This headline is unfair to government. It takes time to work out who gets his big cut of the next piece of BAMSI public pie. There are competing interests at the top and all those many mouths must get their share.

He certainly does believe anything the Castro brothers say, so perhaps we should ask them what our immigration rules are.

"No governing party with or without FOI act, will give up information they don't want to be seen to citizens who seek answers."

Yes Tal. That is particularly true of a government engaged in the systematic plundering of the public treasury.

Tal get a breath of air! There are large armed, amoral, gangs that are run as criminal enterprises afoot in this country. Conflict resolution did not work with Al Capone in the 1930's and it's not going to work with these thugs.

Of course there is a terrible problem with our educational system and resulting unemployment. Sad that you do not wish to credit the reasons. Your beloved PLP's first act was to kick out of the country the competent teachers in what was at the time the best public education system in the Caribbean. They were replaced by ill qualified, PLP rabble.

We reap what you sow Tal.

Jesus wept.

Gibberish! Pure gibberish!

These statements by government to try to cover up the disaster that they have created would be pathetic if not so shameful. The reason the developer wanted recourse to the Chapter 11 procedures in the U.S. Courts was exactly so he could continue the development process, including paying the necessary staff, in order to open the complex. Everyone knew and knows that. It was the government that stopped what would have been an orderly sorting out of claims, while the project moved forward to opening. The only explanation for the government's insistence on a "liquidation" proceeding supervised under their control in the Bahamas, is that there was fear of disclosure in a U.S. Bankruptcy proceeding of undertakings that the political class did not wish for the public to see. The demise of the enterprise was entirely foreseeable the instant the access to the Chapter 11 proceedings was denied. All the rest is simply smoke screen, while the government looks for a scapegoat to cover up the economic disaster it has created. How can anyone expect to open the enterprise, now that all the skilled workforce has departed the Bahamas or has moved on to other positions in the Bahamas? Only a fool would suggest that anyone who really is working to keep the project alive, would have laid off all the Bahamian workforce. This act tells all. Everyone knows that Baha Mar is not going to open in months or in years,. It has been killed by the PLP government. The pregnant question is why?

When a government declares open season on innocent, poor people, as scapegoats for the government's failures, those of a criminal disruptive nature in the society are loosed to rampage.

Let's hope that as a term of shorthand literary reference in the late 21st century, the phrase "Brown Shirts" used to denote unofficially sanctioned government sponsored criminal goons, is not replaced with "Yellow Shirts".

This political hack hasn't got a clue. If the government had permitted the bankruptcy workout to continue in the U.S. courts the project would have been completed by now, and everyone promised a job would be getting a pay check.

The only way the governments actions to force liquidation of the project make sense, is if you assume that there were very smelly inside deals involving politically well connected persons that the government simply could not permit to come to light.

This liquidation proceeding has already resulted in the project and the Bahamas being permanently damaged, perhaps terminally so, and that thousands of Bahamian workers and subcontractors are going to be irreparably harmed. All to protect a few corrupt insiders.

So sad. So entirely predictable. A U.S. bankruptcy court supervised work out would have permitted the project and the jobs to go forward. The government's response is hard to figure unless you posit that they fear disclosure of all the corruption that government minions were involved in. Keeping that quiet would have been impossible in U.S. Court system. 2,000 lose jobs! Who is the government really protecting here?