Former Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis in the House of Assembly on June 11, 2024. Photo: Chappell Whyms Jr
By EARYEL BOWLEG
Tribune Staff Reporter
ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
FORMER Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis said his successor is hypocritical for seeking to buy the Princess Towers Hotel and International Bazaar in Grand Bahama, given the position he took when the Minnis administration sought to buy the Grand Lucayan resort.
“They criticised us in every way possible,” he said during his contribution to the budget debate in the House of Assembly on Tuesday. “Now look at them. They want to buy up all kinds of property to intervene in Freeport. This is hypocrisy. Hypocrisy at its worst.”
In 2018, Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis said if he were the country’s leader, he would not let the government buy the Grand Lucayan hotel properties.
He said he would fight to find a private buyer, insisting it would be too costly for the government to own and operate a hotel that was not making a profit even before it was shut down.
Yesterday, the director of communications in the Office of Prime Minister, Latrae Rahming, said comparing what Mr Davis seeks to do to what the previous administration did is “apples and oranges”.
Mr Davis has said the government will acquire the International Bazaar, reopen West Sunrise Road and buy the Princess Towers Hotel for less than $4m. He said $30m has been budgeted to develop the sites.
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carltonr61 5 months, 1 week ago
Grand Bahama is well positioned to benefit from the Medical Cannabis Tourist Business spin-off from Florida. Grand Bahama is best positioned among The Bahama Islands. With 147 million Cannabis users, most of whom travel, no other island affords the vast open beach spaces and social privacy at Touristic Smoke Bars, as enjoyed throughout the Caribbean.
Economic analysts from the Florida legislature and DeSantis’s office, estimate that the marijuana legalization initiative would generate between $195.6 million and $431.3 million in new sales tax revenue annually if voters enact it. A new report from Zuanic & Associates has revealed that medical cannabis sales in Florida reached $92 million in August.
August’s $92 million in sales contributed to a three-month total of $480 million, valuing the industry at $1.44 billion.
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Empiricist 5 months, 1 week ago
It is downright stupid to speak of the benefits of the cannabis trade and spin offs without addressing the costs. Look to what the neurosurgeons and neurologists are saying about the costs and negative effects from using this dangerous drug. Sometimes I get the impression that Carltonr61 is just simply under the influence of this drug when writes this stupidity.
carltonr61 5 months, 1 week ago
https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:s…
Well sir. Read what Bahamian doctors say. The evidence based information I read from our Dictors. Who are well informed on latest medical based information from their colleagues in USA, Europe and Canada. We are only just catching up to what is relavent and currently working in the world. Maybe after reading and researching we can be on the same page. Thank you.
carltonr61 5 months, 1 week ago
Medicine had no religious prejudices. I life saved or help for the suffering is Hippocratic Oath. Our Doctors are Catholic, Baptist, SDA, Anglican, Rasta and they show no prejudices toward helping the sick.
birdiestrachan 5 months, 1 week ago
There is a big difference between the bazar and the lucayan hotel but no one can really expect the doc to see the difference,,j
realfreethinker 5 months, 1 week ago
Yeah there is a huge difference between them. The Grand lucayan was open and operating, but the bazaar and princess hotel are abandoned and derelict
birdiestrachan 5 months, 1 week ago
Hutchison could not sell the hotels. . There must have been damage the insurance paid did they repair. the bazaar can be profitable and add to the economy even 65 million and 4 .million is different
TalRussell 5 months, 1 week ago
'Tis becoming fairly obvious to everybody why nothin' much was changed at the RedShirts' 1 June Leadership Convention. --- Where Leadership goes unresolved. --- Yes?
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