It's called the debt trap my friend, and the ChiCom's have mastered the art of insidiously setting it to perfection in order to control smaller nations like ours.

You're certainly living proof of the effectiveness of the propaganda the sinister and evil ChiComs have been spewing throughout our nation since 1992. Next you will be telling us 85% of our tourists come from Communist China and not North America.

The CCP is good at building sports stadiums and making other token gestures to small nations like ours while seeking employment opportunities for their own people in the construction industry and doing whatever they can to create a debt trap.

Open your eyes my friend. Yes, US foreign policy can leave a bad taste in your mouth but that's not nearly as bad as what the ChiComs have planned for all of us.

This is communism manifesting itself in its worst possible form because of the insidious control the sinister and evil CCP now has over our most senior elected government officials who have been corrupted to their very core by the ChiComs.

Meanwhile, many of the wealthy members in our elitist ruling political class are living in enormous mansions that perhaps should be taken away from them and converted into rent-controlled properties to meet the affordable housing needs of the most needy within the impoverished masses they created through their insatiable greed, incompetence and blatant corruption spanning many decades.

This kind of grotesque surveillance activity is what the CCP does to its own people in Communist China and what ChiCom controlled government officials of other nations are encouraged to do to their own citizenry. A society in which the people are coerced or financially rewarded to spy on each other is a 'dead' society.

> “My biggest concern as a Freeporter is that we have sold our soul to the cruise ship industry,” he {Kirk Antoni} said. “Everywhere you go in the Bahamas now, cruise ships have an island or two. And pretty soon in Freeport, the way the talk is, we will probably have three. Celebration Key with Carnival, Xanadu Beach with RCL, and if the sip sip is true, we will have MSC; the new Grand Lucayan wants to knock down the Memories and turn into a water slide theme park.

>“So, you will have lot of cruise ship passengers roaming up and down the beaches, but guess where all the money goes right back to? The cruise ships. All we get is the passenger tax, which is about $40.”

Yup, Mr. Antoni is spot on correct.

Like their equally corrupt predecessors, both Chester the Jester and Stumpy Davis have been greatly enriched by the owners and operators of the cruise ships they have allowed to continue polluting our environment while contributing so very little to our domestic economy. Truly a sad state of affairs that has caused severe poverty to flourish throughout our country, but especially in Grand Bahama.

OMG! These are the same ChiComs who GAVE our planet the COVID epidemic funded with King Fauci's financial support through the US NHA and now they want to come to our country to TAKE our eye-sight or the eye-sight of one of our loved ones. Both Slo Mo Sears and Dim Wit Darville really need to have their own eyes fixed.

You sound like one of those lighter-skinned Bahamians who is always inclined to bring up the subject of racism because you're uncomfortable living in your own skin. If you do have discomfort from not being white enough or black enough, then perhaps you should seek some professional help.

You're clearly a meathead who's happy to have our corrupt ruling political elite pass more infuriatingly meaningless laws to fix a national mental health crisis that they themselves created in the first place. Just think about that the next time you are about to cast your vote for either the PLP or FNM candidate running for elected office in your constituency.

And pray tell, what happens to the poor property owner who is not possessed of the great wealth needed to tell Always Angry Simple Simon at Inland Revenue where he can just shove it?!

LMAO. Apparently even The Tribune's Chief Business Editor Neil Hartnell refused to associate his name with these most untruthful utterances by the very lame-brained Halkitis.