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.

"*Howard Thompson, the Department of Labour director, in a statement to Tribune Business said his visit and investigation at Norwegian Cruise Line’s (NCL) Great Stirrup Cay had revealed there are “two sides to the story*"

Of course and as expected. There is no *head rolling* law for the tourism gods

"*I have not had a report from them yet that they have lacked equipment to contend with any of the blazes that they have encountered thus far,” Mr Munroe*"

Just the type of crisis leadership we need. I waiting.

"*Latrae Rahming, director of communications at the Office of the Prime Minister, said yesterday the government is acquiring 15 to 20 fire trucks, with some earmarked for Family Islands*"

I waited to hear the response across multiple concerns, but have not heard anyone speak to this issue using a scientific approach, because this is science. Wayne Munroe confirmed it, he said "*they havent asked for anything*". So I looked it up. I found a comment referencing a 2003 ISO standard, that's **2003**, ISO is a body whose work is documenting best practice standards, typically across the sciences. According to the comment, response time to a fire should be under 5mins. There should be one fire truck for every 5-10sq miles, i.e., Nassau alone needs 14 fire trucks. There should be one fire station for every 10,000 people, i.e., Nassau alone needs 14 fire stations. There should be 2.5 firefighters for every 10,000 people, i.e., Nassau alone needs 250 firefighters.

We can look at that and say it's too much. Well then, let it burn out east while we address the fire out west. Precisely what happened to the residents of Victoria Court.

The fire chief said his team did an excellent job. That statement needs some context. They did an excellent job "*with the resources they had*". The results were not excellent and could have been better with a faster response time meaning adequate trucks and more fire fighters. It's not their fault. Leadership failed them.

We suffer for lack of knowledge and our love for beautiful photo ops with profilers.

"*we walked Bay Street, and it's still bustling. We see the cruise ship passengers. It's vibrant. The tours are ongoing, as was expected.”*

This is so tone deaf. The "visitors" havent been affected? They likely cant tell the difference between the damaged structures and the buildings still standing. Hopefully she expressed some concern for the 29 families whose lives have been turned upside down

Nothing will roll. I recall the director of labour biting his tongue to explain how the Hilton was nearing completion with almost 100% Chinese labour.

Thou shalt not touch the tourism investor.

"*They have the equivalent of 12 police cars, boats to patrol an area the size of California*"

ROTFL... not true... but not far off. Lol.

Ok, just looked up the article (I try not to click links).

My first comment was a response to the statement that we could benefit from reduced tariff related travel elsewhere.

My point was, it's not that simple and I referenced the cnn.com article where a spokesperson said if they had tariff related increases in the cost of planes they would pass that cost on to passengers. Your response referenced another article and you stated that this article pointed to cheaper prices. I extended that without reading the article to say, "**uncertainty**" was still the major risk because people hold on to money in uncertain times. Ironically exactly what Woods is advising our hotel workers to do.

In any event imagine my shock when the first statement in the article was:

"*a recession brewing in row 33? Airline CEOs this month warned Wall Street that passengers’ appetite for domestic trips is coming in lighter than they had hoped when they set forecasts high at the start of 2025.*"

Well... that's my point. It's not all roses, not only are people not travelling to the US, US citizens are reducing travel. That's a very bad indicator for us that cant be ignored

The article went on to say:

"*Delta, Southwest, Alaska Airlines and American Airlines pulled their 2025 financial outlooks this month, **saying the U.S. economy is too tough to predict right now.** United Airlines provided two outlooks, one if if the U.S. falls into a recession and said it expects to be profitable in either scenario*"

"*If uncertainty pops up, the first thing that goes away is corporate travel,” said Conor Cunningham a travel and transportation analyst at Melius Research*"

I'm not sure which tourism executive can ignore that reality

Respectfully your comment said "*that is not what they said*", I take what I say seriously. Since I knew what I read, and I knew that what I read directly referenced statements from an American Airlines representative, your "*that is not what they said*" response was not correct. It is precisely what they said.

I already pointed out that Trump's position was softening and that could change "some" dynamics. **However, uncertainty still remains**". 121,000 US citizens have unexpectedly lost their jjobs in the past 3 months, the persons still employed do not know if they will be next. Do you know what people do in uncertain times? They reduce spending. Especially discretionary spending. As pointed out in the article I referenced, the AA vice chair said, lower income citizens have reduced travel **already**. Guess which is the largest demographic frequenting the Bahamas?