We need a travel ban on horny, middle-aged white women who come here to tempt and destroy the reputation of our upstanding jetski operators. The sex demanded by these wrinkled crones with red lipstick will destroy a jetski operator's chance of getting into Harvard because they couldn't resist the temptation of these wicked, painted-lady sirens with huge droopy mammary glands. Better yet, let's build a wall to keep them out. Brilliant sir -- quite brilliant! I applaud your wisdom.

I know, I am a sick, ignorant, racist who hates my own people because I do not fit into your worldview. Anyone who disagrees with your worldview is wrong. Bahamians are angels, foreigners are evil and everyone is against us. My bad. I cannot see that. I guess that I will never attain the state of enlightenment that you seem to possess. It must have been all the poison in the weed which affects my thinking, that the CIA put to keep the Black man down -- according to one of your earlier posts.

I give up. I admit that I am sick, ignorant and stupid. It is a wonder that I can type. I bow to your superior intellect and your religious rectitude.

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Right on. This is what blows me away. 90% of intelligence now is mostly data and computerisation. Our police and civil service are so far behind the times, that any serious work is a joke. Do our police have the capability of mining the internet for threats? Can they do a network trace to identify culprits behind public IP addresses? Do they monitor with autonomous technology, individuals who might pose a threat?

If any of these technologies were deployed, they might be used domestically to fight crime.

It's time for the Commissioner and the upper police hierarchy to be replaced by foreigners who are subject matter experts in policing. The Keystone Cops amateurs have proven that they can't do it.

Even simple things like geo-coordinate analysis of criminal activity and deployment decision tools would make a difference. Unfortunately our police are ignorant of using Data Analysis to fight crime.

Co-sign.

Thinking that you are right about this. Debt reduction by first principles (paying it off by generating enough revenue to retire debt) is almost an impossible task unless the budget is pared down with scalpels, knives, chainsaws, machetes and pens. My estimate is that the civil service needs to be reduced by 10,000 people.

Totally concur with everything that you said.

As a matter of fact, reputation can be destroyed in a moment with a viral lie.

My point was (and I must confess that I am being really pedantic because of the latest book that I am reading on the fallacies of thinking and opinion by Daniel Kahneman) that there are subtleties that most people will not take into account when creating an opinion. Moi -- I think that the expats should have been paid even if there was no legal obligation -- solely because the Bahamians were paid. Fair is fair. It is just plain wrong that they weren't. They came here with their expertise to build up the economy and create jobs, and they were not treated equally. Most expats carried industry knowledge vital to the operation -- they were not low level staff but had skills and experience to make the operation work. Everyone should be treated equally.

Reputation should be a guarded thing. Yes the Chinese stiffed the expats, but it is the Bahamas whose reputation is at stake.

LOL! Look busy, Jesus is coming. According to you, he has tears in his eyes.

I am amazed at the certitude that you profess of things not validated.

Time to exit this convo. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him think.

High rollers don't come to the Bahamas (with the exception of Michael Jordan who dropped at huge amount at the casino during his ten years as sponsor of the golf tournament on PI).

I've had high rollers as clients. The casinos in Vegas send private jets for them and comp them the rooms.

The only things that I try to discredit, are "facts" that you make up due to a personal bias. You made up the fact that there were exit interviews. I merely pointed out that you can't point to a single documented exit interview in the Bahamas that points to a segment of sex tourism. I said that it probably exists, but you did not have to make up a stretcher to prove your point.

I wouldn't have an issue if you prefaced your claims with *"It is my opinion that .... "* but you don't. You present it as evidence of a study -- just like *whats-his-face* and his 4 accounts on here. That is fake news, even though the underlying facts may be partially true. Can you understand that distinction?

In the same manner, you cannot attribute your biases to real world world events. I would recommend that you read Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman's book *"Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow"* where he talks about the very confirmation biases exhibited in your statements.

Some of your posts are fascinating and informative (except for the *"Look busy, Jesus is coming"* ones) but please don't go presenting things as evidentiary facts when they aren't.

If the expats choose to, they can conduct a highly negative PR campaign. It is much easier to look at a simple fact that Bahamians got paid and expats didn't, than to educate anyone on the subtleties of what happened. Most people do not care to learn the subtleties but want the US Today version as iterated in the first instance -- Bahamians got paid and we didn't.

It is my contention that Baha Mar is a poisoned well -- if not poisoned, then insignificant. There has been no massive, coordinated marketing level like Sarkis did initially, and there is really nothing new to offer than a curiosity. Doesn't bode well for the economic well-being of the project, and if it continues to get negative press, then it een going nowhere.