Excatly - a path straight through Nassau or Freeport ports and airports straight back to the UK should be being facilitated. Leaving hundreds of elderly and scared people on a ship possibly for over a week to cross the atlantic is cruel. If the Bahamas is not able to cope with such an effort, it raises the question on why it is the port of registry for so many vessels worldwide. It is a humanatrian crisis on which the Bahamas should be assisting.

But that's not the case. It has neither on board. It has some elderly very scared people who just want to get home. Why can the Bahamian authorties, with the resources of being one of the largest registry of ships worldwide, make for an easy path of these individuals straight to repatiration flights, as has happened in Japan and the US.

Its interesting. I always thought The Bahamas was a christian nation. I'm not seeing much evidence of cristian charity on these blogs. The stricken ship has a Bahamian flag, pays Nassau port registration fees, but is being very minimally supported by The Bahamas in its hour of need, and even less so by the poeple frequenting this blog. The majority of passengers of the ship are British, and are now stranded at sea with no clear way to alight. I seem to remember the UK Government was very proactive in coming to The Bahamas' assitance when Hurrican Dorian struck. Not a lot of reciprical assitance being provided, so much for The Commonwealth pulling together.