You're right, the same people who are so worried that marriage will be corrupted by loving individuals, are the same people who don't care at all that our elected leaders are raping and pillaging this country for their own personal gain.

Don't worry, I'm sure enough other bigots managed to profess their hatred on the poll, just as I am sure many of the people who support the rights of individuals didn't manage to fill it out.

People who come here to bonefish are not taking the resource. They catch and release. The resource is still there and they pay for everything from food to accommodation to the airport taxes. What is this 'anonymous' guide talking about.

Web shops are not legalized yet so how is he going to challenge them. Not a single web shop licence has been issued.

Well then they need to crack down on illegal vacation rentals. A person staying at a hotel or Bahamian owned rental property could get a kayak and do the exact same thing. Or rent themselves a flats boat and fish all day. Is the goal to restrict all access to the flat for fishing except through a guide?

So they are including fishing in these rentals? And who is guiding these people to fish? Are they locals or are foreign guides coming down? Because basically what you said is that people are renting out their second homes down here, which is something that can be dealt with by the Hotels Act. If foreign guides are coming down then they are working illegally can be dealt with by immigration.

If someone rents out their house, it isn't a lodge, it's a vacation rental, and if they are using local guides anyway then those people already fall within what is allowed in this proposed legislation.

There seems to be so much hysteria from both sides of this debate and little to no information on who and what will actually be affected.

Just chalk this whole thing up to another failure by the government. The list is so long now that you can't see the top from the bottom.

That's the amount they are telling us they are taking out of the treasury. When it's all said and done we'll find out they actually took twice that and spend only a quarter of it on the actual celebration. And then a few people will make some noise and everyone else will just bury their heads in the sand.

I'm not sure you can get more blatant with some sort of corruption. The guy claim to be running a web shop that has almost a million dollar in cash just sitting in it and doesn't know that it is actually an illegal gambling establishment. Just like that it all goes away and he gets his money back. This is a damn joke. Does no one here care about the Bahamas or are they all just in it for themselves. Buy them lunch and you can break any law you want. They don't care, they got lunch.

Can anyone actually point out a foreign fishing lodge? All lodges that currently operate and have foreign interests do so with either a Foreign Direct Investment exemption, or they are partnered with a Bahamian and running it as a Bahamian company (which is fully legal). The status for those lodges is considered Bahamian and so they will continue to operate as usual. If they don't have one of those and have foreign principle then they are already operating illegally. You can just come here and set up a business as a foreigner without following the rules. They should be shut down if they haven't followed all of the current rules. It's not even necessary to put it in the new law because it is currently that way.