You are selling yourself short. I have seen pitches to the government of everything from eTesting of automobiles, to other tech with huge efficiencies and value, and all you get from the government is a wall of silence. Not even an acknowledgement. They are hopeless.

I seriously doubt that the Bahamian flyfishing industry is $500 million. That figure must include all of flyfishing, which includes trout fishing around the world.

Why? The government doesn't know how to respond to proposals -- especially ones with big words in them.

Good Luck Mr. Rolle. My guess is that you will never hear back from any government official. When you make inquiries, you will be told that it is under consideration, and it will be until the rapture, if at all. There are no forward-thinking people in the government, and they are all so far behind the technology curve, that anyone who can operate a calculator is a genius.

Sigh ... it's policies like this that retard the economic growth of the Bahamas. Work permits for professionals in all areas of endeavours should be given out like candy. The Bahamas is so parochial, both in its legislation and its methodologies, that real progress in expanding the economy through innovation is a non-starter.

Take my own field -- banking. There is a worldwide revolution going on in the banking and financing sectors. It is combining technology with finance and the field is called Fintech. Fintech according to Investopedia is defined like this:

*Fintech is a portmanteau of financial technology that describes an emerging financial services sector in the 21st century. Originally, the term applied to technology applied to the back-end of established consumer and trade financial institutions. Since the end of the first decade of the 21st century, the term has expanded to include any technological innovation in the financial sector, including innovations in financial literacy and education, retail banking, investment and even crypto-currencies like bitcoin.*

I have recently moved from wealth management to the securities trading desk sector. Family Office managers want to trade portfolios on mobile devices, 24 hours a day, seven days a week and settle those trades the next day. Our banks have difficulty processing offshore settlement cheques within a week, if at all. In the meantime, the Bahamas Financial Services Board puts out bull excrement saying that we are a world class finance center. While they are flogging three year old brochures, Boston-based Fidelity Investments lets investors see digital currency in their holdings on their websites. The BFSB doesn't even know what digital is -- they think that it is the doctor's finger in a private body orifice.

Starting last Wednesday, most Fidelity clients will be able to authorize Coinbase, one of the largest crypto-currency exchanges in the United States, to provide the fund manager with data on their holdings.

We can't even find out if our cheque is cashed, or we can use the money. For Financial Services, we should flood the Bahamas with work permits to bring in subject matter experts to raise the bar and educate the Bahamian professionals.

In my own case, I had to re-educate myself, update my skills, including computer skills, learn a whole new vocabulary and way of operating, and I am ten years older than everyone else in the office, because I worked in the retrograde atmosphere of the Bahamas.

Every single professional endeavour in the Bahamas, could benefit from cross-pollination of the very latest in each field, garnered by giving out easy work permits. It would benefit us all. But these dinosaurs are stuck in the past. Their dogged barriers to enlightenment actually destroys Bahamian business value in these fast-moving times.

Do the "brownies" make your worship irrelevance?

Jeezus -- you leave the Bahamas just fer a minute, and da ting you bin wishin' for most of the last 15 years happens -- corrupt PLP's in irons doing da Bank Lane shuffle -- and i missed it !! i would have paid to see it. My smilin' face would be front and center, and if he were in spittin' range, he would not only have been hobbling, but he would be wiping goober offa his face.

If he ends up in Fox Hill, I will be sending him soap, just for the entertainment value when it slips out on the floor and he has to bend over to pick it up. Of course, being a PLP, he prolly is used ta bending ova for someone.

Doesn't ANYONE in the Bahamas understand the concept of separation of church and state? Doesn't anyone realise that all religions are bull excrement? Churches are for low IQ people who can't think for themselves. Apparently the Bahamas is full of those.

>The Bahamas remains somewhat disconnected from the rest of the world

This is the biggest problem. If we were more "connected", the sub-human slimeballs PLP wouldn't have the room to operate as they have all of the times that they were in charge.

As Jason Kinsale is the half-brother of Shame Gibson, it would make interesting reading as how he financed Balmoral and various other projects.