Excellent points. I do not like the invasions by those who do not want better. I know several Jamaicans who are true assets to the Bahamas. Haitians are another story because they dont want to imprive themselves or contribute to society. Thet only know how to operate a zuzu.
As for China - yes - Bahamas and Caribbean need to STOP vacationing in USA and buying USA stuff until they come and toss these baldheads out of town.

Exactly. Anyone who borrows money for any reason from a bank or govt entity these days needs their head examined. Better to live on the streets and beg $8 per day and rejoice in the blessings of Jesus.
This article then makes it clear what we knew all along ... all those millions being given to the Bahamas from abroad?????? Dat aint for none of we.

Tal - your misunderstanding of Freeport shines brightly. We all know which Party you support AND IF that Party thought they could run Freeport better than the PA they should have demonstrated their prowess in either East End or West End all these years. However, they chose instead to allow those disgusting half empty excuses for a town to drag along like a dead dinosaur for over 40 years now. There is nothing in either town. They closed the airport in West End and did not make an airport in East End after the U.S. Missile Base closed up. It had a runway already there.
Trust me, if Govt took over Freeport it would look just like Nassau in 5 years - a shameful rat hole.

I agree totally with your last point. If any are invited in and are disrespected by Bahamian workers then they should receive at least 30 days pay and have a free ticket home. The Bahamian team supervisor should also lose $1000 from his annual pay for each foreigner returned from his team. But im dreaming.

Freeport businesses need help now? They needed help in 2015 when they asked Government not to apply VAT to tax-free Freeport. Government did not listen (of course) and so as Freeport's recovery was slowed by VAT, total revenue declined and government then had to raise VAT in Nassau and Abaco to 12% in order to make up the difference.

Now Freeport needs real help so it can soon be a contributor to the Treasury. We need techs from Jamaica and elsewhere to help get phone lines restored to important businesses like food stores, hardware stores, shipping companies etc.

That wont happen - as you saw today NEMA is turning over food distribution to MP constituency offices. They want the attention i guess.

Instead of working just as hard to help get things up and running (like the airport), they've decided to throw in the towel.

Nobody seems to understand the elements of our economy in priority order. One roof now is treated just as important as the next. They are not. What's under some roofs serves thousands of people and the people who are fixing other roofs. But. The roof fixing people get no respect. So all roofs island-wide will now just take ten times as long to fix. Typical govt procedure. You can't make this stuff up.

Good point. Someday that may not even be necessary BUT remember - not everyone in prison is a murderer or a rapist. A woman who steal bread for her children should be raped in prison and die of AIDS. If so then we are prescribing the death penalty for petty theft.

When you treat people like animals, they learn to act like animals. Somehow prison officials and the churches forget that everyone is a child of God and was once a cute little baby like Bob Marley said.

The truly sad story here is that Bahamians are too ignorant (by majority) to re-elect him to the House next election.

"There are no games" and there are no police.

They can't be fined because nobody knows how much oil went missing .... lol lol lol lol lol lol. Ignorance is bliss (and very very profitable).