The hotel is not desirable. As interest rates have increased there is less and less desire to invest abroad. The other hard truth is that Grand Bahama is simply no longer a tourist destination. That ship has sailed. Now Port Lucaya is 1 step away from becoming the bazaar 2.0. There needs to be new vision. Perhaps mid range, second home owner condominiums.
The Government needs to be clear and provide more detail on the airpot. From the conceptual drawings it appears that there is nothing serious in the pipe line. Perhaps a junior intern drew them, they do not seem to be conceptually sound (pitched roofs draining into one another), or viability in flood mitigation.
Six senses is the most promising project and I wish them the best of luck. I just hope their financing holds in this economy, and that they haven't aimed to high at 10-20 million per unit. We don't have a hospital, airport, entertainment, or a service industry that caters to people investing 3-5 million let alone 10-20.
A group of individuals showing common affiliation with one-another, and being concerned together with a common name shall be considered a "criminal organization" if more than "X" number of criminal offenses have been committed by members of the group or on behalf of the group. The name and its members shall then be placed into a criminal organization database.
Any member of a criminal organization shall receive an increased sentence of "X" years if they are arrested in the commission of a crime.
Anyone displaying tattoos, markings or symbols representing a criminal organization or being such a member within the criminal organization database shall be guilty of an offense if found within "X" yards of a school zone.
It shall be an offense for anyone within the criminal organization database to have under his care any minor except his own child.
Thats a start and it took 5 minutes, can I get a government job now?
As a Licensee, I consider any move by the government to buy the port as a hostile action.
Every move I make for my business is hindered and confounded by the government and its various branches. They are strangling licensees and Freeport in general to facilitate a bid to take over.
The Port are allowing this discrimination towards licensees where they should be fighting! They have given up and I worry they will sell our rights, and any chance of Freeports success from under us.
I support, and will pay my part towards a take over via the licensees, this is the true best outcome for Freeport and the worst nightmare for the government.
And 35% of the adult population do not use Sand Dollar (rolls eyes). People downloading the app is not the same as people using it! I have never met a single person who has used it to purchase something.
If the GBPA ownership is changed through any act of the government they will use the opportunity to retake most of the control via sweet deals with the new owners.
You may be able to buy a Kalik or a patty in the new, structurally unsound addition of the air-hovel but what will you give up in return? Whats the cost? Government owned or forced takeover of the GBPA will have long lasting and serious implications which will make that patty and Kalik turn sour before you even reach Miami.
You may think we are at the bottom but if your garbage stops being picked up, your roads deteriorate to Nassau's standards, you get charged real property tax, you loose your tax free business concessions, you revert to Nassau's building code and title issues etc etc etc.
Let me ask, how has the GBPA prevented the government from bringing investors to Freeport all this time? Has the GBPA somehow prevented the government from selling the hotel? How will government takeover possibly help Freeport?
TimesUp says...
The hotel is not desirable. As interest rates have increased there is less and less desire to invest abroad. The other hard truth is that Grand Bahama is simply no longer a tourist destination. That ship has sailed. Now Port Lucaya is 1 step away from becoming the bazaar 2.0. There needs to be new vision. Perhaps mid range, second home owner condominiums.
The Government needs to be clear and provide more detail on the airpot. From the conceptual drawings it appears that there is nothing serious in the pipe line. Perhaps a junior intern drew them, they do not seem to be conceptually sound (pitched roofs draining into one another), or viability in flood mitigation.
Six senses is the most promising project and I wish them the best of luck. I just hope their financing holds in this economy, and that they haven't aimed to high at 10-20 million per unit. We don't have a hospital, airport, entertainment, or a service industry that caters to people investing 3-5 million let alone 10-20.
On FNM: WHERE IS SALE OF GRAND LUCAYAN? Pintard blasts Cooper over lack of progress on hotel and airport
Posted 26 March 2024, 9:30 a.m. Suggest removal
TimesUp says...
They get a lot longer than we get every time the VAT rate is changed!
On Port chief: ‘Too tight’ over private cruise island VAT
Posted 9 February 2024, 8:46 a.m. Suggest removal
TimesUp says...
Oh please!
A group of individuals showing common affiliation with one-another, and being concerned together with a common name shall be considered a "criminal organization" if more than "X" number of criminal offenses have been committed by members of the group or on behalf of the group. The name and its members shall then be placed into a criminal organization database.
Any member of a criminal organization shall receive an increased sentence of "X" years if they are arrested in the commission of a crime.
Anyone displaying tattoos, markings or symbols representing a criminal organization or being such a member within the criminal organization database shall be guilty of an offense if found within "X" yards of a school zone.
It shall be an offense for anyone within the criminal organization database to have under his care any minor except his own child.
Thats a start and it took 5 minutes, can I get a government job now?
On Govt grappling with how to prove someone is in a gang
Posted 19 January 2024, 12:31 p.m. Suggest removal
TimesUp says...
How much does this "committee" get paid?
On Reparations Committee chair calls for hotel name change
Posted 20 December 2023, 9:02 a.m. Suggest removal
TimesUp says...
As a Licensee, I consider any move by the government to buy the port as a hostile action.
Every move I make for my business is hindered and confounded by the government and its various branches. They are strangling licensees and Freeport in general to facilitate a bid to take over.
The Port are allowing this discrimination towards licensees where they should be fighting! They have given up and I worry they will sell our rights, and any chance of Freeports success from under us.
I support, and will pay my part towards a take over via the licensees, this is the true best outcome for Freeport and the worst nightmare for the government.
On Davis: We’d approve Port Authority sale to right buyer
Posted 22 November 2023, 9:52 a.m. Suggest removal
TimesUp says...
Good luck with that!
And 35% of the adult population do not use Sand Dollar (rolls eyes). People downloading the app is not the same as people using it! I have never met a single person who has used it to purchase something.
On 50% of Bahamians to use Sand Dollars by end-2024
Posted 13 October 2023, 4:36 p.m. Suggest removal
TimesUp says...
If the GBPA ownership is changed through any act of the government they will use the opportunity to retake most of the control via sweet deals with the new owners.
You may be able to buy a Kalik or a patty in the new, structurally unsound addition of the air-hovel but what will you give up in return? Whats the cost? Government owned or forced takeover of the GBPA will have long lasting and serious implications which will make that patty and Kalik turn sour before you even reach Miami.
On Freeport hotelier backs Gov’ts push for change
Posted 29 August 2023, 12:52 p.m. Suggest removal
TimesUp says...
I am a Licensee and I can say from my own experience that the government is my single biggest challenge in operating my business.
On Raising ‘Freeport out of the ashes’
Posted 28 August 2023, 12:31 p.m. Suggest removal
TimesUp says...
What an absolute disaster this is.
On Carnival’s Cruise Port project for Grand Bahama ‘on track’ for 2025
Posted 17 August 2023, 8:26 a.m. Suggest removal
TimesUp says...
You may think we are at the bottom but if your garbage stops being picked up, your roads deteriorate to Nassau's standards, you get charged real property tax, you loose your tax free business concessions, you revert to Nassau's building code and title issues etc etc etc.
Let me ask, how has the GBPA prevented the government from bringing investors to Freeport all this time? Has the GBPA somehow prevented the government from selling the hotel? How will government takeover possibly help Freeport?
On GBPA reforms critical as 'we're at the bottom'
Posted 12 June 2023, 4:18 p.m. Suggest removal