... the people who are now seething and weeping and gnashing their teeth and tearing out their hair could have organized at any time over the past 20 years to purchase Lighthouse Point and preserve it as a national park. There are numerous international conservation organizations who would happily have assisted them. But, nooooo ... nobody done nuthin’ ‘til The Mouse reared his ugly head. Where was all this concern over the past 2 decades?

... and how’d things work out for Crazy Horse?

Indeed. We could have bought Lighthouse Point three times over, just with the money that was dumped into the Grand Lucayan and will never be recovered. Then we would have had a lovely national park instead of a tumble-down “resort” that nobody wants to visit.

Well, Porcupine, if I’m being “paid off”, my check apparently got lost in the Postal Service. Gee, how do you suppose that happened? Because they don’t have a building and no longer deliver the mail?

It’s the same that happened with Lighthouse Point, it’s part of the national mindset: Never think ahead, never plan ahead, never worry about that “check engine” light on your dashboard until the engine blows up. Answer this: If we wanted Lighthouse Point to be a national park, why didn’t we buy it? We could have done so at *any* time over the past 20 years. Do you have any answers, or just more childish insults?

Well written ... but ... that property was on the market for about 20 years. At any point, the government could have stepped in, bought it, and preserved it as a national park. They didn’t. And now you’re blaming “rich foreigners” for ruining the land? “ThisIsOurs” is a terrific screen name — and Lighthouse Point easily could have been “ours” once again if the government gave even half a damn.

Oh yeah, true dat ... I’m just sayin’, lotsa crabs in dis here pot.

Uh ... Tal ... the most influential PLP business interests at South Eleuthera are also backing the Disney plan. Ain’t just the Red Shirts.

There is no hotel in that area. OEF proposed building a 100-unit hotel there.

Meantime him go study Englamish.

Please. You have to have a quiet-title function in order to establish legal ownership of real estate and secure the legal transfer of property. Without it, disputes over land just drag out in the courts forever, with no resolution (but a lotta lawyers get rich in the meantime.) Every civilized, law-based society has this function. If not, every homeowner in the United States and Canada would be fighting with the Cherokees and the Sioux over who actually owns their land.