lets see b sands ,j fritzgerald ,then finlyson and p kemp aquired city markets with a pension plan estamated to be in the region of 15 to 20 million ,,10 million by there own admission ,,now all the 300 employees got is an old rotten wharehouse ,,way to look out for the small man ..plp all the way .lol

i have worked in the industry for 37 years , my labour and attitude have helped promote our country .. ,the amout of fuel , food ,liquer and beer ibought while i entertain tourist provides jobs... for a boat i,m putting togeather now i will pay large amounts of liability insurance to Bahamian owned insurance companies ,i buy marine parts fiberglass etc ffrom bahamian companies ,,i have spent thosand in dollars on materials to repair and paint a a boat...don,t give me plaititudes ,,i,m out there everyday with our lifeblood ,our guest ..

fact americas homocide rate is 4 per 100,000 ,ours is 27 per 100,000 ,,you are 6 and 1/2 times more likley to die of homocide in the bahamas ,,open your eyes to what is happening in our country ,,

first we need a referendum ,who is going to keep investing on the chance the public may say no ,,and yes i know where the caps lock is

let me ask you something ,these companies are operating as a capatalist enterprise where profit is king ,..why then would they pay 10.000 for a work permit ,or multiple permits , and as you claim pay the foriegners more if they could find the same thing here . . Yesterday i took out 6 couples ,12 people on a boat tour . they travel togeather every year and frequent a chain resort through the region .. they came to our new hotel of that chain on a family island ..when i asked how there stay was they said this local was the most beautiful but the service was the worst they have ever had . they said apart from the foriegn employees the place would be a complete disaster ..Myself and another Bahamian ,an employee from the resort were embarrassed . the guest were nice folks and good spenders .. i have been in the tourism industery since i was 14 ,,i am now 51 ..the 15% on the bill ruined us ,,i don,t put it on my bills b/c i have allways average 25% and up tips ..SP i don,t know where you live ..when both partys tell you we are doing 5 mill / tourist a year its a joke ,,its 3.5 cruise ship / 1.35 stopover ...for the last decade we have been losing stopover to other countrys in our region and it is b/c of attitude and service ..get used to it ,,,we got to make foriegners beds and serve drinks to live .. i did it and saved money until i could afford a boat to fish and take guest in ..i have prepared myself for Cuba,s opening ,have you ,,with our lousy service they are going to knock the crap out of us ..as i said before this type of xenophopic rethoric makes people very emotive ,some throw facts out the window , like the fact that big and medium investers will get all the pewrmits they want under the PLP , and resort to name calling ,Freds fantasy speech has served it purpose of uniting support againts a straw man to figth ,,the wicked foriegner it diverts us from the reality that we are killing one another nightly ,,our debt is skyrocketing ,numbers man bougth the parliment and we are going to drill holes for oil in our pristine waters ,,lmafo

now lets see BPC is going to take a chance spending money drilling test wells on the chance the Bahamian public may vote no on a referrendum ,and people are expected to buy shares on the BIXS when a referendum may say no ...my perdiction, as long as they can keep selling shares on the London market and now the BIXS there will be no referendum ..ALSO 21 million is grossley under funded ..BPC is the front company betw/ our treasury and the oil if there is any ,The same way Ping made the hotel corp to put his cronies btw / our revenues from the hotels/casinos and the tresury ..

xenophobia is a big political seller for the ears of the undereducated and emotional masses ,the big and medium investers will get all the permits they need or want ..

well said , i can understand party loyalty ,but not admitting their was a world wide recession when every news agency talked about it every night for 4 years, and we came out of it with a lot less debt ratio to gdp than most countrys i.ON top of that we didn,t lay off any civil servants..its like denying the holocost ,when some one denies the holocost or the great recession you know they are an ass or mentally ill

i think when anyones family member gets murdered the family members feel bad ,i don,t think there would be any way to guage who feels worse when a family member dies ,a Bahamian or an American , i would think any human feels devastated when a family member is murdered ,,

4 people in 100,000 in the U/S die of homocide ,27 in 100,000 die of homocide in the Bahamas ,,the likely hood of you being killed by violent homcide of any kind is about 6 and 1/2 greater in the Bahamas ,,geez