Member of Parliament for Fox Hill Fred Mitchell said it right when during the sitting of Parliament on Wednesday he noted that for a long time the government had been urged to do a proper investigation into the airline industry of The Bahamas.<\/p>\n
“It’s sad that it takes a situation like this to finally get the government to look into this situation,”said Mitchell.<\/p>\n
It is indeed sad that it takes tragedy to fix a problem that seemingly stare us in the face every day.<\/p>\n
The deaths of eight people in Tuesday’s plane crash in Lake Killarney no doubt should serve as more than a wake-up call to properly regulate charter operations in The Bahamas.<\/p>\n
Airline charter companies and the way they operate have become so intrinsic in our culture that we tend not to give it a second thought.<\/p>\n
Particularly on our Family Islands, it is commonplace to go to the airport, pay a pilot some money and jump on a small plane to go to another Family Island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The deaths of eight people in the plane crash in Lake Killarney and a second crash two days later should serve as more than a wake-up call to properly regulate charter operations in The Bahamas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-2885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-airlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}