Interesting. They will be competing with the Mennonites on Abaco who ship honey everywhere, even to Nassau. I even used to buy Abaco Mennonite honey at the marine supply shops on East Bay Street when it came by mailboat.

Speaking of Haitian influx, a relative of mine once served on the Bahamian tender the MV Eastore which used to ship Haitians back to Haiti by boat. The Eastore was purchased from Canada by the government of the Bahamas, and even in the late 1990's was repatriating Haitians. She was a supply tender that served in the Canadian navy. Does anyone know what happened to MV Eastore? She was a 560 ton supply tender that was 177 feet long, and was in the service of the government of the Bahamas for many years.

If you want to ask a prostitute anything, or even requisition the services of one, and sometimes for free, pay attention and I will let you in on a secret on how to do it. Wait till after 10:30 PM and walk the sidewalks of Paradise Island Drive from Atlantis to the Cloisters and back. Wear "street" clothes - chinos and a shirt with a collar. No shorts, and don't wear your work clothes if you work in the hospitality industry. The jungliss and front-sellers slowly drive their beat-up cars up and down PI Drive, and when they spot you, they drive up and ask if you want to party.

I lived in a condo near the end of PI Drive (until very recently) and I would go out at night for a late night stroll, and would be propositioned nightly until they all recognised me. They would scope me out and figure that I wasn't Bahamian because I was walking PI drive and wasn't in a uniform. And since I was forced to speak the Queen's English at home when I was being raised in Nassau, I spoke like the man on the six o'clock news. I would ask if they were professionals, and they said yes. I would say that I would never pay for sex, and they said that they would accept "udder tings". Once a team of two of them said that they just wanted a night of fun and lots of drinks and tings in a fancy house. Actually I felt sorry for them. But they are still there, paying the toll at the bridge like it was a numbers house ticket, hoping to hit the jackpot.

I think that I saw them for sale on www.SlutsSandAndSea.org

Sluts need mechanized hygiene.

On the same website there is also pink Delicious-Palacious shirts like in the picture for role-playing while making out with the Sluts. You wear the shirt in delicto flagrante all the while exhorting da slut not to be a jungliss.

>does not publish a separate balance sheet that I can find, nor is there one on Bloomberg.

If you have a real Bloomberg terminal ($15,000 a month - which my employer pays for), navigate to the Chinese stock exchange documents tab run by Chinese Daily Securities publications, pay the $145 and get the latest annual shareholders report for CECC. In the English translation on page 125, you will find out the liabilities of CCA to CECC. Then further down on page 151, you will see the bonds from CCA that CECC holds. Then further down, you will see long term equity investments CCA (notes to financial statement, page 228) you will see the figure 40 billion RMB which is about 6 billion USD.

Please spend the money to educate yourself.

Here is an interesting thought experiment -- pure speculation, but interesting nonetheless. Suppose Sarkis proves in an American court that fraud was committed. It establishes a legal precedent of fraud with Baha Mar and CCA. Now with that precedent established, could not a case could be made against Perry Christie and Allyson Maynard Gibson that they willingly participated, aided and abetted the fraudulent behaviour of CCA and helped CCA illegally gain Baha Mar. Could not that precedent be used as proof for a Bahamian lawsuit against Perry Christie and the PLP (Putrid Lecherous Pricks) for aiding and abetting a fraud? Not sure it could happen, but there oughta be some retribution somehow for what the PLP did to the country.

However this plays out in New York, it will be reported in the travel news, and has the ability to taint Baha Mar and tourists booking there. It has already a bad name from the earlier times when tourists had to cancel weddings when CCA first failed to deliver. Bottom line is that we don't need any more reduction in tourism right now.

Pardon me sir, but your ignorance is showing. Please don't try to defend an erroneous statement that you made off the top of your head. CCA has ASSETS over $5 billion in the States. ASSETS means available for seizure and monetizing. Plaza Construction alone is a 31 year old company bought by CCA in 2013 from the Fisher Brothers (private sale estimated over a billion dollars and closer to two). According to my Bloomberg terminal, their CEO Richard Wood was paid an aggregate salary of $5 million this year. They did 11 Times Square construction retaining a piece of equity for their participation. They actively own an engineering and consulting firm and they acquire development properties for the Witkoff group. Because CCA is a foreign company, asset transfer domiciled in the US requires regulatory approval with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. Last year the turnover alone on Plaza was $2 billion with over 18 million square feet under development. And that is just Plaza. Don't forget that CCA is an entity belonging to CCEC and that is owned by EXIM bank which has liens on assets in the US totaling over $50 billion. CCA itself advertises its investment arm in the United States owning equity in New York real estate as well as financing projects like bridges, dams and high end residential developments. Between the two companies (CCA & Plaza) there is close to $8 billion in the states that can be attached by the courts (full disclosure -- my estimates) and when you go up the corporate ladder in their ownership that is domiciled in the United States, they could cover a $2 billion loss to Sarkis easily, either voluntarily or ordered by the courts. Please do your research before making erroneous armchair-quarterback statements.

>he is suing a 100% Chinese state owned company with minimal assets in the USA, in the USA. Even if he wins (highly unlikely), who is going to make the Chinese pay? Exactly, no one.

CCA owns Plaza Construction in the US. When the deal was done in 2015, CCA in the US had estimated assets of $2 billion. Since then Plaza alone, does over a billion a year in construction, including high rises and bridges etc. CCA US assets, work in progress and funds held in America run around $5 billion. Freezing the funds of Plaza alone, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of CCA can pay off Izmilian. There is a damn good chance of Izmirlian winning. They can specifically go at CCA with 15 U.S.C. § 78m, the Accounting provisions under the Foreign Corrupt Services Act. All they have to do is requisition the books. It doesn't matter if the work is in the Bahamas, if the company wants to work in the USA, which it does, it cannot break any laws. This is a masterful stroke by Izmirlian's legal team.

What about the people who just wish that they had a job, or that their parents could afford to send them to school abroad? What about folks trapped in a dead end job with wife and perhaps kid and no mobility to better themselves? What about a country where corruption is not only tolerated, but celebrated by unenlightened people like birdie Strachan and Tal Russell? What about putting criminals on our money and pretending that they are great? What about the damage and slackness that our history has caused us, and the heartache that it causes the people today? What if your New Years resolutions were impossible because of the history of your country? Instead of developing your people, you stole from them. What if you stole from them like the last batch of PLP cabinet ministers who sold their country out as well as the future of generations?

We aren't a normal people with a normal demographic distribution. A huge portion of the populace lives in poverty and sees little hope. They live in poverty of money, poverty of enlightenment, poverty of opportunity, poverty in education, poverty in worldview. And these insignificant rantings of a self Onanistic nature laugh in the face of the bitter reality facing most of the people in this archipelago in the sun. And sadly the reason for the season is part of the problem and not of the solution.