So perry dragged BahMar out for years just so he could use it as an election vote getting tool?? That's giving the man too much credit and is he really that crooked? I mean he's bent but that badly??

The unemployment numbers will fall significantly over the next few weeks as merchants boost up their staff for the holiday season. Many of these temporary workers will remain employed until at least the second week in January as many Bahamians continue their holiday shopping thru the new Bahamian holiday. Then, according to the PM, this is when Bah Mar will be busy hiring and training staff. So rather than the unemployment numbers going up in January, they will actually still be going down. And if the Pointe and other projects come on stream in the first quarter, as Christie has suggested, then more people will be working and when Carnival comes around in April basically everyone who is looking for a job in New providence can be employed. So when Bah Mar starts to open, New Providence will be close to near full employment..and guess who happy, newly employed workers, who just finished partying in carnival will vote for?

Then they will deserve whatever they don't get over the next 5 years

your Math is a bit off my friend. The Pointe and Bahamar will not employ some 10,000 persons. take into consideration that youth unemployment in the country sits at above 31%...in 2015. Add another 3,000 to that since summer of this year for high school graduates. The targeted amount of employed can not be expected to exceed 2,000 -3,200 and even then that's a high estimate. Also add the students who will be graduating for Summer 2017 to that statistic and it tells a different story.

All of that and we haven't even touched the perilous situation in Grand Bahama.

While I am glad some persons will be able to gain employment, I highly doubt it will be enough to reverse the damage done under this administration in the eyes of the people.

My math is not off. In fact my numbers are conservative. Your PM says the point will hire about 2,000 people for its first phased opening in April. Once that phase is open they will be hiring and training a second set which your pm claims will bring the number up to 5,000. so that is an additional 3,000. The Pointe will hire about 300-500 construction workers and about 1,000 permanent workers around April. The retail stores and theater at the Pointe will also be hiring workers and Carnival will hire close to 1000 (or more ) workers and vendors. The private sector in New Providence will hire about 2,000 temporary workers in the next few weeks and there will be a few hundred new jobs coming on stream with Popeye's and Carl's Jr on Carmichael, Aliv's additional franchises, Solomon"s opening in the East. Also if it does get extremely cold in the Northern US and Canada, hotels here will be hiring additional workers as snow birds flock here (and spring breakers). Then there is still workers being hired to complete clean up, repairs and restoration because of the storm. It is up to your government to keep the ball rolling, give other businesses incentives to hire additional workers and also to take on infrastructural projects of their own that will also hire more workers. Now you do the math..could be closer to 15,000 (yes Fifteen Thousand ) over the next four months...Your government has the ball! But can BPL keep the lights on? Or will we be seeing in da dark?

I stumbled across your (the Bohemian people) situation after seeing a video on YouTube of the Baha Mar g650 jet. Anyway, I feel for you. The PLP sounds like our Republican Party here in the US and now we have a maniac as president. In our system, everyone has their hands in each other's wallet. It's the same around the world.

I sure would love to read the sealed court documents your president desperately wants to keep closed. If he had nothing to hide he would release them.

At least they rejected the Chinese casino operator.