I have respect for this lady, as I do all businesses at the top of their field. She may truly believe there is no problem hiring a foreign markering firm, because she is currently raking in a six figure salary; but what about the small man? The PR firms formed by the little man? I have heard from them and they are in complete shock. For them, this is monumental; the PLP are stealing the crumbs off their table, because they are not "white" Canadians. If you want a response Tribune, please look to them, before spouting off some nonsense from the millionaire with crocodile skin shoes.

My uncle said it well. He called the politicians of the Bahamas a bunch of nothings. I would add a bunch of nothings but thieves.

The reason they hardly use US companies in their deals, road paving etc, is because the US has implemented Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) Dodd-Frank Act. This act makes it illegal to engage in finders fees etc. I don't just want to pick on the PLP. Can you imagine the finder's fees the FNM received for the road construction and sale of BTC. Probably, twenty million or so in finder's fees are sitting in a Swiss bank account for FNM ministers. This has got to stop!

Here's how it works and the reason they use a foreign company. PLP spokesman contacts said company in Canada and says need to do promotional work and agrees on fee of 1 million 800 thousand dollars. Then, PLP spokesman informs Canadian company that shell company X must be paid a finder's fee of 2 million dollars for locating them or the deal is off. Canadian company agrees and invoices Bahamas Government 3 million 8 hundred thousand dollars. 2 million dollars is paid into shell company X and divided between select cabinet ministers.

I would like to say that I am a party neutral person. I do not hold any party line. However, this strongerbahamas idea is complete crap. It is purely using the people's money to campaign with and is in no way in the general public's interest. There should be a law on the books to prevent this. Any fool could have built the website for $20. It is of a very novice design and the information is bogus and simplistic, much of it all out lies. I can't believe the PLP has a chance in hell of winning the next election, but it apppears they do. The FNM lost their credibility when they boycotted Carnival. Any event that thousands of Bahamians attended should have been respected, accepted and praised by them. Their denial of carnival showed them to be arrogant and that they do not respect the voice and desires of Bahamians.

For these people, the amounts are too small to constitute corruption. They only classify 10 million plus as a bribe. Any thing in the couple hundred thousand range is merely a miscellaneous cost of doing business necessity.

I logged in just to up vote your comment. It is true, the parties in the Bahamas are nothing but cartels. No democracy in sight. Give me the rule of a monarch Queen any day over these tyrants. At least the Queen would have stamped out corruption and held these parties accountable. What the Bahamian people don't realize is that independence was a complete con. In actuality, all Bahamians lost their freedom on that fateful day, because they became the slaves of a few corrupt despots with 100 times less moral character than the Queen. Bahamians are slaves. Wake up Bahamas!

What I don't understand is the world's tallest building the Burj Khalifa was built at a cost of $1.5 billion. It has appeared in many blockbuster films and is a huge tourist attraction for Dubai. How is it Bahamar cost $3.5 billion and looks completely unremarkable. It doesn't add up!

@John I believe Izmirlian has shown himself to be a friend of the Bahamian people by not laying off his employees when things went south. I would much rather him in charge than the Chinese; heaven knows they probably would have fired everyone. The less we see of Chinese ownership in The Bahamas, the better IMO. They have shown themselves to be lacking by Western workmanship standards: childish, opportunistic and untrustworthy. I'll take the Yankee bumbilings of a young green amateur over their milateristic harshness any day of the week.

Anyway, y'all still gats ta pay VAT on all dat oil.