Honestman 9 years, 4 months ago on POLITICOLE: R.E.S.P.E.C.T a song and dance, by Fred Mitchell and Perry Christie
POLITICOLE: R.E.S.P.E.C.T a song and dance, by Fred Mitchell and Perry Christie
Good article Nicole. The really sad thing is that none of them care.
Sickened 9 years, 4 months ago on American Businessman considers leaving the Bahamas after business is robbed
American Businessman considers leaving the Bahamas after business is robbed
There aren't many more middle class people left. Within the last month the number of people living in SandyPort halved. No joke. Between the Baha Mar people leaving and the American Embassy people leaving the island, the place is quiet.
A good portion of my friends (middle class) are being forced to look overseas just to support their family. There's nothing here for them to do. Many, including myself, are looking to cash out and then leave. And if we can't cash out and it gets much worse then we just walk away and leave the bank with our debt. I just hope that my kids have good memories of this place and hope that one day The Bahamas has something to offer them.
Bahamian_in_London 9 years, 4 months ago on UPDATED: Rosewood bids to quit Baha Mar as govt argues for wind up petition
UPDATED: Rosewood bids to quit Baha Mar as govt argues for wind up petition
So, tell me Stepdius, what exactly were Baha Mar meant to do when CCA downed their tools in February and left?
banker 9 years, 4 months ago on UPDATED: Rosewood bids to quit Baha Mar as govt argues for wind up petition
UPDATED: Rosewood bids to quit Baha Mar as govt argues for wind up petition
Well with the recent announcement of 36% reduction in financial services workers (that is 4 in 10 workers for the PLP math-retarded) and more cuts coming, and add the Baha Mar workers, and maybe the building can be used for emergency shelter of the 60,000 unemployed people soon to populate the Bahamas.
How long before citizens take to the streets and loot the grocery stores? Mark my words -- civil unrest will surely come. Crime will increase even more than the levels now. With the economical slowdown that the VAT has caused, Nassau will look like The Mud in a short year or two.
banker 9 years, 4 months ago on UPDATED: Rosewood bids to quit Baha Mar as govt argues for wind up petition
UPDATED: Rosewood bids to quit Baha Mar as govt argues for wind up petition
You are absolutely right. Another operator will take over the leases tomorrow. Baha Mar will be open by October. Crime will stop because people will realise how stupid it is. The guns will be donated to BAMSI to make ploughshares and unemployment will drop to 1%. The Haitians will all leave by September, everyone in the Bahamas will be making $50,000 a year by November, and maybe Jesus will come and rapture the PLP.
How could I be so stupid not to see this???? It must be the work of Satan in me. My relatives are not having problems making ends meet. My aunt doesn't need a wheelchair that costs over two thousand dollars. She needs a healing at the PLP headquarters. There is nothing wrong with her. It's all in her head.
How could I have been so blind, as to not recognise that our Dear Leader is not all wise. And our unmarried cabinet ministers are so masculine that woman are afraid of them. And the chairman could have been a Rhodes scholar if he could have found the right road in his youth. And the cauliflower ears of the attorney general are that way from the wisdom that drips from her orifices. Dear me. I am so wrong.
How could I have been so blind? Quick, cut my head open, and implant the chip before I change my mind.
No my dear Tal, you chide me because I voice your secret fears. And you do not have the intellectual honesty to admit it.
Sadnation 9 years, 3 months ago on Baha Mar staff ‘likely’ to be paid until $21m runs out
Baha Mar staff ‘likely’ to be paid until $21m runs out
It's a sad nation that penalizes the foreigners who are trying to help get the property open by being so disrespectful in their public outcry of "who cares about them" attitude. Why any foreigner, regardless of their country, would want to visit such a country where their senior leadership is so corrupt and makes decisions based on race is beyond me. Unfortunately, they're only concern is to become wealthy on the backs of their own citizens and keep their own family members in power. God help them.
asiseeit 9 years, 3 months ago on Baha Mar staff ‘likely’ to be paid until $21m runs out
Baha Mar staff ‘likely’ to be paid until $21m runs out
This will cost all Bahamians as this money is not the Governments to do as it pleases with. Baha Mar will sue the pants off of government and we the People will be the ones that pay. This government is a slave master whipping its slaves who just happen to be the citizens of the Bahamas. We will be paying for this for many decades to come. Isn't it great to have such upstanding individuals as supposed leaders?
marrcus 9 years, 3 months ago on ‘Sarkis told me: Local contractors get 100%’
‘Sarkis told me: Local contractors get 100%’
Baha Mar has gone on record through the chapter 11 filing of paying 100 per cent, or to "make whole", outstanding debts to local contractors. What will the AG present for the record? Where is this 10% over 5 years coming from? Maybe thats their (PLP) plan for Bahamian contractors? Please Ms. AG, show us where this is written. Thank you in advance, I am certain you have it at your fingertips.
Honestman 9 years, 8 months ago on POLITICOLE: What’s wrong with Christie’s comments?
POLITICOLE: What’s wrong with Christie’s comments?
Well written Nicole. Can't disagree with any of your observations.
asiseeit 9 years, 3 months ago on Whose side is government on - Bahamians or a Chinese company?
Whose side is government on - Bahamians or a Chinese company?
So Atlantis does not count. Also remember that the PLP said they would run Sol Kerzner when the regained the government. For one who wants us to believe you know what is what you seem to have a very selective memory. We understand that you value the PLP over your country but also would not expect anything else from one such as yourself. Time is on our side, and education and common sense shall prevail.
GrassRoot 9 years, 3 months ago on Lawyer says Nassau ‘is a dangerous dump’
Lawyer says Nassau ‘is a dangerous dump’
When it comes down to tourist product, perception is reality. The only people that control this product is us, and we don't do it. Jim Walker was not born to beat up the Bahamas, Jim Walker would actually write very favorably about the Bahamas tourist product, if we gave him reason to. The sooner we get the idea of Bahamian exceptionalism out of our heads when it comes to the tourist product, the better it is for all of us. Its call work, one brick at a time.Clean up down town, have friendly staff, adjust the prices, provide service, put Nassau and the Bahamas on the list of destinations of each tourist to return to as soon as possible, for all the right reasons.
birdiestrachan 9 years, 3 months ago on A matter of self respect?
A matter of self respect?
Jeanne Thompson is at it again.
realfreethinker 9 years, 3 months ago on A matter of self respect?
A matter of self respect?
She is correct though
Bahamian_in_London 9 years, 4 months ago on Mitchell to Sarkis: Conform or leave
Mitchell to Sarkis: Conform or leave
What a disgrace.
The Foreign Minister wants to talk about evicting someone who has invested 13 years and $900m into the Bahamas, because he disagrees with the Christie's attempt to nationalise Baha Mar? Can he explain how Sarkis is not acting "in the public interest". What he means is he is not acting in the PLP's interest.
Apparently expatriates should also be sent home as “They criticise the politics of the country."
The leader of the free world, President Obama, is criticized constantly, but somehow Christie is above criticism to the extent someone is threatened with deportation?
Apparently “money does not buy our silence and our subservience.”, unless it comes from the Chinese I guess. I haven't heard a single PLP minister complain about CCA, the sole reason why the resort is not open.