Did anyone of these officials read up on the dangers in making this fertilizer or the hazard that follows when introducing this product to the soil. All they know is something is being given out free and their wrist bends loosely to accept.

BOL!

so it seems a donation to the Bahamian government not the Bahamian people.

Dats the shitty govment u'all put in...............LOL

Take it or leave it. You make the call.

Like this PLP cabinet is lacking in how easily they can pass gas? Sounds as good as any previous excuse for the government to appoint yet another Comrades patronage committee of loyal souls. cause somebody got's take the applications and handle the distribution of this $500,000 hereto “high grade phosphate.”

The sad thing is they do not even see their error, charging for something donated to the people of the Bahamas.
Waste cases.

Sounds about right. Piece of shit government trying to sell shit they got for free.

I feel sorry for the Director of Agriculture Brennen. Can u imagine him trying to charge PLPs for fertilizer, that their government got for free?????!!!!!!!!

The politicians put the civil servants in a bind and then blame them when things go wrong. Look at the Police, Defence, DOE, COB, Immigration Departments. Dont even talk about the corporations.

The politicians need to leave the running of their departments to the technocrats, but if the civil servants get their jobs through the political backdoor???............ a tangled web

Some we still think Hubert's regime may have actually all but donated away BTC into hands of foreigner owners, ain't you still gotta pay your land and cellular phone bills or be disconnected? The Chinese government donated our National Stadium but can you attend all them events for free?

Bomb making material from the wrong part of the world destined to end up in the USA thanks to Freddie Boy!

It is not nanny based fertilizer :-) While at it will they also import water to irrigate with and top soil since fertilizer will not make up for lack of farmland? Might as well bring a boatload of ski boots in at cost.

yep, what the Bahamas lacks is an indoor ski arena, that will put us on same wavelength as Dubai. Maybe an idea for one of the leading business men of the Bahamas?

Two piece a shit posing with a drayload a shit. How poetic

Like Purcell stated "it is not nanny based fertilizer" commonly called manure. However this nutrient is blamed for water pollution, algal blooms and dead zones in lakes and ponds. So actually is that was a container load of shit, we would have been better off. Yet our officials only know something is being given free. Like the man say, "You only get what you pay for". My fellow Bahamians, please read up on the dangers of this gift and let our officials know the meaning of return to sender. Stop using the Bahamas as a dumping ground.

Yall den sell us out! Na yall trying poison our naturally growing food with foreign fertilizer! I know Morocco want buy something from us what we aint supposed to sell and guess what.....................DAT GETTIN SELL DUTTY!

So u think big mouth V Alfred Gray gonna have the balls to tell the rich import merchants to stop buying foreign foods and start selling Bahamian products???????? Perry een no Michael Manley of Jamaica back in the 1970s....... Bay Street still run tings

Fertilizer in Morocco is not made from sewerage. They have naturally accouring phosphate deposits: From Forbes magazine"

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Most royals may have to be a bit thriftier this year as fortunes plummet, but it’s not so for the King of Morocco, Mohammed VI, whose 12 palaces reportedly cost $1 million a day to operate. His net worth is up $1 billion this year to $2.5 billion, making him the only one of the world’s 15 richest royals to have added to his fortune in the past year.

His savior is his country’s near monopoly of the commodity Phosphate. A key component of fertilizer, phosphorous, mined in the form of phosphate rock, is essential to global food production. “You cannot survive without phosphate–every cell on your body depends on it,” says Michael Lloyd, research director at the Florida Institute of Phosphate Research.

Morocco controls to nearly half the world’s phosphate deposits. Last year, the North African nation mined 28 million metric tons of phosphate rock, making it the third-largest producer in the world, behind China and the U.S., and the single biggest supplier. Proceeds from phosphate mining make up roughly half the country’s revenues.

It is a profitable business. The state-owned phosphate monopoly, Office Cherifien des Phosphates (OCP) raked in an estimated $2.8 billion in net profit last year, a ninefold increase from the prior year, thanks to a surge in phosphate prices, which hit an all-time high of $500 per ton in July 2008, five times the 2007 average and more than 12 times the 2006 average.

The king himself rarely talks about phosphates, preferring instead to focus on socially progressive issues like women’s rights and standard of living. He created a new family law granting women more power and recently launched a $6 billion initiative to build housing for Morocco’s urban poor. But he does get a portion of the profits and almost certainly has a hand in the OCP’s business, particularly its admitted use of “dominance” in influencing phosphate’s price spike.

“That’s one thing you have to face: The Moroccan fertilizer industry is run by the government,” says Lloyd. “In the 1970s you could get phosphate for $4. Then one day they just decided to raise the price to $20.” Another analyst blamed last year’s high prices on the OCP’s maneuvers, though soaring agricultural demand and tightening supplies were certainly factors as well."

In the main time we are giving away thousands of tons or naturally occurring aragonite that could have built at least the PM's residence! If Morocco government gets $500.00 per ton for phosphate how much are we getting for aragonite?

"Aragonite is a naturally occurring calcium carbonate mineral precipitating from the waters of the Atlantic. It is 94-97% pure calcium carbonate (CaCo3) and forms when the tropical **Bahamian** waters warm. As the water temperature rises, the heat drives out the dissolved carbon dioxide gas. Carbon dioxide (Co2) levels become depleted, which disrupts the oceanic status quo. In response, the ocean’s buffering system breaks down bicarbonate ions. This produces Co2 as well as carbonate ions. The carbonate ions then combine with calcium to form calcium carbonate, which crystallizes into tiny particles called “oolites” (egg stones). These drift downward and give the appearance of a white mist as they become thick deposits of beautiful aragonite sand."

Picture this: Phosphate nets the Morocco government $500.00 a ton and the King of Morocco has 12 palaces and is worth $2.5 BILLION DOLLARS! Morocco is also on the list of the happiest countries to live in. Aragonite is found in its purist from in the Bahamas, it is renewable, causes little or no damage to mine and sells for up to $700.00 a ton (SEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS). The Bahamas did not make the happy list and we can't even afford a residence for the prime minister? What's wrong with this picture?

We should manufacture Phosphate - there must be a way to do this.

How much do we make off aragonite?????????????