And Pamela Musgrove said about 5 years ago, ~*the model is wrong*. More tourists diminishing returns. It doesnt make sense.

Why is our infrastructure crumbling as tourism minister after tourism minister gets up to crow about cruise arrivals? It doesnt make sense. The model isnt working. The focus on body count hides the true picture

When you said most Bahamians are blissfully unaware of certain aspects of the tourism industry, I thought you were getting at the reason the project was approved, i.e. "*money and where it goes".... and it's not trickling down

I see they sell off Long Island too. We'll soon see another black token telling us how wonderful it will be for the local economy with 1 fire truck and a broken down "*regatta site*" more minimum wage jobs for us, yay (not knocking honest work, but where the billions going?"

Wilson is seeing the reaction to his tax more and more policies. Peter Turnquest saw this same reaction when he raised VAT using simple math to project all the money that would be made from the increase. Then customs revenue started dropping.

A few months ago Rupert Roberts told us sales were down. About 2 weeks ago he told us he'd stopped selling a more expensive brand of a product because noone was buying it. Thats what happens when cost goes beyond what people can or are willing to pay.

Some fishermen have decided its too expensive to go out with the exponential increase in registration fees from a few hundred to possibly 10,000 dollars. yacht registrations are down as their fees jumped exponentially as well. Occassional Event promoters say they cant afford to pay 750 per event.

**Halston Moultrie described it correctly, they're trying to charge us for their inability to think.**

The next time you hear someone say, *it was only an idea* or *anyone could come up with an idea* in an attempt to diminish the value of an idea that someone did come up with, think about the high cost we're paying because nobody was able to come up with an idea.Think about RCI, Minnis and now Brave and Toby's idea.

"*Where a person is in that Cabinet does not take away from that so that we have collective responsibility. *"

4 months later when its clear the public won't be distracted from calls of honour and accountability is too late to recognize this. The Parliament is further and irrevocably damaged by the terrible and unimaginable precedence set by both administrations.

I see alot of people cleaning their personal stock of fish and throwing fish guts right where people swim. They need a major education campaign around this. As I wrote I simultaneously said, what's the point, they dont even stop people blatantly running red lights and people also continue to park in the path of cars on a speedway near Shell prince charles. Does the commissioner own that business? I dont understand why the owner hasnt gotten a gigantic fine for repeat violations.

The gutting needs to stop. Its ignorance. Arawak Cay Potters Cay and Montagu are basically live baiting sites

Criminals go where the money is. If there's no ATM, they'll get it in the cloud. Eliminate one risk take on another. The first place where the local cashless marketing goes wrong is when its assumed it removes ALL risk. It simply converts risk.

A year ago the Central Bank was the main proponent for the cashless trend with major "*cashless*" marketing behind the food festival. When the payments options bombed they started backtracking, which was a good thing, if something doesnt work, pivot.

The major difference between our society and Chinese society and US society is mass. Those societies also have their rural sectors that aren't tech forward, but the tech forward sectors are so massive it makes sense to make the major cities cashless or near cashless, the uptake is still huge. Not gonna happen here, "*soon*", "*by choice*". But in Armageddon (and recently lockdowns) cashless will be king. I had this *not ready for payment provider takeover* conversation with someone 10 years ago, it was obvious.

As I said "*because thats where the money is*". If someone had the bright idea to start doing cash drops using all these useless pigeons floating around, plenty robbers would learn how to targer and shoot birds

Scammers come from all over, Africa, America, East Asia, the Soviet block countries, the Caribbean, Bain Town and Lyford Cay to name a few.

Been saying for months and all during the "*cashless*" craze, that when I hear business owners use the term, two things are true, they dont understand their market and they dont understand how innovation works

"*This is done despite the Prime Minister and other ministers, including this one, who've said over again and made a claim we do not agree with a cashless society. Nor forcing people to use the Customs App, nor consigning our folk in the Family Islands to the Sand Dollar.”*

Customs App??? Dand dollar??? When all these protests happen that even the PM was powerless to slow down? Some Minister, still in dispute as to which one, was able to bypass all kinds of immigration laws for 62 suspected illegally residing Chinese immigrants, maybe ask them what to do to get civil servants to put aside rules

When bank robber Wllie Sutton was asked *why do you rob banks*, in folklore he's attributed as saying, "*because that's where the money is*". There's also a corollary about why MS computers get hacked more, *because that's where the users are*.

Post COVID when digital suddenly became king, grandmas and grandpas were forced to go digital, every business wanted to advertise that they were now "*cashless*" and everybody had to move to sand dollar to be techy-hip...all I could think about was Sutton.

And here we are. Surprised again. "*Surprise, surprise, surprise*" as Gomer Pyle used to say. The way you know are dgitization plan is wrongheaded is this is an afterthought. Who could have known?