The greatest hope we can possibly have is for the passing of a Freedom Of Information Act which would allow the FBI and Scotland Yard to come in, find and prosecute **ALL** the surviving crooks and criminals that have kept our country and people in bondage since piracy and return all that rightfully belongs to the people!
Short of this happening we are doomed to continue down the road to failure.
The Bahamas is blindly rushing into open borders with the highly contaminated U.S. using the need for tourist dollars as our reasoning when the EU is doing the exact opposite based on epidemiological criteria!
If the situation were reversed with the U.S. having COVID under control and the Bahamas being the one with the problem, without question uncle Donald Trump wouldn't allow Bahamians to even enter the U.S. embassy on Queen Street, let alone entering the united states!
The Bahamas should bite the bullet and follow epidemiologically defined guidelines and not allow Americans to enter the country until it is safe to do so.
In the meantime, the government should make our destination more attractive by leading the way by lowering tourism-related taxes and encourage airlines and hotels to take a hit by lowering rates for travelers from approved countries. Local tour companies should also be asked to lower rates to attract more visitors to spend locally.
We need to think out of the box and aim for **"volume heads in beds"!**
Alternatively, if we allow the Americans in at this time our country WILL become overwhelmed with tourists transmitted COVID-19. We will be forced to shut, & lockdown again, and lose all tourists from everywhere.
It makes more sense to have fewer tourists on sustainable bases than many tourists for a short time, only to lose any gains with inevitable shutdowns.
This is all elementary. A simple look at rates in Jamaica, Haiti and other countries and it becomes glaringly obvious that Bahamians are being slaughtered, raped, and mugged, by BTC, Cable Bahamas and Alive!
Canadian banks also get away with massive thief by being allowed to charge a whopping 10% rate of interest on COVID-19 loan deferrals in the Bahamas when the same services are offered in Canada and the U.S. for under 2% rate of interest!
The unsurprising thing is successive governments went along with this pillaging of there "beloved people" for decades.
Disgraceful acts of wonton piracy sanctioned by our loving government!
Excellent! However, the really most unfortunate thing out of all of this is that Sarkis is but one of many individuals living in the Bahamas with the genuine love of our people and financial ability to assist in the development of our country in meaningful ways, only to be Shanghied out of his development by the Chinese supported by Perry Christie's PLP group of pirates!
Sarkis's sour experience attempting to doing business in the Bahamas will have a reiterating effect on other potential wealthy residents why they feel continuously feel insecure in investing in our country which many call "home".
Perry Christie, and the PLP must be made to face justice on an internationally acceptable level if we are to regain the confidence of the multitude of people like Sarkis living here with multibillion dollar development potential.
if found guilty of wrongdoing, Perry Christie, crooked Bahamian lawyers, CCA, the PLP, and any other characters in this travesty must face penalties commensurate with international standards so the Bahamas can openly and freely claim a status of jurisdictional justice and fair play!
This does not pass the smell test. We cannot be stupid enough to fall for yet another land grabbing snake oil developer.
Regardless of how much money Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong is supposedly worth, why would we be stupid enough to give him 500,000 acres without any proof of capability to actually produce anything? Does he have any experience in the aragonite business? Why **give**him anything at all? If he has so many billions, why doesn't he simply buy what he wants?
This FNM government like Ingraham and Christie governments will also get swing by the usual crooked Bahamian lawyers and this billionaire. These people will promise heaven and earth to the Bahamas and as soon as the "toothless" heads of agreement are signed their project will drastically change and they too will disappear just like all the rest WITH the people's land!
Firstly, if we are stupid enough to entertain this nonsense, the government must be prudent enough to put clawback and proper escape clauses in the heads of agreement so this man has to produce per the heads of agreement. Secondly, any property should only be granted as needed for phased developments.
*Bahamianson* analogy of local racism is a classic white Bahamian racist copout. His statement of "majority Black hatred against Whites here in the Bahamas" is 100% pure fictional fallacy that he cannot remotely begin to substantiate!
Racist white Bahamians cannot get over the fact they lost power to majority rule the same as racist white Americans cannot get over the fact they lost the Confederacy and the slave trade.
Identifying white Bahamian racist is always easy as they immediately try to justify their racism against black Bahamians by claiming black Bahamians hate Haitians. Why the hell would white Bahamians care if black Bahamians hated Haitians anyway? What is this strong bond between white Bahamians and Haitians that makes white Bahamians favor a foreign black Haitian to a black Bahamian citizen?
The first obvious observation is when dealing with white Bahamians the Haitian "knows his place". He will never question or stand up to "massah boss", and will always be happy, and subservient to the white Bahamian.
To quash another white Bahamian fallacy, black Bahamians do not hate Haitians as a people. However, black Bahamians absolutely do hate the multitude of socio-economic havoc Haitians are causing for black Bahamians.
White Bahamians are totally oblivious to, and not in the least affected by illegal Haitian migration supported by legal Haitians that erodes opportunities for black Bahamians for business opportunities, jobs, children's education, health care, and desperately needed social services. White Bahamians are also 100% insulated by Haitians stealing their family names to forge NIB identifications, birth certificates, passports, U.S. visas, etc'.
If 1 million Haitians migrated to the Bahamas today, white Bahamians would not be the least bit affected. Alternatively, black Bahamians would be 100% annihilated! Black Bahamians need for their very existence gives them every reason to be xenophobic of Haitians.
Regarding the idea that a "lot of rich Black hatred of so-called "Poor Blacks". The Bahamas is very guilty of the phenomenon known as "class discrimination", also known as classism, which is prejudice or discrimination on the basis of social class.
White Bahamians lost "visible" political power, however, they maintain a tight grip on financial power and still control the country from behind the scenes. The descendants of the same white families that controlled the country prior to majority rule, still control the country today!
Don't be mislead by all the noise in the market place. Brutality against black people was condoned prior to, and from the inception of the Justice Department in 1782. Police and slave owners murdered blacks with impunity for hundreds of years. The Justice Department cannot escape culpability for the major role it played in facilitating 1000's of murders by cops and white people!
After 400 years of horrific systemic racism, the only surprising question is why didn't American blacks rise up and turn to terrorism as virtually every other ethnic group has done worldwide in their fight for equality?
The answer may be owing to the fact that whites savagely massacred and rooted out any black slaves with the smallest iota of rebellion publically. The surviving slaves taught their children what to say and how to act to avoid brutality and murder from white slave owners.
The well known ongoing culture of American black parents teaching children how to avoid being murdered by white police today is a carryover from 100's of years of whites murdering blacks for frivolous reasons with impunity.
George Floyds' brutal public murder by white cops may have been the straw that broke the camels back!
OMG, people still "going" to Florida to shop? Even Americans have been doing all their shopping online for many years. I haven't been to Florida in over 10 years, and have absolutely no intension of going anytime in the foreseeable future!
Blah, blah, blah, blah blah. Testing before allowing people to travel here should never have been a question in the first place!
In addition to all this COVID-19 travel talk, the Bahamas needs to urgently figure out why our destination and people are off the charts when it comes to friendliness with tourists!
One common thread with the "Friendliest Caribbean islands" article is the people are very proud of their country. How could Bahamians be proud of their country when successive governments have facilitated "other nationals" in dominating entire sectors of the economy?
We have been lead on a path to self-destruction for so long that neither political party has the consciousness of mind and the wherewithal to even begin recognizing the danger!
This is so stupid I couldn't believe it. Sandyport restaurants were exactly like what we saw at Arawak Cay and consistent throughout the Island over the weekend.
If health officials found the behavior of Arawak Cay, Sandyport, and elsewhere “disturbing”, they should have immediately demanded the closure of these entities!
Judging from the comments and actions of people, they do not take COVID-19 seriously. Obviously, we do not want a virus resurgence as is happening now in the U.S.
The government needs to make sure people obey the social distancing and mask-wearing protocols or shut down businesses that do not make patrons comply!
SP says...
The greatest hope we can possibly have is for the passing of a Freedom Of Information Act which would allow the FBI and Scotland Yard to come in, find and prosecute **ALL** the surviving crooks and criminals that have kept our country and people in bondage since piracy and return all that rightfully belongs to the people!
Short of this happening we are doomed to continue down the road to failure.
On THE BIG QUESTION: Independence and your hopes for the nation
Posted 1 July 2020, 7:14 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
The Bahamas is blindly rushing into open borders with the highly contaminated U.S. using the need for tourist dollars as our reasoning when the EU is doing the exact opposite based on epidemiological criteria!
https://news.yahoo.com/americans-not-we…
If the situation were reversed with the U.S. having COVID under control and the Bahamas being the one with the problem, without question uncle Donald Trump wouldn't allow Bahamians to even enter the U.S. embassy on Queen Street, let alone entering the united states!
The Bahamas should bite the bullet and follow epidemiologically defined guidelines and not allow Americans to enter the country until it is safe to do so.
In the meantime, the government should make our destination more attractive by leading the way by lowering tourism-related taxes and encourage airlines and hotels to take a hit by lowering rates for travelers from approved countries. Local tour companies should also be asked to lower rates to attract more visitors to spend locally.
We need to think out of the box and aim for **"volume heads in beds"!**
Alternatively, if we allow the Americans in at this time our country WILL become overwhelmed with tourists transmitted COVID-19. We will be forced to shut, & lockdown again, and lose all tourists from everywhere.
It makes more sense to have fewer tourists on sustainable bases than many tourists for a short time, only to lose any gains with inevitable shutdowns.
On Atlantis delays opening to July 30
Posted 30 June 2020, 5:58 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
This is all elementary. A simple look at rates in Jamaica, Haiti and other countries and it becomes glaringly obvious that Bahamians are being slaughtered, raped, and mugged, by BTC, Cable Bahamas and Alive!
Canadian banks also get away with massive thief by being allowed to charge a whopping 10% rate of interest on COVID-19 loan deferrals in the Bahamas when the same services are offered in Canada and the U.S. for under 2% rate of interest!
The unsurprising thing is successive governments went along with this pillaging of there "beloved people" for decades.
Disgraceful acts of wonton piracy sanctioned by our loving government!
On BTC, Cable fees '150 times' more' than US access
Posted 25 June 2020, 9:11 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Excellent! However, the really most unfortunate thing out of all of this is that Sarkis is but one of many individuals living in the Bahamas with the genuine love of our people and financial ability to assist in the development of our country in meaningful ways, only to be Shanghied out of his development by the Chinese supported by Perry Christie's PLP group of pirates!
Sarkis's sour experience attempting to doing business in the Bahamas will have a reiterating effect on other potential wealthy residents why they feel continuously feel insecure in investing in our country which many call "home".
Perry Christie, and the PLP must be made to face justice on an internationally acceptable level if we are to regain the confidence of the multitude of people like Sarkis living here with multibillion dollar development potential.
if found guilty of wrongdoing, Perry Christie, crooked Bahamian lawyers, CCA, the PLP, and any other characters in this travesty must face penalties commensurate with international standards so the Bahamas can openly and freely claim a status of jurisdictional justice and fair play!
On Baha Mar receivers’ actions ‘a shocker’
Posted 25 June 2020, 8:52 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
This does not pass the smell test. We cannot be stupid enough to fall for yet another land grabbing snake oil developer.
Regardless of how much money Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong is supposedly worth, why would we be stupid enough to give him 500,000 acres without any proof of capability to actually produce anything? Does he have any experience in the aragonite business? Why **give**him anything at all? If he has so many billions, why doesn't he simply buy what he wants?
This FNM government like Ingraham and Christie governments will also get swing by the usual crooked Bahamian lawyers and this billionaire. These people will promise heaven and earth to the Bahamas and as soon as the "toothless" heads of agreement are signed their project will drastically change and they too will disappear just like all the rest WITH the people's land!
Firstly, if we are stupid enough to entertain this nonsense, the government must be prudent enough to put clawback and proper escape clauses in the heads of agreement so this man has to produce per the heads of agreement. Secondly, any property should only be granted as needed for phased developments.
On Davis calls on govt to reject Andros proposals
Posted 24 June 2020, 6:11 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
*Bahamianson* analogy of local racism is a classic white Bahamian racist copout. His statement of "majority Black hatred against Whites here in the Bahamas" is 100% pure fictional fallacy that he cannot remotely begin to substantiate!
Racist white Bahamians cannot get over the fact they lost power to majority rule the same as racist white Americans cannot get over the fact they lost the Confederacy and the slave trade.
Identifying white Bahamian racist is always easy as they immediately try to justify their racism against black Bahamians by claiming black Bahamians hate Haitians. Why the hell would white Bahamians care if black Bahamians hated Haitians anyway? What is this strong bond between white Bahamians and Haitians that makes white Bahamians favor a foreign black Haitian to a black Bahamian citizen?
The first obvious observation is when dealing with white Bahamians the Haitian "knows his place". He will never question or stand up to "massah boss", and will always be happy, and subservient to the white Bahamian.
To quash another white Bahamian fallacy, black Bahamians do not hate Haitians as a people. However, black Bahamians absolutely do hate the multitude of socio-economic havoc Haitians are causing for black Bahamians.
White Bahamians are totally oblivious to, and not in the least affected by illegal Haitian migration supported by legal Haitians that erodes opportunities for black Bahamians for business opportunities, jobs, children's education, health care, and desperately needed social services. White Bahamians are also 100% insulated by Haitians stealing their family names to forge NIB identifications, birth certificates, passports, U.S. visas, etc'.
If 1 million Haitians migrated to the Bahamas today, white Bahamians would not be the least bit affected. Alternatively, black Bahamians would be 100% annihilated! Black Bahamians need for their very existence gives them every reason to be xenophobic of Haitians.
Regarding the idea that a "lot of rich Black hatred of so-called "Poor Blacks". The Bahamas is very guilty of the phenomenon known as "class discrimination", also known as classism, which is prejudice or discrimination on the basis of social class.
White Bahamians lost "visible" political power, however, they maintain a tight grip on financial power and still control the country from behind the scenes. The descendants of the same white families that controlled the country prior to majority rule, still control the country today!
On Bahamas joins call for 'urgent debate on racism'
Posted 20 June 2020, 4:54 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Don't be mislead by all the noise in the market place. Brutality against black people was condoned prior to, and from the inception of the Justice Department in 1782. Police and slave owners murdered blacks with impunity for hundreds of years. The Justice Department cannot escape culpability for the major role it played in facilitating 1000's of murders by cops and white people!
After 400 years of horrific systemic racism, the only surprising question is why didn't American blacks rise up and turn to terrorism as virtually every other ethnic group has done worldwide in their fight for equality?
The answer may be owing to the fact that whites savagely massacred and rooted out any black slaves with the smallest iota of rebellion publically. The surviving slaves taught their children what to say and how to act to avoid brutality and murder from white slave owners.
The well known ongoing culture of American black parents teaching children how to avoid being murdered by white police today is a carryover from 100's of years of whites murdering blacks for frivolous reasons with impunity.
George Floyds' brutal public murder by white cops may have been the straw that broke the camels back!
On Bahamian choked to death is remembered in New York
Posted 19 June 2020, 7:05 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
OMG, people still "going" to Florida to shop? Even Americans have been doing all their shopping online for many years. I haven't been to Florida in over 10 years, and have absolutely no intension of going anytime in the foreseeable future!
On Bahamasair eyes baggage fees and ticket price hikes
Posted 18 June 2020, 6:57 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Blah, blah, blah, blah blah. Testing before allowing people to travel here should never have been a question in the first place!
In addition to all this COVID-19 travel talk, the Bahamas needs to urgently figure out why our destination and people are off the charts when it comes to friendliness with tourists!
https://www.foxnews.com/travel/friendli…
One common thread with the "Friendliest Caribbean islands" article is the people are very proud of their country. How could Bahamians be proud of their country when successive governments have facilitated "other nationals" in dominating entire sectors of the economy?
We have been lead on a path to self-destruction for so long that neither political party has the consciousness of mind and the wherewithal to even begin recognizing the danger!
On NO TEST - YOU’RE NOT COMING IN: Rising infections in U.S. force retention of test for visitors after July 1
Posted 18 June 2020, 6:38 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
This is so stupid I couldn't believe it. Sandyport restaurants were exactly like what we saw at Arawak Cay and consistent throughout the Island over the weekend.
If health officials found the behavior of Arawak Cay, Sandyport, and elsewhere
“disturbing”, they should have immediately demanded the closure of these entities!
Judging from the comments and actions of people, they do not take COVID-19 seriously.
Obviously, we do not want a virus resurgence as is happening now in the U.S.
The government needs to make sure people obey the social distancing and mask-wearing protocols or shut down businesses that do not make patrons comply!
On Health chiefs concerned by crowding at Arawak Cay
Posted 16 June 2020, 8:42 p.m. Suggest removal