For clarification.
The right to detain is based on more than mere suspicion. There must be reasonable cause. The word "reasonable" is a legal term and is not as easy as most people interpret it.

Read the paper put out by the Ministry of Finance. It sets out what they have spent so far and that the balance is by way of mortgage.

A good start! Keep it up.

Whoever negotiated on behalf of the Government should be named and shamed.

Didn't Disney say that they would not hurt the environment? How could they say that when they didn't even know. Now they say that they will do an EIA?

How could Government approve this without the EIA????

And you can be sure no Economic Impact study has been done either.

I agree.

Why are we not taxing them?

I seriously doubt that Bahamians will be able to get anything other than a few "servant" type jobs. Look who will own the land and control the operation. Look who will require liability insurance, in a sum few Bahamians can afford, in order to do business.

Look at who will be able to set the rent rates. Often rent has a base and then a percentage of turnover, not profits, turnover. Bahamian entrepreneurs will have a very tough time.

This is for waiters, bar tenders, waitresses, and some maintenance workers. All the real money will go to Disney.

Bahamians will get the scarps, nothing more.

Good points but let's see if the Government got the integrity to do it.

I agree. We should do a forensic audit of VAT from day one to now.
We have paid well over a Billion Dollars in VAT so far.

Insted of limiting the number of permits, try upping the education standards in our schools.
Make it clear that we, as Bahamians, are not entitled to a job, just because we are Bahamians, but have to show that we are prepared to work.

We must get rid of this attitude that our mediocrity will be protected by government. That is what is killing our economy.

Look to Cayman and Turks & Caicos to see how a more open immigration policy has reduced the unemployment to less than one third of ours.