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Lastly, so what if foreign investors have private islands here and so what if most of their investment dollars do not stay in the country? What exactly, is ANY Bahamian "Investor" or Bahamian millionaire doing with their monies? How many of them are actually stepping up to the plate to even want to invest their monies on a large scale in the Bahamas? Little to none..... AND even when Bahamians do get "contracts" (which is not really the same as multi-million dollar investments), then we ungrateful, envious jealous Bahamians like to cry out that this one or that one only got contracts because of their political affiliation or their family ties. Kmt..... You know what, we need to just shut the hell up because we are the absolute worst group of people when it comes to finding anything positive about anything. ..and NO, I am not talking about crime, there's nothing positive there.... but those of us who have the financial means to invest our monies into the country, DON'T. .. Those of use who can help assist with the fight against crime and criminals, don't... but we are sooo great and skilled at bitchin and accusing the PLP, and the FNM.. and if the DNA ever got in there, we'd put the blame on them too. We are great complainers and lousy losers at offering anything viable, sensible or positive to the cause of making any kind of headway or change for the Bahamas. I HATE the idea of foreigners buying up everything, BUT our Bahamians who can afford to do so are not interested in spending their monies except on themselves.. and who can blame them.. it's their money. We are small minded people whom deep down inside have absolutely NO desire of helping anyone except ourselves. When we open up a business, we don't give a damn about creating jobs. We only hiring people with the only purpose of them doing the work to help us make money. We don't care about developing anyone else' skills, developing out communities, growing our economies. Ha! Bahamians? My people? I have NEVER seen it in them and have NEVER seen it done. So yes, investors will take most of the monies out of the country because this is NOT their country; but why blame them for doing that when Bahamians whom are able refuse to even put money into their own country? We are too bloody dependent on everyone around us to determine our own successes.

First of all, yes the crime in this country is ridiculous, but I don't know why anyone blaming government for it. No government is responsible for crimes committed, that's on the lives and hands of the people who decide to take a gun, or knife, or conch shell, and kill someone else. When these things happen, there are many persons whom are witness to these things and know who commit them. They know where to find them, but do the citizens help the police in finding these criminals? No, so let's all just shut the hell up over crime since the majority of us do absolutely nothing to prevent them or solve them. Therefore, we ourselves have allowed it to get to this point.

Secondly, Mr. Bayley expressed his concerns over crime, but yet he continued to say that Royal Caribbean is committed to maintaining a relationship with the Bahamas, and will double the 1.7 million annual visitors they bring to the Bahamas in the coming years. So obviously, the crime numbers have NOT deterred them from doing business here, so what's all the bitching about? This story does not represent a negative fall out over crime, although if we don't get a hold on it soon, it will definitely start to affect the country economic soon.

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. No one seems to be saying that it is great that some 2,000 Bahamians whom were hired by Bahmar will all be compensated every single penny due them. What about the Bahamian contractors whom are set to be remunerated for the works that they have already put in. None of you wish to say "thank God that jobs will soon be forthcoming to many Bahamians whom are in desperate need for so long." No, in true Bahamian fashion, let's just be negative about the whole thing. We just can't ever seem to give thanks for anything intended for good, because we simple HATE the idea of acknowledges the efforts of someone or people we don't like. We refuse to thank God for using someone to deliver His blessings on other people because we hate the person God used (and for the record, God uses whomever He chooses to pass on His blessings, saints and sinners alike). You all are no different that the politicians out there. All of you are pawns in the political arena. All of you contribute, because the same way you accuse the PLP of always doing things in campaign mode, you are guilty of the exact thing; because every anti-Christie or anti-FNM or anti-DNA rhetoric that you spew, is an endorsement of your own personal political indicator on how you will vote the next time around. The only difference is that all of you are on the outside looking in, while they politicians are on the inside looking out.. and in that, neither you nor the politicians will ever fully understand or appreciate each other.

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Where does it mentions work permits for thousands of Chinese, or is that just speculation at this time? In addition, everyone who are being so extremely critical of Christie and the PLP for striking a deal with the Chinese have such a diluted short term memory. When Ingraham and the FNM first came into political power in 1992, they did the exact same thing in Freeport Grand Bahama. You guys are now complaining about how Christie sold the Chinese Bahmar, and Hilton.. well do some historical research and see where Hubert sold the entire Port Lucaya Strip (which was three major hotels at the time), a massive amount of land which a golf course was constructed, plus the entire freeport harbour, all to the Chinese. FNM supporters, who were still drunk over the FNM's victory over the PLP heralded it as the "greatest business and economic move ever done in the Bahamas" and they roasted Pindling and the PLP for not doing it themselves, blaming them for neglecting Grand Bahama. So no, fast forward to 2016, and the almost the exact same thing is transpiring again, only this time, under the PLP. You can't possibly blame the PLP for China Constructions failure to live up to their promise of completion back in 2014. You can't possibly blame the PLP for China's EXIM bank pulling a coupe on Sarkis in every effort to take/steal Bahmar away for themselves. You can't possibly blame the PLP for Sarkis filing bankruptcy back when he did (which was a pure business tactic to try and block the take-over and delay the inevitable. It's no use saying to you that the PLP was not involved in initial delays, because you guys have already made up your minds to hate them no matter what the circumstance. In 1992, the FNM said that the PLP government had no business being in the hotel business, and so they, the FNM set out and sold just about every government ran hotel. When the Cable Beach strip was sold, you guys ripped Christie and the PLP for doing exactly what the FNM did to Freeport's Port Lucaya strip. Yet in your limited memory, and blurred biased opinion of the PLP, you have become relentlessly creative in criticizing, attacking, tearing down, cursing, rebuking, chastising, mauling and viciously assaulting Christie at every single opportunity; and in doing so, you play blind, deaf dumb and stupid to any form of good intended to come out of these efforts.

I personally believe too, that after divorce or legal separation, then citizenship to a foreign spouse should be re-examined with the intention of being revoked, UNLESS the marriage produced children that are still under the age of 18, thus requiring the parents' support. In the case of adultery or abandonment on part of the foreign spouse, then citizenship should be an automatic revocation. But I digress.
In conclusion, I ended up voting NO on every single one, because they were all too vague and left wide open for all sorts of legal ramifications for circumstances that would affect the Bahamas negatively; and let us all remember now, these Amendments were all created and written by lawyers.. and I don't think that any of them were expecting that the majority of PLP Bahamians would have been able to look pass their political passion and take the time to read and try and understand what they were really voting on. I believe, that they were counting on PLP supporters automatically voting YES: that FNM and DNA women would have at least come on board at least 35-45% of them: and that every Bahamian born to a foreign parent and naturalized foreign born Bahamians would have voted YES as well.... because these lawyers/politicians know that whereas only the people can change the constitution, which supersedes the law, they themselves (the lawyers/politicians) can change any law to fall in line with the constitutional Amendments that they were hoping to be voted into existence.

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I personally believe too, that after divorce or legal separation, then citizenship to a foreign spouse should be re-examined with the intention of being revoked, UNLESS the marriage produced children that are still under the age of 18, thus requiring the parents' support. In the case of adultery or abandonment on part of the foreign spouse, then citizenship should be an automatic revocation. But I digress.
In conclusion, I ended up voting NO on every single one, because they were all too vague and left wide open for all sorts of legal ramifications for circumstances that would affect the Bahamas negatively; and let us all remember now, these Amendments were all created and written by lawyers.. and I don't think that any of them were expecting that the majority of PLP Bahamians would have been able to look pass their political passion and take the time to read and try and understand what they were really voting on. I believe, that they were counting on PLP supporters automatically voting YES: that FNM and DNA women would have at least come on board at least 35-45% of them: and that every Bahamian born to a foreign parent and naturalized foreign born Bahamians would have voted YES as well.... because these lawyers/politicians know that whereas only the people can change the constitution, which supersedes the law, they themselves (the lawyers/politicians) can change any law to fall in line with the constitutional Amendments that they were hoping to be voted into existence.

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I sure hope, that those of you who hate and oppose the PLP politics, don't believe for one minute that these results are any indication of what will happen in next year's general election. There are a few reasons why there was a resounding No vote:

1: The majority of FNM and DNA supporters will NEVER vote for anything presented by the PLP

2: Most Bahamians saw Bill #4 as some sort of gay rights bill that would open the door for gay marriages and acceptance of trans-genders

3: Most people, when they thought of Bills 1, 2 and 3, only could think of those bills opening the door for Jamaicans and Haitians (the Chinese were an after-thought) coming to the Bahamas and gaining citizenship.. and most Bahamian HATE that very thought.

I myself woke up yesterday morning with every intention to vote YES on all except #3, after having read the proposed Amendments and what the government said was their intention. However, after discussing the bills with a co-worker, I realized something. While on the surface and in simple words, to me, some of the bills were fine; but what the government failed to do was insert the words "at birth" in Amendment #4 and following the words "Bahamian Citizen" in Amendment #2; also by inserting subsections to each bill that detailed all the possible scenarios that each Amendment covered, and those scenarios that were not covered. For example, Amendment #4 should have gone further and say that whereas as marriage is concerned male and female sex and or gender is established BIRTH, and no alterations to one's physical person with the intent to change that sex or gender will be accepted, acknowledged or protected under this amendment. But remember now, the Amendment itself mentioned nothing about marriage, only equal rights for both male and female... which without stating what kind of equal rights, leaves the LEGAL doors open to ALL forms of equal rights, as it excludes nothing. So even though it was being touted as "women's' rights, legally, anybody and anyone and every manner of life style under heaven, would have been acknowledged, accepted and protected under Bill # 4 as it was presented. Whereas as Amendment #2 was concerned, a foreign spouse should only be eligible for Bahamian citizenship IF the Bahamian spouse is a Bahamian at birth (not a naturalized foreigner who may have gained citizenship from a previous marriage to a Bahamian).