> Those guys are trying so hard working on the clock. One generator breaks down, two broke down. And I see them working so feverishly trying but man, it’s not their fault. I got to see it for what it actually is this go around. The government has failed us with water and electricity over the 50 years and now we’re paying for it.

Ms Catalyn thinks "we're now paying for it", but wait until she has to start paying the outrageously exorbitant electricity rates that the insatiably greedy likes of Snake, Eric Pike, Anthony Ferguson and Stumpy PM Davis have in store for all of our nation's electricity consumers.

> ACP Knowles declined to delve into specifics about her plans. She told reporters her leadership would build on the foundations laid by outgoing Commissioner Clayton Fernander, saying: “We have a lot of work to do. We certainly will follow up what Mr Fernander has started with our organisation.”

LMAO

No independent investigative report into this matter will ever be undertaken and allowed to see the light of day by this most corrupt PLP government led by Davis. Stumpy Davis is hoping most of the D- educated among us will be content with Sweet Lips Fernander being made the "fall guy" with his lucrative pension, health and other benefits all fully intact for him to enjoy in his retirement years at great expense to us taxpayers.

Bahamasair should be likened to a national utility enterprise, much like bpl, btc, w&s, pmh, our seaports and airports, etc. All such national utility enterprises should be Bahamas government owned and operated on a non-profit basis as they are fully intended to serve the vital needs of the Bahamian people and the national security interests of our nation. But the incompetent leadership of successive corrupt governments over the past three or four decades have allowed wealthy private sector vultures to woo government officials with privatization schemes to transform these vital national utility enterprises into profit-making entities for mere pennies on the dollar of their true value.

And the transformation costs from non-profit to profit get socialized for Bahamian taxpayers and consumers to bear while the lion's share of the profits end up in the pockets of the greedy vultures. All of our national utility enterprises should be owned by government with the operation of each such enterprise farmed out to competent independent operators (selected on a transparent contract bidding basis) to be managed on a non-profit basis for a management fee based in large part on the ability to control costs and provide the reliable services intended for the Bahamian people. The term of such management contracts should never exceed 10 years with the Bahamian people having a means by which they can weigh in on whether the contract should be renewed or put out to bid.

Bingo!

You can instantly tell from the writing style that this article is the outcome of very heavy handed editing by lawyers of the kind The Tribune cannot afford. Nevertheless, shameless Neil Hartnell happily takes full credit for its content.

I suspect our current corrupt PLP government is unaware that the U.K. and U.S. legal teams representing the interests of Sarkis Izmirlian were likely able to obtain from sympathetic officials both Bahamas Immigration and Bahamas National Insurance records for the construction workers who worked on both the Baha Mar project and The Pointe complex, showing the exact dates and times they worked on these two developments.

These same high powered lawyers have also likely managed to get their hands on a treasure trove of emails evidencing the extent to which high ranking elected and other PLPL government officials (including certain members of our court system) were duplicitous in the scandalous efforts of the CCP to defraud Sarkis of his interests in the Baha Mar project.

As Sarkis ratchets up the pressure, Judge Borrok's ruling, and the preponderance of evidence laid before the U.S. courts to justify piercing the corporate veils that the Communist China State Construction Engineering Corp. has tried to hide behind, are on the verge of triggering explosive revelations regarding the full extent to which Vomit Christie, Wicked Witch Maynard-Gibson, Bag Man Bethel, and others like them, were involved for self-gain in the swindling of mega millions of dollars from the Izmirlian family.

As the saying goes, let the chips fall where they may in the hope that those who have committed serious crimes are made to pay one way or another, no matter what they may say about their health and frailty today.

> “Owing to the vast volume of business conducted for international clients, and The Bahamas’ openness as an international transshipment hub, the country is exposed to inherently high cross-border money laundering risks. The more vulnerable sectors are those which are internationally oriented and cash-intensive on the domestic level."

**Translation:** The Bahamas, as a small nation mired in unsustainable debt, with pervasive bribery and a corrupt ruling political class, is unsupportive of full enforcement of existing anti-money laundering laws for the very same reasons that it is against the introduction of a meaningful Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and election campaign finance reform. But why should any of this stop our nation and many of its more corrupt politicians from being engaged in lucrative offshore financial centre activities that are conducive to money laundering activities?

> “These [more vulnerable sectors] include retail and private banks, trust companies, credit unions, money transmission providers, financial corporate service providers, securities firms [such as administrators and brokers], casinos and gaming house operators.”

**Translation:** The domestic gaming houses, online gaming operations and real estate enterprises run by the corrupt scumbag likes of Sebas Bastian remain a real problem for how global financial regulators perceive the vulnerability of financial institutions domiciled in The Bahamas like banks, insurance companies, investment funds, foundations, etc., to money laundering activities, whether they be domestic or foreign owned. But scumbags like Sebas, just like many of our more corrupt politicians, deserve to make a living too!

> “The bulk of The Bahamas’ exposure to money laundering risks arises from predicate offences initiated overseas. The Bahamas is not known for the financing of terrorism and there have been no reports of domestic terrorist incidents."

**Translation:** The Bahamas has a perfectly good **lame** excuse for not having done so much more to combat money laundering over the years and so what if our small nation is truly clueless as the extent such illicit activities have contributed to terrorist acts elsewhere in the world.

>“The Bahamas, as an international transshipment hub and financial centre, is a potential transit point for illicit drugs and smuggling of migrants and firearms. Therefore, The Bahamas has an important part to play in the global effort against money laundering.”

**Translation:** The Bahamas is a victim of its geographic location and can only afford to adopt laws requested by the international community, but not enforce them. To enforce them would leave no money to flow into the pockets of our corrupt politicians and other senior government officials or, worse still, might expose them for being the thieves that they are.

My oh my.

The Cubans looked to the Soviet Union to protect them and we all know how that ended. Therefore your suggestion that we, the Bahamian people, should look to the PRC (Communist China) to protect us from the many transgressions our political leaders have committed against the U.S.A. is really quite laughable. Forgive me ChiCom robo-troller, but you have yet again proven just how poorly programmed you are.

Town Planning did the right thing for once by rejecting this ridiculous project that is so totally unsuitable to the area for many reasons. Then along comes corrupt Chester the Jester to persuade the appeals board to overrule and undermine Town Planning's sensible decision to reject this absurd project.

This yapping white-haired poodle refuses to accept that he has been politically neutered. Jibrilu wants him back, but that ain't ever gonna happen. LOL