to make this perfectly clear. Baha Mar and its management never cared about investing in relationships with any of its providers, constructor, subs. We participated in two RFP's that were handled very unprofessionally. I am glad we did not get the job, we would probably have to fight for every dollar. If you lay down with dogs, you may wake up with flees. Am not surprised that a further delay in opening is announced three days before the soft opening is supposed to happen. So - the tourists that booked stay home now until May?

Bahamar is blaming the Chinese when if it weren't for the Chinese, there would be no Bahamar!!

The Chinese really didn't have to take on this Bahamar project. Hubert Ingraham was the one who begged and solicited their help after the initial investors for Bahamar pulled out. And one of the only reasons that the Chinese obliged HAI was because Hubert moved the Bahamian embassy from Taiwan to China!

The Bahamar executives are making these outlandish claims that they had relied on China's lead contractors reassurances that the resort would be completed on time. When the truth of the matter is, any fool driving past the cable beach resort could see that barring a miracle, it would never make the March 27th deadline.

These Bahamar executives need to stop passing blame and learn to take responsibility for their own ineptitudes. The Chinese possess major stakes in the resort and are majority owners! So take it or leave it. The bottom line is..... Bahamar is and will be a colossal failure. And so is the Bahamas.

BOOM! Couldn't have said it any better!

Comrades, is this the first sign of more serious "corporate fallout smoke" rising over the future of who will really own Bah Mar?

Yes! lol

> The one part of Baha Mar’s statement that does not quite ‘ring true’ is the suggestion that is was relying on the contractor’s assurances as late as last Friday, despite the fact that everyone passing the project could see it was not going to be ready for March 27.

Exactly. And look at Baha Mar's website for the hotel that was supposed to open Friday. One placeholder image is still featured as the image for ALL rooms. If the hotel was finished and the rooms ready, why are the images for each of the rooms not uploaded? Such images are produced long before a resort's opening.

Irreconcilable differences ......................... slippery Turk vs the Chinese ......... and Sandy

Yep .............. we need proportional representation based on % of party votes. Then all of this political tribalism will be a mute point. Right now we would have had a FNM & DNA coalition running the country with a 2 0r 3 seat majority based on the distribution of votes ......... not this disguised dictatorship. .................. Just look at Israel's election process

Bahamians have taken on "the powers that be" and effected proactive change ...... in 1942, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1967, 1992 for example ........ but what we need now is a wholesale constitutional review to remove the dictatorship-in-disguise that we inherited from SLOP and QE2. That is the 800 pound gorilla in the room.

Words, words. Action is what is needed. The Bahamar fiasco only serves to empathize how these large mega resort models can be so unstable. It also highlights the need for serious economic diversification. Tourism has been good to us but it's time to make some serious decisions about the economy. I find it hard to believe that the PM relied so heavily on this project. Then again I shouldn't put anything past these jokers. So Junkanoo Carnival is approaching and the hotel is not done. What an embarrassing situation to be in. The Bahamar folks saw this coming and steadily made public statements of readiness to open. It is a reflection of how they intend to operate in the future. Just watch.

"So Junkanoo Carnival is approaching and the hotel is not done. What an embarrassing situation to be in. The Bahamar folks saw this coming and steadily made public statements of readiness to open. It is a reflection of how they intend to operate in the future. Just watch."

Yes I agree!~ I knew something about this establishment was not right from the word 'GO'! But it appears we fail to read the warning signs, red flags for oncoming issues. The fact that there was a huge reconstruction of the road to build that monster of a hotel was the first indication for me that this was 'gonna be long.' Not saying that change is not good or welcomed, but this was such a big change that if this hotel were not to succeed in it's endeavors in the future, what's to become of such an eyesore? Furthermore, I for one are not impressed with the look and feel of the resort community itself. Looks like a upscale Holiday Inn if you ask me! Nothing exemplary or exceptional about the look and feel of it.

I just don't know what to say. *Shakes head**

It's going to finish within a yr. The biggest and most prestigious hotel in the caribbean is worth it.

Long as we can earn more than entry level jobs or hopes that tourist wonder off premises to spend change. I want in on their web gaming. Trade shows and Chinese products will make a killing for them. Imagine when the Redmii smart phones sell from here to avoid a lawsuit with apple. That could be billions in purchases shipped from here. Bahamians should hop on such opportunities. It doesn't have to be them or the hotel that introduces these things.

Time to tune into the tradeshow industry. Diversify tourism.

Excellent point! Trade Shows in the Bahamas could be a huge draw.

Problem with BahaMar is it represents a rich kid's dream funded by daddy's apparent endless wealth with absolutely no experience or management support to execute and deliver on a Project of this magnitude. Herein lies the "true" blame, not CSC, who are in fact the savior of this "dream" and without whom even daddy's money would have been exhausted by now. It follows that to blame your savior at this stage in the game is truly distasteful and demonstrates just how far the kid will go to cover his own shortcomings in a desperate effort to save his rapidly dwindling inheritance, ironically caused by his own ineptitude.

"...to blame your savior at this stage in the game is truly distasteful and demonstrates just how far the kid will go to cover his own shortcomings in a desperate effort to save his rapidly dwindling inheritance.."

Red Flags I tell yah! Red Flags!

One man isn't management, even CEO can be hired.
He's a role model. A local kid can own a big hotel.

Could hire more Bahamians with a contract that ensures full payment within 12 months that covers interest on payroll loans or other contractor expenses taken out. Signing off on the budgets to be repaid doesn't take too much communication with Beijing. The few months after launch should definitely cover everyone's checks.

Or just go slow.

If they own it , that's motive to open.
Are they still waiting on more gaming legislation?
Maybe it's BEC concerns.

I hope this thing don't go down in a hurricane.

I thinks just maybe the China State Engineering Corporation gone done a 3.5 Billion dollar
K.B. "Carnival 2015 Flip flop" on Comrade "Baha Mar" Izmirlian. I'm guess no visitors to
Carnival 2015, will be staying at the Baha Mar properties?

Make that 2 things: plenny damn people.

The Brt Colonial won't have this problem as the Chinese own it and will BahaMar in the end. You can't fire key construction mgt team members mid stream and deliver a promised opening date.