I also agree although its a bitter pill to swallow ,Our education system ,are administration etc was much better under the Brits .Independence has been a slow slide to third world status .Thank goodness we are close to a large wealthy country and they like to get sun ,sand and sea .Thank goodness foreign money invest ,builds hotel etc ..Remember when we built and owned hotels ,Ambassador Beach etc ,,what a disaster .Majority rule okay ,,Independence not so good

From the beginning the studies showed we need a 15% vat just to stop the bleeding .. Our energy cost are too high to compete in the tech industry . We have had 30 to 40 years of corruption , but the major driver of our debt and the reason we have to borrow and tax is 1 in 4 people work for the government .After independence we built a black middle class w public service jobs ,but it is past out of hand .Both parties use the civil service for jobs for friends ,family ,lovers and votes .Two things can save this country ,a 15 year freeze on government hiring and serious measures of birth control education and slowing the birth rate ,,anything short of that is just whistling in the graveyard

Read my previous comment ,,you are not truthful or don,t have the knowledge about Canadian healthcare .There is no large influx of Canadians coming across the border and 86% of Canadians like their healthcare

Stop watching Fox news ,Half of my family are Canadian and 86% of Canadians like their healthcare . They have better longevity then the U S ,at lower cost .See how long it takes to see a specialist in The U S .And no Canadians are not flocking across the border to see U S Doctors etc ,its like .05 % of Canadians get treatment in the U S and those are mostly Canadians that get hurt or sick while in the U S . Canada is single payer to cover the cost and the hospitals and Docs are private

No Costa Rica is not an island , sorry if the way I worded it .Send hope half the civil service and crime will explode , you have to skrink the civil service by retiring and not hiring .Not everyone gets to be a lawyer ,Doc etc the majority of jobs are labour jobs .By the way the VP of marketing for sandals started as a busboy in the first Sandals ..Don,t forget Cuba has 4000 cays/islands ,We have more totally undeveloped Cays/Islands than we have guest for,,

Travel much ??Cuba has tons of unspoiled natural beauty , as does TCI , Many other Islands ,DR , Costa Rica ..You been to Abaco or Exuma lately they both can take more development and still be unspoiled ..Unless we are going to stop having babies we need development .What we have to sell is sun ,sand and sea and we have tons of it ..The majority of our family islands are "barren" islands w miles and miles btw settlements that only survive b/c of public services jobs , You think Aklins , Cat Island , San sal etc put money in the treasury ,,dam it cost us more than they put to subsidize Bahamasair to go there and keep the lights on ..We are broke and borrowing to pay the bills unless you want half of the civil service to go home tomorrow ,crime to sky rocket and our dollar to tank we need investment ,,take off your high hat and let reality sink in ..DR is doing 4 million stop over a year we are doing slightly more than we were doing in the 1990,s we are just charging a lot more

I don,t blame the cruise lines for trying to control the guest experience ,, they are in business to make money and please guest ,,the port in Nassau is not a pleasing experience for their guest ,,in reality its dirty ,the vendors are loud and rude including many of the cab drivers ..There are 365 cays in The Exuma cays w only perhaps 10 oercent developed ,w maybe 100 spots or more as pretty as LHP ,in reality most of our Islands and cays look the same .I could blind fold you and take to The Jumento cays and tell u it LHP or Rose Island in different spots and you would not know the difference ..We got more Islands ,rocks ,cays than we have tourist for ,,

Exuma and Abaco have some development and still are underdeveloped .The rest of the family are barren ,,little settlement separated by miles and miles ,that mostly survive b/c of public service jobs ,,

We should not have bought the hotel , we have been trying everything to get guest to Freeport ,even basically paying Sunwing etc ..One we cant do bargain mid level tourism our cost are too high ,electricity etc Two people don,t want to go to Freeport ,service sucks and people got bad additudes .I t would of been cheaper to close the hotel and give the workers 400 bucks a week for the next 10 years ..Two let a firm ,even foreign , come in and run the cruise port in Nassau , Our cruise port and Bay street is the dump of the region ,,even Haiti is nicer and better run ..I know longer talk nationalism and misplaced patriotism our cruise port and Bay street are a dirty ,loud scary mess

I'm, a boat Capt ,I just ran a four hour tour out of Exuma to three places equally as pretty .Give me an 8 hour day w a 30 knt boat and I will take you to 50 spots as beautiful from where I sit right now .Our family Islands are underdeveloped ,should I say barren . We got more land that looks very similar than guest .We are a broke a## country w 1 in 4 people working for government we have been borrowing and taxing since independence to keep a float ,that's before you even figure in the corruption and theeffin . In reality and both parties know it VAT was recommended at 15% just to stop the bleeding ..We need every investment we can get ,,we need the jobs ,we need the departure tax a million more cruise ship passengers will bring , we need the jobs building it , we need the security jobs manning the gate etc ,,You people need to quit high hattin ,,we broke ,,and Cuba will open to the U S market sooner rather than later

A university ,,accredited by who lmao lmao