Establish a one year moratorium on conch harvesting every alternate odd year on the calender.. It will Tee off alot of vendors but this is about the future. Mandate that all conch fishermen catch **Lion Fish** and all conch vendors sell lion fish salad and lion fish delegacies. It taste just as good.The tourist will love it and it can be prepared in many ways just like conch.

Establish a one year moratorium on conch harvesting every alternate odd year on the calender.. It will Tee off alot of vendors but this is about the future. Mandate that all conch fishermen catch **Lion Fish** and all conch vendors sell **lion fish** salad and delegacies. It taste just as good.The tourist will love it and it can be prepared in many ways just like conch.

Strengthen your Firewall protocols, Install latest service packs for operating systems for servers and network equipment . Hire a full time cyber security expert. ....just my five cents with my limited IT background .

Tell them Sheeprunner12 ...Conch aint Groupers so the season and rules have to be different.

Its going to take inovatives ideas from young mileaneals who have college, university level education to bring their ideas back home and start their own businesses to grow the economy. Banks should be mandated to create a minimum five hundred million venture capitol fund to make loans to young people with good ideas in technology, the green economy, research, eco tourism and light industries production.
The status quo is changing in the country and the economic reality's of these times are forcing it to happen. The old saying of "he who has the gold makes the rule"is changing to "he who has the best ideas wins the day"
Affected employees should make a positive out of this negative event in their lives by pooling their resources, forming their own company, liaise with old clients with whom they have existing relationships , contact international suppliers and become the local representative for the brands sold and serviced by their former company, Research a great location for their new company that has accessibility, online presence, and provide services to other sectors of the economy so that when there is a dip in one sector, other areas of the business may do well.

The "All for me Baby decendents" would just not go away. Bahamians have wised up. The may 10th 2017 results spoke for itself.

Tai ...you fail to realize the role technology is playing in all of this. Nothing happens before its time. Had those companies inovate, and established an online presence. chances are they may have survived. In the case of the Shirley street theatre, their model should have evolved been like the new fusion superplex. But they did not take the first step and implement digital movie technology like galleria cinemas now have.All they had was analog movie technology.(film and reel)

you are right John but i think you failed to mention the 10% in this country who seams to have a lock of the super market, Food retail, Wholesale Business. Along with the stores you mentions, there is the Chinese who are doing very well with their stores popping up all over the place. When a small man like Phil;'s was at Phills food services was on gladstone road try be successful in this area,they are cut down by the established food merchants in this country. As long as Milo Butler has been around they should have had more food stores by now.but the oligarchy in the food business will not allow that to happen. Look at how they fustrated Sandy Shaffer and his "every thing must go" food stores because of his very low prices. Politics also played a role in his food stores demise..

Taylor Industries did not reinvent their business model and in this technological savvy world. With the likes of Amazon and other online retail websites flourishing , other Bahamians retailers may go the same way and the Bahamas joining WTO. will not help the situation..

**sucteeth** is a racist. why go low and call people monkeys.