I have no problem with this private company. They have the right to get the best deal. It is our government that stinks worse than anything I have ever smelled before. I have a nose for corruption. The odor is terrible. Minnis has a terible terrible terrible odor.

The hardest part for me to swallow is just how painful 12% VAT has been (I mean FKing painful, tear your eyeballs out painful!!!) and then to see this fool just throw my blood sweat and tears into a China man's lap without a second thought.

It is now reported the deal will cost double - $124m. An obvious fraud on the Bahamian people. Blatant dishonesty and theft of VAT funds. Minnis is PLP 2.0.

Who doesn't want Disney. nobody!!! We all know what's happened in the past -- people stood in the way in hopes of getting a big pay day -- they protested until a 5 million dollar donation was made. The Disney purchase of Lighthouse Point is a no brainer!!! Could be anchor project to rejuvenate the entire economy of Eleuthera for decades to come. Disney is a game changer. Any place they move into raises realestate value everywhere around them. They are capitalist royalty!!! Anybody standing in the way of Disney should sit small. Mickey Mouse is a game changer and would benefit us all!!!

This deal is a complete fiasco!!! Minnis must go. Vote of no confidence. This deal could easily lead to a further downgrade. Minnis must resign. he must go!!!

And whatever happened to full disclosure of the Baha Mar deal that Minnis promised to unseal? How do we know that part of that deal was not the requirement that the Bahamas "post haste" join the WTO, so China has even more leverage over us. How do we know the Lucayan Hotel purchase is not also a requirement included in the Baha Mar deal? Without complete transparency, there cannot be accountability and without accountability there is corruption!

Re Sickened Minnis ran on a platform of completely and radically changing the status quo of corrupt majority rule politics of zero accountability and transparency in the Bahamas. Because of the radical platform he ran on, a contract he signed with the Bahamian people, he should be held (and is held) to a much much much higher standard than previous Bahamian Governments. His continuation of the status quo of zero transparency is in my books, therefore, corruption. His refusal to speedily pass basic laws such as the freedom of information act and make public audits of Bahamian companies (that we paid for) as well as not prosecuting the robber barons of BOB is corruption. Now, if we add to this the purchase of the Lucayan Hotel, Oban and BPL, we're taking it to an entire new level of corruption. The end result and sum may be one of the most corrupt regimes this nation has ever seen.

This hotel purchase can only be, generously, described as an act of gross negligence and incompetence or an act of devious fraud and corruption. Two wrongs don't make a right. Just because Grand Bahama's economy is hurting does not give the FNM the right to make a bad deal with zero negotiation, due dilligence, business plan and financial impact analysis. Shame on the FNM. These are business men. They wouldn't do this deal to their own children, why do it to us.

Minnis is so bad, he causing me to rap
Oh God, not another four years of this crap
The PLP seemed crooked as lightning
So we hired you to bring in the sunshine
You promised us freedom of information
But all we've received is contamination
Your name should be Muddle not Minnis
You're in a one horse race and still can't win it
But worse than that, you treating us like
We too dumb to ride a bike
Bahamians ain't retarded like you
Just cause you're slow don't think we are too
In closing I'll say what makes me saddest of all
Not this hotel deal that could ruin us all
But that you come across as so corrupt
Worse than Shane, Davis and Vomit
I wouldn't do a deal with you
If I had one dollar and you gave me two
I think it's time you change, this is a reminder
Or it'll be our time to kick your a_ _ to China.

ReThisISOurs Great point. The honest truth is people that already have their millions don't care what happens to the rest of us. Also, they don't believe in black Bahamians or any Bahamians for that matter. Trusts and security law is not that difficult to learn. The main missing ingredient is personal connections and contacts with players in the international markets. It also helps to be English and have an English accent. It's a very elitist bunch that practice in this area and highly unlikely that any work would trickle down to "ordinary" Bahamian lawyers. The Bahamas is finished in financial services. Time to bury the corpse and move on. Stop crying over spilled milk. With the removal of bank secrecy our era in financial services came to an end!