Minnis is a jackass if he buys this hotel, considering the current conditions of government finances. And those advising on the purchase of the hotel should be traitors of the country. Why , On God’s earth would this retarded government chose the most expensive and least potential option for rescuing Freeport and Grand Bahama? WHY?

May because in addition to doctoring, science and politics, he always had a yen to be a hotelier?????

Maybe it is a pre-election commitment that he cannot back out of?

Possibly. That would make it a stupid commitment, but then isn't that what politicians are made of, for the most part?

"*#"As you said, it's been likened to a hurricane. That was one of the things the minister of finance said, 'Please God, don't send us a hurricane.' Everything is going to have to be revamped and looked at in those terms.*

*This is something the government didn't expect that it would have to do. There's this hotel that's sitting out there, a couple thousand people not working, we got to get involved so the government gets involved. Prime Minister said we got to buy this hotel, well everything that goes with that now has to be factored against what was planned for the fiscal health of the nation over the next several months."*"

This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. You mean to tell me these guys sit around the table, went through an extensive budgeting exercise running this model and that model doing all this extensive analysis (so they say), and no one thought to ask, hey that hotel was supposed to be sold a year ago, what happens if it doesn't sell?

Maybe the VAT increase was buy the hotel insurance. It certainly didn't make any sense for balancing the budget.

The hotel is a nice property. As Donald Trump would say, It is a very nice property, beautiful scenery and wonderful ocean breezes and Freeport is nice too. But the hotel needs an experienced management team and operator. Not a government that already has financial challenges and no hotel experience What happens after two or three years of pumping millions and millions into this property, giving employees false hope and the property has to close again? Back to square one.

This is without question the WORST EVER decision this government will make. I'd prefer they go the communist route and nationalize it, but make no mistake, this country will pay dearly in the long term for this hotel. SAD!

I think nationalizing it will pay a heavier toll on the country

And if you haven't noticed, stores in New Providence are still closing. Even in the malls and the busy Carmichael Road area. A major clothing chain may have to downsize again if this back-to-school season turns out to be a dud. These stores relied heavily on Social Services back-to-school assistance program to boast it's sales after cutting many smaller merchants out of the market. But now with government cutback and consumers spending less the store is feeling the crunch. In the meantime, other stores are downsizing and moving into shops that have cheaper rent and overhead. The problem is when many people get jobs, they shop online or abroad. So this minimized the impact of Bah Mar's hiring several thousand workers. And the government continue to pile on taxes.

Minnis is bereft of plans to grow our economy and create new private sector jobs. His small mind can only focus on redistributing wealth by flawed government support schemes that further mire our country in debt. He egotistically thinks of himself as the saviour of the needy without realizing that his incompetence and many policy failures to date are simply flushing our country down the proverbial toilet of no return. This idiot and his equally daft sidekick KP Turnquest seem hellbent on foolishly buying the Lucayan Hotel for an exorbitant price with the expectation that it will be corruptly managed by their appointed cronies and financially supported, not by tourists, but by additional government borrowings and another increase in VAT to 15% come July 1, 2019. Minnis is brain dead and it sure as hell ain't the people's time. He is the most dangerous PM our country has ever had, period!

The people of Grand Bahama stand to gain absolutely nothing from the Minnis-led FNM government's proposed foolish purchase of The Grand Lucayan, whereas the people of the Bahamas stand to lose everything. Minnis should be thrown out of parliament if he persists in putting government in the hotel business knowing well its past track record in that business. And just think, he and Turnquest already can't figure out what to do about the continuing mega millions of dollars in losses from the Bank of the Bahamas/Bahamas Resolve debacle yet they somehow now think they can own and hire a management company to run a hotel....give me a break! This could only be a massive swindling of the Bahamian taxpayers at large throughout our country, including Grand Bahamians!!

So they gowan take 5.5 pissent outta ma pawckat and buy one hotel in Freeport? Well lick ma down and cally me mudda