With all due respect, my guess is that many of these people would hire Bahamians, if......
There is a major project going on on one Family Island and almost all the workers are foreign. The contractor is from here and knows his people. They don't want to work. Sorry, but our Bahamian work ethic has gone to shit. Period. Most every Bahamian I know prefers to hire the foreigners. At least they'll work. I have to be honest here. We have as many home grown bad apples as about any place on earth. Fact. We Bahamians wrote the laws. Why can't we enforce them?

Mr. Dames says,
“I have no confidence in any commission formed by the current government,” Mr Dames said. “They’re all a smokescreen.”
So, let's take this as true, for arguments sake. And, I confess, I fully agree.
Now, what could this smokescreen be covering up?
If anything at all, it should be a reason to ban them from office.
Unless, of course, they are skilled at confusing people and getting guilty people to be judged innocent.
Then what? Is this not what we have at present?
It almost seems as if they could be stealing millions, and nobody can say a thing.
If I didn't know better, I would say each and every one of them is in on it.
Poor, poor Bahamian people.
Our country stolen away from us by our own people, who we voted in, pay their salaries and continue to make excuses for, for the small crumbs that fall off their oversized plates..

Exactly right! Always someone else's fault.
It almost seems as if there are no adults in the room in this administration.

I wonder how many in this picture above can swim, or do snorkel our Bahamian reefs?
Is this about more than money?
The article doesn't seem to stress anything else.
As reported in The Tribune, "Builders Vision also partially underwrote the Bahamian government’s recent $300m debt-for-nature refinancing with a $79m “collateralised guarantee”..Please Tribune reporter Neil Hartnell, didn't you also ask exactly what is the "collateral" pledged? Should be a simple answer, yes? What did our "leaders" offer up as collateral. Certainly something that they did not own.
$300,000,000 debt-for-nature swap? in a country of 340,000 people?
Good thing Bahamians continue to trash education as we watch those who we voted in totally screw The People.
While there is nothing more important to this country than our God-given natural resources, it is astounding to watch how we treat these resources as a nation.
Clearly, there is little to no concern whatsoever on a national level, either by our people or by the clowns in government.
That we continue to populate our Fisheries and other environmental agencies with political ass-kissers, instead of demanding master's degrees in every appointment, only hastens our deliberate race to the bottom and a continuation of our stellar record of undeniable failure.
This is just another scheme (scam), which will do nothing for our people or our country.
Just wait and see.

Of course not.
And, it's not just the character of those on these sojourns, Any bit of due diligence by a potential investor would expose exactly how other investors have been treated here. Is it a wonder that we have mostly charlatans who come to The Bahamas to do business now? This is long in the making.

More sadly, if The Bahamas were to rout out and jail those found guilt of corruption, there would be nobody left to govern our people.
We have cultivated a population that gets dumber by the year.
And, from our population we expect better than what we have produced in this hapless and sordid government we call the Davis administration?
Unless we bring in foreigners to govern this country, we are finished.
So sad, but true.
Clearly, we cannot produce the needed people with the intellect and the morals needed to govern.
The Bahamians who are most competent and honest have, and will continue to, flee this country for better wages, better opportunities and to associate with people who are educated, honest and fair.
Just like Brave's daughter, and just like he will do when the shit hits the fan.

OJ was found to be innocent.

The honest truth is that the Bahamian people will continue to get squeezed and punished for the crimes of our so-called leaders.
Any educated person reading the national papers over the last 20 years can come to no other conclusion.
Every financial, economic, health, educational, environmental, and social indicator suggests the trend is to negative territory, and that the people will continue to punish.
We lack the transparency, the democratic values, the education, and the morality to overcome the challenges that are sure to rear their heads in the very, very near future.
Neither this present failed PLP administration, nor the historically ineffectual FNM party contain the leaders, real leaders. necessary to guide our country forward.
Were we to move our country away from the childish party loyalty and the nepotism which we seem to refuse to see the inherent danger of, there can be no forward, upward or onward motion in this nation.

Yes, some people still have the brains and balls to stand up for something.
Something we lost long ago.
We don't care.
We simply do not care.

Great article and excellent advice.
Thanks