Carnaval finally got caught but there are many others just as guilty. The Bahamas as a major transit point for shipping is being indiscriminately dumped on daily!

We need to charge these ships a transit fee sufficient enough to allow us to "properly" police our waters.

Consecutive PLP and FNM administrations were too inept to even think about these things. Let us see what spineless and crew will do!

Bahamians are strange. If the same dynamics today were in place 70 years ago, Lyford Cay, Paradise Island, Freeport, Cable Beach, Old Fort Bay, Sandyport, Port New Providence, Palm Cay, and every other major development throughout the Bahamas would not exist today!

Hopefully, the present government has more sense than the three dumb stooges gang of Pindling, Ingraham, and Christie, and after "proper" due diligence, allow this developer to move forward with his plans.

It is stupid and totally unreasonable to expect badly needed sustainable growth without some environmental impact, we cannot have our cake and eat it too!

Congratulations to this spinless FNM government for attracting potentially serious major investors. With very little effort, simply by proximity alone, the Bahamas could become the biggest tourism mecca in the region by far, easily surpassing Florida and the Dominican Republic.

Dumbass 49% is the same as 51% Zhivargo Laing has always been lobbying prostitute! This clowns loyalty is 100% to his bank account balance!

If WTO had any benefit for the Bahamas, Laing would have simply brought in individuals from other Caribbean States to explain to the Bahamian businessmen how WTO has benefited them.

Stupid Laing is singing for his supper, but totally unable to find one single individual anywhere that has anything remotely positive about having joined the WTO!

Nobody anywhere on the planet, besides this idiot Laing, has anything positive to say about WTO.

The Bahamas should throw wto and Laing out with the dishwater...and lock the door!!!

Only privileged, financially secure individuals have this mindset. The average struggling Bahamian is already having a tough time making ends meet with all the expats hogging up well paying blue collar and white collar jobs across all industries.

The Bahamas need to firstly focus on uplifting the generations of Bahamians left behind educationally and financially by Pindling, Ingraham, and Christie before we can remotely start thinking about increasing the population with more expats!

Culson never identified with the average Bahamian, doesn't understand their way of life, and have absolutely NO CLUE what it's like to have to compete with expats for a meager survival.

Wonder what in the photo gives them the idea **speed may have been** a contributing factor to the accident?

The "prominent" Jamaican has spoken.

Now let's hear from the "prominent" Haitian, Chinese, American, Filipino, African, Latino, Canadian and West Indian.

None of these "prominent foreigners" will have one positive thing to say about preserving the Bahamas for Bahamians. It's all about them, their businesses and their children!

What about Bahamians, our businesses and our children?

**We need to build a wall** around the Bahamas before these "prominent" foreigners take everything our forefathers slaved, worked and sacrificed for!

**congratulations sakis. we the people are behind you 100%!**

thank jehovah god that the U.S. courts will shed light on both CCA and dancing jackass Christie administration "decision-making". Too much went terribly wrong with an individual Bahamians came to love and respect, and the incompetence leading to the loss of hundreds of acres of the most expensive peoples' crown land in the country cannot go unpunished!

CCA, may dislike the bad publicity they brought upon themselves, and the people involved, but hopefully, the US legal system will find the Chinese government were wrong in their dealings with Sarkis and force them to pay justifiable damages leading to a greatly subdued Chinese presence in the Bahamas.

The U.S. court system will bring this case into the light and all the under the table dirty workings of dancing Jack-ass Christie, Wicked Witch Maynard, Shame Gibson, Sticky Fingers Dorsette, and panhandling Fitzgerald will be exposed and relevant charges made accordingly.

Talking shyt is a very serious ting! And Nicolette Bethel has a "Masters" in talking total bullshyt!

If we do not protect our borders and heritage, "other people" will claim them as their own. Where and what will descendants of Bahamians go and do when "others" take over our country while THEIR constitution does not allow anyone without bloodline heritage to obtain citizenship regardless of circumstances and or investments?

Nicolette Bethel nor anyone else EVER calls or describes the Haitian constitution as Xenophobic, but they are quick to jump on Bahamians who are similarly protecting our rights as a people!

Let the violent uprising begin, as I and everyone I know are ready to fight and die for our childrens' bahamaland!!!

So they intend finalizing& securing all licenses and permits with the government and agencies by the end of September.”? **WTF** takes the government so long with this no-brainer project?

Carnival obviously understands that Grand Bahama and the entire Bahamas at large is extraordinarily well positioned to becoming the western hemispheres air and sea travel transit hub for the Americas!

Dumbass-Pindling, Dumberass-Ingraham, and for GODS sake Dumbest-jackass-Christie were too busy lining their own pockets to capitalize on the very easily attainable potential of the Bahamas developing into the biggest transit travel hub in the western hemisphere!

I am not in the least impressed, as a 15-year-old D average retard could have seen the
potential in making this happen.

Firstly, only Hubert Ingraham, Perry Christie and others of Haitian descent are stupid enough to pay any attention to anything Fred Smith has to say.

Secondly Fred, Freeport economy that has been mired in a **"great depression"** since 2004, not just a recession!

Finally, a below F grade, retarded, 15-year-old could have conceived Freeport being a major player in the water and theme park business. With the Bahamas proximity to Florida, the whole country, particularly the more temperate Southern Islands should all be major players and biggest competitors to Florida's tourism base!

Why Dumb-ass Pindling, Dumber-ass Ingraham, and Dumbest-ass Christie couldn't wrap their extraordinary big heads around this **"no brainer"** concept will always be a mystery. They were like crawfish, all head, and no damn brain!