...and it is that type of mentality that really stops anyone from trying to do something good and nice to improve our Bahamas...some ticked off employee goes and causes millions in damage, delays and and over all bad taste in your mouth if you were the project organizers. Regardless of the fact if there was some question of salary...you just don't do that. Disgraceful.

It's not something "good and nice" for the Bahamas. The article says they borrowed 58 million dollars from China and are going to give it back to China by way of a Chinese construction company.

This has put YOUR grandchildren in enormous debt.

We just "celebrated" 40 years of "Independence" and yet we can't put our hands on 58 million dollars in our Treasury? What nonsense ! So that makes us independent - or does it make us beggars, begging another country to please lend us some money and help us to fix our lousy "independent" roads.

On top of that, the few measly coins that our people are supposed to get paid out of the deal (you know, our unworthy Bahamian workers) - are delayed and delayed. They can wait. Who cares about them? They're just citizens. That's the attitude that we get back.

We are at war with China (and we're losing).

i think it is a bahamian company that stiffed the workers ,also if over 2/3 of our yearly budget didn,t go to pay our uncivil service we wouldn,t have to borrow so much ..when 1 in 4 people work for gov you have to borrow and tax like vultures ..what we need is an change in our sexual mores and habits ,that is highly unlikely ,and if gov doesn,t absorb our out of control baby making ,what we call crime now is a joke ,,..we have the lab results in our back yard ,,Haiti ,Jamaica ,,you can,t make more babies then your gdp can handle and expect for crime and poverty not to increase ,,

It's amazing that a Bahamian subcontractor can stiff the employees, and the employees have no recourse but to tear up roads. Randol Fawkes must be just spinning in his grave.

honestly do you believe someone could take that much time and go that far without the police stopping him? looks like another way to borrow more money, which will not be paid back and line the pockets of politicians. this new road scam worked well for the previous band of misfits so you know what they say, why reinvent the wheel

That's some serious *black helicopter* talk...

I don't blame that Guy these bosses to like play with ya money

I can't believe some people are actually condoning this behaviour as some sort of logical recourse for an employee to 'get back' at his employer. Sad sad state of affairs for this country. We aren't happy about something, so let's go on a demolition rampage...seriously people?

I totally agree. He's a jack@$%. What a stupid way to resolve your problems. Its is exactly this attitude which keeps this country in the toilets. The company should have made sure these workers were paid, but I cannot agree with this destructive and stupid act. He should be jailed.

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My guess is at the contractor! Imagine this, the estimated cost of the work is already 500 PERSENT OVER THE ACTUAL COST; YOU'RE ONLY PAYING YOUR WORKERS A FRACTION OF THE SKILL'S VALUE, WHICH RESULTS IN A 90 TO 10 (90 PERCENT PROFIT AND 10 PERCENT COST) BECAUSE OF GREED, YOU ARRANGE TO HAVE THIS 'INCIDENT' ORGANIZED TO CLAIM AN INSURANCE !
i JUST CAN'T IMAGINE ANYONE DOING THIS IN CLEAR VIEW, FOR THAT LENGTH OF TIME WITHOUT A BIGGER PLAN IN MIND !(A MILE FOR ROAD IS A LOT OF WORK AND A LOT OF TIME!)

are you a civil engineer and a quanity surveyor ,,do you know how much it cost to pave roads ,install utilities ,water mains ,landscapeing etc , or is your 90 profit to 10cost pure conjecture ..remember everything involved with doing roads has to do with fossil fuel from the equipment to the asphalt ,,actually i would hazard to guess that you have no idea or knowledge about how much a project like this should cost ,,

ON ANOTHER NOTE, I HEARD OF A CONTRACTOR THAT PULLED OF AN ENTIRE EXTENSION OF A HOUSE THAT HE RENOVATED BECAUSE THE CLIENT DID NOT PAY!

If a worker is not paid then don't work. If you commit a crime then go to jail.

Bet ya those working for the chinese company was paid on time, this incident is disturbing, wasteful and a disgrace... Now this project is going to run 100 million.. Many Bahamian Businessmen are synonymous with stiffing workers especially if they know u r poor and have little recourse to fight, and the government does little to protect them.. I am against anyone commiting crime or vandlism but I invision someone working in that hot sun all day, with kids to feed and being told next week everytime pay day comes..The contrator and Brave's family eating good, so there is no urgency. I am surprised they took it out on the road instead of the contractors head.. But the country will pay as a whole long term for this type of foolishness. .

The Court system is dysfunctional, and every citizen knows it.
No Justice there, no recourse for ordinary people.
So, like the youth, they're taking things into their own hands.
Vigilantism isn't just lynching (shooting, stabbing)
It is the beginning of the end.

You either have to be completely crazy or extremely angry to do something like this. I would like to hear his side of the story and find out what made him do something like this. <a href="http://incaltamintedebarbati.wordpress.…">;)</a>