I presume that when the reef sees fish and other species plummet after the terminal goes in, Disney will recognize the cultural importance of the environment to the Bahamas and abandon the site after it it is fully restored?

Funny how these enivironmental approvals never have any meaningful reporting benchmarks in them after the fact isn't it? As if a Minister is ever going to end the permit once the fish numbers fall off! and the reef starts to die. Even a reef off of a much smaller population area is pretty much dead. Thousands of new people going thru the site day after day most without any real understanding how sensitive coals are? HA! If this will ever work!

Things wouldn't have been better if BEC had been sold off to a private interest years ago? Correct me if I'm wrong but Cayman does not have load shedding as it has had privately owned power for years right? I mean at what we pay per KWH can't see how it could possibly be any worse. So you have the worst of all worlds as it is right now.

And with all the problems the world over with climate change why are we still talking about LNG? Or do we not care about climate anymore? And if we don't when are we renouncing the Paris Agreement we signed?

Doing everything asked of the Bahamas in 2000, only made it worse not better.

We can do everything asked of us now and it'll likewise only get even worse (not better).

I think freedom does require financial freedom and in a sense that is what is at stake here.

Enough is enough, the Bahamas parliament needs to decide the level of financial freedom allowable in the Bahamas. If other countries don't like they can't propose a new UN treaty and we'll consider it at the UN, not with pressure or threats applied to the Bahamas directly.

Ironic how we over-regulate what's good (land based hotels) and under regulate and approve what is comparatively stranguling the tourist economy (cruise ships and their terminals). Would suggest such high levels of inspection be visited on the cruise industry and Bahamian law be imposed on all cruise ships coming into Bahamian ports or visiting out islands.

If no chance BPL is ever to be sold off to private ownership why should there ever be a change to BPL for the better? Without consequences there's no accountability, and public ownership here just has not worked for anyone outside of bec/bpl. Good regulation can address can gouging worries if its sold.

No one ever got punished for their dumping at sea, so why comply with any other laws? Notice how no one hears about that story anymore.

Give them all the economic power over our tourism, what could go wrong in 20 years?

Notice how no reporting of number convicted or number sentenced.

I guess Liberia or whereever the ships were registered (maybe Mongolia) didn't see fit to send an investigator to investigate and extradite the persons back to Liberia to stand trial. Go figure that eh! The country of the flag has jurisdiction for crimes committed aboard a ship.

Wonder when everyone will see the cruise industry as a thin attempt to avoid all form of regulation (eg taxes, minimum wages, environmental rules) that it is?

Lighthouse Beach and Dean's Blue Hole should be added to the list.

Most useful would be an Endangered Species Act whereby biologists would activate protections independant of who is in government based strictly on science. Otherwise what is there to stop species being caught all the way to extinction?

Well, perhaps then the neither the PLP nor the FNM are what the Bahamas needs in the 2019 era and the people must chose a new party.