What you are forgetting is that there are huge structural impediments to an amelioration of the Bahamian economy. Baha Mar will not address those.
There is also the problem of Baha Mar attracting clientele. If you read the travel forums, Baha Mar has reputational damage. On the biggest wedding site in the US, a woman posted that Baha Mar not opening ruined her wedding. On top of that, Baha Mar hired digital marketing experts to overcome online bias, and these experts at resuscitating Baha Mar are leaving and not being paid. This is the problem that the government doesn't even know exists -- the expertise to get Baha Mar functional in the marketplace. The government believes that if you build it, they will come. They have no idea of the Herculean effort that Sol did to make the people come to Atlantis, and this one is twice the work because of the bad world-wide reputation.
We are in an economic paradigm shift and traditional models do not world. However, according to the Economist, the hottest tourist plays in terms of Foreign Direct Investment, is the Maldives, Mauritius, Bali, Thailand and Vietnam. We don't even make it on the top ten Caribbean destinations any longer.
I doubt it -- this is politics which is a blood sport -- the plan is probably to get Branflakes to join forces then marginalise him by promising him an ambassadorship or a cabinet post.
>Corruption is here to stay, regardless which party and leader is elected.
I would hate to think so, but I think that you are right. Hoping that can change though. I was talking to a gentleman who was working with African banks, and he was telling me about the "brokerage" culture & economy in Nigeria. What it is, is a cultural norm that if I get you a job, you are indebted to me for as long as you hold the job, and that indebtedness manifests itself in many ways. Some ways are (1) you have to vote for my man (2) you may or may not owe me a portion of the salary that you get (3) you do not hire anybody who is not my friend (4) if I go down, we all go down and (5) you know nothing and speak nothing about these 'arrangements' -- ever !! -- or else !!
Does it sound familiar? This is inbred in their culture, and there is no way to change it. I am hoping that a few thing inbred in Bahamian culture change -- to whit: partisanship, corruption, sweethearting, xenophobia, homophobia, and unquestioning corruption in religiosity.
Hmmm never knew that you were a woman. (Only women say "Child").
I have nothing to say about "Haitians" or "Bahamian Haitians" or any such thing. I think that we are all "folks" just trying to make the best life possible for ourselves and our family. Who knows what I would do if I was desperate and a Haitian. I would prolly try to seek greener pastures. Come to think of it, that is what I am doing by accepting a foreign job. However I have the means to get documented and take an airplane to the promised land, instead of paying my life savings to board a homemade Haitian sloop crammed with desperate humanity with an uncertain future.
I was just saving you embarassment, by hoping that you would parse your sentences for correct grammar, but I guess that it is not regarded as a helpful suggestion.
The trouble with that is the major hotel brands need insurance, and they are insured by first world insurers who care if the property is up to code or not.
Poverty is rampant in the Bahamas. Just walk about Bain Town or Grants Town, or select places along Cowpen Road. If you live in a certain social strata in the Bahamas, you are insulated from it. Ride the jitneys and you will see poverty. They are among us, and we don't see them.
But there is also another kind of poverty that every Bahamian suffers from. It is poverty of spirit.
This is most exemplified in our standard of living and non-ease of living. If you have ever lived abroad, you will know what I mean. Abroad, one can start a business, incorporate online, print off the corporation papers, open a bank account in just one day for $400. And those corporation papers are your business licence if you do not operate a storefront. The cable guy says that he will be at your apartment the next day between 1PM and 4PM and he arrives. A non-resident driver's licence takes you a day to get a temporary one, and you get the real one in the mail a week later. A passport can be had in ten days for $140 dollars. A repair part for a washing machine arrives the next day from a city 500 miles away. The clerks stay at a store or a government office until all of the people have been served.
You can go to a gas station 24 hours a day, and the one near my apartment has no attendants at all. It is entirely automated. I stick my bank card into an ATM machine and it asks me if I want to conduct business from my credit card, my bank chequing account, my savings account, my line of credit or my Tax Free savings account.
Every single traffic light works. Every single street lamp works at night. The power never goes off. You can drink the tap water from every faucet in the house. Every place that I have ever lived in had a washer and dryer.
Life is so much easier abroad where everything works. We are poorer for our cultural slackness, our sweethearting, our tolerance of criminal politicians, our tolerance of hypocrisy, our support of non-religious religious people, our disrespect for human life, our tolerance of gunplay, and our sexual mores where premarital sex and single parenthood is the norm rather than the exception.
As to your bucolic views of Family Islanders, I would ask you to talk to social workers. The incidence of child molestation, pederasty, incest and buggery is rampant in most out island remote communities.
Nay, we have a long way to go as an enlightened peoples, and we are poor for the tolerance that we have for the lower, baser activities on the scale of human enlightenment.
I still maintain that the only way to ameliorate all of the ills, is to make everyone financially safe, secure and happy -- all through economic means.
>Just last week I thought about the amount of construction that has been done in China over the past decade, buildings much larger than those at Baha Mar and the quality of that workmanship.
When it was approved in 1992, then-Vice Premier Zou Jiahua told the National People's Congress that it would cost $8.35 billion to build. But the project's budget quickly spiraled out of control. By the time that the dam was completed in 2006, the price tag had more than quadrupled to a mind-boggling $37 billion
banker says...
Ask Frankie the Snake Wilson about quieting titles. Immense of amount of Bahamian hurt -- ordinary Bahamians.
On Symonette open to FNM/DNA link
Posted 10 September 2015, 9:30 a.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
What you are forgetting is that there are huge structural impediments to an amelioration of the Bahamian economy. Baha Mar will not address those.
There is also the problem of Baha Mar attracting clientele. If you read the travel forums, Baha Mar has reputational damage. On the biggest wedding site in the US, a woman posted that Baha Mar not opening ruined her wedding. On top of that, Baha Mar hired digital marketing experts to overcome online bias, and these experts at resuscitating Baha Mar are leaving and not being paid. This is the problem that the government doesn't even know exists -- the expertise to get Baha Mar functional in the marketplace. The government believes that if you build it, they will come. They have no idea of the Herculean effort that Sol did to make the people come to Atlantis, and this one is twice the work because of the bad world-wide reputation.
We are in an economic paradigm shift and traditional models do not world. However, according to the Economist, the hottest tourist plays in terms of Foreign Direct Investment, is the Maldives, Mauritius, Bali, Thailand and Vietnam. We don't even make it on the top ten Caribbean destinations any longer.
On Symonette open to FNM/DNA link
Posted 10 September 2015, 9:28 a.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
I doubt it -- this is politics which is a blood sport -- the plan is probably to get Branflakes to join forces then marginalise him by promising him an ambassadorship or a cabinet post.
On Symonette open to FNM/DNA link
Posted 10 September 2015, 9:14 a.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
>Corruption is here to stay, regardless which party and leader is elected.
I would hate to think so, but I think that you are right. Hoping that can change though. I was talking to a gentleman who was working with African banks, and he was telling me about the "brokerage" culture & economy in Nigeria. What it is, is a cultural norm that if I get you a job, you are indebted to me for as long as you hold the job, and that indebtedness manifests itself in many ways. Some ways are (1) you have to vote for my man (2) you may or may not owe me a portion of the salary that you get (3) you do not hire anybody who is not my friend (4) if I go down, we all go down and (5) you know nothing and speak nothing about these 'arrangements' -- ever !! -- or else !!
Does it sound familiar? This is inbred in their culture, and there is no way to change it. I am hoping that a few thing inbred in Bahamian culture change -- to whit: partisanship, corruption, sweethearting, xenophobia, homophobia, and unquestioning corruption in religiosity.
On 13 ‘bad’ borrowers who sank BOB are revealed
Posted 8 September 2015, 12:20 p.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
This will help you: http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/submit-…
Hmmm never knew that you were a woman. (Only women say "Child").
I have nothing to say about "Haitians" or "Bahamian Haitians" or any such thing. I think that we are all "folks" just trying to make the best life possible for ourselves and our family. Who knows what I would do if I was desperate and a Haitian. I would prolly try to seek greener pastures. Come to think of it, that is what I am doing by accepting a foreign job. However I have the means to get documented and take an airplane to the promised land, instead of paying my life savings to board a homemade Haitian sloop crammed with desperate humanity with an uncertain future.
I was just saving you embarassment, by hoping that you would parse your sentences for correct grammar, but I guess that it is not regarded as a helpful suggestion.
On Activist fears for safety as police probe meeting
Posted 7 September 2015, 9:09 p.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
You should do some spell checking and grammar parsing. Also typing in capitals is not good netiquette.
On Activist fears for safety as police probe meeting
Posted 7 September 2015, 3:44 p.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
The trouble with that is the major hotel brands need insurance, and they are insured by first world insurers who care if the property is up to code or not.
On Hilton deal ‘conflicted’ Gov’t over Baha Mar
Posted 7 September 2015, 2:33 p.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
http://tribune242.com/users/photos/2015…
On Judge approves petition for Baha Mar liquidators to 'prevent depletion of resort's assets'
Posted 4 September 2015, 11:44 p.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
Poverty is rampant in the Bahamas. Just walk about Bain Town or Grants Town, or select places along Cowpen Road. If you live in a certain social strata in the Bahamas, you are insulated from it. Ride the jitneys and you will see poverty. They are among us, and we don't see them.
But there is also another kind of poverty that every Bahamian suffers from. It is poverty of spirit.
This is most exemplified in our standard of living and non-ease of living. If you have ever lived abroad, you will know what I mean. Abroad, one can start a business, incorporate online, print off the corporation papers, open a bank account in just one day for $400. And those corporation papers are your business licence if you do not operate a storefront. The cable guy says that he will be at your apartment the next day between 1PM and 4PM and he arrives. A non-resident driver's licence takes you a day to get a temporary one, and you get the real one in the mail a week later. A passport can be had in ten days for $140 dollars. A repair part for a washing machine arrives the next day from a city 500 miles away. The clerks stay at a store or a government office until all of the people have been served.
You can go to a gas station 24 hours a day, and the one near my apartment has no attendants at all. It is entirely automated. I stick my bank card into an ATM machine and it asks me if I want to conduct business from my credit card, my bank chequing account, my savings account, my line of credit or my Tax Free savings account.
Every single traffic light works. Every single street lamp works at night. The power never goes off. You can drink the tap water from every faucet in the house. Every place that I have ever lived in had a washer and dryer.
Life is so much easier abroad where everything works. We are poorer for our cultural slackness, our sweethearting, our tolerance of criminal politicians, our tolerance of hypocrisy, our support of non-religious religious people, our disrespect for human life, our tolerance of gunplay, and our sexual mores where premarital sex and single parenthood is the norm rather than the exception.
As to your bucolic views of Family Islanders, I would ask you to talk to social workers. The incidence of child molestation, pederasty, incest and buggery is rampant in most out island remote communities.
Nay, we have a long way to go as an enlightened peoples, and we are poor for the tolerance that we have for the lower, baser activities on the scale of human enlightenment.
I still maintain that the only way to ameliorate all of the ills, is to make everyone financially safe, secure and happy -- all through economic means.
On FNM: It’s time for Nottage to be replaced
Posted 3 September 2015, 10:50 p.m. Suggest removal
banker says...
>Just last week I thought about the amount of construction that has been done in China over the past decade, buildings much larger than those at Baha Mar and the quality of that workmanship.
The Chinese are not known for their quality:
Potential delays caused by the discovery of faulty Chinese steel in a recent inspection (Canada)
http://www.cme-mec.ca/?lid=jcknc-e742g-…
The Construction Industry and the Alleged Defective Chinese Drywall Issue (Florida)
http://www.lorman.com/resources/the-con…
10 Construction Projects That Broke the Bank http://science.howstuffworks.com/engine…
When it was approved in 1992, then-Vice Premier Zou Jiahua told the National People's Congress that it would cost $8.35 billion to build. But the project's budget quickly spiraled out of control. By the time that the dam was completed in 2006, the price tag had more than quadrupled to a mind-boggling $37 billion
Poor Construction: China's Cities are Falling Down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCmC9Un…
On Bowe and Baha Mar
Posted 3 September 2015, 7:15 p.m. Suggest removal