Izmirlian got royally ripped off and you're trying to justify all the wrong done to him by the last Christie government by saying his pockets were not deep enough. I guess you think the very sinister and evil Chinese Communist Party deserves to own The Bahamas because it has in your warped mind deep enough pockets. You are so loaded with the smelliest kind of BS that it can all too easily be seen oozing out of your ears.

Government has yet to impose significant financial penalties on Snake's Focol/Shell enterprises for all the damage done as a result of the many illegal acts committed that contributed to the major diesel oil spill by a ship along the Exuma shoreline.

The very incompetent and Slo Mo Sears makes any and everything he gets involved with so much more worse. He really needs to do us all a favour and just pack his bags and leave active politics.

Thanks to you and your kind Davis, The Bahamas has become well known around the world as the Nigeria of the West indian/Caribbean region.

Spot on! His own words deservedly come back at him like a boomerang to whack him but good on his fat head.

A pitiful effort by Davis to distract and deflect from the SBF/FTX and Baha Mar debacles that now weigh heavily on the legitimacy of the PLP as a political party and the corrupt government Davis leads as a puppet at the behest of the Chinese Communist Party as his master puppeteers.

The following lengthy posting to this website by @Reality_Check back on July 20, 2015 is proving to have been spot on:

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"None other than our State Minister for Legal Affairs, Damian Gomez aka the Minion, states to the Tribune: "We're moving forward to secure a liquidator,....once that's done it's in his {Sarkis Izmirlian} interest to strike a deal as soon as possible otherwise creditors will take over and the restructuring will not be to his liking."

This is tantamount to a public admission that by filing an application for the liquidation of Baha Mar, the Christie-led PLP government is seeking to force Baha Mar and the Izmirlian family to accept whatever unfair terms are put to them by both the Chinese general contractor (CCA) and the Chinese Export Import Bank. In a liquidation supervised by the Supreme Court of The Bahamas, the shots are called by the largest admitted creditors which would be the two aforementioned Chinese stakeholders.

In other words, notwithstanding the appointment of one or more "neutral" liquidators acceptable to the largest creditors, the Chinese stakeholders would be, for all intents and purposes, firmly in the driving seat of the entire liquidation process. This seems to be precisely what the Christie-led PLP government wants to happen notwithstanding that Baha Mar (and the Izmirlian family through Baha Mar) have already found it necessary to seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware as a result of the severity of its grievances with the Chinese stakeholders, which grievances are the subject of very weighty legal claims that have already been asserted and are now before the High Court in the U.K.

By all appearances, our Christie-led PLP government is wrongfully in bed with the Chinese stakeholders to unjustly wrest control and possession of the Baha Mar project away from the rightful principal developer of the project (Sarkis Izmirlian). It would be a travesty of monumental proportion for the Bahamas and the Bahamian people if the Delaware court (judge) permitted the Christie-led PLP government to effectively nationalize the Baha Mar property for the benefit of the Chinese stakeholders by abuse of due process.

The Christie-led PLP government is notorious for its willingness to wrongfully "lean" on matters before our Supreme Court in an effort to affect a desired outcome.

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Leslie Bethel and his father Baltron "Bag Man" Bethel were the beneficiaries of significant illegal payments made by CCA for the material role they played in helping the China Export-Import Bank and others wrest control of the Baha Mar Project from Izmirlian thereby causing him great financial harm.

And let's not forget the generous retail floor space leases for jewellery shops at Baha Mar received by Allyson Maynard-Gibson in partnership with members of the owners of John Bull and the overly-generous pool construction and other contracts CCA and the China Export-Import Bank awarded Perry Christie's son.

Government officials who take bribes and/or otherwise abuse their public office for financial self-gain and the gain of their family members should be subject to not only severe civil penalties, but also harsh criminal penalties.

Complex equipment in the hands of D- educated dummies will always be a sure fire recipe for disaster.

And, as if Bahamians being without affordable and reliable electricity wasn't bad enough, our corrupt and incompetent political ruling class have moved on to making sure many Bahamians no longer have an affordable and reliable supply of water and food.