Also consider the worldwide benefits to an end to the cruise industry, just huge. And they burn the nastiest fuel bunker C and dump in the seas.

End their permits/get back to land based tourism. Not rocket science.

Best wishes to the winner and hopes and prayers to the winning party and new PM. We can celebrate a successful and peaceful transfer of power and a functioning democracy, which not everywhere in the world can, so lets all give thanks for that and all who adminstered the election and took part in it, if they won their seat or not.

If more cruise ships and bigger cruise ships was in fact the path to riches why didn't the Bahamas become massively richer since it dredged Nassau harbour circa 2006 to allow for mega cruise ships? Instead it is $10 Billion dollars in debt, so as a matter of fact the Bahamas is much POORER for getting deeper in with the cruise industry. When will people wake up that cruise ships are in fact a detriment as it moves money and power to the hands of the cruise ships and away from a land based hotel tourism industry and thus also the Bahamas?

If only there was a magic pill that let the Bahamas capture $1000 per person from tourist visits in hotels vs. $85 per person from cruise ship stop overs and inject more money into the economy.... If only a government policy could lever those people more into the $1000 category thru policy changes and not handing out expansion permits.... But I guess its categorically impossible we could ever thwart the growth of the cruise ship industry and lower their profits.

I am sure the cruise industry has never acted improperly to influence others to take stances which are favourable to them! I mean they are all saints right? You know dumping oil in the sea, covid hell cruises, not stopping to pick up distressed boats, real saints. And Mr. Carey's positions by contrast are invalid as he has a salary?! Brother has rent to pay like any other worker why shouldn't the BNT have paid staff?

Kudos to the BNT for taking this stance. The industry also competes unfairly with Bahamian workers in hotels, and is basically a scam to evade any form of national regulation in the US or the Bahamas or anywhere. The only thing missing from their stance is a call to evict the entire industry from Bahamian waters. If cruise ships were the path to riches why are not Bahamians so much richer now that ships are way bigger and visitors counts are thru the roof compared to years gone past? (even before the covid downturns)

Methinks people in a Gulfstream 5 which costs 50-100 Million can afford $27 p/p!

Better approach to pleading with Disney is to simply ask for the government to turn the site into a National Park. Beyond that, the Bahamas just needs to close its borders permanently to cruise ships. Once investors get the sense we mean that 100% and won't back down, they will invest in hotels to cater to tourists as this will be the only way they can see the Bahamas.

Or we take on new colonial rulers of Carnival and Disney? I mean if people want that, sure it is their right and the Bahamas is a democracy where the majority must rule, but shouldn't this require a referendum if the Bahamas is going to be run for their benefit?

Once ruined Lighthouse Beach will not recover by any reasonable standard. Corals are very fragile, thousands of new tourists every single day who have paid cheap prices are not consistent with what should be a national park at national park standards of regulation.

So what peanuts the Bahamas gets out of the cruise ship industry (some Cuban cigars, some duty free, and some t-shirts) being sold to cruise ship passengers may essentially be all foregone with the cruise industry getting a stake in Nassau spend too?

As if $50 per person in spend in the Bahamas was not low enough?

Making them stay over night is better than nothing, but why settle for 10% on the dollar?

Clearly this industry should be asked to depart en masse and we should be cruise free following the example of Key West and we can get a real tourism based product like Hawaii has, with people staying in hotels. Why can the Bahamas not be the Hawaii of the East Coast? Lack of imagination? Lack of faith in itself? Fear it will lose out on the $50 per person?

I mean if the Bahamas is and should be stuck in a world of "lowered expectations" for itself forever, someone please tell me.

No idea what is going on specifically with Compass Point's issues, but its a truely messed up situation if good hotels are closing and taking away the product which produces a lot for the Bahamas, and we are instead permitting the products that take away our natural heritage for something that produces almost no revenue to the Bahamas (cruise terminal on Lighthouse Beach).

This shouldn't be a set of outcomes that sits well with anyone who actually cares about the Bahamas.