What chance of fairness does any other resort on the island have when the Government establishes an official partnership with one foreign developer?

This is corruption, plain and simple. Everyone here in Bimini says that this Government has been bought by Resorts World, even die-hard PLP supporters.

They've been working every day that the weather has allowed...

Is anyone surprised that Resorts World has no respect for the Bahamian courts???

The idea of trusting Oil Companies and the Bahamian Government to directly translate crude oil into better hospitals and schools is perhaps the most insane suggestion in this whole discussion.

I wasn't the one stating that oil was "God's gift," you obviously missed the point. You also failed to comment on how dirty and destructive fossil fuels have been to the planet.

If God wanted us to use fossil fuels, why do you think he buried them hundreds of feet below the surface of the Earth, and made them so destructive to the planet?

This is a pointless discussion.
I just hope you live long enough to see what a stupid mistake this will be.

How about opening your doors to the multitudes of non-petroleum based businesses, investors, and innovators?

Like technology, agriculture, renewable energies, or dozens of others?

How about improving the tourism industry? Or actually collecting and enforcing the existing tax and Customs laws in this country?

To act like oil is the only way is inaccurate, emotional, and unsubstantiated.

You are obviously embracing a bizarre new trend in debates - Criticize the person you are arguing with of doing exactly what you yourself are doing.

It is NOT a fact the the Bahamas needs oil revenues, it's your opinion. Chasing oil revenues is looking backwards, The Bahamas should be looking forward.

The Bahamas is NOT in deep economic trouble without oil. That is your opinion. I'm sure the many business leaders and innovators in this country who are looking further ahead are embarrassed by your pessimism.

I don't think you know what you're talking about, but by what you're saying I would assume you have a personal stake in the oil industry.

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It's time to stop listening to oil companies who are trying to sell us an outdated, dirty, finite, and potentially catastrophic fuel source. There are smarter, better ways to make money and improve the standard of living in The Bahamas.

The idea of beginning to drill for oil in this day and age, when every major economy in the world is trying to move BEYOND fossil fuels, is pretty unbelievable.

Alaska's shorelines, wildlife, and residents are still seeing and feeling the effects of an oil spill that took place 25 years ago.

For the Bahamas to risk so much, for the sake of a finite supply of a product that is being phased out all around the world, is BEYOND stupid.

Best case scenario would be for Genting to move out of Bimini before the worst of their destruction is unleashed.

Everyone around Bimini seems to understand that their mega-resort will never be successful, so why do any more damage?