Ok Minister....so 9 out of 60 qualified....dats like..15%......so last go arpund 4,000 Mortgages did qualify are in default hence da Mortgage Relief effort that did not even work....so where the huge 4,000 qualified mortgages that failed come from and dats only the ones that failed.....so how come ....these loans that tied up billions need to be investigated.....if loans were given out that didnt qualify causing failure then persons need to go to jail....!!!!
Recommend Minister Brent Symonette for a Medal for going beyond to give out his email and working so industriously to sort tings out..it is time to call the officials running this haitian embassy to account to the questions, queries, posed to it.....by the press. Other queries on the status and documentation for their Haitian people cannot remain floating in the air as it seems to relate to tens of thousands of persons within this sovereign Bahamas.
Dis is getting real weird.....wid all dese gubbernment experts....all types of information....on Dis hotel acquisition.....there should have been a gag order placed on this transaction and the gubbernment handle the outcome.....this owner an affiliated businesses are traded on hong kong stock exchange ....????....
.........the Hotel workers should be the ones to hit a home run.......now that the Hotel has been sold they should get good lawyer to see what bdnefits they are due...severencing payments from the previous owners....plus if the new owners are smart would keep them all on to make the "new" hotel function.plus .......would again upon sale of hotel a second time.....should again look into severencing payouts.....plus be rehired....home run.....,!!!!.
Some of he upper echelons fail big time to not know the realities of pore struggling Bahamians.....simple mathematical analysis is ya looks at the prospective market ya appealings to ....age 65 is when deys pays get cut an dey on pension...so ya appealling to employed at 18 to 65 years old.....lookin at the successfull applicant(s)..ys see the amount of the repayment whole loan to repay monthly...das ite 45% total loans debt service ratio....an the applicant must be able to survive with leeway on 55%.....Given that reaserch must have been done so as to know that these lowest prices would be a sellout but obviously is not....the government researchers officials responsible should offer their resignations for this blunder....Da Minister had ample time to do research knowing the govt workers pay and salary deductions and VAT increase on applicants budget analysis before rolling out project....
On the next aspect of govt not getting into the constructoon business because of shoddy workmanship......well doesnt the govt presently get into the construction of clinics....repairing schools....fixing roads....seawalls .getting BAMSI buildings built...?????.....no matter who builds the buildings.....govt is involved in the final analysis of lawfully inspecting in stages...certifying these structures that construction is in accordance to codes rules regulations for safe occupancy....or designated standards are met for use...,,!!!.....well mudda tek sic dred...!!!!!
....speaking of marketing....doesnt da authorities have marketing people to advise them .....calling the SPV Resolve only created a deeper hole revealing 100m paid was only worth some 22.5m and ....calling this one Lucayan Renewal Holdings......why does the govt guy is so desirous of reselling the hotel a difficult sell refer to potential buyers "They're probably going to get loads of bottom feeders initially, and will have to go throigh them.".......mudda sic dred how in da world anyone trying to sell describe buyers like " bottom feeders" and say that publictly....????
Where are all da MPs of Grand Bahama...???...and their overwhelming enthusiasm gushing forth a likely relief effort after all these years....????
For such an important and signigicant acquisition ...where is the DPM and Minister of Finance...??? How much is the Stamp Tax on dis Sale...??? Is it Gross or Net...?? Who are the lawyers doinng the drawing up da documents for execution....??? Whose side or interests are they representing....???....Or is this a case where dey represents both parties at da same time....???.......dese are important items .....Could there not have been some other vehicle.... means ....instrument...., merger, guarrantee, memo of deposit of deeds, ...used to transfer ownership minising costs and for resale soon after....
......cannot send her back .....because the Bahamian law says its illegal to not send the chillren to school...so she had to go to Bahamian school...an she was given an educayshun based on Bahamas....like Chridtopher Colu,bes doscovered her country the Bahamas...her great Bahamian heroines like Dame Doris Johndon...her great Bahamian leaders like Sir Linden Pindling...instead of Toussaint LOuverture Dessalines....she learns Bahamian cooking...not Lalu...legumes...she learns I pledge my Alliegence to the Bahamad.....Ministry of Education would have to compensate her millions ....noone should have the right to force educate anyone your education corruiculum if it is the intention of repatriating to a different country...it is time to hold he top echelons of the Education who enforce these rules....
Fully agree with your assessment...these illegal acts should disqualify persons ...and citizenship is not aitomatic at 18....hence the new found commonsence....in placing a photo id on citizenship notices now in daily papers..!!!!.....BUT...the Ministry of Education should be using commonsense....fully knowing thhese economic migrants fleeing abject grinding....condemned to perpetual poverty......given mathematical odds of doing better.....will ALWAYS head on some rickety boat ...and given the Bahamian Ministru encouragement of free education with lax rules on identity of child and parents....will make anchor babies.....Bahamian themselves themselves do this in us...the dilemna seems to be the few government officials out pf a population of 400,000 wanting to contonue this policy....knowing the inability mathrmatical guarranteed likelihood of giving all citizenship....on a timely basis ...knowing they will have to work illegally if they are to eat.....the few govt officials are forcing these persons to commit illegal acts....these few govt officials should not embarrass internationally the Bahamian nation with these stories of inhumanity....to some it may also seem that pore bahamian taxpayers are being goosied by these emotionally vote getting election talks every 5 years on illegals...which to some after 45 yeats of independence would be intentionally created by govt action of free schooling at pore taxpayers vat an increased vat taxes...to all knowing the outcome of not certifying citizenship atv18.....and winning election votes.....children in school amd parents hiding out in close knit shantytowns wprking illegally or on work permits renewed for 18 plus years.where general Bahamian population viewed as stangers....
bogart says...
Ok Minister....so 9 out of 60 qualified....dats like..15%......so last go arpund 4,000 Mortgages did qualify are in default hence da Mortgage Relief effort that did not even work....so where the huge 4,000 qualified mortgages that failed come from and dats only the ones that failed.....so how come ....these loans that tied up billions need to be investigated.....if loans were given out that didnt qualify causing failure then persons need to go to jail....!!!!
On ‘Build your own home’ - only nine qualified
Posted 29 August 2018, 6:25 p.m. Suggest removal
bogart says...
Recommend Minister Brent Symonette for a Medal for going beyond to give out his email and working so industriously to sort tings out..it is time to call the officials running this haitian embassy to account to the questions, queries, posed to it.....by the press. Other queries on the status and documentation for their Haitian people cannot remain floating in the air as it seems to relate to tens of thousands of persons within this sovereign Bahamas.
On Symonette: Sick teen not stateless
Posted 29 August 2018, 4:51 p.m. Suggest removal
bogart says...
Dis is getting real weird.....wid all dese gubbernment experts....all types of information....on Dis hotel acquisition.....there should have been a gag order placed on this transaction and the gubbernment handle the outcome.....this owner an affiliated businesses are traded on hong kong stock exchange ....????....
On Lucayan - we’ll hit a home run
Posted 29 August 2018, 4:22 p.m. Suggest removal
bogart says...
.........the Hotel workers should be the ones to hit a home run.......now that the Hotel has been sold they should get good lawyer to see what bdnefits they are due...severencing payments from the previous owners....plus if the new owners are smart would keep them all on to make the "new" hotel function.plus .......would again upon sale of hotel a second time.....should again look into severencing payouts.....plus be rehired....home run.....,!!!!.
On Lucayan - we’ll hit a home run
Posted 29 August 2018, 11:43 a.m. Suggest removal
bogart says...
Some of he upper echelons fail big time to not know the realities of pore struggling Bahamians.....simple mathematical analysis is ya looks at the prospective market ya appealings to ....age 65 is when deys pays get cut an dey on pension...so ya appealling to employed at 18 to 65 years old.....lookin at the successfull applicant(s)..ys see the amount of the repayment whole loan to repay monthly...das ite 45% total loans debt service ratio....an the applicant must be able to survive with leeway on 55%.....Given that reaserch must have been done so as to know that these lowest prices would be a sellout but obviously is not....the government researchers officials responsible should offer their resignations for this blunder....Da Minister had ample time to do research knowing the govt workers pay and salary deductions and VAT increase on applicants budget analysis before rolling out project....
On the next aspect of govt not getting into the constructoon business because of shoddy workmanship......well doesnt the govt presently get into the construction of clinics....repairing schools....fixing roads....seawalls .getting BAMSI buildings built...?????.....no matter who builds the buildings.....govt is involved in the final analysis of lawfully inspecting in stages...certifying these structures that construction is in accordance to codes rules regulations for safe occupancy....or designated standards are met for use...,,!!!.....well mudda tek sic dred...!!!!!
On ‘Build your own home’ - only nine qualified
Posted 29 August 2018, 11:12 a.m. Suggest removal
bogart says...
....how much are Directors and other members compensated .......????
On Moxey: We must build public confidence in BPL
Posted 28 August 2018, 4:42 p.m. Suggest removal
bogart says...
....speaking of marketing....doesnt da authorities have marketing people to advise them .....calling the SPV Resolve only created a deeper hole revealing 100m paid was only worth some 22.5m and ....calling this one Lucayan Renewal Holdings......why does the govt guy is so desirous of reselling the hotel a difficult sell refer to potential buyers "They're probably going to get loads of bottom feeders initially, and will have to go throigh them.".......mudda sic dred how in da world anyone trying to sell describe buyers like " bottom feeders" and say that publictly....????
On Grand Lucayan chairman blasts 'lack of co-operation'
Posted 28 August 2018, 4:16 p.m. Suggest removal
bogart says...
Where are all da MPs of Grand Bahama...???...and their overwhelming enthusiasm gushing forth a likely relief effort after all these years....????
For such an important and signigicant acquisition ...where is the DPM and Minister of Finance...???
How much is the Stamp Tax on dis Sale...???
Is it Gross or Net...??
Who are the lawyers doinng the drawing up da documents for execution....???
Whose side or interests are they representing....???....Or is this a case where dey represents both parties at da same time....???.......dese are important items .....Could there not have been some other vehicle.... means ....instrument...., merger, guarrantee, memo of deposit of deeds, ...used to transfer ownership minising costs and for resale soon after....
On We’re ready to take a hit on sale price
Posted 28 August 2018, 11:21 a.m. Suggest removal
bogart says...
......cannot send her back .....because the Bahamian law says its illegal to not send the chillren to school...so she had to go to Bahamian school...an she was given an educayshun based on Bahamas....like Chridtopher Colu,bes doscovered her country the Bahamas...her great Bahamian heroines like Dame Doris Johndon...her great Bahamian leaders like Sir Linden Pindling...instead of Toussaint LOuverture Dessalines....she learns Bahamian cooking...not Lalu...legumes...she learns I pledge my Alliegence to the Bahamad.....Ministry of Education would have to compensate her millions ....noone should have the right to force educate anyone your education corruiculum if it is the intention of repatriating to a different country...it is time to hold he top echelons of the Education who enforce these rules....
On INSIGHT: Five years of shattered dreams
Posted 27 August 2018, 7:47 p.m. Suggest removal
bogart says...
@My2crntz.....like your research and the links..
Fully agree with your assessment...these illegal acts should disqualify persons ...and citizenship is not aitomatic at 18....hence the new found commonsence....in placing a photo id on citizenship notices now in daily papers..!!!!.....BUT...the Ministry of Education should be using commonsense....fully knowing thhese economic migrants fleeing abject grinding....condemned to perpetual poverty......given mathematical odds of doing better.....will ALWAYS head on some rickety boat ...and given the Bahamian Ministru encouragement of free education with lax rules on identity of child and parents....will make anchor babies.....Bahamian themselves themselves do this in us...the dilemna seems to be the few government officials out pf a population of 400,000 wanting to contonue this policy....knowing the inability mathrmatical guarranteed likelihood of giving all citizenship....on a timely basis ...knowing they will have to work illegally if they are to eat.....the few govt officials are forcing these persons to commit illegal acts....these few govt officials should not embarrass internationally the Bahamian nation with these stories of inhumanity....to some it may also seem that pore bahamian taxpayers are being goosied by these emotionally vote getting election talks every 5 years on illegals...which to some after 45 yeats of independence would be intentionally created by govt action of free schooling at pore taxpayers vat an increased vat taxes...to all knowing the outcome of not certifying citizenship atv18.....and winning election votes.....children in school amd parents hiding out in close knit shantytowns wprking illegally or on work permits renewed for 18 plus years.where general Bahamian population viewed as stangers....
On INSIGHT: Five years of shattered dreams
Posted 27 August 2018, 6:44 p.m. Suggest removal