Let's recap.

- Wynn is a Canadian slum landlord with a very, very bad reputation and multiple bankruptcies. He's been trying to establish here for years.
- Wynn wasn't ever planning to buy the hotel. The government didn't figure out they were being strung along to get his Nassau plans approved, or just hoped he might buy it.
- The government haven't been able to effect any form of sale, or nationalisation in a whole year. While it's been rotting.
- Wynn expects the government to pay for it, so he can own it, then lease it to operators. Same slum landlord business as in Canada.
- GBPA have been silent. Or, to put it mildly, either useless or indifferent.
- The government have - maybe with good intentions - strung the press and electorate along for that whole year.
- The airlift has pulled out.
- When the last insurance payment comes in around September, Hutch are out for good.
- Renovation will cost tens of millions more, and take 6-12 months (probably). So no matter what, it wouldn't be ready until mid-winter if they sold it tomorrow.
- There might be another buyer. Or maybe not.

If they couldn't get it sold in over a year, how on earth does anyone they think they'll be competent enough to run it? And if they do, it won't be 25M, it will be 65 + renovation + marketing = backend in 10-20 years?

A slum landlord is not going to run a thriving hotel business. He's going to be a slum landlord.

Lucaya is hanging on by a thread from the cruise ship day trips and the shipyard. The hotel isn't going to open in the next 6 months. The government haven't fixed it - and have basically BS'd their way through - for a year, as GBPA have done nothing. It's time these people were all held accountable.

Here's an idea: get the government as far away from business as physically possible so business isn't absolutely horrified at the idea of having them as a business partner. Tax the slum landlords into the ground for the vacancy as the stick, give them economic concessions and freedom as the carrot. And get GBPA to deal with it as an HCA issue, as it's their turf.

If he had his way, the country would be functional and modern! Get him out immediately!

Any plan at all for hurricane recovery anywhere on Grand Bahama is needed. Anything. Other islands are up and running in weeks, and GB is a derelict hell years later.

Where was the accountability for the failure of the last one? People were fighting for water!

Hurricane preparedness requires an effort to distribute and publish procedures as widely as possible - not one person should have any doubt as to what to do, and where to go.

What are the population numbers? Where will the supplies be coming from? Which emergency services will be deployed? Where should people go? How will warnings be distributed? Where can people store livestock and find transit in advance? How should they prepare with insurers (if they have them)? What resources do the shelters have?

The money being borrowed by the administration has conditions attached which require a min % on transparent e-gov processes, like procurement.

Source: according to the 2 main suppliers (US/UK) i've personally chatted to, the gov are apparently writing random cheques as quickly as possible, which they cannot connect to any process or invoice (which they don't know if they can accept), for projects that are inexplicably 9 months over schedule. In regards to the being unable to load in a list of 2600 suppliers, the exact words were "the most insane, stupid ****show i've ever seen."

The customs system (SEW) cost 15M. It's a disaster. The immigration system was supposed to be on by now. Nothing.

This stuff is unbelievably easy to do - it's been implemented hundreds of times over elsewhere.

They owe $120M and can't pay it. They move 9 people, probably at $20-30k.

So they "saved" $200,000-ish on the books.

BahamasAir needs to be actually run as a real company, not a welfare program.

"a foreign design whose purpose was to literally and metaphorically situate the British governor high above the subjects he ruled."

It's amazing how this author repetitively cloaks his insufferable racism, across newspapers, in attempted respectable veneer.

It's always "poised", isn't it? The only thing Freeport has "distinguished" itself by, is in nosediving the most prosperous island into a living hell without any form of accountability.

Self-sustaining talent pool/workforce? It doesn't exist. They've all left, or are leaving. Economic stability? People can't eat.

So, Dumb & Dumber (Rolle & Newbold) are on yet *another* jolly to the US using GBPA as their luxury travel firm, almost certainly to achieve absolutely nothing for it. Newbold was publicly cursed out by the Freeport COC for being useless, and Rolle (Albert Miller's unqualified nephew), is hated island-wide for having "presided" over the inexcusable disintegration of the free trade area into a starving slum where the only businesses who manage to operate are extorted into handing over a % for these guy's unofficial portfolios (their "concierge" service, which functions to steal ideas and partnerships from local Bahamian businesspeople).

It beggars belief these people, who are either on a sabotage/takeover mission, or are so deluded it's impossible to differentiate the vanity from stupidity, continue to be employed to do this to Bahamians and attempt to glory in it with these illiterate media quotes.

Itelbpo are a solid Jamaican company with a great ethos, who suffer Freeport for the tax-dodging that sweetens their BTC support deal (who Dumb & Dumber unethically monopolised the top-up card business of- EMIDA Ltd, the BTC top-up software, is publicly registered to Rolle and his wife). On top, all those jobs for that call center had to go through the minister (family members etc).

There is no call center industry. Just like GIDC, Itelbpo located there to keep the BTC contract, and Rolle facilitated because him and his stooge abused their position to exclusively control licenses for BTC top-up (which requires call center support). They are simply promoting their own businesses - as they publicly do on Twitter - while Bahamians starve.

Fantastic company suffering with the usual workforce apathy, and xenophobic smearing from its rival. How they've managed it in a business climate like the Bahamas is anyone's guess.

There's no organised democracy i can think of which would allow the lack of an addressing system, total collapse of a postal system, and the deliberate obstruction of home delivery services (such as Amazon), and attempt to boast it plans to be a Silicon Valley, a renewable energy market, and a financial services powerhouse - but can't fix up putting a letter through a door.

Unfortunately Mr Davis, they settled there during the PLP years. It's a bit rich to criticize the FNM for not having a plan regarding something you allowed, and didn't plan for either.

"I think the word to use is gentrification."

No. That's the not-so-clever implication those fires and/or the government action are/were deliberate as part of a conspiracy. It's also a racially-loaded inferred slur.

And for goodness sake, knock it off with the xenophobia. Blaming "foreigners" for every little thing makes us look like a bunch of small-minded, immature village idiots.