It may not be so bad being owned by the most powerful country in the world. China will be the next super power for 100's of years I suspect so getting into bed with them now may not be such a bad thing. We could certainly use their ideals of long-term planning.

I would certainly prefer to live in, and be a citizen of, a truly independent and prosperous country but unfortunately successive governments have all but forced our people into economic slavery. Thanks Ingraham. Thanks Christie.

I wouldn't want to be own by anyone especially after years of people fighting for freedom from enslavement then fighting for the right to govern. Today people are still fighting for rights and here you speak of not mining being governed by a country that doesn't care about it's own populous. What do you think they would do to a country thousand of miles away with a majority black population?

Guess what. You are owned by this government that wants you to work even harder so they can take your hard earned money via taxes. If Bahamas was really sovereign, it wouldn't be signing WTO and IMF agreements. We are slaves to the dollar. Voting doesn't make you free when you have no choice over the options of who wins! And when is it that you have seen this recent government doing anything its people have demanded?? Ha ha... Freedom.

you don't want to be owned neither by Chinese (have you heard of Tibet?), the U.S. (worked in a sweatshop in Guam?), Russia, Qatar (feel like being a slave again), nor anybody else. This has nothing to do with Christie or Ingraham, it is short term greed and certainly not long term vision.

You would swear he was saying something new... this sermon was being preached from the 1980's. It was also the foundation for Pindling's 'Bahaminization' policy, where foreigners had to train Bahamian's for specialized jobs, and/or get them involved (to the tune of at least 10%) in major investments in the country. It was the Ingraham and Christie government that did not see the wisdom or danger in allowing the foreign investor to come into the country unchecked, or selling off all the government corporations in the name of privitisation. "Chil'e we need jobs."

They say those new generation Yellow submarines are running circles around the Red White and Blue ones in our Tongue of the Ocean. This, combined with the Russians once again setting up shop in Cuba, says it all when it comes to the good 'ole U S of A losing its global standing. For many years now the Chinese and Russians have been expanding their ever increasing sphere of influence by making new friends. All the while the U.S. has been making new enemies by destabilizing just about any country it decides to trample on by kowtowing to the key players in the military industrial establishment who are keen to profiteer from wars created by U.S. foreign policy run amuck!

Yes, and here we are allowing the globalization to infiltrate us here whilst we sign unnecessary agreements with the IMF and WTO. Goodbye sovereignty!

you cant live on an island anymore, Thinker.

the country already owned its so far in debt who you think is bailing them out, same as USA. You are not in control and you never will be. The government doing all kinds of things which dont reach your ears... China is the worst country to get involved with. They will flood the Bahamas and all the identity will be gone of the Bahamian people. They are sly,greedy and mercilious..and the last thing they care about is the people of the Bahamas.

Yep..