These are sexist remarks.

Total garbage.

So why are the vast majority of Bahamians going to remain impoverished? So why are our country's budget deficits now totally out of control?

So how much more raping, pillaging and plundering by the cruise line industry of our most valuable national assets must the struggling Bahamian people be made to endure because of the unjust enrichment of corrupt politicians like Chester the Chester and his favoured cronies?!!

This is not a matter for the already overburdened Bahamian taxpayers. Dion Bethell needs to be told in no uncertain terms that the private owners of the Arawak Port Development Company will have to come up with their own solution to fixing this problem at their own cost even if it means their government guaranteed 10% rate of return on their investment must be greatly reduced to a lower rate for a period of time.

Dion also needs to sharpen his pencil when it comes to reducing the APDC's operating costs, especially those that greatly enhance the rate of return for certain private stakeholders in the APDC's operations.

It is unreasonable to expect the taxpayers of our nation to absorb the costs associated with ever larger container ships that greatly enhance the APDC's profits with no appreciable benefit being passed on to all Bahamians by way of lower freight charges.

ditto that

Yet Rhianna Neely is not inclined or able to explain why these rocket booster recoveries have been banned along the coast lines of California and Florida by environmental authorities in those two states. She should be summarily sacked for betraying the statutory duties of her office and for her callous and uncaring disregard of the health of the Bahamian people.

Still can’t help but wonder why Eric Carey failed to vociferously speak out against this blatantly corrupt monopolistic deal when it was supposedly first conceived in 2022. Davis’s pretense that this most corrupt deal was justified by government's concern for the marine environment around the Exumas is truly laughable given that his government has never been the least bit concerned about all of the pollution the cruise ship industry has been spewing into our environment for decades.

And now both Davis and the extremely corrupt Chester the Jester have added Elon Musk's rocket boosters to the toxic cocktail mix of pollutants being spewed into our territorial seas and the air we breathe, all the while telling us and the rest of the world that their PLP government is a big proponent of the Green New Deal and efforts to stop climate change.

Davis had to rescind this monopolistic lease over Crown Land seabed areas commonly used for sea vessel anchorage or moorings around the Exumas because it was outrightly illegal to say the least. Furthermore, why should a group of his favoured cronies be entitled to greatly enrich themselves from such a monopoly?!

And let's not forget that the very corrupt and greedy Tony Ferguson takes a big cut of the profits generated by these corrupt Private-Public-Partnerships (PPPs) that he engineers and then cons Davis to approve. Tony sets himself up using many entities under his ownership and/or control to charge these PPPs with layer upon layer of management, administration, and custody fees of every kind imaginable that he and his insatiably greedy partners end up pocketing with no opportunity for anyone else to participate in the economic benefits of the people's property.

Bluntly put, Davis must stop listening to Tony Ferguson and the corrupt PPP schemes that he cooks up to unjustly enrich himself and his insatiably greedy cohorts. And government should have never given Tony absolute control over the people’s assets placed in the Sovereign Wealth Fund that he created for the purpose of feeding all kinds of hefty fees from these PPPs to his financial services entities.

This guy Tony even has the temerity to boast about the instrumental role he is playing in helping the insatiably greedy Snake and his band of marauders gain monopolistic power and control over our nation’s entire energy sector for mere pennies on the dollar of its true value to the Bahamian people, and with no regard to the exorbitant electricity bills that will follow for all consumers of electricity, not to mention the national security interests involved in granting such a monopoly to a group headed by the greedy likes of Snake.

I only had to see Tony Ferguson's name and the term Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) in The Tribune’s articles on this Bahamas Mooring subject to conclude that something very underhanded and illegal had happened here.

The three directors of Levant Advisors, namely Tony Ferguson, Antoine Bastian, and Prescott Adderley, bogusly claim on the Levant’s website that this newly formed firm manages and administers assets for their clients totalling over $3 billion. Tony Ferguson prides himself on his ability to con less financially literate individuals into thinking he is some kind of financial guru when in fact he is nothing more than a conniving scoundrel who is always looking to unjustly enrich himself by any deceitful and devious means possible. He is frankly an embarrassment to many other holders of the CFA designation in our community.

Tony has perfected the art of ingratiating himself with persons who share his great lust for power and wealth and who are willing to turn a blind eye to very real conflicts of interest and shady deal-making of the worst possible kind. These persons include our PM, Snake, and his Greek master who controls the Colina group of companies.

Hopefully Neil Hartnell will continue to vigorously follow-up on his investigations into the web of corruption behind this Bahamas Mooring scheme involving illegal activities of the greediest kind that were apparently stealthily born in the Office of The PM with the PM's full knowledge as a willing participant.

Our PM really needs to stop listening to Tony Ferguson and all of his corrupt schemes about how "government can PPP this and then PPP that" with Tony leading Davis around like a lost poodle on a leash. In foolishly listening to Tony's corrupt schemes, Davis now finds himself guilty of having wrongfully attempted to authorize seabed leases of Crown property in a monopolistic transaction that would have unjustly enriched his favoured cronies. That's patently wrong and reeks of corruption of the worst possible kind.

And Davis should have never sought to mischievously justify his wrongful (frankly, illegal) actions on this matter by using the pretense of environmental concerns. Such concerns lack even the slightest air of legitimacy given has great lack of concern about the pollution being spewed in our environment by the cruise ships and now toxic rocket boosters.

i.e. the return to earth of environmentally toxic rocket boosters that California and Florida have now banned from there coastal areas.

> FREE National Movement leader Michael Pintard said an administration he leads would not let rehired retirees “double dip” by receiving a pension and a salary and would publicise the re-engagement of any retiree, providing information about the duration of their contracts and the position they will fill.

>“This transparency measure will slam the door on backroom deals,” he said.

Typical Pintard. He says absolutely nothing about what he would do to prevent the need for such re-hirings in the first place, thereby giving younger qualified Bahamians an opportunity to assume the positions previously held by retirees. It almost sounds as if Pintard holds the view that our public education system is no longer able to provide Bahamians with the basic education needed to move through the ranks of the civil workforce to fill the more senior positions vacated by retirees. If that's true, he should tell us what, if anything, he intends to do about it if the FNM wins the next general election. We don't need lip service from Pintard followed by more of the same.

The double-dipping of rehired-retirees is a red herring to the more serious problems that need to be addressed to put an end to the need to rehire retirees in the first place. Put your thinking cap on Pintard. Talk alone is cheap!