Owners don't neccesarily have to be operators/managers.

I assure you that the reason Carey is not still General Counsel is because he fought every day to force GBPA to execute its fiduciary duties

Government should obviously proceed cautiously. White elephants are hard to live down.

That said, Bradley is comparing apples with oranges. BORCO had many times more employees when it was a refinery. Bunkering is not the same.

Additionally, it was a crude refiner. I do not know what the proposed refinery intends to produce but because there is no market for crude products does not necessarily mean that there is no market for refined products.

I end where I began, the government should tread lightly. Show me the money.

Has Government explained its rationale for approval?

Unfortunately, Bahamians fail to appreciate that we have benefited from trade agreements for decades. They have typically been bilateral, but trade agreements non-the-less.

A. These agreements are expiring and are being replaced with WTO.

B. The existing agreements are only goods based. Service and intellectual property are generally not covered.

C. We seem to take historical access to foreign markets for granted because we are small and have good foreign relations. Without guaranteed access, we can easily be excluded like Haiti and Cuba have historically been.

D. We already see how this works when we try to do things in cyberspace only to be face with, “sorry, this [blank] does not allow access from your jurisdiction”. Or OECD blacklisting of our financial industry. People were up in arms when they thought that Florida had banned the import of seafood from The Bahamas.

Lord help us if 45 work up this morning and decided to prohibit US citizens from visiting The Bahamas or Bahamians from visiting the USA.

We seem to only think domestic when we discuss business. We only survive because we export goods and services. If we closed our borders and made only B$ transactions (or were closed by others), we would starve.

We need to cease the emotional response and figure out how to use WTO access to our expanded benefit while charging Winder to negotiate well to protect our vulnerabilities.

These comments are sad

We should do everything in our power to protect our borders but if a child is within our borders, by whatever means, we have a legal obligation and a selfish reason to educated them and assimulate them into our society.

To not do so is to alienate the child and grow a potential criminal along the way.

Rolle would be correct if consumers had freedom to transfer accounts, mortgages, etc from provider to provider without penalty. You can't have freedom only on one side of a market and have it succeed.

Lord, I hope that VVP has purged himself of his "Club Grand Bahama" marketing scheme. "The Grand Life" is what Grand Bahama is focused on.

We suffer from reading comprehension in this country

The lead up to this day was much to be desired. Government should have never interfered in a private matter.

Having said that, the questioning of a temporary occupancy certificate and the "handover " and phased opening of a resort that has not closed its purchase agreement is not unusual.

You receive temporary occupancy certificates for the portions that are complete. In a multbuilding complex a phased occupancy is normal.

As for handover to new "owners" anything can be contractually agreed to subject to terms. The purchase closing may be subject to securing an occupancy certificate for the entire resort. Does not mean that the seller will not allow the purchaser to make use on a phased basis.

Let's remain objective in our assessments.