EDITOR, The Tribune.
There is deafening silence in this country with regards to the controversial modern building that is being blithely built right before our very eyes – heading upwards to the sky, drilling down below the ground and spanning out across the sea.
Pass by at “knock off” time and be dazzled by the steady stream of non-Bahamian workers leaving the site – same story, different day, just further up the road!
Where are the cries of concern and outrage aimed at the destruction of our sense of place? They are sadly lacking, not only from Bahamian architects/engineers and their impotent associations, but also from ordinary Bahamian citizens who should be vigorously protesting the prostitution and handing over of our birthright, and that of generations of Bahamians still unborn.
We have a right to be privy to the intimate details of this questionable exchange that goes beyond a mere public invitation to view the plans at a government institution.
Wake up, Bahamas, and see what ya lookin’ at. Lay claim to and own our own. Demand answers – it’s later than you think!
PAM BURNSIDE
Nassau,
October 22, 2015.
Comments
Well_mudda_take_sic 8 years, 6 months ago
Just think how much Christie and his family have pocketed from allowing Communist Chinese to build their state owned development known as The Pointe within extremely close proximity to the U.S. Embassy in the Bahamas. While Red China is constructing The Point, they will build into it the very latest state-of-the-art intelligence gathering technologies in order to snoop in on just about any and every things that goes on at or passes through the U.S. Embassy in the Bahamas. Fred Mitchell apparently told Perry Christie sometime ago that the Bahamas needs to teach the U.S. a lesson or two, and Christie agreed this was the case. Seems the Christie-led PLP government is fed up with U.S. policies aimed at detroying or hurting both our tourism industry and our financial services sector, e.g. negative travel alerts by the U.S. Dept of State, downgrading of Bahamas credit ratings by U.S. controlled interests like S&P and Moody's, the unfavourable policies proposed by the U.S. controlled IMF, World Bank and IDB that only serve to increase our national debt, the recent blacklisting of our banking sector from Washington D.C., the imposition of FATCA by the IRS/U.S. Dept of State, etc., etc., etc. Christie and Mitchell both still believe they have little choice but to curry great favour with Red China so they no doubt had Allyson Maynard-Gibson and Baltron Bethel seal The Pointe deal with the appropriate government officials of Red China for the purpose of sticking a finger in the eye of the U.S. Government. The Obama administration and their lack luster dim witted Secretary of State, John Kerry, have yet to figure out the severity of what is going on down here in the Bahamas and the extent to which U.S. security interests are being terribly compromised by ongoing espionage attacks of Red China on the U.S. Embassy in the Bahamas. The U.S. is being subjected to ever increasing Chinese cyber-warfare from within Nassau (just across the street from the U.S. Embassy), just a mere 180 miles away from the coast of South Florida. Can you imagine how this is going to be played out by Republicans in the mainstream news media in the run up to the U.S. presidential election in November 2016. Wow! One really has to wonder who's dumber....Americans, particularly ones of the Democrat persuasion, or Bahamians, especially ones of the PLP persuasion!
birdiestrachan 8 years, 6 months ago
You apparently missed the point that both American and England have embraced the Chinese. just last week . England spread the Red Carpet for them.
birdiestrachan 8 years, 6 months ago
The Queen, Elizabeth was right there front and centre clicking glasses with the Chinese President. Will she and the English PM be putting money in their pockets?
MonkeeDoo 8 years, 6 months ago
birdiestrachan: Her Majesty The Queen and The PM will not be putting anything in their pockets: They have come from hundreds or years of civilization and civilized politicians don't tief, and don't take backhanders. Our people have had barely 300 years to become civilized and still only know what it looks like but don't practice it. When politicians tief in civilized countries they are removed. In the Bahamas they are applauded.
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