They just don't care...and don't seem to care that we know they don't care...

Agreed!~! that is a bunch of foolishness!

The callousness here is unbelievable. For years to come, every resident of Marathon within a one mile radius of that gas station who is diagnosed with cancer of any kind should sue as a collective class each and every MP who voted "No" to this proposed investigation, including Maynard-Gibson, Christie, and Fitzgerald in particular. In addition, these Marathon residents should plead their case and seek help from international health and human rights agencies.

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This government sat on a report that said peoples health and well being was at risk. They hide this from the people who they have an obligation to protect. Who are the working for? Whose well being are they concerned with? This government is a complete failure. This government does NOT have the best interest of the people at heart, we have proof of this now. This government works for them and theirs, to hell with the rest of the Bahamian people. They said they believe in Bahamians, so far this is the biggest lie of the 21st. century! WAKE UP BAHAMAS! You get swing!

http://tribune242.com/users/photos/2015…

**What else are they hiding from the Bahamian people?**

**Eerryting Mon**

Time we take the law into our own hands, we hold the power!
Lets Boycott and picket every Rubis, don't buy a single thing from them until the full details are released and all the problems solved!
We can cost them millions by doing this, they'll close their doors within a week if we boycott them.
Let Rubis owners know what pain is!

I think that may work. Then they are certainly running out of grease.Who owns Rubis exactly? French company? How about calling a journalist in Paris? sending him an email?

http://www.rubis.fr/index-en.htm

Half stepping won't help. We need to picket Parliament not Rubis!

Turn our backs on them wherever they show up

I agree with you completely. I for one will boycott Rubis until this entire matter is revealed to the public and necessary health and environmental changes made - which in the Bahamas means I will be boycotting them forever as there is zero chance that will happen. Good riddance we do not need corporate slim balls like them anyway.

How did Jerome Fitzgerald vote? I suspect he was absent to save himself the embarrassment, just as he has been absent in protecting the people of marathon. He is a disgrace and does not have a shred of integrity left as he chose his political career and self interest over the health and lives of his constituents.

Yes, dear Tribune, I would make a list and with a picture of each MP that voted no. print it. its not shaming it s all factual.

He voted no

Thank you Tribune for publish the list, the press in this country has really been steeping up to the plate lately.

**.................... Are Perry Christie, Hubert Ingraham & Crew Dem Next? .............................**

http://panampost.com/elisa-vasquez/2015…

Popcorn and special brew waiting to be consumed when our crew of pirates time comes!

**....................................... Free Hiding Lessons 101 For Pirates ..........................................**

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2015/02/02/2…

Sadly, My Dear Comrades if past examples of outrage among natives are any example, all the foreigner national oil company would have to do is to provide a couple cents cheaper gas at the service station pumps, and it will be the hell with the good health and safe environment of the natives. Comrades say hi to da worst enemy, cuz it is us natives. Throw in free jug milk and we will line up early morning forgive.

Tal my respect for you is growing everyday. Will you pledge to boycott Rubis?

Comrade I do not believe in organized boycotts.

You sure have no problem with organized corruption!

Does anyone know if Hopedale school is in the affected area?

More than likely Government is long overdue on fuel accounts with Rubis for Police, Hospital Authority, Govt vehicles, etc etc.
Investigate Rubis, they most likely will cut the Government credit off and publish the overdue amounts.
Government is notorious for not paying fuel bills.
All aside any slush money in consideration of elections and party needs.

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists:
http://www.icij.org/journalists/by-coun…
I just sent them a little report. Suggest you do the same. There is a whistleblower button on their website and you can send them an email.
Rubis is a big company in France, I guess its time to tell them to either to shit or get off the pot.

Just a question...I do not profess to know the answer, it may be totally irrelevant...Who does the government have the contract with for supplying fuel to B.E.C.? Remember...B.E.C. is in arrears with their fuel payments? Let's just hypothesize for a minute that Rubis/TExcao has that fuel contract...if the government released the report, the fuel to BEC could be halted...or conversely, they are allowed to run in arrears and not pay their fuel bill on time, as a favour for keeping the report quiet. Far fetched I know...and TOTALLY hypothetical, no evidence on any front that this is the case. Just a theory.

On the right path.... Just connect the dots.....Rollins seemed to suggest a certain petroleum company made significant campaign contributions to a certain party...... Also who owns this particular rubis station and why were they allowed to reopen without a certificate being issued by the relevant ministry?..... We answer these questions and we will know why this report was hid from the bahamian people and why the PLP is obstructing the truth.....

KEEP THE LIST. Of all who voted "no" and those who didn't vote next to your voters card. Make sure they never see tha halls of parliament again as a member.

Comrades how did Grand Bahama's MP Moss vote. Good for Major, he as speaker didn't have vote against he own PLP government, at least not, yet?
One can only hope there are some members PLP party shaking their heads wondering how in hell did the PLP party, got's themselves into this mess.

Moss voted no

Comrade why am I not surprised. PM Christie and Minister Fritzie have done what even Sir Stafford's UBP's wouldn't, start behaving as if they're a mini oil corporation, where people are expandable. This PLP cabinet, only wants citizens to know what they want you to know, But do as they may, the truth is there, come 2017, cuz all you have do is to ask the natives, how their health were possibly placed at risk by this PLP cabinet. Yet, all Minnis can call for, is for this PLP cabinet - to apologize? Apologize my as%#. Slogan 2017 General Elections; "Voters Become All PLP Cabinet - Unconfused."

Someone has posted this article to reddit

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comme…

Why were fifteen MPs absent???????????????? That is more troubling ............ to duck and dodge so you can have an excuse next time is cowardly ............ Those 15 absentees should be made to account as well ......................... why pay them to run and hide from a serious issue???

Comrade ever damn one 15 absent MP's should be slung the question by The Tribune to state their YES or NO position for the formation of a House of Assembly select committee to investigate the fuel leak? With 15 MP's away from House it would be like 40% of your company's workforce not showing up for work?

Where is Birdie? Absent as well, ducking like all the rest!

Is Comrade MP "Pot cake" Leslie done backpedaling cuz he's now saying he didn't have no clue what he was voting "NO" on? I swear, I am not making this up. Begs honest question.
who in hell else didn't know what they were voting on?

Ted Forbes I have studied the entire report which is only 22 pages of text, the other pages are illustrations and charts. In summery, the reports, does not mention the residents to the east of RUBiS and does not make mention to the people of Marathon. The motive of the report to me seems to be about proving that the contamination affects does not affect the contenders specifically named in the report and disputes that properties, buildings and tenants/employees are in no danger of the spill. Thats it.

I have coped six images here are lifted from the report, I have overlaid PINK and BLUE circles over the images which show the scientific movement of both ground water and contamination movements. The PINK indicates the radial contaminated area spilling into residential and business areas around the service station. The BLUE represent the flow of underground water moving radial from the center of the island outward towards the shores.

I have included the text from the report along with my own comments. If you read the report you will see that all of what I have included in the images are there and contradicts the the diagrams in the report.

See the images below or click the link here https://www.facebook.com/groups/7657901…

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It is good that some one has read the report before making comments. It is my understanding that the report was made by an independent Company and not by the Government. But I do think the residents should have been informed.

Crony alert! You are a PLP, not a Bahamian.

Andre Rollins wants a select committee, what good will it accomplish at this stage?. Andre is a enemy of his own party, and he uses every opportunity to throw dirt at them. and many on this site rejoice in his displays, but every soon his usefulness to the enemies of the PLP will be no more. How many years were these leaks occurring,? Cable Bahamas seemed to be aware of the leaks.

Normally I simply ignore any and everything you post. But what a pathetic uncaring wretched and demented soul you must be.....putting your petty partisan party politics ahead of the health and well-being of hundreds of Bahamians who have been horribly exposed to some of the most proven toxic cancer causing agents on this planet! You're clearly in desperate need of a better life, but I suspect you are very much incapable of finding one.

Mr Rollins have no friends on his side and he presented no facts nor evidence everything was assumption, speculation and accusations. If you are going to present nothing then at least have friends behind you, that's the way it works. Otherwise Mr Rollins should have done some background search and scientific research and the public and the media would have done the rest. Only after that should he call for what he was after. He presented nothing much so he got nothing much. Boy-O-boy we can use some changes around here?

Let me be fair and say this much on his behalf for his hard efforts. If Mr Rollins efforts was to show up the bad guys, well he did that! But its going to take more than that. If he have other motives knowing that he did not have a chance and suspected that he would get the result that he did, then its smart. But I stick to what I said before, ask questions first then shoot and not the other way around.

For decades to come, hundreds and hundreds of residents of Marathon Estates who have been wrongfully exposed to the proven toxic cancer causing agents found in gasoline will experience a significantly increased incidence of fatal cancers of one kind or another within their families. The resulting death toll should properly be laid at the door steps of our PM and the Attorney-General he appointed, namely Allyson Maynard-Gibson.