even for an old dog like me this just don't seem professional.

Sure, i don't want my tax dollars going to ANY private enterprise worker let alone foreign but the government should never have made them pawns in the first place and commit to pay all their salaries. If the foreigner is here legaly then the governemt also committed to paying them. Or again they breaking they committment.

It now shows total lack of professionalism and Discrimentation at a level that now has wide international exposure!

I am so sick of this shit. We are looking like total fools to the World!

They are truly Dumbo's of the first order. If they get their way tomorrow, someone ( Bahamas Government ) will have to chip in some money just to pay the liquidator. PwC and brother Bowe are no cheap dates. The Government have bold faced lied to the country about paying from the money that is owed to Baha Mar because they cannot unilaterally decide on an accounting offset, so it is the Treasury that is bearing this cost and they are getting scared.

Bradley should leave politics like Sir Coaks. He too is a jackass.

Damien Gomez QC acts as Izzy just stuck a fire brand up his ass ....... he seems to have a pet peeve against Izzy and he loves to take the limelight and pontificate like his papa ..... but I hope he don get all the paperwork outa the way with Samiento & Four Seasons and he don cut da $1Million cheque for Philip Bethel ............. friggin crooked Minion

I cry for south Eleuthera ............... Minion just looking out for his drug dealing clients

I am in awe that the Bahamian populous would even let this government get by with all of this shite in 2015!!! Our people have their priorities f up for sure. WOW

These assholes just winging it> It is quite obvious that they never had a plan for what they knew was going on for many months. To this very day they still do not have a plan,just reacting to every little press release by Bahamar. Truly amateurs.LOST.INCOMPETENT.

Oh they have a plan alright - it just doesn't involve you or I or the rest of the honest and hard working Bahamians.

............ and what was that statement about using the Bahamar workers as "pawns"?????

You Comrades, seems have lots insulting and nasty words to describe members of the government, but seems not bother any you's, that Izmirlain is NOT a man the PM can or should trust. Would you trust someone who shook your hand on a deal and then
un-be-knowing to you - only days later did run behind your back to Delaware, to file for bankruptcy protection? If you's would, you're nothing but a bunch red asses lacking in common sense, much less business sense.
In the Papa Hubert or Pindling governing days, Izmirlian's Cable Beach's ass, would have been the grass, and Pindling and Papa, would been's lawn mowers.

No red here buddy Tal! I am still convinced that our government knew that chapter 11 was being contemplated AND in process. Just like I am convinced that the government knows that they will be revaluing our B$ against the USD in the not so distant future. No businessman and no government can be completely trusted.

The IMF warning to stop foreign borrowing to support the reserves, signals that the jig is up. The devaluation of the Bahamian dollar is not far off. Then watch what a breadbasket item will cost. Milk, eggs and cheese will be unaffordable. Bahamians will have to rely on remittances from abroad, just like the Haitians. I have a work permit for another country, and already relatives are asking me to "send them something" when I get a chance and when I get out.

Maynard-Gibson aka the Wicked Witch and Gomez aka the Minion know full well that the salary payments being made to the Bahamian employees are unlawful, especially given the government's filing of a petition that Baha Mar be placed in liquidation. The government's assertion that it has the right to make these salary payments from amounts that it purports to owe Baha Mar in connection with the road works is both specious and fallacious. There is no legal right of offset here that would justify the government applying the salary payments made to reduce the amounts it owes Baha Mar. The government is wrongfully (illegally) behaving as if Justice Winder has already heard and approved the government's petition for Baha Mar to be placed in involuntary or compulsory liquidation and as if the salary amounts owing to the Bahamian employees rank ahead of, and in priority to, the salary amounts owing to the non-Bahamian employees on work permits as well as all other creditors of Baha Mar, whether they be secured or unsecured. Moreover, if the government truly believes it has the legal right to offset amounts it purports to owe Baha Mar against the amounts Baha Mar purportedly owes the government (including all of its departments, agencies and corporations), then why have the amounts owing to Baha Mar not been applied in the first instance to reduce the various unpaid taxes and unpaid electricity bills owing by Baha Mar according to the winding up petition filed by the government. What gives our government the right to try and buy votes for political purposes by making these discriminatory salary payments, which payments are tantamount to the government cherry picking on its own whim which of Baha Mar's creditors are to be paid for political purposes without any regard whatsoever for the laws of our land. No doubt we can expect more of the same kind of cherry picking by government of favoured creditors to be paid for political purposes if Baha Mar is placed in liquidation. The government (Christie, Maynard-Gibson and Gomez in particular) will simply lean very heavily on the appointed liquidators and the Court to get done whatever the corrupt Christie-led PLP government wants done for its own purposes, and to hell with the law. This is precisely why Baha Mar and the Izmirlian family had absolutely no choice but to avail themselves of foreign courts in an effort to seek a just and fair outcome to their many legitimate grievances against the Chinese general contractor for the project. Our government, by its wrongful meddling and taking of sides in this matter, has caused almost irreparable and fatal damage to the very substantial efforts made over many years to see this project through to satisfactory completion at the earliest possible time.

It's indeed amazing that the Bahamian government is making these discriminatory salary payments without court approval if, as the government purports in its petition, Baha Mar is insolvent. These illegal salary payments being made by the government are for its own political purposes; the government is clearly using the Bahamian employees concerned as pawns. The salary payments undoubtedly constitute a fraudulent preference perpetrated by our government against the creditors and other stakeholders of Baha Mar, not to mention all Bahamians as taxpayers. All foreigners and foreign courts cannot help but notice our government's blatant and contemptuous disregard for the law in order to achieve its own greedy and vindictive agenda; an agenda that it apparently shares with the project's principal general contractor, CCA, and lender, CEXIMB.

The government apologists won't see your argument for the truth.They are blinded by the trumped up sovereignty red herring whipped up by their corrupt government

Easy to solve. Just don't pay anyone. If you don't want to be pawns then their are consequences. Bahamian or non-Bahamian I say the government should never have set the precedence for such nonsense.

agreed!

Way is our government paying any private enterprises' salaries? We have a national insurance program for times like this. Are they admitting that our social security net is worthless?

What is wrong with this proposal ?

http://www.tribune242.com/news/2015/jul…

I find it interesting/sad that the government are paying workers now from other industries to do nothing. But I guess that just makes them regular government workers? Our government (all of them) just employ more and more people in order to control the voting public. Then the tax honest hard working people (what few there are) to support this habitat and to increase their own slush fund.
I also would not be surprised if Perry and the other government crooks are trying to find a way where they can nationalize this project and keep all the profits for themselves.

Tal, as I mentioned in an earlier post, you and Orthland Bodie don't know what side of the fence yinna wanna be. I mean-The two of you mix up like conch salad. At least we know that Birdie is a PLP brown-noser. But with you, one could never tell when you gon switch. I guess the cheque that was promised to you during the election campaign just arrived in the mail two weeks ago ay? I am sorry, but no sane or honest person Can defend anything that this present government does. They simply CANNOT be trusted! Plain and simple. Cut and dry. As far as I am concern, anyone who have anything positive to say 'bout them is either getting kick backs, or is as dumb as a door nail!

Comrade Emac, I wouldd've been surprised at your comments, if it were not for Izmirlian, who just like Papa's inviting of the Haitian President leading up to the 2012 General, thinks he
too can sit out on Cable Beach, just likes that other FOREIGNER, to be influencing the natives on how they should Vote, come 2017.
May I add, sitting on damn lands he still hasn't paid a red penny for, owing to the very people he's telling who they should punish come the 2017 General. Have you NO shame, none at all?
Tell Izmirlian to go dictate to he own CITIZENS, how they should Vote. In time he might just be punished by his OWN CITIZENS. Who knows, when the PM stops paying his workers (sitting around with nothing to do) he might get to experience, what it's like when your CITIZENS turn against your ways.

We should not be propping up private enterprise whatever the circumstances, if I go into business and run out of money like Izfailian, my problem to resolve or lose the business, end of story. As for apparently not also paying the foreign component of the Staff, one should note, including Izfailian that it is these very "experts" that possess skills that Bahamian's "supposedly" do not possess making them eligible for Work Permits, which have ultimately resulted in bankruptcy, so I suppose one could say, however ill advised this policy is, at least they are only looking after our own at the bottom of the Totem Pole.

You sound like a Lyford Cay resident with a lot of envy and hate of the Izmirlian family. Sarkis would be willing to let you sit in the front pew of St. Paul's Church this coming Saturday evening (or Sunday morning if you so prefer) if it would make you feel any happier.

What about all the expats that actually worked the entire month of July and are not getting paid? Is that legal for the Bahamian government to block the U.S. Chapter 11, yet allow all the expats to go and work for an entire month and not pay them? It's not like the government didn't know--the Director of Human Resources at the Baha Mar is a Bahamian Citizen and directed all of them to report to work.

There are about 400,000 Bahamians, why are these 2000 so important? This is a political move but what the government does not understand is the people of the Bahamas have made up their minds. This government MUST go, period. Perry and his band of thieves have proven themselves to be KLEPTOCRATES and more interested in amassing personal wealth than MANAGING and improving our country. F#(k the PLP they are the plague!