Ashley14 and all of you who are for this Disney project and who keep saying it “will be a game changer” and the Eleuthera “ economy will explode” and that “ it could rejuvenate the Eleuthera economy for decades” please explain to the rest of us, if that is really what will happen why is it then that the already existing Princess Cay cruise ship port just down the road a couple of miles, that has been there for years, hasn’t already done all those wonderful things that you claim will happen because of Disney? Princess Cays hasn’t done anything beyond providing a few menial jobs cleaning toilets etc. to a very small number of locals. The economy didn’t take off. By what magical and mystical thinking do you actually think that anything diffrent will happen with Disney? Open your eyes, Disney will rape the land, make millions off of it and throw 20 menial jobs to a few locals and that’s it. Period. Same exact formula Princess used down the road and same all the other cruise lines, Disney included, used at their other private spots in the Bahamas.

OldFort2012......you talk about jobs for Bahamians....well to see how beneficial these cruiseports are for Bahamians just look a couple of miles down the road to the Princess Cay cruise port that has been operating for many years. It has not been of any major benefit to the locals beyond a few menial step-and-fetchit jobs. The local settlements are just as poor as they were before it was built. These cruise lines and their private islands and ports do nothing for the locals. The examples are scattered all over the country.

Gasoline vapors and a bilge pump go boom. Happens all the time.

Observer2 is not only having a bad day but he is unclear and a bit misinformed on both Canadian tax law and Bahamian permanent residency.

You’re very wrong Chucky, nowhere even close to a 40% margin, especially since VAT came into effect.

Renward Wells is the biggest danger to sustainable fisheries in the Bahamas. He should be removed from this portfolio forthwith.

Talk,talk,talk...blah blah blah blah!

Having worked with the cruise ships and having an exclusive contract with one of the cruise lines for over 16 years I can honestly say they actually bring no tangible benefits to the country compared to the negatives. If I could repeat history I would have nothing to do with the cruise ships. As far as the cruise-line private islands...terrible idea for the country, they operate as their own country within the Bahamas.

My2centz..we get it...slaughterhouses are bad too. You’ve made your point. And you are correct..we don't really know how bad it is at various slaughterhouses except when we see videos filmed undercover. Got it. But we aren’t having a general discussion about slaughterhouses here. We are talking about one specific event that happened 2 days ago in our neighbourhood.

There are two seperate issues here. 1) the brutality of how he killed the turtle and 2) the actual crime of killing a protected species under Bahamian law.

1) the brutality and apparent anger involved, it was uneccasary. He could have found a quicker, less obviously savage way to kill the turtle, such as removing its head with a cutlass or cutting its throat. It still would have been illegal.

2) leaving aside the actual method that the turtle was killed, just the act of killing it was a crime under Bahamian law. In the Bahamas it has been illegal to catch,possess,transport,harass or kill any and all species of sea-turtles since 2009. Period end of story.

So no matter how the turtle came into his possession or how he killed it or even why he killed it, he broke the laws of the country and should be punished under the law.