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rosiepi says...

How can Rolle speak of another conversation, another whack at negotiations?
How could anyone respond favourably when the unions negotiated and settled with the PLP in good faith back in 2021, only to have that benefit of the doubt dashed every year since?

On PM slams health staff over strike

Posted 16 January 2025, 12:26 p.m. Suggest removal

rosiepi says...

So I’m the PM of the Bahamas, my past and that of my party is literally a stumbling ground of questionable practices and interactions here and abroad with corrupt gov’t and finance officials, criminal actors, drug lords, you name em.

But never mind all that. My problem now apart from my governance over a failed state,
is that unbeknownst to myself, my officials, and/or criminal cohorts’ the US DOJ has over the past years secretly assembled a task force to monitor criminal financial activity and drug smuggling within my own government monitored for years.
That this is a sharp deviation from past and supposedly ongoing coordination with their Bahamian counterparts is devastating to my mandate as PM.

Now I have to come up with a plausible explanation as to why the US DOJ have refused to share their evidence with myself or any of my officials, refused to give notice of their intending arrests and indictments of my own officials, refused all diplomatic overtures!

Aren’t I the PM of the Bahamas, the ultimate authority?!
Exactly. Play dumb!

rosiepi says...

All 5 firetrucks inoperable because the gov't has no $$ to pay for maintenance and that's just the story in one settlement's fire station?!

Davis&Co have been in power for less than 3 1/2 years and the cupboard is bare.
We keep hearing about increased $$ from a continuous rise in tourists stays and arrivals, new business etc etc.
So how come the national debt is outpacing our GDP and we're not in the throes of a pandemic?

And Doctors, healthcare workers, teachers, public service, airline workers etc. await benefits and $$ promised so they can pay their bills, feed their families.
What did one expect except empty and unfulfilled promises, unfunded social service programs and public works projects

Bahamian SOEs are broke, two of BahamasAir ATR-42s are grounded because PWC refuses to release their engines until Davis&Co pay their invoice.

Meanwhile embarrassingly flights at Christmas on Flightaware & FlightStats showed as being flown with tail numbers from 3 of the grounded planes. One would have to wait til shortly before takeoff to see them finally cancelled, but they were scheduled again the next day
Shouldn't such lies, lunacy and slight of hand be some sort of crime??

rosiepi says...

Of course it’s going to cost! But isn’t that your mandate, your sworn duty?
To serve all Bahamians, most especially the vulnerable?

And since your gov’t has shut down funding to social service programs and those institutions that have long served Bahamians we’ll put this begrudging and churlish display down to…arrogance sounds about right.

rosiepi says...

If medications, health costs, baby and bread basket items, etc etc had not been made taxable by Davis&Co we wouldn’t be needing his pittance

Who exempted these items only to have Davis&Co grab them back again?
The original no exemption list was a gift to retailers certainly not the people of the Bahamas.

The current government has failed to fund/start/staff any meaningful program to better the lives they’re sworn to safeguard.
In fact their only success stories is limited to their corruption of every institution designed to uplift the Bahamas out of it’s reputation as a failed nation state.

On 5% VAT cut on all food items

Posted 10 January 2025, 8:27 a.m. Suggest removal

rosiepi says...

Rolle’s already charged with killing one man, and now this with no trial for another two years?
And no ties that link Johnson to the larger crimes of corruption, and conspiracy to steal over $1M?
The writings on the wall for this Bahamian styled ‘investigation’!

rosiepi says...

So only the “well known” lawyer remains clothed in secrecy.
The Bahamas judiciary system climbs ever higher up the pol of global corruption…

rosiepi says...

There’s an old saying ‘give your other end a chance’..good advice for foolish birdies.

The problem with disparaging a man like Duane Sands, “he can never see anything good and worthy about the Bahamas” is that he’s educated at the most prestigious US universities, Tufts and John Hopkins, he could practice anywhere but he came back here to establish the first heart surgery program in the Bahamas and here is where he practices-on Bahamians and all else who wander in needing his care.
So there’s that..

Then this business about the “esteemed” AG Pinder..

What Dr Sands doesn’t come out and say is that the AG lied about former PM Christie and his ‘advisor’ Sir Beltron’s substantial role in the demise of Mr Izmirilian’s endeavour the Baha Mar project.
In the judgement handed down the judge states the frauds perpetrated by CCA etc etc., (and one of those ‘etc’ is the Bahamas gov’t, former PM Christie and tag team of Beltron and Leslie Bethel) directly caused that project to fail to meet substantial completion.

That they lied repeatedly, promising an opening of March 27, 2015 when they had in fact been in negotiations with said ‘advisors’ and gov’t since at least 2014 for the manner in which they’d take over the project and seem to cause Izmirlian to default.

It’s all there in discovery and direct testimony of the CCA principal Tiger Wu.

The monies paid to the Bethels from 2014 on, there’s the email to Liu of CCA from the good sir after CCA missed the date and were shaking Izmirlian down for more $$.
“How do YOU want the manner of negotiations to proceed?
refusing to complete the project wanother “how to you want the manner of negotiations to proceed?” suggesting bringing in another partner within 90 days adding “such a suggestion should come from the Bank (CEXIM) and not the government” to prove the government is not trying to push Izmirlian out”
Makes for some very interesting reading!
https://law.justia.com/cases/new-york/o…

rosiepi says...

Yet we’re not just talking about allegations of fraud, rather a proven case of fraudulent behavior in a court of law, and that makes CCA’s declaration of bankruptcy a flimsily disguised attempt to circumvent their court ordered payment for judgement to Mr Izmirlian.

And you persist in believing this bankruptcy is not a fraud and rather a signal of China’s fear for their investments now that Trump has returned to the White House?
Think again, recalling Trump’s reputation for talking out of both sides of his mouth.

In 2015 the Chinese had $14.7B in direct foreign investments in the US, however by 2020 their US investments had reached $36.7B…

On CCA files in US for bankruptcy

Posted 23 December 2024, 10:22 p.m. Suggest removal

rosiepi says...

Walker’s candidacy and promotion by Trump in 2020 was an insult to the citizens of GA
Now this numbskull is being foisted upon this country, insult to the Bahamas and the services provided to Americans by the US Embassy!

On Trump taps Walker for Ambassador to Bahamas

Posted 19 December 2024, 1:54 a.m. Suggest removal