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<li><p style="color:gray">The politicians are laughing all the way to the bank and killing the Bahamian people in the process. Nicole wrote such a truthful story and I wish this one could go viral and let's change the Bahamas for her children and the rest of the children in the Bahamas.</p></li>
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<p align="justify">Yes the politicians are laughing all the way to the bank, but I’m sorry, it is the Bahamian people who ultimately put these gangsters into Government in the first place</p>

<p align="justify">Going “viral” is a fleeting hope, and like one commenter here said before, all of our comments and opinions are essentially useless, because it’s actions that matter. If we cannot convert what we know into tangible action then it’s just words on a sheet of paper, no matter how brilliant or wise.</p>

<p align="justify">I’ve seen many intelligent people leave this country for a better sunset, and I don’t blame them, because I know there is a breaking point. My hope is that one day, the most intelligent and able are at the helm of Government, but that seems a far off.</p>

<p align="justify">I hope well for the columnist wherever the winds lead her. She has something many of our own don’t have; a truly independent mind.</p>

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<li><p style="color:gray">Hanging is not a deterrent or solution to murder it is the sentence handed down from a judge after a person is convicted of unlawfully taking of a life and should be treated as such.</p></li>
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<p align="justify">I totally agree with you, it’s just this simple</p>

<p align="justify">The popular argument says; <i>“Hanging is not a deterrent or solution to murder”.</i> <br>But nothing in the world ever was...</p>

<p align="justify">I can’t say I would support hanging in our system with its current state though, because it only takes sitting on a court case once or twice to understand that our judicial system is pretty much one big mess. There is so much protectionism and maneuvering going on among the jury and witnesses that it’ll just give you a headache. If it was cleaned up, you bet I’d be all in.</p>

<p align="justify">As for for the Opposition Leader, he is simply appeasing the masses, and knows quite well, as many of us already know, that calling for hanging is pretty much a negligible endeavor. Let’s be honest, the world has changed, and a growing majority of people vehemently oppose the death penalty.</p>

<p align="justify">A man can kill and live out the rest of his years comfortably in a jail cell. Now of course if he killed your daughter, you’d be at the start of the line gunning for the death penalty.</p>

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<li><p style="color:gray">The survival foods for low-income people include the pastas and carbohydrates and that in turn leads to obesity, diabetes, low productivity due to the carb lethargy. It is a vicious circle, and I for one, do not see any answers that would quickly ameliorate the problem. It's an artifact of our economy, our society and our educational system.</p></li>
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<p align="justify">The banker is spot on as always. Low-income households operate under vastly different priorities than high income households when it comes to food. The fact is that healthy food is not a priority when your money is tight. Foods that give instant carbohydrates and makes you feel full are the priority.</p>

<p align="justify">A lot of Bahamians are living hand to mouth. Why do you think so many resort to ramen noodles? It works because you get a high carbohydrate density at a minimum cost. The drawback is that it leads to long term health problems.</p>

<p align="justify">As for those who work, eating healthy means that you have to take the time to cook the food. Healthy food is hardly ever cooked fast. How many people bring their own food to work? Not many.</p>

<p align="justify">The issue is simple, but not that complex either. There are some people who have the ability to take responsibility for their health, yet they don’t, and there are those who may want to take responsibility but because of their income, they stick with survival foods. We are losing or have already lost our society.</p>

<p align="center"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/H9Z2UlG.gif"><img src="https://i.imgur.com/H9Z2UlG.gif" alt="Perry Christie Shuffle" title="Christie Shuffle"></a></p>

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<li><p style="color:gray">Yep, it was somewhat perplexing when the US bank agreed to accept shady gaming money from BOB. But in hindsight it just made it easier for them to nab someone at a later date for laundering money over state lines.</p></li>
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<p align="justify">Very well said. This is exactly how the United States operates. They collect information, watch targets, and bide their time until they are almost 100% sure they’ve got you. Then, when you least expect it, the big bad hammer drops.</p>

<p align="justify">Surely the Honorable Attorney General knows that to maintain the highest pedigree of integrity one must abstain from the very appearance of evil, which, in this particular instance is a perceived conflict of interest. </p>

<p align="justify">To the common observer, the Attorney General having any business connection to Baha Mar, whether innocent or guilty, is interpreted as a conflict of interest. That’s it.</p>

<p align="justify">Also, the public relations for the Government must be rather dismal, because it only took the Attorney General two statements to cause even more confusion. I’m now wondering if it was her daughters who invested or her husband? Why am I even asking this question? This Baha Mar Saga is very amusing.</p>

<p align="justify"> @ <a href="http://www.tribune242.com/news/2015/aug…" title="lionfish">lionfish</a></p>
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<li><p style="color:gray">They are the "sole investor, developer and contractor".</p></li>
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<p align="justify">That doesn’t sound too much different than the setup at Baha Mar, where the Chinese stand as the “main investors” and “sole contractors”.</p>

<p align="justify">And when you really think about it, the Chinese are quite shrewd in the way they do business. By having the investments and contraction generally under their framework, they are able to passively route capital to satisfy their interests. A significant portion of that money naturally flows from main investor to main contractor, who are basically under the same umbrella.</p>

<p align="justify">It’s almost like a bank that also does construction work. You go to the bank agent to borrow money, dish out a down payment, and then go to the next desk to have them build your house.</p>

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<li><p style="color:gray" align="justify">....having put forward the names of PwC partners to act as provisional liquidators who could not serve in such capacity because they have a fundamental conflict of interest. It's amazing that the PwC partners concerned had apparently attested in an earlier sworn affidavit to having conducted an independence check within their global organization in order to verify their independence, only to have to later acknowledge by letter (presumably on being called out by others) that they are in fact not independent.</p></li>
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<p align="left">This is my opinion, but I’m starting to think that the “Government” has significant stake in the Baha Mar project in some way, shape, or form, which I hope isn’t true.</p>

<p align="left">I don’t have the evidence to back that up, but one of the ways to explain the Government’s actions up to now is to assume that they possess significant stake in this project. Everything then makes complete sense. It is interesting that Baha Mar’s developer proposed that the Government provide a guarantee to the Ex-Im Bank of China.</p>

<p align="left">In addition, the winding up process is looking more and more like a means to an end, a loaded gun of sorts, to scare certain parties in the ongoing negotiations.</p>

<p align="left">Why say you are appointing “independent” provisional liquidators, only to find out practically on the date of the court hearing that they are in fact, not independent (conflicts of interest)?</p>

<p align="left">That's hilarious.</p>

<p align="justify"> @ <a href="http://www.tribune242.com/news/2015/jul…" title="JohnBuchanan">JohnBuchanan</a></p>

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<li><p style="color:gray" align="justify">Quite incredibly, the U.S. court issued an order yesterday that BEC cannot turn off the power or demand any payments from Baha Mar based on the bankruptcy filing.</p></li>
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<p align="justify">Wrong. This order was issued at the <a href="http://www.thenassauguardian.com/news/5…" title="Judge says utility providers must not cut off Baha Mar" target="_blank">beginning of July</a>. I don’t know what agenda you are running but your consistency is incredibly lacking.</p>

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<li><p style="color:gray" align="justify">That is a direct attack by the U.S. court on the sovereignty of the Bahamas.</p></li>
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<p align="justify">Wrong again, sonny. The courts are one of the best places to maintain sovereignty. A court of law cannot attack the sovereignty of another country, that's why we have jurisdictions;</p>

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<li><p style="color:gray" align="justify">A U.S. judge in Delaware yesterday handed down an order “prohibiting utility providers” from altering, refusing or disconnecting services from Baha Mar resort on Cable Beach.</p></li>
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<li><p style="color:gray" align="justify">But a Supreme Court justice in The Bahamas would have to approve the U.S. orders made in relation to Baha Mar if they are to stand in this jurisdiction.</p></li>
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<p align="justify">See those <i>facts</i> above? The Bahamas has the <i>sovereignty</i> and the <i>power</i> to reject such orders, so tell me, what are you smoking?</p>

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<li><p style="color:gray" align="justify">I am surprised no local media has reported that.
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<p align="justify">Two wrongs don’t make a right, and three wrongs mean you’re an idiot (I mean that in the nicest way possible). The media did in fact report this and they reported it <a href="http://www.thenassauguardian.com/news/5…" title="Judge says utility providers must not cut off Baha Mar" target="_blank">29 days ago</a>.
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<li><p style="color:gray">Why would an educated person come back to this corrupt little cesspool?</p></li>
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I happen to be one of those 'educated' persons who naively came back here to suffer. Youth is sure one hell of a drug. The hard reality is that this country is dysfunctional on every level. I reckon the country will sink first, 'clearing the deadwood' as one commenter would say.