The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune.

When every civilized country on the planet seeks to display its city centre in all their varied degrees of Holiday Cheer and splendour, we in the Bahamas, of course, take a different approach.

We have determined that the best strategy for impressing our many visitors is to make Bay Street look like a prison camp. It is not enough to have a reputation for crime; we go the extra mile to make it look like a crime ridden city.

In the name of Junkanoo, a debacle unto itself, chain link fencing and bleachers placed on Bay Street, for the entire Holiday Season have rendered commerce a dirty blow and any semblance of Christmas d�cor is neutralized. If I were the downtown merchants, I would consider a class action suit.

Knowing “how we go”, there is little hope that the organizers of this national disgrace, would increase the budget so as to remove the chain link between parades or to hire enough staff to disassemble and reassemble the bleachers between the parade of gaps, (there are more gaps, than Junkanoo groups), or to get the bleachers that can be dropped in by crane one night before and removed the night after.

No, that would be SMART and the right thing to do.

So I have a suggestion that might appeal to the blunderers. Perhaps we should employ the same people that decorated the “national Christmas tree”, to decorate the bleachers and the chain link fencing. That would at the very least serve to give another inept crony a contract to do a shoddy job that we can all collectively snicker at.

On behalf of the Bahamian people, I authorize the Minister of Tourism to pick up the phone and call the Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture.

When you do Obie, please ask Danny if he has any clue what his Ministry is doing to the image of the Bahamas as a tourist destination.

Obie, your call for not letting our image slip must start with your colleagues.

DISMAYED

Nassau,

December 28, 2014.