Lighthouse Beach Nassau version! Unfortunately, the same result for the natives, no seat at the banquet laid on by the government and eaten by Royal Caribbean for locals, just a seat at the window looking in and the offer of the few crumbs remaining.

No Brotherly Love there Mr. Smith, just more might is right, they got the gold mine you got the shaft.

I agree with the attorney general. Why give away that kind of valuable land for only a $2,000,000 investment to one bahamian when the Bahamas can make far more money and create more jobs from the cruiseline

because that one Bahamian is offering almost 50% stake to be owned by Bahamians and is inviting Bahamian business participation VS ROyal Caribbean which offers NOTHING but a few menial jobs.

Why give away so much to a foreign entity and gain so little? How many times must we repeat the same garbage over and over again?

You mean maybe 200 jobs at minimum wage; significant tax concessions to the foreign entity (that lasts for a decade or more), and most of the profits generated being diverted out of the country to said, foreign owner? At least if it were a Bahamian owned entity, you would have more comfort in knowing the profits were being redistributed into the local market. In the long run, that does not materially help the economy. In the short run...sure, maybe.

Admission of the sell out. No remorse, plain and blunt.

Bahamians are now called "selfish" for wanting a seat at the table. What will we be called next, a basket of deplorables? This terminology sums up the entire Minnis administration's treatment of the Bahamian public from day one, and it alone should be enough to have them driven out of office like stray cats out of an alley.

The Masterful liars of the FNM Government. I believe Mr: Smith.

has Bethel done anything right so far?

nope, he has done nothing useful, Bethel is a major disappointment and has cost the nation dearly.

buy one get one free !Our lucaya

Mr: Smith has to move. so what is Bethel talking about.

They should note what their FNM papa did. the give away of BTC. The Hutchison
deal where Hutchison had control of Ports that were not in the bonded area.
see how that turned out for the country.

Bethel and his FNM Government could not care less about the Bahamian people.

They will sell their very souls for a cold bowl of porridge.

Soon comrade AG Carl Wilshire, a serial but unsuccessful contestant heself at securing a constituency's House seat - will get learn the true meaning colony's prime ministers saying, when he's driving even further West - before it hits his brain that he best do a U-turn and head in his intended direction - East bound? Not making this up.Just, **can't** where the AG has ever before signaled out any foreign investor for their selfishness - except of course the long before Chow Tai Fook replaced the original developer of Cable Beach's Baha Mar resort?

What Carl Bethel has done here is beyond the pale and shows beyond a shadow of doubt that he is unfit to be AG. Bethel's outrageous professional misconduct in publicly attacking Mr. Smith has seriously jeopardized Mr. Smith's ability to assert his legal rights and seek redress through our court system for any harm and losses wrongfully caused to him and his planned business venture by the government, more specifically the Office of the PM.

Bethel should be immediately called on to resign from his AG post by every Bahamian QC and the entire membership of the Bahamas Bar Association.

Repost from 4 days ago:

Royal Caribbean has had the tiny balls of Minnis in a tight vice for quite some time now. They deliberately held off closing on the Grand Lucayan 'giveaway' deal in order to leverage additional overly generous concessions, including the Crown Land at the western end of Paradise Island. And the more Minnis squirms, the more Royal Caribbean tightens the vice. None of these 'back-room' deals Minnis is cutting with Disney, Carnival and Royal Caribbean will do anything for the Bahamian economy and the vast majority of Bahamians. Bahamians are being deprived of precious pristine waterfront land assets which these cruise ship companies will pollute with impunity for decades to come as they pocket and repatriate their profits annually with little or no contribution to our economy. Only Minnis and his most favoured cronies are laughing all the way to the bank as a result of their back-room deals with these most unscrupulous foreign investors. Yep, the very arrogant, nasty, corrupt and greedy Minnis is working overtime with the foreign cruise ship companies (Royal Caribbean, Carnival and Disney) to defraud Bahamians of their natural heritage.

Mudda, your observations here are absolutely correct. This administration doesn't give a damn about anyone but themselves.

LOL

It would also be in the best interest of Bahamains if the AG stopped losing so many court cases. I'd imagine the only way for this to happen would be for this AG to step down as there has been loss after loss on his watch. So we all know that won't happen as there will need to be some negotiation for when Carnival, Norwegian and all the other cruise lines want their own personal beaches in Nassau.

HEADLINE.....'Ag: Entrepreneur "Extremely Selfish"'

Shocking to read this statememt made by the Impartial Attorney General of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas.

Seems the small man got the herculean effort to try and create someting jus bin sitting dere and govt jumps in trying to take bread outta small man mout......If truth bin told, trust me , aint gan lie but govt bin doing this to the small man since King Hatchet was a hammer.....talikd people land from Driggs Hill area....taxing small man regressive tax hurting most....complaining on VAT and next govt even adding more on small man...charges here $30 added there...kicking small people into more hardship an poverty,....eliminating middle class,....creating biggest gap between rich and poor....now Bahamas the 4-6th most expensive nation to live in the world.....so what next..????.....but latest pamplet on Govt Accomplishments include ...Repairing 112 Standpipes (standpipes is the decades ols small water pipe in small concrete base side of road where for decades poor people without plumbing can bring containers and fill up containers with tote water to use in their home most areas ova da hill where politicians grew up in decades), 45 computers, ....and a lot more...

Don't be an ass! RCCL should NOT have any concession here. They already have more than they deserve. This is a desperate and foolish move and other than those being paid off it is a situation that is already being regretted. Carl Bethel should be ashamed of himself.

Let us also not forget all of Toby's work giving back to the community at large by restoring a number of Stephen Burrows's beautiful sculptures which still grace a number of prominent intersections around the island namely the flamingo, rooster, conch shell & white crown Pigeon.

What have RCCL done for us recently aside from providing some free beers and cheap tee shirts at that disgraceful town hall meeting in Eleuthera when grabbing up the other Lighthouse Beach property?
Prime beachfront for RCCL, swamp and honeycomb rock for Bahamians, well kiss my grits!!

I'm getting a weird feeling that the goal of government is to make sure a given number of crabs stay in the bucket crawling through crap and forever dependent on tbe bread crumbs thrown in. This is almost unbelievable. A Bahamian, the Bahamian they always saying "*well you have so much to say about the foreigner, why dont you invest in your country then*?", is investing in the country, and they tell him he selfish...