for this man to come to this realization means that he has been a sleep at the wheel these past 9 months, the union (even thou they are just as bad ) has been screaming these past few months for the government to step in and reign this group in,. Rip van winkle waits until Rome is burning before he makes this clarion call for peace and reconciliation.

Having attended this topping off ceremony personally, i was both amused at the level of egoistical rambling this PM is capable of, as well as embarrassed for the people of the Bahamas.

I can only speculate that the rift between these two who were very close since the Izmirilian family came to our shores has a lot to do with after 5 years of negotiating and dealing with Hubert "Give Away The Farm To Foreign Investors" Ingraham the Izmirilians aren't in the mood to bending or yielding to a new regime’s desire to cut in on the dance with all the sweet deals that went to the established local merchant class or God forbid any revisiting of another one-sided deal they already have in hand. Why should they be? For once again similar to Atlantis the people of the Bahamas will be on the hook for $100M’s in infrastructural improvements (roads, water & sewage, electrical, airport etc…) marketing & promotion specific to this resort, subsidizing airlift, dealing 100’s of the recently or soon to be laid-off more costly older current employees, finding meaningful employment for the dozens of rejected or displaced local university educated professionals to make way for another influx of expats with pay and benefit packages to die for; all for a few new lower level jobs and pennies in taxes all while $ billions in profit will be repatriated to foreign accounts over the coming decades.

YOUR RIGHT ,WE SHOULD GET RID OF ALL EVIL FOPRIEGN INVESTORS ,,,,LMAOF ...THEN WE CAN SURVIVE ON GRUNTS AND GRAVEY ,,PGC DIDN,T GIVE iZMIRILLIAN HAVE OF WEST NP TO SHOP ROUND THE WORLD LOOKING FOR CAPITAL ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,PUT YOUR EGO IN CHECK WE GOT SQUAT W/OUT FORIEGN INVESTORS ,,THATS REALITY

Concerned, we like all countries need direct foreign investment, but we should negotiate with them from a position of leveraging our strengths so as to be treated as equal partners at the table while crafting these deals. For without us they don't have the beautiful crystal clear turquoise waters, white sandy beaches, amiable friendly English speaking natives within a stable democracy, with little to no taxes that gives them free reign to repatriate all their earnings with no foreign exchange risk only 30mins-2 1/2hrs flight time for over 100+ million of the worlds wealthiest citizens to put their damn hotels. Your attitude is the same broken spirit colonialized inferiority complex that got us in to this second class citizen mess we’re in today.

we are competeing w/ other places w/ beaches and much lower operating cost ,,that our whipping our butts in service and tourist numbers ,,we are only doing 1,35 million stopover ,,DR has long passed us and Cuba is doing 3 million w/o the US ,,PLUS , our service sucks and our younger arrogant and undereducated generation are not so friendly ,,then the cost of our goverment unions ,,PGC had to give away the farm to get Baha mar ,, i just worked w/ the crews doing the new commercial in exuma ,,a high ranking figure from the MOT told me we can,t compete on price ,because of the taxes need to pay the municipal unions and our service is not the envy of the region ,,we better get what we can now ,,cuase cuba opens we are done ,,why do you think the gov is going to slap us with 15% more taxes and further price us out of the market ,,to feed the monster thats eating us ,,the civil service ,,,jobs for votes ..do u see the discount count Atlantis is giving in high season ?? but keep telling yourself we got something different from our neighbors and people will pay through the nose for it ,,,