Dominican Republic doesn’t have a “$40 Health Visa” and no tests. They are thriving. Health visa is probably here for good. Health visa just another way to fleece tourists. No way it costs $40 per person to operate. Or, is someone’s hand in cookie jar?!?

Abaco has become a haven for drug deals, murders, looting, stolen boats. The government just stands by and let’s it happen. Bye bye tourism. It will become another Freeport very soon. Sad, because it used to be such an idyllic place.

A family of four that may want to come to the Bahamas for a 3 day weekend just added more than $1,000 to their trip or $333 per day. Fully vaccinated still need a $200 antigen test which requires hours of your time besides the money, then $40 each for Health Visa (love to know what’s going on with this money!) and then a $29 exit charge. That’s $1,076! Let’s see, cost to go to Florida Keys-0. It would be like getting free lodging going to the Keys and not have to deal with immigration, customs, etc. Think about it!

If you have enuf payola, you can get “approval”. Not sure it is legit!

Kovats is out to destroy Treasure Cay next. He may have made a lot of money somewhere but his track record is not great and he is generally not wanted by locals. But, if you have the money you can get anything done in the Bahamas!

This could be another white elephant just like Our Lucaya on GB. 4 years of legal wrangling, nothing happening and the poor people of Abaco will get to do the suffering. Looking at Kovats history this is a bad deal. Make whoever buys it put up a $5 million bond for development. That will get rid of the shadows. Time is of the essence. This new government seems to be taking care of business. This Our Lucaya was a disaster-don’t destroy North Abaco. This will be a good opportunity for the new government to shine.

You would think the government would provide drinkable water, reliable electricity and sewage where it existed before. Ok, forget the personal home rebuilds. But, in Treasure Cay there are 350 residences that formerly had sewage and now don’t. Furthermore, those poor, storm dazed people even ponied up over $600,000 to fix the sewer. But, do you think WSC and the government can take 10 minutes to say go ahead? The answer is NO!! What kind of a government is this. Think of all the income lost to the locals because 700 or 800 people can’t come to Treasure Cay because they can’t flush their toilet. It is a shame!

BPL is a joke. This is the 21st century! This isn’t brain surgery. We are using the same technology that has been around for 100 years! Planes don’t drop out of the sky because the engines stop working! Somebody in the government needs to step up and get the infrastructure in place!

There is no way the FAA or NTSB would stop investigating the crash in the US because the pilots weren’t “rated” for this aircraft, even if it was reported “stolen”. They would be working side by side with law enforcement. Just because the pilot wasn’t “rated” for this type of aircraft doesn’t mean he couldn’t fly it. A Cessna pilot watching YouTube videos would know how to start it and could take off in it. It’s pretty basic. No, there is much more going on here.

Don’t think so. Now, all airplanes are tracked. Anyone can see almost any plane in transit on FlightAware. Furthermore, as the pilots entered the plane they would see the “cargo”. Also, no respectable drug dealer would leave $50 million in cocaine on board the aircraft for days. Just offload it during the night. The plane is registered to a company in Houston. At $300,000 value it’s a “throwaway” plane on a $50 million drug deal. I don’t understand why the investigation of why it crashed ended just because the pilots weren’t rated. That would never happen in the US. Smells like a car full of aged conch to me. Will we ever know the truth? Only if some investigative reporter digs in.