Atlantis et al just don't want the competition. Sour grapes.

Atlantis sour grapes…

Atlantis don’t want no competition. Simple as that.

Your comments vis-a-vis the Jewish Holocaust and the Black Holocaust just reveal your own inborn racism.

“Hundreds of millions of blacks killed in the black holocaust…” not really according to the American Black Holocaust Museum. According to the museum about 10-12 million were kidnapped from their homes and sold into slavery… “From 10 to 12 million African men, women and children were kidnapped from their homes.3 They were forced to march as much as 1000 miles to the sea. There they were held in underground dungeons for up to a year.
The kidnapped people were packed below decks as cargo on 54,000 slave ship voyages to the Americas.”….direct quote from American Black Holocaust Museum.

One the biggest if not biggest problems is lack of actual housing rather than cost of rent. There is virtually no long term(year by year) rental availability in Eleuthera for example, due to actual lack of houses/apartments. Multiple reasons for that lack.

Any plunge in tv subscribers is due to Cable Bahamas own inept business practices. They offer absolutely lousy programing and channel choices, terrible service reliability, terrible customer service and communication. Cable Bahamas are their own worst enemy.

When it comes to Real Property Tax arrears they always try to pin the blame on foreigners. And without a doubt there will be some foreigners who are in arrears, it is statistics. But I am certain that a very large proportion are Bahamian property owners, especially commercial property owners. These will be many of the same persons who have traditionally been allowed to incur very, very large outstanding bills owing to BPL and Water&Sewerage. Much easier to pin the blame on “the others” than ones own.

The other big issue is that since the online RPT portal that was implemented in 2015 went down and finally disappeared in 2020 the existing dysfunctional and convoluted system for getting RPT bills, paying for them and getting the Tax Certificate has not made for an efficient or user-friendly ability to pay. This is a perfect example of the DIR and government being the authors of their own problem.

Bahamians should be exempt of any sort of tax on short-term vacation rentals for at least 5 full years, maybe even 7 or 10 years, upon any implementation of said tax. As for the hotels, they get huge concessions from government so no, I do not concern myself with their noise and neither should you.

Exactly. It’s the biggest scam perpetrated on the Bahamian people.