"The Minnis Government really has no plan to revive and restore the local economy." Bahama Press, 1.18.21.

Also have you ever read the fine print on the Health Travel Visa. The penalties are frightening.

Most ppl have read about the poor tourist who got put in jail in Cayman when all the locally connected caymanian avoid the prison because "they are all connected".

So couple with the threat of being put in jail....even if tourist were going to travel to the bahamas they would think twice about jail if they accidentely didn't get an antigen test.

Suppose you accidently don't respond to the travel visa daily questionnaire because you ran out of minutes or your foreign based phone don't work with lousy BTC? $100 a day fine?

Possibly one month in Fox Hell prison? They don't know that we are not enforcing the law. Not one of the 21,000 breaking the protocol is charged.Maybe they will find some poor bahamian to put in jail....but poor bahamian ain going to miami right now because they can't afford the $150 Covid test in miami or the 40 travel visa. So i guess dey ain ga charge no body.

And then they warn you. If you can't get on the plane back home because the less than accurate antigen test came out with a false positive....you better have enough money to go back to the hotel at over $500 a day for da next 2 weeks!

Good luck restarting the tourist industry.

Exactly. The government is already charging $40 for the Travel Visa which includes the cost of the existing Antigen test. All you do is you bring your travel visa to the antigen test site and give it to them and you don't have to pay for the test.

So its a mistake to tell the tourist that they need to pay again for an antigen test they have already paid for. Unless the Antigen test is only free for Bahamians and foreigners need to pay for it.

Lol, you can't make up this bungled signaling. Millions of dollars worth of travel decisions are made not to travel on vacation every time the government opens its mouth.

No, no. Please leave the 21,000 foreigners lone who broke the law and are subject to fines and imprisonment.

You can't put foreigners in our prisons which have been condemned by Amnesty International and where their Covid protocols and sanitation may not live up to internationally accepted practices.

Do they have flushing toilets at Fox Hill?

Instead lets continue to focus on locking up the young black male selling coconuts on the side of the road trying to make a couple of dollars to buy food for his family.

Also, continue to focus on keeping the country locked down under emergency law. Bahamians are so crushed and broke they can't even fight the system anymore.

All that is left now is for the government to implement income tax to take any profit that the bay street boys may have left.

It funny that whenever we have any major contracts we have to go all the way to Europe or China or South America to find ppl to "do a deal with". Eg. Bahamasair planes/Europe, Defense Force Boats/Europe, BTC phones/china, debt deals/credit suisse. Black listing/Europe.

However when ever our asses are against the wall we pray for American help. Eg. Dorian/American Coast Guard, Covid/Good Samaritan Hospital.

Lets support American businesses....please don't forget where our tourist come from to fill up our Chinese hotels.

Certain businesses, especially unionized ones, have 2 additional silent partners who have no equity and therefore no incentive to ensure the profitability or long term viability of the business.

The Union and the Government and BPL (opps that’s 3).

Each one extracts astronomical amounts from the business and don’t give a damn if the business succeeds or fails.

The businesses get the government they deserve...they contribute heavily to both the PLP and FMM.

All governments say they will not default....before they default.

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Porcupine. I agree with you that income tax is an important issue however without fiscal reform and accountability any additional revenue raised will have zero impact in improving the well being of anyone in the Bahamas.

Waste, corruption, little transparency, centralization, no loss of government jobs during the pandemic, massive debt, incompetence have not been addressed.

Raise the taxes until the rich leave. Then we will be another IMF basket case.

I don't know of any country where the IMF as invested that is not a basket case today....Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Ecuador, South Africa, Ukraine etc etc.

We are definitely next in line for default.

Amused. I think the crooked IMF will lend us the $500m for the BEC rate bond so we can buy more outdated global warming fossil fuel and outdated generation plants from the corrupt Shell in Europe.

Elite professionals and entrenched business interest in the Bahamas stand to benefit for all the legal, financial, oil importation and construction work as monopolies remain fixed in the importation of oil, the generation of power, the virtual shut out of renewable energies and the constant downgrading of the Bahamas into junk bond territory.

Why should government care? By curtailing the export of US dollars by average Bahamains they are now flush with US$2 billion in reserves....ready to wire out to their European business partners.

Turnquest always saying how bad things are but I ain see him take any pay cut.