A piss poor deal all around ever since Ingraham allowed them to keep everything on board open in port. Casinos, restaurants, shops, pools, activities all open in port, and with their "port security briefings" is it any wonder few passengers get off the ship?
I have confirmed that Medical insurers will not cover illnesses cause by the vaccine because it was declared safe for emergency use only. Blood clots, Gran Mal seizures.....Loss of income, Is Mr Scott going to cover those bills and pay his staff while they recover? Will NIB pay out sick leave if one is sick from an adverse reaction? If the shots were for a proven long standing Vaccine such as MMR, Yellow fever, Malaria, it would be understandable, and those vaccines are routine, proven. but no blind studies have been done.Aside the great global experimental one now being pushed and pushed hard. This has been rushed "to market" and yes, this is an economic market newly created. Major money is being made. Driven by Governments Coercing their people to be a part of the grand experiment. At the end of the day, remember it is the political driving this buss, making the promises, now offering the enticements, just as they do at election time. They never deliver or so much as apologize either. I personally want time to make my personal decision as to wether I will take the vaccine or not.
$2 mil out of probably north of 20 mil? A token amount. Are local tour operators forced to take out a $2 mil liability policy (from the cruise line themselves or their subsidiaries) to have their tours marked up by the ship board booking by 100%? Do the Cruise line still string you out on quarterly payment while deducting any random amount due to uncorroborated passenger tour dissatisfaction? Too many details left out on this whole picture. The Chamber aught to be studying this whole business model, from the local perspective.
Anyone who has been watching our successive goverment administrations disregard for property, buildings and maintenance would show no surprise. It all started with the intentional destruction of the Royal Victoria hotel. The shoddy construction of the now gone post office. It is as simple as "I can't do anything with it so no, you can't either" and of course as complicated as the inevitable wrangling of Shingles out of anyone foolish enough to even get into a conversation about taking over their foolish errors they never learn from. But perhaps the bigger disgrace is burning 3.5 million of the peoples NIB money to buy it in the first place! And these are the idiots we are going to elect to replace the current idiots with?
I wish they'd stop calling it a vaccine. By the CDC definition a vaccine prevents being infected by a given virus/disease. This does not prevent infection, re-infection, it only (and supposedly) reduces symptoms. It also causes some symptoms of its own. Globally, this is a state sponsored coercion. They'll soon be offering KFC coupons to take it. Funny how they're not setting up any official status for those who have had covid itself. Opinions for immunity range from 90 days to a year. I've been advised by Doctors not to get any shot as long as i test positive for antibodies.
Insofar as the Covid response is a politically driven effort, and notwithstanding Political competencies (an Obvious oxymoron, there are none) I cannot see any Government Mandating an experimental Vaccine ( emergency use, zero liability) produced by 4-5 different companies, with no control group studies, driven by billions in profit, with no viable vaccine after 20 years of efforts, Post Thalidomide. For the record, I have had Covid, and luckily suffered very mild symptoms. The negative side effects continue to show themselves, particularly around the second shot. A global experiment which history will either show was a) prudent or b) the most ill advised and catastrophic human experiment gone wrong. The jury is still out. Globally, GOvrnment are using peer pressure tactics and coercion to push an vaccine that they concede a) does not prevent infection, (the very definition of vaccine) b may not last but a year and require booster shots and c) may or may not reduce the severity of an infections symptoms if the virus proper is caught. Aka you still have to suffer the mask, social distancing, etc etc etc. And we still cannot get rational press releases from our government. or transparent reporting on cases, etc etc. Am I wrong?
Our government has entrapped themselves in the global Political Push based on "science" to administer a set of vaccines that have been approved for "emergency use" (read zero liability) by companies with a zero success rate for any vaccine they have ever produced. Various countries have suspended vaccine use for any number of Vaccine co-morbidities, If a vaccine has a higher mortality rate than that of the illness it purports to counter, we have a problem. As Always, with Government, it is a trust problem. The Covid Vaccine Could become a real epoch in history, along the lines of Thalidomide. Caveat emptor.
Better the devil you know (and love to spend money with, and visit, and we do so freely) than the devil you don't. The British empire dominated the world for centuries, not the U.S. The U.S.has global interests, which China Covets. All they have use for here is the fisheries which they would happily wipe out in short order once allowed. I understand they are already the main buyer of our poached seafood via the southern nations who poach here.
Many countries have sand sea and sunshine, the two areas we need serious improvement in are Quality of service including cleanliness and Bahamian domestic investors. How the hell can we expect foreigners to buy in when we don't or are blocked from doing so, by our own damn Government?
The barrier to Cruise ship tour offerings is the prohibitively high cost of their Liability insurance, which must be purchased from their in house insurance co. (captive $$ stream, 2 mil liability policy) and their insane onboard booking tour markup. Ya'll have yet to understand their business model. SEt up a mega shop and pay no rent, and worse get concessions. Ingraham made the first fatal mistake with allowing on board concessions to remain open in port. (casinos, bars, resturants, etc) They must've seen him coming a mile away. Want to reset the model? You are going to have to.
The_Oracle says...
A piss poor deal all around ever since Ingraham allowed them to keep everything on board open in port.
Casinos, restaurants, shops, pools, activities all open in port, and with their "port security briefings" is it any wonder few passengers get off the ship?
On MSC, Norwegian eye Nassau home porting
Posted 27 April 2021, 3:46 p.m. Suggest removal
The_Oracle says...
I have confirmed that Medical insurers will not cover illnesses cause by the vaccine because it was declared safe for emergency use only.
Blood clots, Gran Mal seizures.....Loss of income, Is Mr Scott going to cover those bills and pay his staff while they recover?
Will NIB pay out sick leave if one is sick from an adverse reaction?
If the shots were for a proven long standing Vaccine such as MMR, Yellow fever, Malaria, it would be understandable, and those vaccines are routine, proven.
but no blind studies have been done.Aside the great global experimental one now being pushed and pushed hard. This has been rushed "to market" and yes, this is an economic market newly created. Major money is being made.
Driven by Governments Coercing their people to be a part of the grand experiment.
At the end of the day, remember it is the political driving this buss, making the promises, now offering the enticements, just as they do at election time. They never deliver or so much as apologize either.
I personally want time to make my personal decision as to wether I will take the vaccine or not.
On ‘I don’t want my guests to leave with COVID dessert’
Posted 27 April 2021, 3:42 p.m. Suggest removal
The_Oracle says...
$2 mil out of probably north of 20 mil? A token amount.
Are local tour operators forced to take out a $2 mil liability policy (from the cruise line themselves or their subsidiaries) to have their tours marked up by the ship board booking by 100%?
Do the Cruise line still string you out on quarterly payment while deducting any random amount due to uncorroborated passenger tour dissatisfaction?
Too many details left out on this whole picture.
The Chamber aught to be studying this whole business model, from the local perspective.
On Royal Caribbean: $2m in Bahamian contracts
Posted 27 April 2021, 3:07 p.m. Suggest removal
The_Oracle says...
Anyone who has been watching our successive goverment administrations disregard for property, buildings and maintenance would show no surprise. It all started with the intentional destruction of the Royal Victoria hotel. The shoddy construction of the now gone post office.
It is as simple as "I can't do anything with it so no, you can't either" and of course as complicated as the inevitable wrangling of Shingles out of anyone foolish enough to even get into a conversation about taking over their foolish errors they never learn from. But perhaps the bigger disgrace is burning 3.5 million of the peoples NIB money to buy it in the first place!
And these are the idiots we are going to elect to replace the current idiots with?
On INSIGHT: Why on Earth is this jewel being allowed to fall into ruin?
Posted 26 April 2021, 7 p.m. Suggest removal
The_Oracle says...
I wish they'd stop calling it a vaccine.
By the CDC definition a vaccine prevents being infected by a given virus/disease.
This does not prevent infection, re-infection, it only (and supposedly) reduces symptoms.
It also causes some symptoms of its own.
Globally, this is a state sponsored coercion.
They'll soon be offering KFC coupons to take it.
Funny how they're not setting up any official status for those who have had covid itself.
Opinions for immunity range from 90 days to a year.
I've been advised by Doctors not to get any shot as long as i test positive for antibodies.
On Ex-minister: ‘Use carrots, not stick’ over COVID jabs
Posted 25 April 2021, 7:56 p.m. Suggest removal
The_Oracle says...
Insofar as the Covid response is a politically driven effort, and notwithstanding Political competencies (an Obvious oxymoron, there are none)
I cannot see any Government Mandating an experimental Vaccine ( emergency use, zero liability) produced by 4-5 different companies, with no control group studies, driven by billions in profit, with no viable vaccine after 20 years of efforts, Post Thalidomide.
For the record, I have had Covid, and luckily suffered very mild symptoms.
The negative side effects continue to show themselves, particularly around the second shot.
A global experiment which history will either show was a) prudent or b) the most ill advised and catastrophic human experiment gone wrong.
The jury is still out.
Globally, GOvrnment are using peer pressure tactics and coercion to push an vaccine that they concede a) does not prevent infection, (the very definition of vaccine) b may not last but a year and require booster shots and c) may or may not reduce the severity of an infections symptoms if the virus proper is caught.
Aka you still have to suffer the mask, social distancing, etc etc etc.
And we still cannot get rational press releases from our government.
or transparent reporting on cases, etc etc.
Am I wrong?
On Union chief brands mandatory shot as ‘going back to 1942’
Posted 20 April 2021, 8:02 p.m. Suggest removal
The_Oracle says...
Our government has entrapped themselves in the global Political Push based on "science" to administer a set of vaccines that have been approved for "emergency use" (read zero liability) by companies with a zero success rate for any vaccine they have ever produced.
Various countries have suspended vaccine use for any number of Vaccine co-morbidities,
If a vaccine has a higher mortality rate than that of the illness it purports to counter, we have a problem.
As Always, with Government, it is a trust problem.
The Covid Vaccine Could become a real epoch in history, along the lines of Thalidomide.
Caveat emptor.
On EDITORIAL: Something is going to have to change in our attitude to vaccination
Posted 16 April 2021, 11:08 p.m. Suggest removal
The_Oracle says...
Better the devil you know (and love to spend money with, and visit, and we do so freely)
than the devil you don't. The British empire dominated the world for centuries, not the U.S.
The U.S.has global interests, which China Covets.
All they have use for here is the fisheries which they would happily wipe out in short order once allowed.
I understand they are already the main buyer of our poached seafood via the southern nations who poach here.
On ‘U.S. should help out, not point fingers’
Posted 7 April 2021, 4:47 p.m. Suggest removal
The_Oracle says...
Many countries have sand sea and sunshine, the two areas we need serious improvement in are Quality of service including cleanliness and Bahamian domestic investors. How the hell can we expect foreigners to buy in when we don't or are blocked from doing so, by our own damn Government?
On Minister issues challenge: Develop ‘projects of scale’
Posted 31 March 2021, 4:54 p.m. Suggest removal
The_Oracle says...
The barrier to Cruise ship tour offerings is the prohibitively high cost of their Liability insurance,
which must be purchased from their in house insurance co. (captive $$ stream, 2 mil liability policy) and their insane onboard booking tour markup.
Ya'll have yet to understand their business model. SEt up a mega shop and pay no rent, and worse get concessions. Ingraham made the first fatal mistake with allowing on board concessions to remain open in port. (casinos, bars, resturants, etc) They must've seen him coming a mile away. Want to reset the model?
You are going to have to.
On Minister issues challenge: Develop ‘projects of scale’
Posted 30 March 2021, 7:14 p.m. Suggest removal