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observer2 says...

Proudloudman. So the governments Dorian count of missing persons is correct?

Extracting sand from the sea bed for sale doesn’t cause coastal erosion.

Drilling for oil in our pristine oceans is safe?

Cutting down hills in Nassau doesn’t cause flooding?

Bunker C diesel used by BEC and Shell is environmentally friendly?

Borrowing $600 million for more polluting diesel generators is prudent?

Building up the cruise port in Nassau is sound environmentally?

Selling hundreds of acres of Lighthouse Beach to Disney for a couple of jobs and cruise ship per head tax is a fundamentally sound way to develope Eleuthera with no need for schools, parks, roads, utilities etc?

With these types of development let’s not be shocked that so much foreign labor needs to be imported...because the government is not investing in Bahamians for decades.

On DRILLING ON OFFSHORE PLATFORM IMMINENT

Posted 3 February 2020, 3:33 p.m. Suggest removal

observer2 says...

What about the 10,000 cruise ship visitors everyday?

On China virus - nine now placed in quarantine

Posted 3 February 2020, 3:20 p.m. Suggest removal

observer2 says...

Well said. Don.t forget as you suck oil from under the islands more earthquakes and flooding will occur.

Also the massive sale of our sand in the seabed is contributing to sinking islands, flooding.

Also cutting down hills for fill is causing flooding.

I guess we will be like the ppl in Noah’s day and learn nothing from the 30 feet of water from Dorian in Freeport and Abaco.

The government from not acknowledging the true level of ppl lost in Dorian and silence on the oil drilling says they really don’t care about the future of our children.

On DRILLING ON OFFSHORE PLATFORM IMMINENT

Posted 3 February 2020, 9:41 a.m. Suggest removal

observer2 says...

Excellent article in the NY Times detailing how China's dictatorial regime suppressed information about the coronavirus while it was in its infancy and could be contained.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/01/worl…

observer2 says...

I doubt it for planes coming from Cuba.

Government statements targeted to smooth and white wash the real issues.

observer2 says...

Breaking News: Italy declared a six-month state of emergency after two Chinese tourists in the country tested positive for the coronavirus in the first cases detected in the country.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/31/coronav…

observer2 says...

I wish the government and international agencies would stop making Bahamian students the core focus as a possible main cause for the viral introduction and deal with the real elephant in the room.

China is our largest foreign investor replete with thousands of Chinese workers and tourist.

Illegal immigration is a real problem and people want to get out of China.

observer2 says...

China is our largest foreign investor including the iconic Baha Mar, replete with thousands of Chinese workers and tourist moving freely between our countries.

That’s about as much as I feel comfortable saying.

observer2 says...

A simple lawsuit by one customer asking the court stay the bond repayment port of his bill on the grounds that he did not agree to lend BEC any monies should make the entire house of cards fall apart.

Parliament can commit the Bahamas to repay a debt but parliament can’t force an individual to incur a specific debt that individual didn’t agree to assume.

When customers open a BEC account they only agree to buy electricity, not debt. At the very least BEC should have all customers sign or notified that the terms of their electricity supply contract has changed and they are debtors to these new foreign masters.

First you start with light, then water, the. Post office then national insurance where do we stop when we directly saddle individual Bahamians with specifics debts.

There is zero precedent globally for such a bond.

Normally Bahamian sovereign debt is 2 to 3 times over subscribed, because they only have indications for 90% means that foreigner a lil afraid a BEC dem. Where are the up to date audited accounts? Where is the prospectus? Where is the road show for Bahamian investors? Where is the moody rating? Where are the exact projects for the funds raised? Where is the BEC tract record of collections ... lol, if Dey can’t turn off da lights of ppl on the protection list how can you collect bond interest from dem.

I ain know who Dey tryin to fool wit dis set a nonsense.

I assume opposition lawyers are just waiting for BEC to put the line item in a bill before bringing the litigation on behalf of one customer.

If one get set aside den ain nobody ga pay.

FNM need to stop harassing da people’s dem.

On BPL cuts bond to $580m raise

Posted 20 January 2020, 10:36 p.m. Suggest removal

observer2 says...

Dis one joke, Wall Street should be ashamed of themselves disguising a sovereign debt as a corporate quasi government agency with massive losses.

There must be something ethically wrong with making ppl pay the debt they did not agree to assume.

The entire structure is flawed. The airport and port authority bonds do not directly charge thier customers/shipppers, it is a debt of the corporation and not its customers or travelers.

Dis a fall apart soonest.

On BPL cuts bond to $580m raise

Posted 20 January 2020, 10:13 p.m. Suggest removal