Bottom line: Less prime land for Bahamians; more prime land for foreign corporate interests. Disney's business model has always been one of "all hard currency profits for me baby"; they have zero interest in sharing their pie through any type of partnership relationship with the Bahamian people.

Government should have long ago purchased this pristine property from its private owner and kept it for the Bahamian people to enjoy for generations to come. Pretty soon there will not be a beach anywhere in the Bahamas that Bahamians can frequent for their own enjoyment. Trust me, Disney has dotted the 'i's' and crossed the 't's' in the agreements they signed whereby they will somehow (by hook or crook) be able to prevent access to this property by Bahamians; no matter what our government says on this point. And our corrupt Minnis-led FNM government knows this to be the case. LMAO

I agree. This property was on the market for about 20 years, during which the government ignored it and no “eco-conscious” group stepped forward to buy it. Not until Disney entered the picture did all this outrage arise.

The Bahamas could have bought this land, and preserved it forever, for *far* less than was spent on a failing, tumble-down “resort” on Grand Bahama.

In short: Everybody should stop blaming Disney. The land could have been secured *long* before Disney stepped forward.

Yes, yes and yes indeed, is this more about the most senior reds being all suspiciously "backup" OBAN signatory unsure?
Just maybe by not inviting a single members press attend big red announcement Lighthouse Point, did the most senior members Imperial red cabinet cautioned the PM to get all the "fake" out - before involving the press? Yes, no cause you've thinks a $250 millions to $400 millions cruise port and entertainment facility at Lighthouse Point, Eleuthera. would've been something special the Imperials would likes celebrate - not "to hide hundreds millions light under loss of yet another private Out Island's, under some foreigner's bushel?" Nope, you can't just make this up, then again we're not all of red shirts mentality.

Your brain is again short circuiting from the uric acid in which it floats. Suggest you take a pee to help dry it out.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's see how quickly we can destroy our beautiful natural resources. SMT.

Yes, yes and yes if we're apply comrade Clamshell's logic that the land could have been secured long before Disney stepped forward - then how come empty buildings along Bay been left to decay whilst sitting empty and neglected...... ever try buy one them buildings from Nassau Town's Bay Street's slumlords, yes, no if 'asking price' is out there in stratosphere?

Tal, as you well know, the difference between asking price and selling price shrinks dramatically when somebody puts actual cash money on the table.

Yes it will be a lot jobs that Bahamians could hold, BUT it will be with American standards. In other words not on Island time. Very strict employer, well the people attending expect alot. snobs!

The cruise port area actually is not on the Atlantic beach side, it’s on the sound side. Look at a map. You can’t tie up a cruise liner and build a pier on the ocean side. I’m not defending Disney, but facts are facts.

Go and buy it. That's what Disney did. They bought already privately held land.

Absolutely no where in this world can one get land give. to them for free. And if you expected to you may be part of the problem with the bahamas today. Want free land move to Cuba it's all free there dimbnuts

Did you know one cruise ship getting up to speed and burning Bunker C emits as much sulfer dixoide emissions as like 6 million cars?

Explain how this is "sustainable" ?

And Park.... With all the fish and corals disrupted by all these ships and people swimming and stepping all over them how anything but a small % of the nature there now will still exist after only a couple years?

Please some one document at least the state of "before" so we can see side by side the "after" of how this debacle for light house beach turns out. I'm guessing tho the agreement lacks any consequence for a huge decline.

Ma comrade Concerned, over year back, they laughter when I advocated for a $15 per head "Poop Tax" be levied on arrival each and every by air and seas tourist we Colony of Out Islands.
Yes, no would generate a whopping $90 million into PeoplesPublicPurse, be applied exclusively guard over we seas and beaches?

Diesel and gas are only cleaner because they have already burned off the sulfur ahead of time. Claiming bunker c is worse that others is literally telling a half truth. Dimbnuts

Sooooooo, what's in the Disney's Eleuthera Lighthouse Point cruise port Heads of Agreement?????? ........... Where can we get a copy????????

Now i see why the PLP is so mad... The flukin FNM be giving away more land then the PLP ever did and look like ain' ga be nothin left to give away when the PLP might win again.....

Nobody is “giving away” any land. For 20 years, multiple Bahamian governments, whether PLP or FNM, could have bought this land for preservation as a national park. They didn’t. Facts are facts.

What has Bannerman Town and the other deep South villages benefitted from the other cruise port all these years???? ..... How will Disney be different????

Whether it’s wise or not, the people up south on Eleuthera are the staunchest defenders of the Disney plan, as are the FNM and PLP political leadership there ... like it or not, it’s one of the few issues they agree on.

And they are all opposed to OEF & BNT???????? Ingraham & Carey???

My guess, Sheeprunner, is that in the end the rallied behind an entity that would act rather than just talk. Again, like it or not ...

So lets see if the figures add up Disney is spending more on the port in Eleuthera than Global is spending on the port in New Providence? And the port in Eleuthera is supposed to be a low density, eco-friendly environment? The port in Eleuthera is supposed to be exclisively Disney while the one in Nassau is universal? Either one is overvalued or the other is understated.

Think they said they wanted to do wood pylon pier design, lotta $$$ per pylon and they're gonna need a $#%load of em. :)

maybe they will fly the wooden pylons in by private jet and have a limo pick them up from the airport and deliver them to the site with white gloves and fanfare.

One needs dredging the other doesnt. Stupid question to compare the scope of works of the projects without knowing the scope of works dibmnuts

*subject to qualified labour being available and the need to ensure the highest level of technical compliance with international standards*

Where are the jobs posted?

A main reason many foreign tourists come to Eleuthera is to experience the various natural attractions scattered along the island such as Preacher's Cave, Glass Window Bridge and the Rock Sound Ocean Hole to name a few.

In my opinion, THE MAIN ATTRACTION on Eleuthera, Lighthouse Point, has now effectively been cut off by the new Disney project!

The Disney project is like Old Faithful Geyser at Yellowstone National Park being cut off from the public by a new Holiday Inn.

This article states that Disney has given the southern most point to the Bahamas for a National Park. Are we as foreign tourists going to be allowed to drive up to The Point? Or are we going to have to walk in a few miles from the proposed beach park?

I live in West Central Florida and I can fly to Europe for a little bit more than it costs me and my wife to fly to Eleuthera. Why should I continue to come to Eleuthera, rent a house and a car and $$$$pend a lot of money on food when the main attraction is now gone. Ten Bay is nice, but losing an experience like Lighthouse Point is a huge blow to what Eleuthera was.

The Bahamian Government should learn form this missed opportunity and start buying up beaches along the island of Eleuthera (while they still can) to provide a reason for people like me to continue to come. Otherwise, I'll fly non-stop to Cancun on for a fraction of the price and hassle.

We (Bahamians) spend a fortune to go and stand in line for hours at Disney World in Orlando ....... same difference.

Using your analogy, would you spend all that money to go to Disney if they closed down a bunch of their rides and attractions?

The point I was making was that one of THE major attraction of coming to Eleuthera is now gone forever.

Eleuthera's Space Mountain is now closed. Eleuthera’s Castle has been demolished and walls put up.

I'm not against Disney or any other development coming to Eleuthera! Far from it. It's just a shame that this project had to wreck such a beautiful, irreplaceable place.

Doubt Disney will spend $100 million.

Yes, yes and yes - hear me out even if in my best broken English grammars - cause makes no mistake - cruise ship companies should have to inform all potential cruise ship passengers to disregard any perception they may have of a cruise as a travel experience to ever come into contact with a country's natives, cultures or lifestyles.... worsened by Imperial red cabinet's blind-eyed complicity in allowing in broad daylight about something they know is done happening to local comrade merchants, small-time vendors and operators..... sinful, yes, no it sure as all hell has gives you red, red hot urges to want kick their (35) damn red MP's asses out governing office angry?

The government signed another toothless, Heads of Agreement this time with Disney Island Development Ltd!

There are no checks and balances in these asinine heads of agreements to hold these foreign entities accountable to their part of the agreements.

Never in the history of the Bahamas has any foreign entity lived up to the "letter" of any "heads of agreement" and /or any government reviewed, enforced or punished anyone for reneging on any aspect of a heads of agreement.

In the latest government fiasco major phuckup, Perry Gladston Christie and Hubert Alexander Ingraham lost hundreds of acres of land in Cable Beach, THE most expensive property in the Bahamas to the Chinese with the Baha Mar "Heads Of Agreement" at the expense of the Bahamian people.

How the hell can a "Heads Of Agreement" have no clauses for the protection of the country and people?

To add insult to injury, after phucking up and losing THE PEOPLES Cable Beach property to the Chinese with their asinine, toothless "Heads Of Agreement", PM Minnis and his crew of jackasses now want to honor dumb Ingraham and dumber Christie for the greatest phuckups of all time!

**How the hell does that work?**

How does that work????? ........... They are elected by us to run the country (as they please) for 5 years ......... And they do so without any remorse.

They do so without any conscience or consequence is the problem! These corrupt politicians should be jailed not honored.

D'Aguilar, Symonette and Minnis are the three behind all of this obnoxious giving away of our most precious and scarce resource to foreign corporate interests, i.e. our land; and all three of them have very well funded foreign bank accounts (with Central Bank approval?) that they do not wish for us to know about. Never before have seen a Bahamian government so focused and keen on approving the sale of vast amounts of our very limited land heritage to foreign corporate interests. These foreign cruise ship companies believe in all of the pie for themselves; they do believe in partnering or sharing any portion of the pie with the local citizenry once the deal is closed. There will therefore be a very limited number of low paying job opportunities for Bahamians at best. We know this well from all of our past dealings with the various cruise line owners. Something is terribly amiss here.

s/b....."they do ***not*** believe in partnering.....

Disney has a unlimited amount of funds. Believe me Disney is calling the shots. Your government has rolled out the Red Carpet for a piece of the pie.

Enterneuers there will be plenty of good paying jobs for anyone with a nitch in hospitality. From chefs, managers, entertainment, printers for advertisers and T-shirt’s etc. Relocate before housing prices rise. Ten years from now this will major employer. Could change your financial lives forever, but there are trade offs for the growth.