Problem is that the Chief Rat ain't goin' to give us the opportunity to remove his cheese lovin' ass any time soon. By the time the Constitution forces his hand there may ( probably will be ) nothin' left. These are very serious times. It reminds me of the issues that gave rise to the Dissident Eight. Of course, even today, there may not even be eight with enough guts and conscience to break ranks. Two so far but....

Well_Mudda_Take_Sic : It is indeed passing strange, as you point out, that Winder has been cherry picked by these two, for the result that they wanted and got, and continue to want. In effect the Judiciary of the Bahamas is as corrupt as the Government. When does a criminal or other civil litigant get to choose their judge. I mean this is really the frigging end. And the other point people are missing is that this seems very much to be a Christie-Maynard-Gibson war. The only two persons who seem to have benefited significantly from transactions with Baha Mar. If the PLP House Members have even an ounce of guts and realize what is going on then they should send Dame Pindling a note to say that they have chosen a new leader and it is .....
We don't need an election we just need a few honest people to do the right thing.

Maybe Wilchcombe could lead a parliamentary coup and take over the government and get this situation back on track.

Comrade Tal is the epitome of this Yellow Peril Government !!!

Kamikaze Government !!! We will kill you, even if we die in the process.

One can only wonder if there is / has been any discussion of this topic in Cabinet. It would appear that Christie and Maynard Gibson have taken this on, on their own bat. Indeed not only Cabinet, but with such momentous consequences for the Bahamas and its people, one might have thought that non-partisan consideration might have been given to this situation in the House some time ago. Yes, even now. It is not too late however and Government could withdraw and encourage the Bahamar appeal for Bahamas Judicial Oversight of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy to go forward.

Banker: I don't think for a minute that CCA has the money itself to develop Hilton Pointe and with the tide changing in China's fortunes, they may decide that global expansionism is not really for them. Then we will have a tourism desert from Bay Street to Cable Beach. Has our government asked for any guarantee's on completion, I doubt it, they done got the private payouts so why should they care ? .

Those Patrons are all foreign - they don't count.

John Donne (1572-1631), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVII: Nunc Lento Sonitu Dicunt, Morieris:

"Perchance he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him; and perchance I may think myself so much better than I am, as that they who are about me, and see my state, may have caused it to toll for me, and I know not that.

The Rosewood Bell and all that is happening now is a death bell tolling for All of us in the Bahamas.

A Scottish client of mine speaking of a once very wealthy family, noted that the children had taken a small fortune and made it smaller. What the Bahamas Government has done is to cut more than fifty percent of the value of this project away. We can no longer refer to a 3.4 Billion Dollar property because it is now, ( if that even ) a 1.5 billion dollar project. The Bahamas Government would have difficulty raising that kind of money in the Capital Markets of the world and I doubt seriously than even the China Exim bank will put any more money up. So there it will sit. I think it could work as a new detention center though. Or an upgrade to the Defense force base. It has a nice dock as Tal keeps telling us. Freddy can assign rooms to the Haitian Refugees as they are brought in.

I guess Mr. Knox is staying at the Hilton, courtesy of CCA ???? Hope so !!!. Dim Sum for din dins !