True. Im down to 1/3 of a business after I cut out bad service. The only answer I gat is to become and live the life of a visiting tourist in the Bahamas.

I remember one popular eatery that I decided to never go to again. The cashier had to have eaten bees for breakfast. A light skinned gentleman walked in while I was biting my tongue wondering what happen to the gyro order I placed 30mins ago (they forgot it). He "could" have passed for a tourist and those girls just switched *Thank you. Please come again Sir. I hope you enjoy your meal*

I think I have the answer, it's the same one Bahamian business people trying to get projects started have figured out, hire a white man in a suit... khaki shorts might work too.

The writer appears to be upset with the way she was treated more so than being denied boarding although that was a sore point.

It is curious that standby passengers were boarded ahead of people with tickets. I thought they checked the line for ticketed passengers before processing any standby. The second issue is the purpose of the arrival time requirement (I thought) is so that you dont delay departure procedures as the plane waits for you to work your way through security, customs and immigration, get your bags loaded on the plane and you seated. If a standby passenger was allowed through, it means there was sufficient time to get all that done without affecting departure time. Finally the refusal to allow the women to purchase tickets for another flight and demand they show up and wait in standby is the most strange of all.

So its odd all around what happened here.

This appears to be what we call a bad apple. But as one youtube commenter said about what police leadership call "*bad apples who give the police force a bad name*", "*this aint a few apples, this is systemic*". The system allows and encourages this rot. Its endemic through The Bahamas in public and private organizations from senior leadership down to line staff. Its everywhere. The worst is in the foodstore, almost makes you not want to eat. I believe I read a comment from Mr Roberts about how hard it is to keep cashiers, so my guess is when they get them, they ignore the tiny issue like disrespecting customers and "rude" behaviour and only fire them if theyre caught stealing or having "*sex on top of the vegetables*". May be the same with flight attendants, who knows.

Congratulations Mr Cunningham

Congratulation Mr Cunningham

"*Seems*" logical to just get rid of them, but a part of giving penalties to foreigners is to also send a signal to other tourists that this country doesnt tolerate that kind of behaviour. If all they get is a small fine and a ticket home, they might ask the judge to be godparent to their first child. The next law breaker in training will say the worst that could happen is they'll send me home. I'd say a large fine or days in jail if they cant pay then send them home. No tourist wants to be one day in Fox Hill. Probably on par with what they do already. Unclear whether this guy spent any time in jail.

The police surely know if anyone is washing money. They know exactly where they are and how they operate.

An elderly man with dementia was reported missing on Grand Bahama, hope it's not related

General comment: we need an independent Police commissioner who carries out his duty irrespective of who might be in the crossfire, just as the auditor general does. My how the whole country is praising the auditor general for his good work, the sum total of what every tax payer requests of paid public officials

I dont know that he's incompetent. He seems inexperienced by his comments, for example insinuating that the auditor was below him and therefore "disrespectful" was odd. But his inexperience was a given when he was put in the post. He's never held an executive position at any major private company before assuming this post. On this item he fell to the same monster as Adrian Gibson, bandying the title rather than relying on an experienced aide. I'd say this appears to be an issue with the permanent staff who should have guided the minister, if they did and he ignored it, then your point taken

"*BahaJrs have a 1-3-12 record*"

The teams are not on the same level. The scoring is evidence of that more so than UB's skill.