Thank you, **FNM** for creating the bail-for-murder laws to get one of your Lyford Cay supporters convicted of murder out of prison that are destroying the very fabric of my country!
I am 110% with former Minister of Tourism and Aviation Dionisio D’Aguilar mainly because Bahamians "supposedly" can invest in the project and hold equity up to 49 percent.
This is a long overdue very significant no-brainer approach for Bahamians to become owners of our tourism product on the road to developing our country as a resort destination, which will enable our people to make profits and reinvest in diversified, badly needed resort amenities.
For 5 decades successive governments ignorantly misunderstood "what a resort destination should be". This misguided ignorance caused them to focus on visitors' "hotel experience" totally oblivious that nobody travels to resort destinations for "hotel experiences"!
Case in point, firstly, Disney Orlando literally developed a swamp into amusement theme parks ......**THEN the hotels followed**.
Meanwhile, the PLP and FNM were working ass backward for 50 years focusing on visitor "hotel experiences", totally unable to figure out why our tourism product consistently declined.
This is regardless of the fact that airport exit surveys in 1980 revealed the biggest complaint of visitors was a lack of things to do in Nassau, while Florida, Cuba, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Mexico, and other regional competing sun destinations clearly significantly benefited from, nightlife, attractions, and theme park resort amenities.
The cruise industry, Atlantis, and Baha Mar understood the importance of "**resort amenities**" and developed water theme parks and Bahamian Cay destinations. Had the government been focused on developing these things.....Hotels would naturally have followed.
What the government should have, and now mostly needs to encourage is Bahamian-owned "attractions" which would increase "resort spend" and revenue across the board.
The government and Bahamians need to focus on creating an "amusement environment" capable of extracting $200.00 from every visitor to our country.
**This is actually very easily accomplishable once we can get politicians and special interests on a level playing field.**
Royal Caribbean International’s Paradise Island Royal Beach Club project and hopefully any such future resort developments with 49% Bahamian equity is an absolutely fantastic start!
Too many people "minding their own business" in the Bahamas now is the main reason these corrupt politicians continue getting away with destroying our country and getting compensated for doing so!
What a brainwashed racist statement. Black Bahamians **only** deal with other black Bahamians, so what comparison criteria did you refer to that led you to that conclusion?
The FNM sold out the country by creating the bail-for-murder laws and the Bahamas to get one of their Lyford Cay supporters out of jail for a murder conviction!
More asinine rhetoric from our out-of-touch politicians. Literally, thousands of men were murdered over the decades and the politicians were just fine with that.
Now a few big-mouth, gold-digging women are murdered and suddenly we need new laws?
Why the hell should there be separate laws for violence against women? Violence is violence period!
The **FACT** that many individuals on bail for murder recommitted murders is not subjective. Mr. Gonsalves is unquestionably correct. It is unquestionably ludicrous to grant bail to murderers. Sticking our heads in the sand and pretending otherwise to appease corrupt politicians does not change the fact that bail for murder is nonsensical to anyone other than those that "profited"!
PM Davis and Dr. Minnis combined aren't Bahamian enough to address the very huge problem of guns transiting Haiti from South America to the Bahamas along with drugs and human smuggling!
Mr. Bjorn Ferguson can criticize Mr. Gonsalves all he wants to, but the **FACT** is, it is downright stupid to grant bail to someone convicted of murder!
We are all acutely aware of the numerous instances where people out on bail for murder recommitted murder and in some instances more than one murder. So unquestionably, the judges in The Bahamas issuing such bail are indeed contributing to the crime!
The FNM government made bail for murder possible to spring a wealthy Lyford Cay Bahamian from prison for committing murder. Obviously, some people high up in government got heavily greased to make this happen.
We do not live in a vacuum. When corrupt politicians do these types of things the world looks at all of us as "living on Mars" because it is totally nonsensical.
former Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis is simply acting for the shallow-minded followers that do not know how the totally asinine law of bail for murder came about in our country. He knows damn well that PM Davis had no chance in hell of defending the indefensible, and the best response to Mr. Gonsalves’ was no response.
This bail-for-murder stupidity is but one instance where corrupt "leaders" have caused havoc in our country.
SP says...
Thank you, **FNM** for creating the bail-for-murder laws to get one of your Lyford Cay supporters convicted of murder out of prison that are destroying the very fabric of my country!
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SP says...
I am 110% with former Minister of Tourism and Aviation Dionisio D’Aguilar mainly because Bahamians "supposedly" can invest in the project and hold equity up to 49 percent.
This is a long overdue very significant no-brainer approach for Bahamians to become owners of our tourism product on the road to developing our country as a resort destination, which will enable our people to make profits and reinvest in diversified, badly needed resort amenities.
For 5 decades successive governments ignorantly misunderstood "what a resort destination should be". This misguided ignorance caused them to focus on visitors' "hotel experience" totally oblivious that nobody travels to resort destinations for "hotel experiences"!
Case in point, firstly, Disney Orlando literally developed a swamp into amusement theme parks ......**THEN the hotels followed**.
Meanwhile, the PLP and FNM were working ass backward for 50 years focusing on visitor "hotel experiences", totally unable to figure out why our tourism product consistently declined.
This is regardless of the fact that airport exit surveys in 1980 revealed the biggest complaint of visitors was a lack of things to do in Nassau, while Florida, Cuba, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Mexico, and other regional competing sun destinations clearly significantly benefited from, nightlife, attractions, and theme park resort amenities.
The cruise industry, Atlantis, and Baha Mar understood the importance of "**resort amenities**" and developed water theme parks and Bahamian Cay destinations. Had the government been focused on developing these things.....Hotels would naturally have followed.
What the government should have, and now mostly needs to encourage is Bahamian-owned "attractions" which would increase "resort spend" and revenue across the board.
The government and Bahamians need to focus on creating an "amusement environment" capable of extracting $200.00 from every visitor to our country.
**This is actually very easily accomplishable once we can get politicians and special interests on a level playing field.**
Royal Caribbean International’s Paradise Island Royal Beach Club project and hopefully any such future resort developments with 49% Bahamian equity is an absolutely fantastic start!
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Posted 24 April 2023, 7:27 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Too many people "minding their own business" in the Bahamas now is the main reason these corrupt politicians continue getting away with destroying our country and getting compensated for doing so!
On FNM deputy calls Gonsalves’ commentary on Bahamas’ judiciary ‘unwarranted’
Posted 24 April 2023, 8:29 a.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
What a brainwashed racist statement. Black Bahamians **only** deal with other black Bahamians, so what comparison criteria did you refer to that led you to that conclusion?
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SP says...
The FNM sold out the country by creating the bail-for-murder laws and the Bahamas to get one of their Lyford Cay supporters out of jail for a murder conviction!
Why we cannot reverse a bad law is a mystery.
On FNM deputy calls Gonsalves’ commentary on Bahamas’ judiciary ‘unwarranted’
Posted 21 April 2023, 7:01 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
More asinine rhetoric from our out-of-touch politicians. Literally, thousands of men were murdered over the decades and the politicians were just fine with that.
Now a few big-mouth, gold-digging women are murdered and suddenly we need new laws?
Why the hell should there be separate laws for violence against women? Violence is violence period!
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Posted 21 April 2023, 6:52 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
The **FACT** that many individuals on bail for murder recommitted murders is not subjective. Mr. Gonsalves is unquestionably correct. It is unquestionably ludicrous to grant bail to murderers. Sticking our heads in the sand and pretending otherwise to appease corrupt politicians does not change the fact that bail for murder is nonsensical to anyone other than those that "profited"!
On Former PM slams Davis for not defending Bahamian judges at recent CARICOM symposium
Posted 20 April 2023, 6:22 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
PM Davis and Dr. Minnis combined aren't Bahamian enough to address the very huge problem of guns transiting Haiti from South America to the Bahamas along with drugs and human smuggling!
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Posted 20 April 2023, 5:47 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Lol.....What the Bahamas really needs is a male or female leader without UBP, PLP, and FNM baggage!
nothing short of that is remotely capable of moving the country forward.
On MINNIS: PM ‘NO CLUE ON CRIME’ – Former leader says Davis focusing on US gun makers and not on tackling crime
Posted 20 April 2023, 5:43 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Mr. Bjorn Ferguson can criticize Mr. Gonsalves all he wants to, but the **FACT** is, it is downright stupid to grant bail to someone convicted of murder!
We are all acutely aware of the numerous instances where people out on bail for murder recommitted murder and in some instances more than one murder. So unquestionably, the judges in The Bahamas issuing such bail are indeed contributing to the crime!
The FNM government made bail for murder possible to spring a wealthy Lyford Cay Bahamian from prison for committing murder. Obviously, some people high up in government got heavily greased to make this happen.
We do not live in a vacuum. When corrupt politicians do these types of things the world looks at all of us as "living on Mars" because it is totally nonsensical.
former Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis is simply acting for the shallow-minded followers that do not know how the totally asinine law of bail for murder came about in our country. He knows damn well that PM Davis had no chance in hell of defending the indefensible, and the best response to Mr. Gonsalves’ was no response.
This bail-for-murder stupidity is but one instance where corrupt "leaders" have caused havoc in our country.
On Former PM slams Davis for not defending Bahamian judges at recent CARICOM symposium
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