We don't have the vaccine now, we have 20,000 doses, and only 80,000 more potentially coming. What about the rest of the population? There seems to be this cheering that we finally have the solution and it turns out the solution is only for about 15% of the population. The government has made no effort to try and get the rest of the necessary doses. Why have they not been contacting the manufacturers and trying to secure purchase agreements? What is the plan for all the rest of the Bahamians?

There is still no mention of obtaining any more vaccines than what Covax is providing. How they are expecting to vaccinate every Bahamian when they have vaccines for less than 15% of the population? Why have no purchase agreements been made with the vaccine manufacturers?

What about the rest of the vaccines? There has been no attempt to secure the remaining 500,000 doses that we need to vaccinate the rest of the population. Why has the government not tried to buy some? It would cost less than $10m to vaccinate the entire population.

What's the plan for the rest of the vaccines? Why has the government not yet made any purchase agreements with the vaccine manufacturers? We can have the whole population vaccinated for less than $10m.

Why has the government not made purchase agreements with the vaccine manufacturers? For less than $10m we could have vaccines for the entire country.

What about the rest of the vaccines that we will need? Has the government tried to buy the vaccines for the 250,000 Bahamians that won't be included in this round of vaccines? Are we just waiting for Covax to come along and give us the rest? It would cost $5m - $10m to buy all the vaccines we need. Why has the government not made purchase agreements with any of the manufacturers?

There is no property tax on properties valued below $250,000, or on vacant land, or on any out island property owned by a Bahamian.

I have no problem kicking cruise ships out, but the people who go on cruises will no be flying here instead. The Bahamas is one stop our of 5-10 on a cruise. They won't care that Nassau is left off. But that's besides the fact that cruise passengers won't fly here because they are cheap, or they like cruises. They won't suddenly have the money for an Atlantis stay with their family just because we shut them out of sailing here.

The guy bring up a valid point that our tourist offerings are pretty thin and you're response is that they should carry their ass? Maybe address the fact that what is says it true. Also, why would denying cruises cause more people to stay in hotels?

This BS again. Tribune took a little break from publishing these stupid sob songs by Americans and Canadians about how hard it is for them to organize themselves to travel. It's like they are children who are totally incompetent. On top of this they are arguing like no other country in the world has any sort of restrictions. It's actually pretty insulting that these incompetent people are trying to tell us how we should act only because they have been inconvenienced. Cruise ship passengers having to worry about travel visas. Does Markie not know thay cruise ships aren't even sailing for another 6 months at a minimum.

It amazes me that people will write letter to a newspaper to be published that highlight their incompetence so clearly.