
At the root of it all? Lack of enforcement over the last 50 years.
Al the little rules discarded, overlooked, even all the new rules written to overcome OUR failure as a society to observe the rules, also unenforced.
A mole hill can indeed become a mountain.