Royal Caribbean passengers are the cheapest and worst passengers of any of the cruise lines. They do not spend money in Nassau and most barely even get off the boat. It's far better to have them go to a private cay and pay their departure tax. That was all the money we were getting from them anyway. Cruise ship passengers are not the kind of tourist we want in the Bahamas. We should be focusing on people who fly here, and stay here and spend money here.

They are both better and more efficient than the Bahamian tax system. No one said more taxes, they said to modernize the tax system.

What are you talking about?

Just because it would be challenging you think that it shouldn't be done? So back in the day you would have argued that we should stick with the horse and buggy because people would need to learn how to drive cars?

At what point do we need to move forward? The world is passing the Bahamas by.

Oh John, you just can't help yourself with the racism and xenophobia.

Yeah, just a lump of shit that account for $17 trillion in GDP (about 20% of the world GDP) and just over 500 million people. Go educate yourself and stop being an embarrassment.

That was really a lot of writing just to let us all know that you are completely uneducated on international matters. Could have saved yourself a lot of time and embarrassment.

Go educate yourself, the EU will be around long after the Bahamas has sunk beneath the waves.

The EU is in no danger of going away. You really have no idea what you're talking about.

This is because there is an excise tax on beer, liquor and wine. The tax is applied to all imported and domestic products. It amounts to about $1 a beer and is the reason beer is so expensive in the Bahamas.