What about vaccines for the rest of the country? Why has the government not tried to secure the rest of the needed doses? We have enough for less than 20% of the population? Where are the purchase agreements? Why has this not been done till now? The whole purchase would be less than $10m. We need to vaccinate the population in order to properly reopen for tourism. Everyday we wait to try and get more vaccines will cost us more than all of the vaccines in lost revenue for the country.

We don't provide any air control. We don't collect the money because the US are the ones actually running the air control. It's their equipment, their personnel, their billing, their rules. If we want to collect it, then we need to actually build the infrastructure and the expertise to actually do it. They are not stealing our money. We are to lazy and disorganized to even have a system in place to collect it.

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.