Also, the banks need to offer services to their clients so that people arriving do not have to bring cash with them in order to transact business. At the moment flights to and from Nassau, Marsh Harbour and Treasure Cay are filled with people coming to inspect their properties or what is left of them and then returning to Nassau either the same day or the following day. Dump trucks are racing along the roads and the town smells musty, like garbage. Truly a pitiful sight compared to the days before September 1st. Trucks and cars are lined up to buy gasoline at what remains of the Shell station in what was downtown. The hours of operation are 1000 to 1400 according to what I was told. After dark things are really spooky with few lights visible but the almost full moon was enjoyable two nights ago.

Just another example of the struggle between capital and labour. When I visit the grocery store I can't help wondering how the employees, as they age, will be able to take care of themselves in an economy of constantly rising prices and a very slow increase in wages. This is a problem in most capitalist societies and one only has to travel to any number of countries to witness the extent of the suffering. Population increase combined with increasing automation spells a bleak future for semi skilled or unskilled labour.

Let me start off by stating quite plainly that Brent Symonette does not represent the average white Bahamian who suffers subtle discrimination and resentment on a daily basis based in the past experience of the nation as a whole.
That said, in the matter of "reparations" for slavery, it was David Cameron, the former British Prime Minister, who, a few years ago, floated the idea of reparations for slavery then shot down the idea just as quickly as he had floated it.
Why is it that so few people refer to the large trade in black slaves conducted by Arabs based at the island of Zanzibar off the coast of what is today the nation of Tanzania on the east coast of the African continent?
The difference here is that the Arabs castrated their male slaves so as to prevent their reproduction, a practice that was not instituted in the Atlantic slave trade.
By the way, with a surname like "Gomez" it seems more logical to seek reparations from His Majesty Felipe IV the present king of Spain. After all the Spaniards learned about black slavery from the Portuguese who started the whole nasty business on a large scale with their colony of Brazil where the system was not ended until as late as 1888.

Let me start off by stating quite plainly that Brent Symonette does not represent the average white Bahamian who suffers subtle discrimination and resentment on a daily basis based in the past experience of the nation as a whole.
That said, in the matter of "reparations" for slavery, it was David Cameron, the former British Prime Minister, who, a few years ago, floated the idea of reparations for slavery then shot down the idea just as quickly as he had floated it.
Why is it that so few people refer to the large trade in black slaves conducted by Arabs based at the island of Zanzibar off the coast of what is today the nation of Tanzania on the east coast of the African continent?
The difference here is that the Arabs castrated their male slaves so as to prevent their reproduction, a practice that was not instituted in the Atlantic slave trade.
By the way, with a surname like "Gomez" it seems more logical to seek reparations from His Majesty Felipe IV the present king of Spain. After all the Spaniards learned about black slavery from the Portuguese who started the whole nasty business on a large scale with their colony of Brazil where the system was not ended until as late as 1888.

These smug real estate developers/agents know full well why this situation exists: The FNM in 1992 rushed to repeal the Immovable Property Act with the result that Bahamians were and still are competing directly with well heeled foreigners for land in this country.
This situation has been repeated in many cities around the world with just one example being in Vancouver, Canada, where rich Chinese are driving prices through the roof.
There are few Bahamians indeed capable of affording a home in the $450,000 range and I believe sincerely that this is the desired outcome or as they say in Spain, the "efecto llamado".

It has always struck me as curious that more people do not ask the more fundamental question when we are discussing illegal immigration whether between Haiti and The Bahamas or between Libya and Italy or between Morocco and Spain: Is there not a great deal of responsibility toward their own people that is blatantly lacking on the part of those national governments whose citizens undertake risky journeys which are entirely illegal? What are national governments doing to attempt to improve the conditions under which their citizens exist?
What are governments of the receiving countries doing to require the various national governments to assist their own desperate populations? There is a great deal lacking in the source countries, that much is obvious, and many of the governments of those source countries are only too pleased to "export" at least a part of their problems.

I drove past the site of the proposed parking lot this morning and I can tell you that work is continuing apace. Also, there is a line of cars parked along the road leading south towards the Maxwells Supermarket. These cars are immediately east of the new Standard Hardware lumber storage area which is now fenced in.
It should be quite interesting to see who has the final say or perhaps the greater influence in this matter.

My dear fellow, it is Japan that is referred to as
'the land of the rising sun", not the Peoples' Republic of China.
If Chinese are fishing as you state you should be aware that they have done the same thing on Grand Bahama in the past even after being told that fishing was prohibited in that particular area.
Especially in the Family Islands many foreigners violate conservation laws with, apparently, little fear of punishment since laws, as we are all aware, must be enforced in order to be effective.

In reply to OldFort: I read quite well in English, Spanish, Portuguese and some Italian but that is not the point. Many people do not appreciate Bahamasair until they find themselves in a more stressful situation with another carrier. For its few routes and the challenges its faces Bahamasair has tried to perform but there are challenges.
Unlike many people I try to support my own when I have the opportunity.
Check the world news out of Europe if you want to read horror stories of airline and airport chaos.

I had a good laugh over what OldFort (see comment above) wrote about AA (American Airlines?) never being late. His or her favored airline left yours truly in Miami last year when their 777 was on the ground in Madrid with mechanical problems instead of on its way to Miami to deliver me to Spain. They shifted me to a British Airways flight to London (Heathrow) with a connecting flight to Madrid later that afternoon. The result was that I arrived at my hotel at nightfall after riding the Madrid subway from Barajas airport. Originally I was scheduled to arrive in Madrid that morning.
On the return trip I was delayed in Miami by almost five hours because the AA aircraft (operated by Republic Airlines) had to divert to Fort Meyers, Florida, as a result of severe weather in north Florida.
All this is to say that all airlines suffer delays for various reasons. I assume that we prefer a delay on the ground to a serious problem in the air.