Better gas up the G-650!

“If appointed by the court, a provisional liquidator would be wholly independent and would be subject to the control and oversight not of the government but of the Bahamas Supreme Court”, she said.

The judicial is a puppet of government. What a shameful situation on all sides. Brand Bahamas looks unappealing to say the least.

What a disgusting "PISSING CONTEST!!!" All at the cost of the Bahamian people! Wow, get it together and do what is best for the country --PLEASE!

Comrades I am shocked that the PM's defense of the "Bahamaland Brand" is not the echoed sentiment of every true-blooded citizen and resident. If not the nation's PM speaking out against the potentially damaging statements being made by the likes of Izmirlian who seeks to control the international perception of his lack of talent to bring Baha Mar on-board as 'the' tourism resort destination of the Caribbean, who then will stand up against this man to defend your nation?
Looks like Izmirlian is about to discover our nation's PM, is far from the indecisive, meek pushover the media have worked so hard paint him to be.

Hey TalRussell I think you are missing that Baha Mar is just another business! Sure it's larger, and sure it might employ many, but it's no different then any other foreign investment in principle. Our government and our people should stop talking like it's theirs; and surely the extra wealthy Bahamians could have teamed up to raise the 900 million that Izmirlian has put in, but clearly none are interested. Also, if every one of us cared to invest, say about $2500.00 each , we could have raised the 900mil. But nope we were not interested. So leave your thoughts on someone else's assets to yourself, and if you want to invest to "save this country" go ahead.

It is the CCA that owes the small Bahamian businesses. They contracted them, and they are equity partners. Nice twisting of facts here.

Franklyn, $3.5B is not a hard number that everything must add up to. Don't be obtuse.

"CCA Bahamas, Ltd. remains committed to working with the Bahamian government to arrive at a viable plan that results in the expedited opening of this landmark project." The spokesperson from CCA says. What a farce!!
If CCA was truly committed the project would have been completed months ago. Baha Mar would be open. CCA is either unwilling or unable to complete the project. That much crystal clear.
I can't believe the PM is siding with CCA and the Chinese in this matter. Let the developer complete the project. They are the only ones who are committed. They have put their money where their mouth is!!

Comrade Craig, who owns the Meliá Nassau Beach Hotel on Cable Beach?

Its amazing the amount of ignorance and misinformation out there about this matter. Unfortunately people such as this person who only knows half truths and exaggerations uses a forum such as this to spread misinformation. This only exasperates the situation. Please only stick to information you know is true and not hearsay!!!
Bottom line this problem was created by CCA and it make little sense to try make CCA part of the solution.

Or paid shills for the PLP, or corrupt ones on the PLP gravy train stealing and have stolen from the Bahamian people.

Have we missed "The Snake"

We have seen this show before. It was a failure. Sold for penny's on the dollar. What kind of moron does not learn from their own mistakes. Oh, Oh, do it again!

Would you trust your last $ to this man?

One can always tell when the Hon. PC is telling lies - his lips move!

Can this kind of thing happen to Any business in the Bahamas?

PM's doing overtime today, oh bey, bet he wishes he was having the usual Friday cocktail's at Olives with Sandy & the crew.

yes of course. if they seize baha mar they can seize anything.

It is Christie & Co. that is destroying the brand of the Bahamas. This war of words is childish and un-statesmanlike. The Privy Council will back the Delaware court, but by that time, it will be too late, and Christie will have destroyed Baha Mar and the Bahamas.

Comrade Banker to avoid walking like an Andros crab you should at least try waking your facts sideways as cautiously as da crab does, so as not attract attention how wrong you are.

Tal, the only way I can tell your and Birdie's comments apart now are due to you using comrade to start you posts.

Franklyn, yes you get 2 tons of rubbles from Baha Mar for your work. That's what the government is doing to your financial interests right now.

Unfortunately you are so right Banker!! Christie and his crew are so out of their league with this issue. For the best interest of the country they must set hubris aside and let a competent court deal with this matter!!

It is already too late, the PLP have already destroyed the Bahamas...these are the darkest days ever

Comrades who presently owns the Hilton British Colonial Hotel? I know back in 2010 it was Izmirlian family money owned and operated, cuz I remember him also publicly criticizing Papa's regime over hotel operating costs in Bahamaland being too high and impossible earn a profit. In fact he claimed it was only still open for business due to family's subsidizing it's operating costs.

that statement about ownership of the Hilton is factually wrong and you know it. So stop this. Its ok to have an opinion, but stay factual please. You are damaging the Tal brand.

Were the negotiations still going on or not? The PM's national televised address said the negotiations were completed and fruitless. Izmirilian says the negotiations were ongoing after the Bahamian delegation left. The PM's rebuttal doesn't dispute this point. What is going on??? They have a national address to announce a forced liquidation while negotiations were still going?? cite Alfred Gray style pointers on the law and their wishes for the legal outcome all while the Bahamian Supreme Court hasn't weighed

What must investors be thinking ??

Two of those you mention, Tal and Birdie, certainly have that common flavour associated with intentional spreaders of misinformation and disinformation designed to distract and confuse. Tal has the added credential of being an addicted internet troller......you can always tell the type! You're probably right in saying their comments should just be ignored as they typically add little if anything to the more important conversation on any subject. They could try conceal their modus operandi by changing their usernames, but most users would quickly figure out who they are because, if it quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck.

All of us frequently say black man, white man, light skinned man, mango skin gal, and so on. We also say red team (FNMer), yellow or blue team (PLPer), etc. Take your political correctness somewhere else and stop trying to play the race card every time someone says something you may not like. As for your "if you know who I am" remark, I really don't care.

Franklyn, that's not racist. The PLP's colour is yellow and they wear yellow shirts. You're being obtuse again.

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How can the Supreme Court be independent in this matter when the attorney general, herself, has interest in Bah Mar? As do other members of the Bahamas government, either directly or indirectly. The government should be the first to want this matter to go to a neutral jurisdiction so that it doesn't appear that Izmirilin came to the Bahamas and even lost the shirt off his back. Did the Christie government try to ascertain why the project had run months behind schedule? Did they try to confirm that there was, indeed, shoddy or defective work that has to be corrected at considerable expense? Who is really responsible for Bah Mar opening on at least two occasions? Did Bah Mar not, in good faith and anticipation, hire staff, train them and engage them expecting that the property will open? Did the Christie led government decide that it no longer wants Izmirilin as part of the Bah Mar team and, rather remaining neutral and reaching out to all sides, is now siding with China Exim bank and trying to force Izmirilin out. If Izmirilin is forced out of Bah Mar will he also eventually be forced out of the Bahamas? While the government claims its actions are a pure attempt to get Bah Mar open at its earliest possible date, doesn't the stance it has taken further complicate the matter, create more hostility and will lead to further legal wranglings that can further delay the opening of the resort? Do you feel that Izmirilin is justified in not wanting to remove the bankruptcy protection off Bah Mar in light of what is going on and until such time as he gets clarity on his future role in Bah Mar and confirmation that all other parties, including the Christie led government, are acting in good faith?

John, it seems to be that the government has no interest in answering all of the actual important questions you point out. They seem to be much more interested in acting like jilted teenage lovers who are nursing their bruised egos. They don't even seem to be acting in the interest of their Chinese benefactors anymore.

My earlier post to another article:
None other than our State Minister for Legal Affairs, Damian Gomez aka the Minion, states to the Tribune: "We're moving forward to secure a liquidator,....once that's done it's in his {Sarkis Izmirlian} interest to strike a deal as soon as possible otherwise creditors will take over and the restructuring will not be to his liking." This is tantamount to a public admission that by filing an application for the liquidation of Baha Mar, the Christie-led PLP government is seeking to force Baha Mar and the Izmirlian family to accept whatever unfair terms are put to them by both the Chinese general contractor (CCA) and the Chinese Export Import Bank. In a liquidation supervised by the Supreme Court of The Bahamas, the shots are called by the largest admitted creditors which would be the two aforementioned Chinese stakeholders. In other words, notwithstanding the appointment of one or more "neutral" liquidators acceptable to the largest creditors, the Chinese stakeholders would be, for all intents and purposes, firmly in the driving seat of the entire liquidation process. This seems to be precisely what the Christie-led PLP government wants to happen notwithstanding that Baha Mar (and the Izmirlian family through Baha Mar) have already found it necessary to seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware as a result of the severity of its grievances with the Chinese stakeholders, which grievances are the subject of very weighty legal claims that have already been asserted and are now before the High Court in the U.K. By all appearances, our Christie-led PLP government is wrongfully in bed with the Chinese stakeholders to unjustly wrest control and possession of the Baha Mar project away from the rightful principle developer of the project (Sarkis Izmirlian). It would be a travesty of monumental proportion for the Bahamas and the Bahamian people if the Delaware court (judge) permitted the Christie-led PLP government to effectively nationalize the Baha Mar property for the benefit of the Chinese stakeholders by abuse of due process. The Christie-led PLP government is notorious for its willingness to wrongfully "lean" on matters before our Supreme Court in an effort to affect a desired outcome.

Comrade Reality Check you really do think the mere mention of the word "nationalize" will help to sway your, walk like a crab arguments? Do come back with more when better armed to persuade Tribune readers, with an argument that even the reds who are not known their above average intelligence are much too smart fall that old and overplayed nationalization of foreigner assets trickery. .

How much longer is the government willing and able to pay Bah Mar staff ? Will they eventually have to be terminated?

Comrade John, why should "taxpayers' pay workers who are mostly, if not all, new on the job. What happened to NIB worker benefits? We have thousands out paycheques real citizens who were in line, long before Izmirlia's "citizens."

So now that Tal has gotten a part of the PLP gravy train promised after the last election, she has switched her tongue to now support anything done by this government, no matter how horrific. Even the bible says the double minded man is unstable in all his ways. Tal and Orthland Bodie must be drinking the same tap water. One minute they fully support one party the next they switch like a bitch!

The reason why Tal and her PLP cohorts are acting the way they are -- so unpatriotically against the Bahamas and for the Chinese, is that the Chinese have flipped the switch, and now control all of the PLP rats.

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Right you are....Sir Baltron must have confirmed to all concerned that money either has flowed or soon will flow to all the right places! By the way, that rat's ears look like Christie's ears.....the face though, is all Maynard-Gibson!

HA!

When Perry them come for YOUR things, yinna better just slide to the side. This is what is happening, government is stealing the mans business. If you are good with that and do not mind it happening to you, carry on smartly.

Comrades, didn’t we read in newspapers something about the Papa Hubert regime, using it's power to take "eminent domain possession of citizens’ private lands," to make way for road improvements, for the benefit Baha Mar? Wasn’t one these lands in front the residence belonging to the widow of the nation’s Father of Labour, Randol Fawkes?
I sure hope the red regime; didn't just pay out used bicycle prices, these valuable privately-owned lands and they paid the owners - promptly?
Like Carnival 2015 and that bunch, the true cost to taxpayers to fund Baha Mar may never be told. At least let's not use another dollar taxpayers monies prop up what should remain a failed, bankrupt project, equally as bankrupt as it's original idea always was.
Comrades, if it's truly worthy of saving, then allow the private sector save it, not taxpayers.

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