People! People! You know the PLP aren't checking for ya'll 'islanders'. If you don't share your wealth they ain't on your run. You gats to pay up front if you want tings.

Speaking as a vexed FNM, the last three governments have done nothing for Abaco. That's why I strongly believe the Bahamians will not be fooled by either the PLPor the FNM. Either they will try thr COI...what have they got to lose...or not vote at all.

Real. None of these gubermints since Ingraham have given a shit about Abaco and it really shows. I have thought several times about taking pictures of the literal craters on our highway and sending them into the Tribune. It is disgusting and insulting that we have to put up with this BS despite how much revenue we generate. The thing is none of us are asking for the gubermint to do anything but their jobs; Abaco has clawed its way out of the aftermath of Dorian to become even bigger than before with minimal gubermint assistance, and its like these gubermints can't even meet us halfway and provide the most basic of services they are responsible for. I am sick of potholes (craters) damaging my (and other people's) vehicles, hours long power outages every summer, BPHell burning up my appliances while paying ludicrous bills, lack of necessary amount of police, out of control immigration issues, etc. Conians try hard to pull our weight in this country and its just like the gubermint doesn't give a rats ass about us other than when it comes time to collect tax money to fund whatever stupid BS scheme they are concocting at that moment.

Any Conian what votes for the FNM or PHellP is either a masochist or a too low IQ to even be voting. CoI or independence are honestly our only two hopes of things ever improving on this island.

Election time.. the Fnm hounds from hell are on the move

Sadly, things have deteriorated to the point where only a violent rebellion can free the Bahamian people from the deeply ingrained political corruption that now pervades The Bahamas under an Authoritarian Marxist-Socialist regime controlled by a ruling political elite and their wealthy cronies, whether they be of the PLP or FNM persuasion. And to think all of this was accomplished since 1973 under the hideous guise of a parliamentary democracy. What a joke!

> Both governments squandered Treasure
> Cay’s rebuild - sidelining a funded
> Austrian billionaire for an unfunded
> American; political interference over
> public interest, and now the Austrian
> is suing.

Treasure Cay, Abaco, was supposed to be redeveloped after Hurricane Dorian (September 2019) wiped it out. The property — marina, golf course, hotel, airport area, residential tracts - was controlled by the Meister family. Multiple bidders came forward over the years. One of them was an Austrian billionaire investor, Dr. Mirko Kovats. He is a Lyford Cay homeowner with Bahamas permanent residency. He says he had a deal lined up to buy Treasure Cay and redevelop it, and he claims the Bahamian Government interfered in that private commercial transaction and blocked him.

According to filings and statements reported in Tribune Business, Kovats is not saying “I wanted it and I lost, that’s life.” He is alleging active political interference. His position is that, as a qualified, funded buyer, he was sidelined so the Government could move the project toward somebody else. He accuses both administrations - the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) under Philip Davis and the Free National Movement (FNM) before that — of exerting “undue influence,” costing him the deal. He is now seeking damages from the Government measured in the billions. In 2022 he put forward a damages figure of more than $3 billion, including interest, tied to Treasure Cay and other Bahamas real estate transactions he says he tried to complete.

> The core of his claim is simple: he
> argues the Government picked winners
> and losers. He says he should have
> been allowed to buy Treasure Cay, but
> instead the Government steered the
> asset and the approvals' path toward
> another developer.

***Who is that other developer?***

In September 2024, the Davis administration publicly signed a Heads of Agreement for Treasure Cay with GreenPointe Holdings, a Florida/Jacksonville-based firm led by Edward Burr. The Government promoted this as a $177 million “revitalization” for Treasure Cay: rebuild the marina, repair core infrastructure, upgrade water/power/utility systems, add residential product, deliver a hotel, and restore basic services such as grocery and commercial amenities for Abaco. Local residents in Abaco called the signing “a day of joy” after years of false starts.

That public signing with an American developer is exactly what Kovats is pointing to as proof of what he calls political interference. By March 2025, he was in U.S. federal court in North Florida to force GreenPointe to produce internal documents - emails, records of purchase negotiations, correspondence - so he could use them in lawsuits against both (1) the previous owner, the Meister family, and (2) the Government of The Bahamas. His argument is that he was the rightful buyer, the deal was diverted, and the Bahamian Government helped GreenPointe and Burr jump the line.