>The only thing I disagree with is that risk-shy investors are already steering clear of The Bahamas.

Totally true. They are selling their houses and moving out. The latest Central Bank report documents the exodus of investors. Our wealth management book of business for High Net Worth Individuals is so diminished, that I am transitioning from Wealth Management and Family Office to Funds, Securities and Commodities. Almost finished my employer-sponsored retraining and moving on.

From what I have seen, the exodus of capital under management is in the billions from the Bahamas. Our "financial services" industry is shrinking alarmingly, and the majority of the new customers that we have now, are the type that no one else wants (too much risk) or people who don't qualify for other IFC services.

Birdie, please copiously post your thoughts for the world to see. It is high entertainment. The world wants to see the type of person that gets brain damage from using rough toilet paper. Yes it gives the Bahamas a bad name, that we could raise a person with such limited cognitive abilities. But to be fair to your brain, it is amazing thing. It works 24 hours a day, 365 days a year until the very first moment that you vote PLP. When you join the party, the neurons turn to feces, and that is why you say the things that you do.

But it is high entertainment. Please post more of you mental meanderings. I eagerly look forward to them. I share them on social media. They are priceless.

LOL -- funny and true. James Smith's knowledge base can be inscribed on a grain of rice in 72 point font.

Numbers kings buying up the luxury housing that the foreigners are selling.

Tal has a mental handicap when it comes to arithmetic. He/she/it makes up numbers. Remember the wildly popular Rawson Square March, and Tal said that there were exactly 437 marchers -- an invented number that was an order of magnitude or more inaccurate. Tal - the .02 was an incredibly nice touch. It is the exact fraction of a decent person that Fred Mitchell is. Have you read the Wikileaks about what the Americans have to say about Fweddy? Or the Chinese intelligence agencies for that matter when he went to China to visit our Ambassador, Phillip Miller, who is a bird of a feather. I am told that it was a culinary feast, they particularly enjoyed authentic dishes like Sum Yung Guy.

Sigh, the dump fire being 80% out, is like a woman being 80% pregnant. Either it is completely out and stopped smoking, or it is still a hazard.

Ah no worries, we are used to slave labour. When the Cuban eye doctors came here, their families were held hostage to ensure their return.

I am sure that life is pretty miserable for the Chinese construction workers. No wonder they defecated in the unfinished rooms, and did shoddy workmanship. They were virtual prisoners in a land where they did not understand the language.

It's by no means uncommon though for lower paying jobs. My godmother's niece decided that she wanted to see the world and work. She worked as a nanny and was hired by a rich Arab family in Riyadh Saudi Arabia. They took her passport and work permit and "held it for safekeeping". They also monitored her Facebook account. She was able to get her family to say that her mother was dying and she needed to return home for a week. She left the country never to return.

And Ivoine doesn't believe the stuff that he writes. He is selling his soul for a chance to sing for his supper. He is a vomit-swimmer as well. One supposes that after being immersed in it for so long, you lose your self-esteem, dignity, moral compass and worth as human capital. I feel sorry for Ivoine, that he has to put out this untruthful garbage to try and curry favour to regain an income stream.

There een a lot of money in aragonite.

LOL !

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