Our politicians can barely shoot marbles while countries like the US and China play 3 dimensional chess.
Ever since the Bahamian government allowed the Chinese purchase of the Hilton (a property so close to the US embassy) and began receiving economic help from China, I have been waiting for the hammer to drop!

Judgment days is here and Trump does not play nice!

Bowers needs to get a life. Just like China, the USA will look out for its own interests!<br/>
My question is... will anyone in this jokey government look out for The Bahamas and Bahamians? You can't expect foreigners to have our best interest at heart.To do so would be very naive indeed!

Signed: Fred Mitchell. LMAO

Fred Mitchell didn't have enough wisdom to post that! <br/>
Sorry to disappoint.

Thanks for your response Chargé d’Affaires Stephanie Bowers. Let them know that the Bahamas is not to be treated like Taiwan in a stealth way.by using economic might to influence our government policy and decisions. The Bahamas will not go the way of the countries who have signed up for the "Belt and road Initiative" and are now saddle with depth and have to sign over ownership of national assets to china.

Your an idiot

A country is only saddled with as much debt as they willingly seek to borrow.

USA is the master of economic terrorism , either through funding or sanctions.

It's the USA we need to fear , lest we want them to help us like they're helping Venezuela, and many others before

Just imagine if they wanted Minnis out, they could place enough sanctions to ensure we can barely import food and fuel, "all in the name of helping us get a better leader"; meanwhile we starve

Ever heard of China doing that, or any other country for that matter?

USA is a nation to fear, not trust.

What did I say that was not correct?
You are just a fool who spends too much time in USA, you drink their cool aid and buy all their BS.
State one country that they have helped other than Israel?

> In her response yesterday, Ms Bowers said: “Economic engagement should meet international best practices in terms of transparency, debt sustainability and the needs and concerns of local communities.

>“We encourage all leaders to choose high-quality, transparent, and inclusive foreign investment, and we want to ensure development financing does not result in unsustainable debt. When evaluating types of partnerships and investment relationships, leaders must ensure they are getting the best deal for their country and their people over the long term.”

Ms Bowers should bite her tongue. The totally one-sided giveaway by our corrupt government in the recently announced "Disney Deal" is the complete antithesis of everything she states as re-quoted by me in my previous post immediately above.

She, together with all other senior officials in the U.S. Embassy in The Bahamas, should be clamoring for a full scale investigation to be launched by the U.S. Department of Justice and FBI into whether egregious violations of The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act allowed Disney to negotiate such an overwhelmingly one-sided deal that is very much to the detriment of the Bahamian people.

As for Ms Bowers' feigned concerns about our country taking on unsustainable foreign debt, she needs to be reminded that the International Development Bank (IDB), one of our biggest lenders, is for all intents and purposes an international lending agency controlled in large part by the U.S. government. The IDB is a key tool by which the U.S. government enriches the interests of its own constituents (usually U.S. corporations, U.S. consulting firms and super wealthy Americans) while at the same time getting corrupt political leaders in other countries, like the Bahamas, hooked on unsustainable levels of foreign debt.

It's all about getting control of another country by corrupting its all too easily corruptible senior elected officials and encouraging (strong-arming) them to take on unsustainable foreign debt put to their lips by a lending teat (tit') like the IDB. This makes other countries (like the Bahamas) vulnerable to being plundered whereby U.S. interests acquire the key strategic and natural resources of other nations for mere pennies on the dollar. For decades this has been the U.S. modus operandi for getting whatever it wants from other nations like ours.

Good for you, you hit the nail on the head!

At the end of the day, all of this is one big fat WARNING by the US to the Caribbean. They're saying, if you get in bed with red China too deep, don't expect us to protect you with our military (the US is The Bahamas' military, as it has none of its own). Further, if you allow red China to build military bases for its warships and submarines that become a security threat to the US, you and your people will be blown up along with their bases.

Ya got dat right!

But it doesn't hurt to remind the U.S. government from time to time that its own hands are not clean, and that it must do more to protect small nations like our from the predatory practices of its very greedy corporate citizenry like Disney.

I blame the distance between the US and The Bahamas more on the poor negotiation skills of our black leaders and "bend or break" attitude they took in the past. Based on our level of trade with and dependence on the US, The Bahamas should have a much better relationship with them. We should be like two peas in a pod; instead, black leaders have continued to perpetuate an anti-white, "Wakonda forever!" fantasy world. If you asked our leaders, many consider Jamaica, Haiti and Africa to be closer allies of ours than the US!

The Bahamas is foolish to think it can play both sides. I've heard China is the most racist country, yet black leaders can't get enough of them. The PLP sold out this country to China and betrayed the US by selling them the Hilton. The Pointe looks more like a military fort than a hotel.

The bigger picture here is to PUT BAHAMIANS FIRST! You no longer have to give your country away or beg investors to come here. Your country is in demand. What sense in signing investment agreements, like Oban and Disney and oil drilling valued in the Billions of Dollars, when the average Bahamian can’t pay electricity and water bills. Where is the sense in expanding the Bahamian economy with the exclusion of Bahamians? The tariffs Trump imposed on China is now putting billions and billions of dollars in the US treasury. Finally allowing the US to get some leverage on its debt to China. And Trump claims the tariffs may be reduced but will not be removed any time soon. His advice to companies that don’t want to pay the tariffs: move your production to the US. And of course he also lashed out at the WTO who opposed those tariffs, even threatening to pull out of the organization if they don’t get it right. In this country almost 2/3 of all hotel beds will be owned and/or operated by Chinese and most of the rest by foreigners. The same with the cruise ships. And most of the guests in the hotels are foreigners (tourists) as are the passengers on the cruise ships. The tourists numbers are up and the country must now ‘right Fit’ it’s taxing on tourist to pay off the national debt. Disney increased its tickets for cruises as well as the ones to visit Disney world. They did this even while they were making huge profits. The Bahamas must now do the same. For investors and visitors alike. Should no longer be ‘we must pay you to come here. The same also with Us and China. Weigh the benefits.

You make a very astute point about the growing number of our hotel beds owned and/or otherwise controlled by corporate interests loyal to Red China's foreign policy interests. Is it really already as high as two-thirds (2/3's)? If so, that's a very serious problem for the Bahamas that our successive PLP and FNM governments should never have allowed to happen. As we all know, most of our air arrival visitors (hotel staying tourists) come from the North American market place and the U.S. holds complete sway over Canada. This means that if ever the U.S. decides it's in its national security interests to target Red China's growing influence and economic interests in our country, it would likely do so by simply pull the plug on the ability of North American tourists to visit our country. Now that's a truly frightening thought! Frankly, it's downright foolish of us to let the bricks and mortar of our number one industry be majority owned by Red Chinese interests while the vast majority of our tourists come from the U.S. and Canada. It would be in our own interests to have many more hotel beds owned by U.S. interests (not of the greedy corrupt Disney kind), and much less by Red China. That's just plain common sense!

yep, the plantations are now air conditioned and the slaves drive to work in cars or on buses. Many still don't realize they are slaves, sold by their leaders to serve foreign masters!

Bowers is a Trumpette. Follow the British , burn down the "White House"., preferably with
The great satan in it.

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