And the other local channels have people who can actually read and speak fluently, and sound vaguely like they know what they are doing. ZNS broadcasters sound like they definitely got the job because they know somebody, and not because they are any good at it.

Of course Fred Mitchell doesn't want the people who actually know what happened to speak the truth.

OMG I am so tired of these disingenuous letters from purported travel agents and the incredible hypocrisy. Canada won't let you in at all; US only gives you 3 days to get your test done. The Bahamas Travel Visa is not this huge, long-winded, complicated thing. I have travelled into The Bahamas from the UK and Europe 3 times now during covid, and each time the visa was approved within less than 30 minutes.
"All the requirements of the visa"...LOL. Does this guy have the slightest clue how many hoops the US government makes you jump through to get a visa to visit the USA?
Well maybe everyone is declining to use this guy's rinky-dink travel agency, but most people in the world do their bookings directly with hotels and airlines these days if they have even the slightest level of internet literacy...and that is so many people that all the flights are full and the big hotels are reporting higher bookings than pre-covid. Don't know where this disaster is that this guy is talking about.

Some of us would agree with all of that. Adults need to take responsibility for their own choices and shouldn't expect others to come to the rescue to save them from their own decisions.

So much rage. So much hatred for foreigners. Such a shame. Imagine the vitriol that would spew forth from Andrew Allen's quiver if someone in another country were to voice such vicious sentiments against Bahamians, cloaking it in the disguise of a righteous battle for equality. Every single time he writes to the editor...same regurgitated hatred, vomited up in a different pattern.

Or when did the unions ever pay any attention to economic realities?

Exactly! As if shedding 10% of their workforce constitutes the breaking of the camel's back...and as if the renewal of the emergency orders, rather than the ongoing pandemic, had anything to do with it. As you say, you can't fight stupid.

It's a shame to see such hypocrisy and twisting of the truth from Canada, a wonderful country with wonderful people. The letters are so similar that you have to wonder if it is simply the same writer sending in the same material with different names. They complain about the Bahamas Travel Visa and the 5 day window for the PCR test. Well what is Canada doing for anyone who wants to visit them? Non-Canadian residents are totally banned from entering Canada at all. And if you are in the very select group that they will allow to enter, then you have to download their ArriveCan tracking app, you have to have a covid test within 72 hours (yes, two days shorter than the 5 day time frame they have all been crying about to come to The Bahamas), and now they have even gone so far as to ban all flights from The Bahamas and the rest of the Caribbean, under the pretence that this area is likely to be riddled with new variants of covid. Banning flights from Brazil, South Africa or even the UK would make sense if the new variants are your actual concern...there is no logic to banning flights from extremely low level covid areas like The Bahamas. So maybe all these Canadians crying about the measures The Bahamas has put in place in order to continue to be able to welcome visitors whilst simultaneously trying to protect its own citizens, maybe they should look at themselves in the mirror and take note of the far harsher restrictions they are putting on Bahamians who would like to visit Canada. When Canada's restrictions are less harsh than those of The Bahamas, then maybe they could have a shred of legitimacy in their grievance, but until that time, please stop with the blatant hypocrisy. And for the record, the international travel visa that they complain about taking an uncertain amount of time...we've applied for them on 4 separate occasions and each time they were approved in less than one hour! i will end by thanking Mr. Hitchcock for the comedy value of his statements about the great majority of residents from the main tourist markets being well and responsible. Perhaps the obvious really does need to be stated for some people who just don't want to acknowledge the facts...(1) a large proportion of people with covid are asymptomatic and don't even know they have the disease and (2) if everyone was being so responsible, the disease wouldn't be continuing to spread at such a fast rate in Canada and the US.

Sad that Bahamian courts are now rubber stamping ridiculous US court awards. The only winners here are the lawyers, yet again.

Union members are fools led by criminals who bleed the uneducated to make themselves rich. If you mess with the tourist product, how on earth do you think you are ever going to get a pay rise when you have scared the tourists away? It's like a fisherman intentionally pouring oil into the sea and then complaining that they can't catch more fish. Pay rises should be based on performance and productivity...not blackmail or an unjustified sense of entitlement. Everyone is entitled to freedom of opportunity. If you want to make more money, work harder, work smarter, be more productive and actually add value!!!