Umm ... may I remind you, that the workers could have been laid off, or sent home without pay because of delayed opening. They were still given salary for doing nothing. My cousin is the night manager for an unopened hotel, and he has nothing but eternal gratitude for the pay that he received for nothing, and thought that it was a very civic-minded thing to use the idle employees to beautify the country. But you know nothing about civic-mindedness, or respect for country, or gratitude for a pay cheque that didn't have to come. You joust here, playing with the truth to promulgate your unenlightened partisan views to try and obliquely justify the unjustifiable. You may think its jokes, but you fail to realise how serious this situation is, with the government acting like Robert Mugabe.

I'm okay, Jack. I have transferable skills and a ticket to ride out of this hell hole. But my loved ones don't -- and they don't have the dirty money that you have from the PLP to sustain them. Unlike you crabbies, us Red Shirts have honesty, decency and patriotism in our blood. Yours roils with the cynicism of hate and corruption. In my anger at your ignorance and perfidy, when the handcart arrives at the gates of Hell for this country, I hope that karma sees fit to wrought intense economic suffering on you, and you see the error of your ways and the blackness in your heart.

The trouble is that the foreign staff hold the key to knowledge jobs that Bahamians don't have. There are management positions in digital marketing, visitor analytics and data mining, CRM (customer relationship Managment) software specialists, and all sorts of esoteric occupations needed to run a modern facility cost-effectively and efficiently. I have read the biographies of these people, and they represent a huge investment in human capital that cannot be replaced without a long recruitment period. And now that the PR well is poisoned with the government interference, not one subject matter expert will rip us his or her life to take a chance on a banana republic system where the government, backed by a communist foreign power, steals almost a billion dollars from an investor.

Perry dem, did a good job of destruction and that moron Mitchell is conducting a private war against Izmirlian in foreign venues on a platform that is noted around to world. For a country that depends on Direct Foreign Investment, Mitchell is doing a good job of single-handedly destroying any possibility of recovery. I suspect that Fred is psychologically unbalanced to be doing the things that he does. Christie & Co. are just plain ignorant and obtuse, but Mitchell has crossed the line of rationality.

You really are grasping at straws. The workers were cleaning up Goodman's Bay at the point they took time off and held a love-in for Sarkis. Perhaps in your cold, cynical, cash-driven, heart, where rational thought and truth doesn't exist, you cannot understand anything else like altruism, because of the vomit mush injected into your brain, and the PLP money in your pockets.

It's hilarious that when anyone points out the egregious retardation, corruption, kleptocracy and criminal behaviour of the PLP, you always bring up the FNM. Are you that cognitively impaired to see that we are talking solely about the performance of the current PLP government? Are you that rationally obtuse that you cannot stick to the issues? What the FNM has done in past, or the Vanguard party or the UBP or anyone, is not cogent to the excessive moral and political failures of what is happening today. You don't realise that you are making a fool of yourself, like your beloved PLP on a world stage. Everyone who has the slightest interest in the Bahamas reads these pages and comments.

If this is all you have to contribute, then I will get my believer mother to pray for you, and hope against hope that a miracle occurs and you are healed from the blindness in your heart.

Wow -- a banana republic -- what happened to free speech? Note to foreign investors -- criticise the government and they will take your assets and force you to leave. Have we not one statesman in the government? Even my staunch Fox Hillian friends are saying that Fweddy has to go, as well as the PLP.

The supreme irony is that Fweddy wants to kick Izmirlian out for telling the truth. Fweddy's moral compass is so screwed, that he and the Truth are complete strangers.

End times for the good times.

How else do the PLP MP's launder the money?

Well said. After the demise of the Bahamas, and its rebirth in 2050, the PLP will be treated in this country as the Germans do now for the criminal Nazis.

The scores of young men murdered by the gunplay in the Bahamas, is the PLP's own legacy of genocide starting with Pindling. How many young men have gone to sea to tote square grouper for Carlos, or Pedro and anyone of the criminals, including the MPs and PM who facilitated them, and have never come back? How many young me lay dying in the street, with their blood spilling on the ground because they are poorly educated, illiterate, jobless, marginalised and dispossessed and have no country that they can exist in without crime?

That is the Pindling & Christie legacy. They have destroyed this country while enriching themselves, and history will judge them as the criminals that they are. Anyone with a surname who was in the Pindling or Christie government, will be reviled by generations to come, once truth and history have their say.

The Chinese are trying to build a case in the facile Bahamian courts with its archaic laws, because they know that they don't stand a chance in a modern, fair, foreign court.

The PLPeons are now all lining up behind the Chinese. You know, maybe they think that the Bahamas is screwed with the opening of Cuba, and America and her tourists won't save them, so they are aligning themselves with the Iron Rice Bowl tactics. There een no more money to tief from bled-out Bahamians, so they can siphon off money from Chinese loans, and to hell with the country and its very Sino future.

These are the final days -- not the final days of the coming of a suppose saviour, but rather the final days of the Bahamas as we know it.

Our slide into anarchy and oblivion as civilised nation started with independence and thanks to another PLP government, the handcart to Hell has been given a huge push.