Oh boy. I listened to the Minister of National Security explain how he knows nothing about fire fighting he just listens to the experts. Five years in, broken down fire trucks, small fires that balloon unnecessarily to millions in damage and an under resourced fire brigade. It seems like the entire cabinet is filled with people who've forgotten that a ministerial post is an oversight role. How can you four years in throw up your hands and say, well dont blame me, I don't know what they do. You havent read one article on best practice for the thing you accepted responsibility for? It's not nuclear fusion.

Your point of a cruise development on a grouper spawning site (I'm assuming you know, we'll know by tomorrow) is more of the same. Its complete craziness.

Another island sold to the cruise lines and then scratching our heads why tourism numbers have less impact? What are we doing???

Is hotel occupancy at 100%?

Lol. Traffic like a highway. They must be selling discounted PMH bread in the back there.

But seriously, the MP says they're trying to "coordinate and give people a chance to find other accommodations". What exactly does that have to do with very strange activity in the dark of night? Are the watchers and regulators being paid not to see?

Where'd the OKX cryptocurrency story disappear to? 5 senior Bahamians executives fired in 18months, four this year being replaced by foreign executives. With the labour department finding sufficient cause to revoke the permit for one foreign executive..

"*cited tourism analytics data indicating The Bahamas was the only Caribbean nation experiencing a decline in stopover visitors during the early months of 2024, despite rising overall arrivals driven by cruise tourism.*"

We've known this for years. Obie Wilchconbe was the last tourism exec that I recall who attempted to deny the negative trend in stopover visitor as Pamela Musgrove tried to explain to him the warnings signs.

While tourism execs were painting a rosy picture of the tariffs being an opportunity for us, last week I posted the following and had earlier pointed out the last time I heard a tourism exec speak about benefiting from a global downturn was during COVId. Imagine someone proposing that we could capitalize on a pandemic by having more people travel here. My comment last week:

*Anyway you put it, higher prices due to tariff related equipment cost increase or less people traveling it does not result in a rosy tourism "we can benefit from misery of others" PR story. The one piece of good news is Trumps position appears to be softening, it may mean the "might" wont materialize*

Your comments are typically taken from a vocabulary of 20 words. So I doubt you read... but anyway..

"*five senior Bahamian staff members have been terminated over the past 18 months, and four in the past year, including a former Bahamian chief executive, finance manager, senior compliance manager, human resources chief and senior finance analyst.*"

**This is highly unusual. If five people had left the firm because they found the environment unpalatable for whatever reason, ok. What's described here isnt that and very odd**. To fire five people in senior positions? With these persons having experience in offshore/onshore banking sector? That's very odd

Will heads roll?

Everytime we crow about the great job we're doing to achieve these fantastic numbers, the universe reminds us "this is not of your doing". Forces much bigger than you control the flow. We would be nothing without location. Something no man can claim credit for.

"*Clearly, what we have been doing has not been working*"

And weirdly enough, every minister comes in and crows about the cruise ships, of late adopting the really strange strategy of giving them their own private enclaves to further reduce the impact.

Apparently in the Bahamas fire hydrants for "pretty", not for feeding water to fire trucks. This is truly bizarro world.