Flipping Grand Bahama

New spot in Freeport and its right on the beach. Manta Ray Restaurant near Island Seas offers a great afternoon and it seems populated mainly by tourists with a sprinkle of locals. This is a locally owned business, and so is the conch shack just a few feet away on the same property. Looking for somewhere to go, this is now one of those on offer. Yesterday's post made it seem as if there are no places to go, but if you check Trip Advisor out it says we have 126 restaurants. I've looked down the list and discovered that have about five still on the list are closed, but they didn't include this gem. So we have more than sufficient amount of restaurant and have added such specialties. There are four fine dining restaurants: Flying Fish:  http://www.flyingfishbahamas.com/ Dolphin Clubhouse:  http://www.dolphincovebahamas.com/ Churchills Restaurant:  http://www.grandlucayan.com/dining/ East Restaurant:  http://pieroneandeast.com/ which is n...

What was it about the "good ole days" of Grand Bahama that people want to return to? When we hear about them we here about all the restaurants, the nightclubs, events. Someone pointed out recently a book entitled "Inside Grand Bahama" by Dan Buettner in which tell about what to do in Grand Bahama and where to go. It was written in 1990. In the section under activities, a friend noted that while in 1990 there were 16 night activities/clubs open, today there are only two.  Wanna count:  In the 1990s, we had Panache in Holiday Inn; Sultan's Tent in Princess Hotel; Palace II on East Sunrise Highway; Electric City on East Atlantic Drive; Freeport Inn (Old Folks Home/Safari); Capt Kenny's on The Mall Drive (old Sir Winston Churchill Pub); Pub on the Mall, The Brass Helmet at Unexso; Britannia Pub; Pusser's in Port Lucaya; as well as Casinos at the Lucayan Beach Hotel and at the Princess; one Cinema theatre, one Theater for plays and the Bowlin...

The Grand Bahama Port Authority is really going all out this year as they are not only hoping to bring in investors but also to create more investors/entrepreneurs at home.  This is a very favourable turn of events with the new Business Development Department. This conference would be the third event launched by the Port this year, the first being the My Grand Bahama Campaign, then the Customer Service Workshop and now the Economic Empowerment Development Conference.  As the world turns and the seasons for each place, especially Grand Bahama, is just about complete with its valley times for now, we are moving closer to the mountain and looking forward to some mountain top experiences. Here it's about setting a stage for all players to be ready. Grand Bahama will flourish with more residents. But for more residents, we need more money making reasons for people to travel and to live here.  If, for those who believe in Bahamians only, we cannot organi...

So again listening to the great Napolean Hill I picked up on something that seems to be slipping by in our culture and in our world at the moment ... the whole idea of giving more of yourself without expecting much in return. His idea was, "Going the extra mile promotes you". How many times a day do you hear "that's above my pay grade" or "I'm not paid to do that"? This is the idea that has to be changed on a whole and head back to going that extra mile as good Christians. The Bible admonishes us to go above what is asked of us. If it's above our pay grade, one day it will be within our pay grade or even below our pay grade as we are promoted. When working for a company, one is apt to think that we are doing them a favour by showing up. Does that mean that in reverse they are doing us a favour by paying us? Something else I've learned along the way, you get paid what you negotiate. If you say you will take anything, remem...

When this blog began, the purpose was to get the people of this island into that positive mindset to make all the necessary changes. One of those changes that were so badly needed was to offer better customer service and just recently the Grand Bahama Port Authority has taken up an initiative that is putting us on a great new path. First, through the Business Development Department a customer service training programme was offered to students in the schools to start this project off right. The next generation should have it down pact by the time they are meeting and greeting their customers. Then to give ownership to the project they offered the community a buy in and then introduced the My Grand Bahama Project which was introduced last week. To put the icing on the cake they are now offering customer service training to the public. Well this writer can tell you through listening to some of the things that are being said, and the messages people are leaving with, this island is ...