So, the long and short of Mr. Johnson's article here is that the Economic Recovery Committee didn't bring anything to the table.

So, once again we have a bunch of useless people sitting around the table wasting taxpayer money. Mr. JZohnsom is a complete idiot. He presented this idea as some great thing a couple of months ago. Now, he backpedaled when it's pointed out that he is a giant dumbass.

This is interesting. I assume you arevawarebifnchallenges with BPL. I'm not sure if the internet capabilities here are on par with what you are used to. Nut, the cost would be much higher than in first world locations.

Although, you my be excited about this opportunity, are there hoards of others who are? Let's think for a second, the tax opportunities have always been on the table. If this was such a grand idea, would we need to whisper in the ear of the world to show up here? Think about it, we have lots of foreign investors in this country. Tax breaks by itself won't result in businesses coming here. You are looking at this point in isolation. From a business perspective, you don't open a business for one or two customers unless they are extremely large. So, unless you're one of the big silicon valley size companies, you can't put a dent in the process.

To clarify, I'm not writing as an attack to you, it's just that if we look at the picture at the macro level, the government really didn't do anything here.

As "Amused" put it, who wants to vacation in place for 14 days? So, stay in one place for 14 days. Th e small hotels will have little or no amenities. So, let me see, you pay thousands of dollars to quarantine for your entire trip (as most people won't be here more than 14 days). All your meals have to be ordered and delivered to you. You get thr opportunity of looking out a window from time to time. Sounds great!

Lol. The vaccine is being rushed. No doubt about it. I saw in CNN the other day a medicalmexoert was a guest on a news segment. He stated that the drug manufacturers are not standing 100% behind these Covid-19 drugs. They're saying only that they will deliver something that meets FDA standards. But, the FDA head is caught up in politics. The US President wants something now and people are afraid the FDA will not do their job. It appears the FDA has already lowered their requirements for a vaccine. So, long story short, you don't know what you're going to get as a vaccine.

This process is insane. The government says that there is a building code. Theybsay you can't simply squat on land. Yet they allow for shantytowns to exist, which totally contradicts rules and regulations. If you want to build first buy the land. Then get a permit to construct according to the building code.

I intend no disrespect to Mrs. Jibrilu, but I think she missed some major points on tourism. When you're selling tourism, always keep in mind it's a product both content and packaging. Painting and cleaning up downtown helps with packaging but what about content. We have historical sites that are not being maintained. We allowed the Hilton to knock down the remnants of a fort to make room for a parking lot. The "Water Tower" which gave visitors a panoramic view of the island lies in a state of disrepair. If you go to any major city in the world you have a place where you can overlook the city. We no longer have it. What are we selling that's Bahamian? Do we have local music entertainment at nights? Tourists are always complaining that there's not much nightlife. We don't provide Bahamian theater with much frequency in a centralized location. We don't have decent restaurants serving local cuisine. These are among a few things lacking from our tourism product. It's quite sad that no one in the Ministry of Tourism seems to have figured any of this out.

Agreed. I didn't understand why money was spent dredging the harbor to bring in mega cruise lines when cruise passengers don't spend much money on land. Added to that some of these cruise lines are low end meaning passengers taking those may not have much disposable income. So, what money are they going to have to spend here. Keep in mind, if they have a few pennies to spend they have splitting it between multiple ports of call.

Good reply. It's true we have issues. But, if we talk about cleanliness as a standard, then no one would visit New York or Philadelphia. Toronto and Boston would be among the most visited cities in the world.

I've seen bad attitudes across the globe. I'm not condoning issues we have here, I'm just saying we're not the only ones. Cobalt clearly needs some global exposure. We do need to fix a lot of things, but some of our issues are because we're so small. Downtown is a mess, but it's the wealthy white minority that own downtown real estate who've allowed it to fall into an eyesore for the most part (the section from East and Bay heading east). So, I don't see why the attack on the black population. Ignorance is dangerous!

He needs to speak to D'Aguilar. Clearly D'Aguilar knows more than he does. D'Aguilar interview with CNN showed he's a genius. If her get more great ideas from D'Aguilar we'll all be moving into farming and fishing as there won't be much money running through this economy.

Lol. That's a good one.