justabeachbum

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SP 3 years ago on THE GREAT RETURN: Airport to be swamped with arrival of 6,000 passengers on Saturday

THE GREAT RETURN: Airport to be swamped with arrival of 6,000 passengers on Saturday

"Omicron Unite" The crap is going to hit the fan here just as it has in Europe. We will see a return to huge hospitalizations by mid-January.

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SP 2 years, 11 months ago on ‘Caribbean’s Singapore’: $15bn GDP target urged

‘Caribbean’s Singapore’: $15bn GDP target urged

There are plenty of reasons we can’t be the Singapore of the Caribbean. Let's start with the systemic corruption which prohibits the Bahamas from doing anything sensible.

From financial services to immigration and everything in between the Bahamas has an overabundance of decades-old deeply embedded corruption rendering the government incapable of implementing common-sense best practices to move the country forward.

Singapore had to dismantle the Bahamas type of corruption BEFORE they were able to move forward. The Bahamas cannot expect to reap the rewards of Singapore's style of governance without FIRST dealing with corruption.

As long as the PLP or FNM is in power, the Bahamas will NEVER resolve endemic and systemic corruption because it is them that created, maintain, and thrive from corruption!

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realityisnotPC 2 years, 11 months ago on Barriers stop Bahamas travel

Barriers stop Bahamas travel

So sick and tired of this small group of Canadians and a couple of “travel agents” from upstate New York complaining and complaining. The Bahamas is not to blame for the requirements that your Canadian government impose upon you to return. Their entry requirements were the draconian ones…they wouldn’t let anyone who wasn’t Canadian enter Canada for the longest time, when we were open for business. I have personally travelled in and out of The Bahamas half a dozen times during COVID and never had any trouble getting the few requirements fulfilled. I have never had a health visa take more than 45 minutes to get approved. All you need is a tiny bit of common sense and organizational ability…in fact, my kids even organize their own paperwork using Verifly…have you heard of Verifly? And the US…they make you get a test within one day of flying…The Bahamas gives you 3 days, yet we are the draconian ones. One rule for them and one rule for us, I guess.