EDITOR, TheTribune.
I was amused to read the unsubstantiated remarks in The Tribune’s article of May 19 – Police Say 90,000 Attended Carnival.
Who supplied these “official police statistics” and what method was used to arrive at the figure?
Does the police force have anyone who is actually trained in crowd estimates? What is that person’s training?
Did anyone measure the depth of the standing room area by the parade route and then guess the room that each person occupied?
Was this estimate based on ticket sales? How many free tickets were given away?
Assuming a population in New Providence of 400,000 and fewer than 7,000 available hotel rooms, 90,000 seems a bit generous.
How many hotel rooms were occupied at the time? How many cruise ships were in port? How many cruise ship passengers actually ventured to Carnival, given all the critical cruise ship warnings to passengers about crime on the island?
Did one quarter of the New Providence population – elderly, sick, babies, illegal immigrants, people opposed to Carnival on moral grounds – attend Carnival?
Where are the scientific facts?
Or is this justification for throwing a $9m party at the people’s expense?
CURIOUSER and CURIOUSER
Nassau,
May 19, 2015.
Comments
proudloudandfnm 8 years, 10 months ago
LOL!! They are pulling numbers out of thin air.... lol...
Then we find out they have to subsidize the vendors now. Already subbed the costume makers....
Yet the PLP is adamant this thing was a success....
Only the PLP man... lol... Bunch of amateurs. In every single thing they do.....
themessenger 8 years, 10 months ago
Dey comin' by boat, dey comin' by plane, dey comin in wheelchair an walkin' wit cane........go figure.
ohdrap4 8 years, 10 months ago
the 90,000 are the inhabitants of the eastern end of the island who were seeking respite from the load shedding.
Sickened 8 years, 10 months ago
That's fukun funny! LOL
birdiestrachan 8 years, 10 months ago
I for one, I am very happy some of that money went into Ronnie Butler's hands and many other Bahamians hands.
asiseeit 8 years, 10 months ago
Yes Birdie, Bahamians made money, but that money is stale, it done come from Bahamians. That is your taxes. BJC was supposed to inject capital into our economy. From the reports coming out it seems the only real money spent came from government or citizens. Therefore we just playing with our stale money. Money, by the way, that we have borrowed. Now we are on the hook for the vendors not making money, Really? Who does this, where does this happen? Slush comes to mind. Who knows who. Correct.
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