Why is it that he owes $863k to AML foods in the first place?

So they are selling shares to foreigners before offering shares to Bahamians. Terrible, won’t be drinking sands anymore.

The writer of this letter is woefully misinformed, the commercial export of conch was banned in January 2021.

Mr. Smith’s project is less Bahamian than RCL’s! How many Bahamians will have an equity ownership in his project (10 at most?) vs the thousands of Bahamians that will have equity ownership in RCL’s project? Toby wants Bahamian crown land, will he give the Bahamian govt an equity ownership in his project as compensation like RCL is doing? RCL’s project is a much better opportunity for Bahamians to share in the wealth creation of the Bahamas than Mr. Smith’s project which is only for a select few!

Yes they did, from ewnews: Royal Caribbean on Sunday outlined its environmental plans for its beach club development at Paradise Island, which it claims will be a 100 percent renewable energy development by the year 2030. The company said in a statement that the six key components of its environmental plan for the beach club development are zero waste-to-landfill, renewable energy, wastewater treatment, protecting and enhancing the surrounding habitats, and environmental monitoring.

The company projected that the development will contribute zero waste to the New Providence landfill.

RCL has said in several weeks they will address these questions :

“Now that we have that agreement I’m hoping that in the next couple of weeks we’ll respond to each of the initial questions related to the first hearing as part of a 50-page extensive report.... You’ll see additional details on certain questions related to solid waste and waste water,” Mr Schneider added.

They already treat waste water on site on Coco Cay so they have experience. Regulators and environmentalists need to hold RCL to all these commitments.

Quite melodramatic, and this doomsday forecast is based on what? RCL has a vested financial interest as does the government and Bahamian citizen equity owners to see to it that this does not happen. Thank goodness government is moving forward with this project as forecast (100% renewable energy, zero landfill waste and 100% on-site waste water treatment) and not listen to all these chicken littles.

Gonsalves was spot on in his assessment. While crime is a multi dimensional problem and a failure on many fronts, chief among them is a disfunctional Bahamian judiciary. How many times do we see a person on bail charged with another violent crime before the courts and granted bail again? I wonder if these judges live in the Bahamas, they seem to have little sensitivity for the safety of the Bahamian people. Then at the same time they hand out draconian sentences for the most menial offenses and give a slap on the wrist to our most violent offenders. We need a massive overhaul of our judiciary.

Can Minnis just retire? His tenure was disastrous for the FNM and the Bahamian people. Two of his MPs facing scandalous charges. Just move on and shut up, he had his time, time for new blood.

Enjoy the breadcrumbs… says it all. Hate to see the masses of Bahamians share in the wealth creation of this country? We will take the breadcrumbs , at least it will be honest.