The Prime Minster has just announced in the House, that the Govt is tired of the issues with the Grand Bahama Port Authority and they are willing to purchase the Port Authority and solve Grand Bahama's problems.

I'm am new to GB and not quite sure all the ins and out of the Hawksbill agreement. But from what I can see here with the monopoly with the Port friends and the lack of innovation with the Port and the mess the families are in, I say: BUY AWAY...your behinds should have never extended the agreement in the first dern place.

Any other GB people can school me on this.

The Prime Minster has just announced in the House, that the Govt is tired of the issues with the Grand Bahama Port Authority and they are willing to purchase the Port Authority and solve Grand Bahama's problems.

WHAT ON EARTH! YOU BETTER BE JOKING.

WHAT ON EARTH! YOU BETTER BE JOKING.


Porque? I say buy it on credit, create an authority to run Freeport as a Corporation, and bring in some Chinese to run it. About freaking time if you ask me...

Porque? I say buy it on credit, create an authority to run Freeport as a Corporation, and bring in some Chinese to run it. About freaking time if you ask me...


...Or hire a properly trained Bahamian city manager NOT some polticial hack who has no experience in city managment or some greedy bazzztad outta West End lookin ta fill his/her pockets.

Buy the shares, keep operating powers, but sell the rest to the Bahamian people giving first dibs to GBIers.

...Or hire a properly trained Bahamian city manager NOT some polticial hack who has no experience in city managment or some greedy bazzztad outta West End lookin ta fill his/her pockets.
Buy the shares, keep operating powers, but sell the rest to teh Bahamian people giving first dibs to GBIers.


I can agree with this. And this idea is about 2 decades behind schedule.

I can agree with this. And this idea is about 2 decades behind schedule.


Bredahh,

Hayward and St George should been bought out YEARS ago. Shoot 20 years ago when they re-upped the Hawksbill Creek Agreement would have been a fine time.

Remember when they first offered shares of BATELCO to the public? THe Port should have been the first "company" in the Bahamas to go IPO...


I respect St G and Hayward, but the time has come.

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Buy the shares, keep operating powers, but sell the rest to the Bahamian people giving first dibs to GBIers.


Ummm, that would be rank discrimination, and probably illegal. If anything, limit the amount of shares any one person may buy, ( do not sell to Companies), to spread the feeling of ownership. Grand Bahmamians boy; I dunno why they so...

Ummm, that would be rank discrimination, and probably illegal. If anything, limit the amount of shares any one person may buy, ( do not sell to Companies), to spread the feeling of ownership. Grand Bahmamians boy; I dunno why they so...



Da word ya lookin for is grabalicious! Ya know GBI people tink we better dan erry body else! :D

Is BahamianGoddess a bit "over zealous" with her government proclamations, or not?

LOL.........

In any event, we will wait to see what this is all about. I get a bit put off, when I hear things that "we are considering" over "what is about to happen". Especially when its from a PM. I happen to think a PM, should only speak when something is about to happen- when it appears to be as if he is feeling things out, it makes him look weak and pumping for information. JMO!

In any case, as said, we would have to wait and see. That GBPA has been acting "out of pocket" for quite some time now. They got allot of things, in the past and recently, when they had no business having in the first place. Land incentives and tax breaks, for God knows how long.

As you would know, I am a proponent of nationalizing this dysfunctional organization, to say the very least about it, and let a real M&C or PE firm, take it over- or, let a big bank finance it for us, and we take it for the short term- a year or two- before we break it up, regulate it, set it right and then re-sell if to the private sector.

Sometimes, nationalization, can be a good thing. The GBPA, is a case where nationalization is a very good thing- for the short term.

But, as said again, this "perhap we would...and....."we are possibly thinking about it"...or..."maybe it would be best"...is very boring and old-hack!

Is it going down, or not!?!?!

As a licencee of the port and a a share holder I beleive its high time spmeone steps in to address the port issues, doing business in freeport was once a pleasure now has turned into a nightmare, It takes forever to get simple things done.I wanted to expand my business but it seems as thou no one is able to assit or has the athourity to stam or sign simple tranaction anymore. These two families are sucking the life bloood out of freeport If i was offerd a fair share on my business I would sell in a hartbeat and move to another island, The government has my support if it chooses to go that route.

As a licencee of the port and a a share holder I beleive its high time spmeone steps in to address the port issues, doing business in freeport was once a pleasure now has turned into a nightmare, It takes forever to get simple things done.I wanted to expand my business but it seems as thou no one is able to assit or has the athourity to stam or sign simple tranaction anymore. These two families are sucking the life bloood out of freeport If i was offerd a fair share on my business I would sell in a hartbeat and move to another island, The government has my support if it chooses to go that route.

Go sit down....if he had said, the GBPA would have stayed the way it was, or, if the PLP went in and attempted to jook dem up, you would have hollered bloody murder and cried to protect your precious little GBPA- even if it cost you bottom line. Talk about a waste!

Sometimes, right has to be right- regardless of who it is. This issue of "trust", will get yinna in trouble all the time. Do for you!

Trust, but, verify!
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Go sit down....if he had said, the GBPA would have stayed the way it was, or, if the PLP went in and attempted to jook dem up, you would have hollered bloody murder and cried to protect your precious little GBPA- even if it cost you bottom line. Talk about a waste!
Sometimes, right has to be right- regardless of who it is. This issue of "trust", will get yinna in trouble all the time. Do for you!
Trust, but, verify!
:hammer:
I would tell you were to sit down but I promised myself i will refrain from those words.As a business person I dont see fred mitchell like you do or hubert Ingrahm as you do I see the botom line money lil man, thats what keeps my workers happy and there families. My responsibility is to my customers then my empoyees then what ever falls in .Pms come and go but as for my business I wish for it to last beyond your petty thinking and your small political mind . I have been a licencee of the port for over 15 yrs and for the last 7 there has been a steady decline in service renderd the port needs a shake up and if the government wishes to act on it they have my blessing so stop being a jack azz and take your head from between thwe politcain thighs ok buddy . businees thats what drive the economy and right now freeport is on stop so jackazz stop being the breaks on the wheels called success now sod off.:hammer:

The Prime Minster has just announced in the House, that the Govt is tired of the issues with the Grand Bahama Port Authority and they are willing to purchase the Port Authority and solve Grand Bahama's problems.

Don' VAIT!!! Buy...asap! Buy, redistribute 'til dere is NO MO'...............pronto:hammer:

I would tell you were to sit down but I promised myself i will refrain from those words.As a business person I dont see fred mitchell like you do or hubert Ingrahm as you do I see the botom line money lil man, thats what keeps my workers happy and there families.
Where does that come from? Don't get silly on this blessed Friday, Labour day!


My responsibility is to my customers then my empoyees then what ever falls in .Pms come and go but as for my business I wish for it to last beyond your petty thinking and your small political mind .
I call it as I see. You are the one campaigning for the FNM....not me or for anyone. The same position I had on then on the GBPA, and I am not even from Freeport and never visited, from my recent memory, is the same position I have now!
:)
Nothing has changed with me on that, even though the actors, have!

To thine own self, be true!



I have been a licencee of the port for over 15 yrs and for the last 7 there has been a steady decline in service renderd the port needs a shake up and if the government wishes to act on it they have my blessing so stop being a jack azz and take your head from between thwe politcain thighs ok buddy .
Now, you said you won't bad language above. But, now, you want to use worse langauge?!?!?
I see......
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businees thats what drive the economy and right now freeport is on stop so jackazz stop being the breaks on the wheels called success now sod off.:hammer:
You don't have an inclination, testicles, or, idea, to want whats best for you. If it ain't what "they" tell you, you are left spinning in the wind!

JMO!

That's all on you, but, don't get mad when I tease you for it!
:)