Only because we allow the cruise ships to beat the pants off the air arrival vistors on pricing at our very great expense!
These cruise ships should never be allowed to open their onboard casinos and shops for passenger business while in our territorial waters without the sales dollars collected attracting the same taxes, fees, etc. that would be paid by any visitor who arrives by air travel and shops onshore. Furthermore, the same hotel room taxes, fees, etc. paid by an air travel visitor should apply for each night that a cruise ship passenger spends in his her cabin while in our territorial waters.
We have shot ourselves in the foot by giving the very greedy cruise ship companies too many concessions that create a most unfair pricing advantage over those visitors who arrive by air travel and stay in our onshore hotels.
>Sands said, "In keeping with the protocols of other countries, the government is finalising plans to secure a mandatory quarantine facility to accommodate the return of a number of Bahamians in the United States to New Providence.”
Perhaps Sands should explain why those Bahamians returning home will be treated differently from those who have already been required to quarantine themselves by self-isolation. Exactly why does our government need to finalise plans to secure a mandatory quarantine facility to accommodate the return of a number of Bahamians in the United States to New Providence?
What is it that makes the Bahamians returning home at any more risk of spreading covid-19 than those already here in the Bahamas who have been identified through contact tracing and told to self-isolate themselves in their own homes? I am not the least bit comforted when Sands says he's try to keep to "the protocols of other countries" (i.e. simply copy what other countreis may have done) rather than think for himself and concludes what's best in the particular case of our own country.
Sands cannot have it both ways. Either he puts everyone in a secure mandatory quarantine facilty who has been identified as being at risk of having had contact with a covid-19 infected person, or they all get sent home with orders to self-isolate themselves.
Bottom line: There cannot be an arbitrary determination of who must go to a mandatory quarantine facilty and who gets to self-isolate in their own home.
Frederick Smith could have sprayed or wiped the soles of Mr. Johnson's shoes with isopropyl alcohol 70%+ which would have instantly killed any covid-19 virus present, much faster than even concentrated bleach. Moreover, what about Frederick Smith's own footwear?!
Here we see a man ill-suited to be a medical doctor; a man more concerned about the rules and his orders being obeyed than the health issues of his patient. He reminds me of another medical doctor who seems to think the same way warped way.
Well_mudda_take_sic says...
Only because we allow the cruise ships to beat the pants off the air arrival vistors on pricing at our very great expense!
These cruise ships should never be allowed to open their onboard casinos and shops for passenger business while in our territorial waters without the sales dollars collected attracting the same taxes, fees, etc. that would be paid by any visitor who arrives by air travel and shops onshore. Furthermore, the same hotel room taxes, fees, etc. paid by an air travel visitor should apply for each night that a cruise ship passenger spends in his her cabin while in our territorial waters.
We have shot ourselves in the foot by giving the very greedy cruise ship companies too many concessions that create a most unfair pricing advantage over those visitors who arrive by air travel and stay in our onshore hotels.
On Return of cruise ships still undecided - Wells
Posted 29 April 2020, 7:56 p.m. Suggest removal
Well_mudda_take_sic says...
...ditto that...
On Return of cruise ships still undecided - Wells
Posted 29 April 2020, 7:53 p.m. Suggest removal
Well_mudda_take_sic says...
LMAO
On 'Several factors will dictate pace the economy will reopen'
Posted 29 April 2020, 7:51 p.m. Suggest removal
Well_mudda_take_sic says...
>Sands said, "In keeping with the protocols of other countries, the government is finalising plans to secure a mandatory quarantine facility to accommodate the return of a number of Bahamians in the United States to New Providence.”
Perhaps Sands should explain why those Bahamians returning home will be treated differently from those who have already been required to quarantine themselves by self-isolation. Exactly why does our government need to finalise plans to secure a mandatory quarantine facility to accommodate the return of a number of Bahamians in the United States to New Providence?
What is it that makes the Bahamians returning home at any more risk of spreading covid-19 than those already here in the Bahamas who have been identified through contact tracing and told to self-isolate themselves in their own homes? I am not the least bit comforted when Sands says he's try to keep to "the protocols of other countries" (i.e. simply copy what other countreis may have done) rather than think for himself and concludes what's best in the particular case of our own country.
Sands cannot have it both ways. Either he puts everyone in a secure mandatory quarantine facilty who has been identified as being at risk of having had contact with a covid-19 infected person, or they all get sent home with orders to self-isolate themselves.
Bottom line: There cannot be an arbitrary determination of who must go to a mandatory quarantine facilty and who gets to self-isolate in their own home.
On Govt examining quarantine options for those returning
Posted 29 April 2020, 7:44 p.m. Suggest removal
Well_mudda_take_sic says...
Bullshiit!
Frederick Smith could have sprayed or wiped the soles of Mr. Johnson's shoes with isopropyl alcohol 70%+ which would have instantly killed any covid-19 virus present, much faster than even concentrated bleach. Moreover, what about Frederick Smith's own footwear?!
Here we see a man ill-suited to be a medical doctor; a man more concerned about the rules and his orders being obeyed than the health issues of his patient. He reminds me of another medical doctor who seems to think the same way warped way.
On Row at PMH after patients are asked to take off shoes
Posted 29 April 2020, 7:13 p.m. Suggest removal
Well_mudda_take_sic says...
Bingo!
On 68 more promotions for senior officers: Cop at centre of Shane Gibson trial controversy moves to higher rank
Posted 29 April 2020, 6:54 p.m. Suggest removal
Well_mudda_take_sic says...
Perhaps the bigger question is: Where will Carl Bethel be able to go to buy his favourite sauce when his current supply at home runs out?
On Customs raid on Ash bar
Posted 29 April 2020, 3:56 p.m. Suggest removal
Well_mudda_take_sic says...
If our new supreme ruler is allowed to have his way, there will be no national election in 2022 or at anytime soon thereafter.
On 68 more promotions for senior officers: Cop at centre of Shane Gibson trial controversy moves to higher rank
Posted 29 April 2020, 3:47 p.m. Suggest removal
Well_mudda_take_sic says...
a poem for our new supreme ruler to read on the thinking of his people:
Alas! and am I born for this,
To wear this slavish chain?
Deprived of all created bliss,
Through hardship, toil and pain!
How long have I in bondage lain,
And languished to be free!
Alas! and must I still complain--
Deprived of liberty.
Oh, Heaven! and is there no relief
This side the silent grave--
To soothe the pain--to quell the grief
And anguish of a slave?
Come Liberty, thou cheerful sound,
Roll through my ravished ears!
Come, let my grief in joys be drowned,
And drive away my fears.
**Say unto foul oppression, Cease:
Ye tyrants rage no more,**
And let the joyful trump of peace,
Now bid the vassal soar.
Soar on the pinions of that dove
Which long has cooed for thee,
And breathed her notes from Afric's grove,
The sound of Liberty.
Oh, Liberty! thou golden prize,
So often sought by blood--
We crave thy sacred sun to rise,
The gift of nature's God:
Bid Slavery hide her haggard face,
And barbarism fly:
I scorn to see the sad disgrace
In which enslaved I lie.
Dear Liberty! upon thy breast,
I languish to respire;
And like the Swan unto her nest,
I'd to thy smiles retire.
Oh, blest asylum--heavenly balm!
Unto thy boughs I flee--
And in thy shades the storm shall calm,
With songs of Liberty!
***On Liberty And Slavery***
by George Moses Horton
On 68 more promotions for senior officers: Cop at centre of Shane Gibson trial controversy moves to higher rank
Posted 29 April 2020, 2:04 p.m. Suggest removal
Well_mudda_take_sic says...
Red China.....in the case of our country.
On Customs raid on Ash bar
Posted 29 April 2020, 11:42 a.m. Suggest removal