Technically, the Bahamas islands aren't in the Caribbean Sea, but they're close enough. "Caribbean region", let's say. Linda and I lived in Nassau for 3 1/2 years from soon after we married in Toronto in 1967. It (Nassau) was a thriving offshore tax-haven then, right up there with Luxembourg and Switzerland. During the '70s it lost its way, owing to black-power politics. Much of its business was diverted to Cayman by the Bahamian trust companies, my own employer included.

Like most island tax-havens in warm places, the Bahamanian islands are tourist magnates. Bimini, San Salvador (where Columbus first hit the West Indies), Abaco, Eleuthera... Have any of those been visited by BE members? And - I have to say - if not, why not?!

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/...untry-migrants

In the news already! The government refuses to take Trump's deportees. Wisely...

Of all the thousand-or-so islands of The Bahamas, the most interesting one for us was Spanish Wells. We visited it in 1968, when it was rather more - uh - conservative than it seems to be today - at least as Wikipedia reports. In 1968, the Island's population was 100% white, and had been since its first settlement. No black person had ever been allowed to stay overnight, and the rule showed in the natives' features.

At least, that's how their features were explained to us at the time. That was 56 years ago, when those were much less liberal times!