I head PGM needs another term to be able to give us this answers.

Christie owns lock stock and barrel the outcome of the Baha Mar project in terms of its economic implications for our country. The failure of Baha Mar and the many years of costly litigation that would follow would be the defining moment and pitiful legacy of Perry Christie who is now known to be hands down by far the most incompetent Prime Minister our country has ever had and could possibly ever have! Christie's great love affair with the Chinese will no doubt pay off handsomely for Christie himself and his few select political friends and business cronies, but, as for the Bahamian people at large, the failure of Baha Mar would seriously scar their standard of living and quality of life for generations to come.

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Well Perry has to accept responsibility for that white elephant on Cable Beach ........ karma is a bitch .............. he bragged that he brought the Chinese Stadium and he brought the Chinese Hotel .............. its his legacy ............. you dont hear HAI running around talking about legacy (for good or bad).

Finally Christie admits he has always been and still is entirely clueless about the main reasons why the Baha Mar project is now on the verge of becoming the largest real estate development disaster the Caribbean has ever seen and, indeed, one of the largest development blunders ever seen in the Western Hemisphere. The U.S. and international news media are going to have many a major field day investigating and covering all of the reasons why this project was allowed to get where it is today, thanks in large part to the hands-off lazy style of our Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Perry Christie, who found illegal web shops, a carnival, etc. to be much more suited to his main interests.

the cartoon at the tribune today is masterful. that young man has become really good. i wish it was posted online.

Comrades all but for the warm bodies of the before mentioned 2,000 new employees hanging around, Baha Mar would be considered an awesome tourists ghost town ticketed attraction. Some would say even more profitable than Carnival 2015 turns out be.
In China they have entire cities like this - hardly a warm body in site, except government paid workers. And, you got's know them 2000 workers will end up costing taxpayers some pretty hefty lifting dollars,
Like in China, they does actually train you for good jobs, then they assign you brush sweet the public streets and weed other people's weeds.
Comrades I could not makes this up.
Thanks Papa Hubert for knowing better but you still approved Baha Ma.

It is unusual for a construction company to bring a project this far along, then fumble on the completion. Regardless of the underlying problems and conflicts, their credibility and reputation is on the line on the world stage. But least we forget the road building company, Jose Cartolones, came here after being fired and kicked out of Jamaica. They managed to finish the work here but over a year late and $100 million over budget

Haven't you heard about the Chinese and all the finished unlived in villages they have around the country?. So Bahamar isn't quite finished!! and how far over budget is that going to be?

Baha Mar is pocket change for Chinese.

China's Empty Cities

..........//https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3XfpYxHKCo

I hope for the best, but WTF. How long is this place going to just sit around? Having seen the video of China's Empty Cities (thanks TalRussell), I'm beginning to understand the way China does construction. They build fast, cheap structures with little planning or care of the consequences if nobody chooses to live in them. It's as if they just build to build. Well, I hate to say it, but Bahamar looks just like the buildings in the China's Empty Cities video; it looks like it was just built to be built, with little aesthetic care or attention. Let's wait for a couple more months, but after a certain waiting period, the Government will have to intervene. I'm sorry to say it, but I would suggest it be knocked down and built differently. The land is just too valuable for a structure that is inferior. The sad part is, China has already moved on from this disaster. It is us that are living in the past by worrying about Bahamar. For China, Bahamar is just another empty city that didn't work out. Oh well.

Comrade BahamaPundit is it possible that Baha Mar is being stalled as a tactic for the Chinese to take control over Freeport? Place extreme pressure on the PLP cabinet to force them come on begging knees, then they will sign over the governmental rights to Freeport to the Chinese? These are beyond ruthless people to do business with. The Chinese have walked away from dozens of complete cities.

Freeport is a failure because of the St. George family et al. Even though Hutchison Whampoa paid into the port and ship facilities, they are stymied by the Hawksbill Treaty. The St. George's are the most unenlightened business people ever, with the business skills of an era at least 50 years old. They have the shopkeeper mentality, and are selling a 50 year old product thinking that it is still the sexy 25 year-old something. They don't understand that the concept of a tax haven is almost dead.

As for the shipping in Freeport, it is a colossal failure. It should be a major hub, a shipbuilding/ship repair facility and very close to the terminus of the Panama Canal. Instead it is a dying, marginalised facility due to mismanagement of the entire Freeport concept.

Freeport reminds me of the very picturesque gas station on East Street. It has everything going for it -- lots of space for cars on a very crowded road, just two pumps, a repair facility, a very retro look, and they just can't make a go of it. Freeport is the same way.

My guess is that the Chinese really don't want Freeport. Another empty city.

I thought the hotels operating at BAh Mar were American companies and so the construction would be to their standards.

I think we all thought allot of things about this project, which weren't grounded in reality. Seems like most of it was built on a wish and a prayer with little research, oversight or attention to detail.

The hotels are all owned by Baha Mar, Ltd. The hotel companies signed on as management companies only and delivered the brands (SLS, Rosewood and Hyatt). From a business perspective, Baha Mar is in control of everything. And that's the problem, since Izmirlian got in way, way over his head.

Of course the buffoon can't say anything...cause he doesn't know anything! And who cares anyway if he does!? It would be lies anyway...

The Bahamar project is the perfect example of why the citizens should have full access to information about government deals ......... BTC, BEC, Bahamasair, NAD, APD port, Freeport 2.0 and now Bahamar ........ are all shrouded in political mystery .................. at our expense