Anyone who knows anything about coral reefs could tell you the reefs off Lighthouse beach will NEVER survive this kind of impact. Even reefs off areas of areas that see 10% this kind of activity are near dead. That's fact. Its science. This project means the end of some of Eleuthera's most amazing reefs, likely forever.
Good news and best of luck. Probably as many jobs as a 4,000 person cruise ship berth brings for like .00005% of the bad environmental impact. This is what a real contribution to a healthy economy looks like.
I had no idea previous and current administrations had done such a great job managing the public sector payrolls. Such that no adjustment downward is required there at all even with a struggling economy and record debt! How were such feats of governance carried out?
There are dozens of cases they are investigating of on board outbreaks.
Plus everything on the ships is basically behind closed doors and we have a horrible, horrible history of being able to regulate the cruise ship industry even at the best of times.
Cruise ships are the ideal vector space for such a virus, close quarters, common air system, its a total disaster.
The only proper course of action is for this industry to end, it needed to end even before covid.
The Bahamas needs to close its doors to these high vector covid spreading ships.
Proof as ever that dancing with cruise ships will never take the Bahamas to a good outcome.
These insignificant amounts to duties per arrival even under the new figures will never ever allow the Bahamas to escape its billions in debt, and won't even stop the debt numbers from growing. Only a real over night hotel based tourism sector would, and that would require an exit from the cruise industry, which is long overdue.
Value to a buyer is being able to fix it, and the license that comes with BPL. So it can be sold and probably for a couple hundred million. But even if you only got $1 for it better to sell it so we don't have to keep pumping money into it and go on the hook for even more BPL debt.
concerned799 says...
The Bahamas so needs a Green Party.
On Miller ‘very concerned’ about Disney project impact
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concerned799 says...
Anyone who knows anything about coral reefs could tell you the reefs off Lighthouse beach will NEVER survive this kind of impact. Even reefs off areas of areas that see 10% this kind of activity are near dead. That's fact. Its science. This project means the end of some of Eleuthera's most amazing reefs, likely forever.
On Miller ‘very concerned’ about Disney project impact
Posted 8 February 2022, 1:58 a.m. Suggest removal
concerned799 says...
Good news and best of luck. Probably as many jobs as a 4,000 person cruise ship berth brings for like .00005% of the bad environmental impact. This is what a real contribution to a healthy economy looks like.
On IHOP Bahamas arrival targets up to 130 jobs
Posted 13 January 2022, 8 p.m. Suggest removal
concerned799 says...
I had no idea previous and current administrations had done such a great job managing the public sector payrolls. Such that no adjustment downward is required there at all even with a struggling economy and record debt! How were such feats of governance carried out?
On Gov’t targets property tax tripling to $400m
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concerned799 says...
The CDC says cruise ships are unsafe!
There are dozens of cases they are investigating of on board outbreaks.
Plus everything on the ships is basically behind closed doors and we have a horrible, horrible history of being able to regulate the cruise ship industry even at the best of times.
Cruise ships are the ideal vector space for such a virus, close quarters, common air system, its a total disaster.
The only proper course of action is for this industry to end, it needed to end even before covid.
The Bahamas needs to close its doors to these high vector covid spreading ships.
On Cruise ship with COVID cases denied entry to Ocean Cay
Posted 1 January 2022, 11:12 p.m. Suggest removal
concerned799 says...
Before we address anything new, perhaps an update into all of the cruise ship dumping at sea that has come to light over recent years?
What happened in all of these cases?
On AG’s office to investigate gas tanker sinking liability
Posted 30 December 2021, 5:25 p.m. Suggest removal
concerned799 says...
Seems to me LNG and cruise ships and new cruise terminals are most incompatible with a clean Bahamas or responding to climate change.
On EDITORIAL: We must act to protect our environment
Posted 12 December 2021, 3:23 a.m. Suggest removal
concerned799 says...
Proof as ever that dancing with cruise ships will never take the Bahamas to a good outcome.
These insignificant amounts to duties per arrival even under the new figures will never ever allow the Bahamas to escape its billions in debt, and won't even stop the debt numbers from growing. Only a real over night hotel based tourism sector would, and that would require an exit from the cruise industry, which is long overdue.
On Cruise lines ‘bullied’ Gov’t over port fees
Posted 4 December 2021, 1:34 a.m. Suggest removal
concerned799 says...
Value to a buyer is being able to fix it, and the license that comes with BPL. So it can be sold and probably for a couple hundred million. But even if you only got $1 for it better to sell it so we don't have to keep pumping money into it and go on the hook for even more BPL debt.
On Bahamas downgraded by Standard & Poor's
Posted 14 November 2021, 4:06 p.m. Suggest removal
concerned799 says...
BPL needs to be sold ASAP so the treasury no longer has to guarantee anymore of its losses.
On Bahamas downgraded by Standard & Poor's
Posted 14 November 2021, 1:53 a.m. Suggest removal