Judging from the way Mr. Izmiralian was treated in this whole matter suggests that because he didn't play ball with the Bahamian politicians, and tried to do business in an honorable fashion, he was thrown under the bus and made to pay dearly.
That is sure how it is looking to me.
Mr. Izmiralian, for his money, effort, vision and dream to make this a world class resort that every decent Bahamian could be proud of, lost it all.
And with that loss came another terrible blow to the integrity of The Bahamas.
I am utterly appalled by the tepid response from the PM and the Bahamian people that this type of behaviour is somehow acceptable.
It suggests to me that there was an entire culture of this behaviour from our politicians, and just with the BahaMar deal.
How can Bahamians hold their heads up with a "leader" such as Jerome Fitzgerald, And Perry Christie, and V. Alfred Gray, and Picewell Forbes, and on and on.........................

My feelings exactly. The PLP is a disgrace. Can you imagine how the rest of the civilized world views us?

There is no need for the PM to fire Fitz. The Bahamian people will fire the whole lot of them on May 10th come hell or high water.

**......... At Least PM Christie Is Well Dressed For His Demise!..........**

Hubert Minnis did not end this term as leader of opposition in the house and they are all just private citizens now so he was not obligated to attend.

The PLP Government had nothing to do with Izmiralian loosing his project, He did not pay **his loan. He must be having a great laugh at all of you. What about poor Bahamians who lose their homes do you people care about them.??

Birdie, you truly are wearing rose coloured glasses. The reason Mr. Izmirlian could not pay his loan was because the Chinese stopped working and walked off the job after deliberately delaying the openings, and also likely conspired with the PLP to force him out. Now we're starting to see why -- in the shocking (well, not really shocking) e-mails of a sitting MP Jerome Fitzgerald soliciting contracts for himself and his family (against the law, by the way) and I have a feeling we ain't seen nothing yet. Bring on that FOIA and let's see the depths of the corruption and cronyism.

May 10th can't come soon enough. Then we get get about prosecuting and jailing these crooked politicians. We're going to need a bigger prison to hold them all!

Mr Christie is quite right to say nothing,, Because what ever he says will be twisted.
He is dammed if he do and dammed if he don't.

birdie,
People like you are the reason The Bahamas is stuck in the last century.

we have become immuned to what corruption is because it has been a part of government since as far as anybody can remember.. so what others might call corrupt, we consider as 'thats the way it is'... doesn't say much about us as a people unfortunately. mind you we are not alone, the Americans, Koreans, French, etc., are also corrupt, but at least they enforce penalties when revealed. thats where we are lacking...

Look he barely keep his eyes open

Silence means Consent ........... If Fitzgerald is guilty, Perry is guilty ......... Fire Them!!!!!!!!!!

There is no integrity on the part of the PM when a member of his cabinet has clearly violated thel law of the land and obviously wants the lions share of available work but is not punished. He is a disgrace as a Minister of Education when caught out publicly lying and setting such a bad example to the teachers and children he lectures to ?

Just watched the documentary Papa Doc: Haiti's President for Life...deja vu

Papa Doc was famous for broadcasting live, executions of those who dared disagree with him. School children would be granted leave in order to witness the festivities.

Might we soon see men clad in tropical print shirts, pork pie hats, and dark glasses prowling the Bahamas, looking for 'enemies of the state', as did Papa Doc's infamous 'Ton Ton Macoutes', aka 'bogeymen'?

"Childhood death is our form of family planning."
- Francois X. 'Papa Doc' Duvalier, M.D.
quoted in Medical Economics Magazine,
autumn 1969 issue

**Apparently Christie, Fitzgerald, Maynard & Crew Of Pirates Misinterpreted "*5 Year Term*"**

These people somehow fooled themselves into believing they were invincible and would be in power forever, regardless of their actions and total disregard for an electorate they considered totally ignorant.

Absolute power obviously does corrupt absolutely. Additionally, it made these "**supposed**" intelligent people S-T-U-P-I-D enough to believe they could get away with extorting a multi billion dollar project from a developer, and no one would be the wiser.

The chickens are now flocking home to roost and these D-U-M-B pirates have been fresh out of political currency for years.

So, Hubert Minnis did not show up so he is selfish and should be ashamed for not supporting the people, but you tried to extort contracts for your personal gain from this same organization and trying to act like you are some saint for showing up? Boy we can't make these things up!!

Birdie, please go to school, learn how to spell and learn some real truths about the disgusting party that you so fervently support.

Birdie has the anti-truth chip implanted in her head. She also received the PLP truth vaccine that keeps facts and truth out of her system.

the government is running scared. they panicking. Shutting down radio shows And Facebook pages. Hiring their cronies on ZNS to brainwash the nation. They have the irrevalant Gorman Banister of Facebook who can barely draw 100 people to his page (Bahama juice). Then there is Rodney Concur who pretending to be an FNM used his show attack Hubert Minnis and try divide the FNM. Then he accepted a senate appointment from Loretta Butler-Turner, while helping to lead her broadside into a brick wall in attempts to undermine Minnis. But the dirtiest thing this political slime did is, while pretending to be an FNM he encouraged hundreds of potential voters not to register and that they were going to the beach on election day and not vote. Not after registration closes, that low down crook, the great deceiver is seen embracing and endorsing Perry Christie for another 5 years as prime minister, obviously for some secret political prize. But the sins of the this political prostitute does not stop there. After months and months of calling on God to send a tidal wave, not only to wash Bah Mar not only into the sea, but beyond the bar, this hood rat is seen in Bah Mar at its 'opening' toting the people's French bread and white chocolate. May Rodney Concur get his just {PLP} reward for being the great deception.

“Obviously he is being small minded in not putting the Bahamian people first," he said.

So he was not being small minded in putting his family's interest first? Guess only them gattta eat.