Lost in everything that he said was the following: 1) If you are a chef - a real one, not the cooks who fry hamburgers, make overcooked pasta or burn up chicken wings - there is an opportunity for you to receive money to establish a restaurant. Good news for this line of work.

I'll continue to allow the above two commentators to continue to bloviate about nonsense.

Actually, with respect to this issue, birdie is accurate. 1) The Bahamas is losing market share, Maury is right - but not because of the money. Operators of luxury yachts have an inelastic demand, money does not influence their options, much. They are moving to the mediterranean and elsewhere because of everything else (quality of life; it is fricking europe!!!; that's where the uber wealthy are; etc.). Has nothing to do, as Maury wants you to believe, with either price or VAT.
Let me ask it another way: say you are Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg, and you have a yacht. You really want to come to The Bahamas for god knows whatever reason. You people really think that they are going to say: "well, I really wanted to come here, but that 4% fee is just too expensive for me. I am going to Monaco." Stop it.
The Bahamas' issue is the ancillary (spinoffs/things to do) and the inherent (Europe outstrips The Bahamas any day).
So, Birdie, take comfort in knowing that you are correct and that the only people disagreeing with you are FNM trolls and ignorant keyboard warriors.

Some facts to support this poorly written article would have been appreciated.
1) "You are aware that some Bahamians have studied in China". Perhaps a call to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to ascertain a general amount? 2) Some Bahamians wanted to remain, but immigration makes that impossible? Not true in the slightest. Maybe some more research and, I don't know, have a discussion with the Bahamas embassy in Beijing or with Bahamians who have returned home and the scores, yes scores, that are scattered throughout China, who have stayed after their studies? 3) Thrilled to find pizza...in Shanghai? Laughable. They are a dime a dozen. As ubiquitous as the Western-Chinese restaurants in Nassau.
4) Regarding the geopolitical, macroeconomic and fiscal matters you attempt to address - you are too much out of your depth to address such esoteric matters. Again, a modicum of research would have helped this lazily written article.

Some facts to support this poorly written article would have been appreciated.
1) "You are aware that some Bahamians have studied in China". Perhaps a call to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to ascertain a general amount?
2) Some Bahamians wanted to remain, but immigration makes that impossible? Not true in the slightest. Maybe some more research and, I don't know, have a discussion with the Bahamas embassy in Beijing or with Bahamians who have returned home and the scores, yes scores, that are scattered throughout China, who have stayed after their studies?
3) You couldn't find pizza...in Shanghai? Laughable.
4) Regarding the geopolitical, macroeconomic and fiscal matters you attempt to address - you are too much out of your depth to address such esoteric matters. Again, a modicum of research would have helped this lazily written article.

Trump won't be in power forever (we don't think). So, this initiative can still bring forth fruit in the future. You have to think beyond this year, kiddo.

Nonsense.

So, this is just not accurate. In fact, the level of nonsense and scatological foolishness in this post is mindboggling.

Nonsense...

Good - they should pay their fair share.

You seriously expect someone to read all of that?