Close your eyes - Imagine Dion Smith as a white man and read this again replacing white or caucasian with black or negro. I have black friends!!!! LOL!!! This is laughable though but certainly not cause for resignation.

This looks like it will be a long and drawn out affair...then it would be forgotten. Wonder if the PM will come out with a public statement on the matter?

Comrade Dion in my mind seriously avoided addressing the accusation, as to why the COP phone number was at his ready and what led to his making such an urgent request to the COP?, after having now been wildly reported by the mainstream media?

The Tribune is not claiming that their story was based on some wild gossip but taken directly from official court documents? This is common practice for the media to rely on details contained in filed court documents, not have ask someone for details.

"At that time, when I picked up the phone to call the police, MP Dion Smith made a comment to say that he knows Commissioner Greenslade and dialed the number on his phone and I heard him say “Commissioner Greenslade, this is Dion Smith, if you get this message, give me a call, it’s urgent!” and he hung up his phone."

I get the feeling from reading between the lines that PM Christie is not too happy with this right now? This story has all already shown enough long legs to send it marching towards the PM's office.

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I think Greenslade has enough on his hands already, why does an MP have to call him just because the guard refuses to open the gate for him; he does have a key and can very easily walk out of the car and swipe the card and open the gate himself. The guard was told not to extend help to anybody on the list and let them enter by their own means ie, get your a$$ out of the car and open the gate, but I guess MPs have some higher social standing even when they haven't been paying for the services they expect.

As the value of property in the Bahamas goes up so goes the number of Bahamians being displaced, uprooted and disenfranchised. Don Smith today only represents many Bahamians who were were forced out of gated communities and condos and even off" private islands' in the Bahamas. While Bahamians in New Providence and the Central and Southern Bahamas struggle to pay taxes and to survive, go visit the northern part of ABaco and the surrounding cays. People who live in these areas go shopping in the US and return home and pay no duties or taxes. They build homes and run entire estates without putting a dime (Bahamian 10 cent has two fishes) in the public treasury They live as though the Abacos are an extension of Florida so much so that Bahamian currency is as like a $4.00 note And when you speak out they call you racist or that xeno word, whatever it means...

You state this point saying foreigners do not pay their dues. The first article claims that Dion Smith owed fees and had not paid them. If this claim is true, would this not mean that a Bahamian is not paying what he owes? I think we also have to remember that we have many different colour foreigners. I see in some of your posts from other articles about white foreigners. It seems that you are perpetuating the topic of racism as well. I have heard what you are talking about people who live in those areas going to the US to shop. Bahamians do the same thing... I bet when you go away you stuff your luggage with dirty laundry to hide what is beneath it.

by foriegners J Brown means white people

J Brown ,Don Smiths family owns the building and sold to those foriegners ,although you use the word foriegner to mean whitey ,geez lousie get a grip you xenophopic blowhard ,,bahamians are the same as the other 8 billion souls on earth ,some good some bad ,,next you,ll tell me we are the israelites ,you know hitler had a touch of xenophobia also ,,,,lmao

As I have said before, foriegners come here with their prejudices and try to turn the cards on Bahamians to make them appear racists. Show me any post where I refer to 'white foreigners" in the context in which you refe, or any context, for that matter, and I will apologise o you in this forum and in Rawnson Square during the next opening of parliment. As for smuggling under dirty underwear when I travel, no thats a little too shoddy for me.

dude you continually put down whole nationalitys ,does that make you feel special ???do you know every american and how they act ???they are 90%of our guest ,without them and the US embargo on cuba we would be eatin each other ,,but if it makes you feel better to think you are better than another 300million souls because of something you had nothing to do with ,ie ,where you were born have at it ,.,you try to get around it but your a racist and blame your lot in life on the white boogey man ,,aren,t you embarassed to say whitey has tricked us from time immortal and is still doing so ??

ahh his family owns the building ,were the people racist when his family was taking that green money from them and selling them condos ,funny the people only became racist after he carried on l;ike an ass ,,could it be they don,t like him b/c he is an jerk that doesn,t pay his bills and not b/c he is a black man

you are all so vain and lame. cant you see that the race card is being played and only for mileage. when a person doesnt pay a fee at a condo, you dont restrict him from access, you sue him. thats how it works in the free world. to have some security guard whose house is somewhere else tell you you cant access your pwn house with no court oeder, no police action and so on is insulting. He is human and humans react. i would have done the same if my condo assc tried to restrict because i didnt pay my fees after my lawyer had already sent them notice of action for lack of amenaties and service. Yall just calm yall hip down, this ga be long.

read the whole article next time

The report said: “I told him I cannot because Pilot House Management Company gave me a list of condo numbers where assistance should not be extended to residence (sic), guests and service personnel entering the complex. All persons on the list should be left to enter using their gate cards and keys.

He got upset because he had to get out of the car to swipe his key. Plus he had a couple drinks apparently. Probably went on telling them all about their a$$ and how his family built the place.

it has nothing to do with race ,Mr Smith brought up race ..if he had paid his bills w/ green money there would be no story ..when his family sold these owners that now make up the association there condos were they racist ??maybe the people don,t like living by a loud mouth ,name dropping ,anti foriegn ranting ,foriegn meaning white ,loud mouth bill ducker ..this is 2012 in a majority ruled country do you really think whity can stop a black fella who pays his bills from living anywhere .there are black people living in lyford cay ..its so tiring when a black fella plays the ass, and then trys to blame it on white people .that old shackles and chains rhetoric gets so old ,,anyone can achieve whatever they want in this country ,,quit blaming your lot in life on some old white boogey man ..

No one is suggesting that the deputy Speaker is guilty of anything.
With due respect to Comrade Barbara something "happened", not just media gossip, at the Pilot House security gate between the deputy Speaker and a security worker? Let's wait hear from others who it is being alleged were also present?

And. this is not denied by the Honorable Comrade Elected MP and deputy Speaker Dion, or his lawyer. The deputy Speaker's own press video leaves me to believe that they were not cordially just chatting about the weather?

Even his statement that he "seems" to have the support of his PM is too weak for anyone that knows that this time around, unlike 2002-2007, even those who worked their asses off to reelect PM Christie, not necessarily his MP's, are watching how quickly he puts his foot down.

The first failure to take swift action against his MP's was considered a mistake in judgment by the PM. Not the second chance at power. It will be that he simply lacks it. These are serious accusations and until resolved he must step down. If proven to be groundless the PM can then decide if it is prudent use his talents in some other way.

I would think even Comrade Dion would decide over the coming days to stand down for the time being?

I wonder how many natives are afforded the alleged privilege to have the Commissioner of Police's telephone number to dial when in trouble, to leave an "urgent" message to call him back right away?

Me is nosy. Did the COP return comrade Dion's call?

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its amazing how the this new paper acts when there is a misup about any member of plp when it comes to FNM this paper is silent we are second class citzens in our own country you ever wonder why condos homes out west and pi cost so much because the y dont want the average bahamain person liveing there i have blame the plp and fnm for this things needs to change we have to make things right in the bahamas for every bahamain black white red what eever color we are we needs to stands as one red shirts gone thank you jesues no they know what it is pay for a gallon of gas in their car and guess what lots of them are hurting but rember what goes around comes around

Wow!

if you have green money you can live anywhere you want ,,name me one case of a person with the means being denied the right to live anywhere ..i know black people that live on PI ,eastern road ,lyford cay ,the deputy speaker appeared to act the a$$ in public ,,..no, people who make an average income can,t not afford to live in high end places ,duhhh ,,

u need to o live cuba or N Korea then where ya cant become rich

The main thing that concerns me about this sad affair is that Mr. Smith said that the prime minister has complete confidence in him.We all know that the prime minister has never shown the guts to not have confidence in any of his MP's. Remember Shane Gibson,Perry Christie said that he did not have to resign ,but when things got too hot and Shane did resign( on his own) because Perry is afraid to pressure them, Perry said that it was the right thing to do. The Bee