So I guess he has swum the entire area around the Castaway Cay dredge site, compared the before and after photos, read the environemtnal impact assessment, reviewed the mitigation steps that may have been taken by Disney, interviewed the sea life and then compare all the relevant factors with Bimini and found them to be the exactly the same before arriving at his conclusion. Or is he just hoping we are all asses who will take HIS word for it?

Yeah, I think he thinks we're all idiots who can't think for ourselves. You don't have to be a marine biologist to know that dredging is detrimental to the environment.

Yep, just the asses who will take his word for it. At least that's what he's hoping. The fact that this is the Minister for Finance smacks just a wee bit of self-interest. Where is the Minister for Environment? Tied up and muzzled in the basement?

Anyone who wants a shred of evidence of the damage done to Abaco has only to look at the conch stock surveys and condition of the reefs around the area. Pristine indeed -- of sea life and coral compared to how it was before dredging. And Bimini is that much more senitive an environment with even more dredging involved. You come to your own conclusion.

And all so we can continue to be a nation of housekeepers and waiters for minimum wages? Where's the long term benefits? And does anyone really think Resorts World will actually be sustainable in the long run? Chalk up another failed enterprise within a few years. We are so shortsighted for a few dollars and untold damage.

Nothing makes a country look dumber then when politicians try to speak on a matter of which they know nothing about.

That's what I'm saying! Is this man a marine biologist??? What exactly is his area of expertise??? I'm certain that he's no oceanic scientist! Just another liar in a suit!

Stupidity...as usual with these politicians, concerned with only the surface level view. You need to put on your scuba gear to sea the damage the report YOU OBVIOUSLY NEVER READ is talking about.

In fact I can bet NOT ONE of the persons making the decision to go ahead with the dredging ACTUALLY READ THE FULL REPORT. They probably had some junior techy read it, summoned him/her to a meeting to brief them , then 5mins into the presentation they asked the presenter to cut to the chase and tell them that they could go ahead. No I wasn't in the room, but ten to one that's what happened. They knew what they wanted to do, what money they would be paid under the table to do, and they did it.

Exactly

I'll go the Supreme Court only if crazy goes with me. I need some backup. As for ass, it's a little tired, I'm using ears today.

I don't like to see posters pinned on trees (trees must be screaming) doesn't matter if the flyers are FNM or PLP, I really wish they would stop that foolishness, at minimum it's extremely unsightly. (Anyone doubts their disrespect for the environment, check the trees around election time and the billboards crammed on Montague beach) In that light, I'd hardly differentiate decimation of the seabed along political lines.

These freakin politicians make me so angry!!! Where's my blood pressure medicine?

Find it fast, Perry just donated crown land and a promise of "hundreds of thousands of dollars"(???), on the spot, to a brain research facility.

To a foundation with the name Mitchell...things that make you go hmmm

@ThisisOurs KML...You're certainly only a roll today. That's exactly what I needed to get through today!

Wonder why Prime Minister Christie thinks solar power is good only for his house but not good for the rest of us? 1000's of jobs could be created almost overnight like in Jamaica and 1000's of homes now without power could have power restored.

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