Point one , if Obie was involved or getting a cut he would be telling us how good the deal is and how many jobs it would create .
Point two ,,this is privately held land and in a free society the owners have a right to do whatever they want w it .
Point three ,,if the government sees fit to get the land they have to pay fare market value for it like anyone else .If they do so through any other means it would send shock waves through any future people/companies thinking of investing.

And just how does the government go about telling someone what to do w their property . Do you propose our broke government borrow to pay fair market value for Lighthouse point ..Wilchcombe and not so PLeasant Bridgewater need to pay back BOB before they voice their opinions .

I can show you a many places up and down the Exuma cays that look about the same ..Obie is making political hay ..That's one reason its hard to market the different islands ,,they all look similar .From where I,m sitting I could get in my boat now and w/ in an hour or two show u 50 places that look like this ,,from The Exuma cays to the Jumentos or run across Exuma sound to Cat or Eleuthera ..Plus if it is privately owned ,,we are not a dictator ship that strips owners of their land

I agree with Concerned Citizen. While I’d love to see this property preserved as a public park, it is private land and it cannot be just “taken”. Somebody’s gotta pony up and finance a purchase of it, whether that’s the gov’t or One Eleuthera Foundation or some other preservationist group.

Also, it is interesting to note that, to date, *nobody* has confirmed that Disney is interested in this land. Every time ya try to track that idea, it leads back to “rumors” on the island. Disney has never publicly acknowledged any interest in the land. They’ve confirmed that they’re looking for a second property in the Bahamas, but they’ve never confirmed that Lighthouse Point is their goal. It’s quite likely that LIghthouse Point is far too large and too expensive for one of their tourist-boat landings.

@Clamshell. Read the paper more often. Disney held town meeting on eleuthera very recently. I say let disney develop half and make the other half a nature preserve. It is a middle of the road solution. Disney only needs a 20 or 30 acres they don't need the entire 700 acre tract. @concerned whike there are many beautiful spots around the bahamas this one is in the top 10 and is currently unspoiled. Almost every exuma cay is privately owned even some within the park.

When is the last time you went up the Exuma cays ,up from where I am in Great Exuma .Your claim that almost every Cay in the Exuma cay is privately owned is factually wrong , Also running from here to Sampson cay there are well over 100 cays w perhaps at best 15 w homes ,including Little Farmers and Black point .Remember there are 365 Cays in the chain

Lighthouse Beach should have been made a national park decades ago! It was only a matter of time before the private owners put it up for sale, we are just lucky they let people on it as long as they did. The government must pony up to buy it, no ifs, ands or buts about it, and the people must tell their MPs they WILL pay more in terms of limited duration levie/VAT surcharge that goes straight to a BNT managed fund with fully open books to finance the purchase.

Disney must not have Lighthouse point. They promise jobs but have an dismal record of hiring and firing at whim. For all of those who have visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads, the cruel fact is that within a year they will be replaced because as the Disney operators once told a friend who worked for them and mentioned that they did port in Grand Bahama when they were told to never mention it - she was told that it did not matter what she thought or what were past facts, thatoficially that never hppened and that her being in their employ was nothing particular to them as there were 10 people waiting to take on her low paying job. She was let go on the spot. Losing that piece of heritage to Disney would be a travesty as we (me being Eleutherian) would lose forever a pristine point of natural beauty which would only be ruined by Disney bevelopment and the dredging of surrounding sea bed for their ships would be only another knife in our throats. Disney and other cruise companies are in it for themselves, they really do not spread ny wealth nor do they care about the people they employ or those who live thereabouts and would lose access to something special that is ours and should be preserved as such.

From what I know, these cruise ships don't hire more than a handful of Bahamians at their "islands". The staff off the ship work the restaurants, bars, shops, beaches etc.

One Eleuthera which is misnamed because everything that Shaun Ingraham does is in S Eleuthera has some agenda in this. Remember S Eleutherans whilst you blindly follow the herd that Mr Ingraham gets a good salary for doing his work unlike many of you.