Stop being an imbecile. Would you say these ships should be allowed at any of our ports if they contained tons and tons of explosives that could possibly kill many thousands of Bahamians? I think not. You also don't seem to understand that our medical doctors and nurses will soon be unable (unequipped) to help Bahamian victims of the Red China Virus which means they will be forced to begin practicing triage - literally deciding who to let live and who to let die. You need to wake up to the new reality my friend.
In any event, with proper accounting for all the costs of maintaining a ship registry, it can easily be shown that the net money made off of flagging ships in recent decades pales in comparison to the risks assumed by our country. Basically a net pittance, if that. And of course our country never had the means to ensure that it was adequately insured against all of the many great risks involved in flagging ships. The owners of these ships knew just what they were getting by the exceptionally low fees they were paying to carry our flag.
In 2015 the world's leading epidemiologists gave Cuomo a full blown report covering their concern about New York's great vulnerability to a serious epidemic or pandemic. The report included a complete shopping list of the medical equipment and supplies the New York City metropolitan area would need and should have readily available in storage in the event of an especially bad flu season or a pandemic. The shopping list was comprehensive in every respect and included required quantities of medicines, ventilators, respirators, N-95 face masks, scrubs, gloves and so on. Cuomo made the lame brained decision that it was too costly to buy and store the necessary emergency supply of these vital items, claiming that the likelihood of a serious pandemic calamity was much too low. Instead Cuomo proceeded to spend a fortune on green deal and other projects, many of which enriched his political supporters and other cronies even though the projects themselves either went belly-up or were just a waste of taxpayers' funds. And we all know New York probably has the highest effective tax rates of any state in the union. No, one thing is for sure. The rest of America that has been infected by New Yorkers fleeing their own state as it melts down in the Red China Virus crisis will not be supporting Cuomo for president and you can take that to the bank because it's good as gospel.
It will take a lot longer to find new tenants after the crisis because many businesses will have gone bust if a temporary rent moratorium is not soon offered by the landlords backed in turn by a temporary mortgage payment moratorium imposed by government on the banks for all of their mortgage loans to the landlords in respect of their commercial properties. I guess this too would be deemed serious interference by government in private contractually arrangements and the bank cartel is even stronger than the cartel of local life insurers.
No one will get answers.....that's just how our government operates....even though Minnis promised time and time again during the run up to the last general election in May 2017 that it would be the Bahamian people's time and that his government would be the most transparent one the Bahamian people have ever had.
It's indeed most difficult to trust anything Minnis now says given that those earlier key promises to the Bahamian people were all too quickly broken by him.
> In a carefully worded statement, Transport Minister Renward Wells said The Bahamas would help people sheltering-in-place aboard cruise ships in its waters.
> He went on to say: "We have devised safe methods of resupply of our flag cruise vessels that were running critically low on provisions, medical supplies and medical personnel."
Minnis or D'Aguilar should be called on to explain exactly what Renward Wells meant when he uttered the two sentences immediately above. Anyone from our shores stepping on board those ships and interacting in any way with the crew and other persons sheltering on board, poses a great risk of bringing an uncontrollable explosive outbreak of the Red China Virus to our shores.
We ***must no***t succumb to bullying and threat tactics by the US government when they themselves (the world's most powerful nation with the greatest resources) refuse for health and safety reasons of the American people to grant onshore medical help to those on board these ships who are known to have either already contracted the Red China Virus or been exposed to it in a way that makes them likely asymptomatic carriers.
The states of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina have many more healthcare resources available to them, including assistance from the US Federal Government, than our small nation could ever dream of having. That's just a plain simple fact, period! And the Southeastern Fleet of the US Coast Guard knows first hand just how badly crippled the Bahamas has been left in the aftermath Hurricane Dorian only seven months ago. I find it unbelieveable, no unfathomable, that the US Embassy in the Bahamas has not made it known to all US authorities that the Bahamas is not in a position to lend the assistance sought without jeopardising the overwhelming and total collapse of our very fragile and gravely under resourced healthcare system.
The number one duty of the Bahamian government at this time is to protect the Bahamian people to the maximum extent possible from an explosive outbreak of the Red China Virus that could end up taking the lives of many hundreds, possibly thousands, of souls. It's in the interest of the US at this time to help promote stability in our financially crippled country so that a serious vacuum is not created that allows the ruthless Xi Jinping led communist regime to succeed in its efforts to establish a strategic foothold in a small nation just off the coast of Florida.
Well_mudda_take_sic says...
Stop being an imbecile. Would you say these ships should be allowed at any of our ports if they contained tons and tons of explosives that could possibly kill many thousands of Bahamians? I think not. You also don't seem to understand that our medical doctors and nurses will soon be unable (unequipped) to help Bahamian victims of the Red China Virus which means they will be forced to begin practicing triage - literally deciding who to let live and who to let die. You need to wake up to the new reality my friend.
In any event, with proper accounting for all the costs of maintaining a ship registry, it can easily be shown that the net money made off of flagging ships in recent decades pales in comparison to the risks assumed by our country. Basically a net pittance, if that. And of course our country never had the means to ensure that it was adequately insured against all of the many great risks involved in flagging ships. The owners of these ships knew just what they were getting by the exceptionally low fees they were paying to carry our flag.
On ‘We’ll help - but don’t try to land’: Govt signals it won’t allow cruise ships to send anyone here
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Well_mudda_take_sic says...
Are you kidding ?? Get real !!
In 2015 the world's leading epidemiologists gave Cuomo a full blown report covering their concern about New York's great vulnerability to a serious epidemic or pandemic. The report included a complete shopping list of the medical equipment and supplies the New York City metropolitan area would need and should have readily available in storage in the event of an especially bad flu season or a pandemic. The shopping list was comprehensive in every respect and included required quantities of medicines, ventilators, respirators, N-95 face masks, scrubs, gloves and so on. Cuomo made the lame brained decision that it was too costly to buy and store the necessary emergency supply of these vital items, claiming that the likelihood of a serious pandemic calamity was much too low. Instead Cuomo proceeded to spend a fortune on green deal and other projects, many of which enriched his political supporters and other cronies even though the projects themselves either went belly-up or were just a waste of taxpayers' funds. And we all know New York probably has the highest effective tax rates of any state in the union. No, one thing is for sure. The rest of America that has been infected by New Yorkers fleeing their own state as it melts down in the Red China Virus crisis will not be supporting Cuomo for president and you can take that to the bank because it's good as gospel.
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Well_mudda_take_sic says...
It will take a lot longer to find new tenants after the crisis because many businesses will have gone bust if a temporary rent moratorium is not soon offered by the landlords backed in turn by a temporary mortgage payment moratorium imposed by government on the banks for all of their mortgage loans to the landlords in respect of their commercial properties. I guess this too would be deemed serious interference by government in private contractually arrangements and the bank cartel is even stronger than the cartel of local life insurers.
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Well_mudda_take_sic says...
...ditto that....
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Well_mudda_take_sic says...
No one will get answers.....that's just how our government operates....even though Minnis promised time and time again during the run up to the last general election in May 2017 that it would be the Bahamian people's time and that his government would be the most transparent one the Bahamian people have ever had.
It's indeed most difficult to trust anything Minnis now says given that those earlier key promises to the Bahamian people were all too quickly broken by him.
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Well_mudda_take_sic says...
> In a carefully worded statement, Transport Minister Renward Wells said The Bahamas would help people sheltering-in-place aboard cruise ships in its waters.
> He went on to say: "We have devised safe methods of resupply of our flag cruise vessels that were running critically low on provisions, medical supplies and medical personnel."
Minnis or D'Aguilar should be called on to explain exactly what Renward Wells meant when he uttered the two sentences immediately above. Anyone from our shores stepping on board those ships and interacting in any way with the crew and other persons sheltering on board, poses a great risk of bringing an uncontrollable explosive outbreak of the Red China Virus to our shores.
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Well_mudda_take_sic says...
We ***must no***t succumb to bullying and threat tactics by the US government when they themselves (the world's most powerful nation with the greatest resources) refuse for health and safety reasons of the American people to grant onshore medical help to those on board these ships who are known to have either already contracted the Red China Virus or been exposed to it in a way that makes them likely asymptomatic carriers.
The states of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina have many more healthcare resources available to them, including assistance from the US Federal Government, than our small nation could ever dream of having. That's just a plain simple fact, period! And the Southeastern Fleet of the US Coast Guard knows first hand just how badly crippled the Bahamas has been left in the aftermath Hurricane Dorian only seven months ago. I find it unbelieveable, no unfathomable, that the US Embassy in the Bahamas has not made it known to all US authorities that the Bahamas is not in a position to lend the assistance sought without jeopardising the overwhelming and total collapse of our very fragile and gravely under resourced healthcare system.
The number one duty of the Bahamian government at this time is to protect the Bahamian people to the maximum extent possible from an explosive outbreak of the Red China Virus that could end up taking the lives of many hundreds, possibly thousands, of souls. It's in the interest of the US at this time to help promote stability in our financially crippled country so that a serious vacuum is not created that allows the ruthless Xi Jinping led communist regime to succeed in its efforts to establish a strategic foothold in a small nation just off the coast of Florida.
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Well_mudda_take_sic says...
Rubbish!
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Well_mudda_take_sic says...
More Amen!
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Amen!
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