SAINT KITTS CRUISE SHIP DEBACLE exposes 'common sense' vacuum as thousands of clueless tourists stranded by local bus strike.
Oh for goodness' sake, people. I just got back from dropping my kids off at school in Basseterre, and the traffic chaos is what happens when you don't have a lick of common sense. Our island is literally a paradise, and it's being overrun by folks who can't figure out a bus schedule? I saw a group of tourists standing on the main road trying to flag down a private car for forty minutes, while the public minibuses were sitting empty because the drivers walked off the job over some petty fuel surcharge. My grandma used to say 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it,' but here we are, with the government giving permits to every Tom, Dick, and Harry with a rusty van. Now the port is flooded with people waving money, and not a single driver has the brainpower to agree on a fair price. It's not rocket science – it's a small island. You can walk from the ferry dock to Sandy Bank in an hour if you're not lazy. This is why I avoid the Frigate Bay strip like the plague on Saturdays. Someone needs to grow a backbone and enforce a simple rate, or else Saint Kitts is going to be the laughingstock of the Caribbean.