There was financing set up to pay the employees through the Chapter 11 filing, but instead the government blocked that so that they could use the employees as their own pawns.
They should not be paying anyone's salaries. What a waste of our money.
If the government had not let their big feelings get in the way, this would be half way through Chapter 11, work would be happening on the hotel to finish it and the creditors would be on their way to getting paid. Instead, to protect their ego's and their backroom dealings, the government has put up every road block they could and now there is no end in sight.
Baha Mar had asked the other parties to enter binding arbitration well over a month ago, and CCA refused. It really would have been the quickest way forward.
Every second comment you write, Tal, mentions someones shirt colour, or a damn dock. Maybe it's not about colours of your damn shirt. Perhaps people here want a better Bahamas than our current broken and corrupt system. The current way it is, no matter who is in power must change. This place is getting worse by the minute and part of the problem is that you have people arguing over shirt colour instead of what the best way forward is. This isn't the NBA of NFL where you pick your team. This is our country and our lives, and if we simply pick a team in it, then we are all going to lose. You are helping no one by always going back to plp fnm. You are hurting us all by trying to sway the discussion to something that will not help. You have many great points, but in order to discuss them I may disagree. That does not mean we are on different teams. If you believe in that point, then stand by it, don't change the discussion to try and divide us. We are both on the same side of bettering the Bahamas.
This government is just acting like a jilted teenage lover. There is not a single professional or statesmen among the entire leadership structure. It's amateur hour on the world stage.
They aren't even spending money on things that we need. They are literally wasting the majority of what they spend. All of the government run corporations that are bleeding money, waste on BAMSI because they couldn't be bothered to do paperwork, money on Carnival that just didn't need to happen when we are in a deficit, flights all over the world for our politicians that don't give us any economic return, RBDF boats to catch one Dominican fishing boat a year. And while spending wildly on things that make no difference, our education system is entirely underfunded and is a national embarrassment, crime is through the roof yet the police are underfunded and equipped. If the government could find a way to get kickbacks and favorable contracts for 'friends' in educating people, then we would be the most educated nation in the world.
The spending needs to stop. It's not hard to see when the average Bahamian's own household finances are in such shambles. Look at how our leaders spend money our country doesn't have. They are setting an example that we will all follow to the poor house.
newcitizen says...
Birdie's comments all day have been well reasoned. Tal's gone off the deep end and Birdie is making sense. What's happening?
On Expat staff at Baha Mar hotel set to be pulled out of the Bahamas
Posted 4 August 2015, 4:02 p.m. Suggest removal
newcitizen says...
There was financing set up to pay the employees through the Chapter 11 filing, but instead the government blocked that so that they could use the employees as their own pawns.
They should not be paying anyone's salaries. What a waste of our money.
On Expat staff at Baha Mar hotel set to be pulled out of the Bahamas
Posted 4 August 2015, 3:12 p.m. Suggest removal
newcitizen says...
If the government had not let their big feelings get in the way, this would be half way through Chapter 11, work would be happening on the hotel to finish it and the creditors would be on their way to getting paid. Instead, to protect their ego's and their backroom dealings, the government has put up every road block they could and now there is no end in sight.
On BREAKING NEWS: Baha Mar given leave to appeal Bahamian bankruptcy ruling
Posted 4 August 2015, 2:54 p.m. Suggest removal
newcitizen says...
Tal is just a troll who sees only yellow and red and does not care about bettering Bahamians. We have to stop feeding the troll.
On Mitchell to Sarkis: Conform or leave
Posted 4 August 2015, 2:42 p.m. Suggest removal
newcitizen says...
97% of the way done and you want to drastically modify it. You really must be in bed with the government.
On Govt says Baha Mar statement 'misleading'
Posted 4 August 2015, 11:06 a.m. Suggest removal
newcitizen says...
Baha Mar had asked the other parties to enter binding arbitration well over a month ago, and CCA refused. It really would have been the quickest way forward.
On Chamber offer in Baha Mar dispute
Posted 31 July 2015, 6:32 p.m. Suggest removal
newcitizen says...
Every second comment you write, Tal, mentions someones shirt colour, or a damn dock. Maybe it's not about colours of your damn shirt. Perhaps people here want a better Bahamas than our current broken and corrupt system. The current way it is, no matter who is in power must change. This place is getting worse by the minute and part of the problem is that you have people arguing over shirt colour instead of what the best way forward is. This isn't the NBA of NFL where you pick your team. This is our country and our lives, and if we simply pick a team in it, then we are all going to lose. You are helping no one by always going back to plp fnm. You are hurting us all by trying to sway the discussion to something that will not help. You have many great points, but in order to discuss them I may disagree. That does not mean we are on different teams. If you believe in that point, then stand by it, don't change the discussion to try and divide us. We are both on the same side of bettering the Bahamas.
On Govt leaves talks blaming Baha Mar
Posted 30 July 2015, 10:47 a.m. Suggest removal
newcitizen says...
This government is just acting like a jilted teenage lover. There is not a single professional or statesmen among the entire leadership structure. It's amateur hour on the world stage.
On Govt leaves talks blaming Baha Mar
Posted 30 July 2015, 10:36 a.m. Suggest removal
newcitizen says...
They aren't even spending money on things that we need. They are literally wasting the majority of what they spend. All of the government run corporations that are bleeding money, waste on BAMSI because they couldn't be bothered to do paperwork, money on Carnival that just didn't need to happen when we are in a deficit, flights all over the world for our politicians that don't give us any economic return, RBDF boats to catch one Dominican fishing boat a year. And while spending wildly on things that make no difference, our education system is entirely underfunded and is a national embarrassment, crime is through the roof yet the police are underfunded and equipped. If the government could find a way to get kickbacks and favorable contracts for 'friends' in educating people, then we would be the most educated nation in the world.
The spending needs to stop. It's not hard to see when the average Bahamian's own household finances are in such shambles. Look at how our leaders spend money our country doesn't have. They are setting an example that we will all follow to the poor house.
On Gov’t fiscal policy like ‘filling bucket with hole at bottom’
Posted 30 July 2015, 10:21 a.m. Suggest removal
newcitizen says...
I know, sometimes I just can't help myself.
On Govt leaves talks blaming Baha Mar
Posted 29 July 2015, 6:23 p.m. Suggest removal