why is the PLP getting so tight with Cuba? Didn't they kill seven of our Defence Force officers back in the early 80's? Dey mussie forget hey?:mad:

I agree with you in a way GodSign!
I haven't heard an apology as yet from the Cuban government or Castro for that incident. We as Bahamians should be very cautious as to who we affiliate ourselves with when it comes to anything.

But on the other hand not every Cuban was responsible for the deaths of those Defense Force officers so the innocent shouldn't suffer for the guilty. It's the government of Cuba that needs to give an apology to the Bahamian people and especially to the families of those officers.

I don't have anything against Cuban. Some of my cousins are of Cuban descent-1st generation. But to cozy-up to a communist govt. and dictator is a no-no.

i Agree the Bahamian government needs to put a total stop to their 'relationship' with such a brutal regime. They must have something else up their sleeve as they have to know the truth about what goes on in Cuba, and they must realise that any 'close' relationship with any country with murderous brutal leaders such as Cuba, will only lead to more 'stress' from the US government.

Ofcourse, its not just the government, Bahamian Citizens need to stop vacationing in Cuba and giving more money to Castro so he can afford more bullets to kill his citizens whose only crime was wanting freedom and the right to free speech. Most of the bahamians that visit cuba only go there for either sex, partying, more sex, cigars, or unregulated 'back door' health care! Cant they support their own country and citizens, by visiting more of the outislands??

someone also told me that we need Cuba because goods are so cheap to buy that we can import & use. well I say 'how much do value the lives of those 7 dead defence Force officers?' or try telling that to the families of those good men who died for this country!

Originally posted by GodSign
someone also told me that we need Cuba because goods are so cheap to buy that we can import & use. well I say 'how much do value the lives of those 7 dead defence Force officers?' or try telling that to the families of those good men who died for this country!

We definately do not need Cuba. I have never seen any goods that we buy from there. Everything is either imported from the US or made here.

Its not just those 7 defence force men, the cubans are killing people every day. More recently, several people were shot to death because they were on the internet posting messages like this one.

I am amazed to hear anyone comment that going to Cuba for whatever reason is good. I've been there once. About a year ago. What I saw was the suffering of the Cuban people very much alive; albeit their surroundings are like frozen in the 50s time.

Because I speak the language, I understood a lot more. The grafiti and billboards proclaim the wonders of freedom under the revolution. Citizens are encouraged to sacrifice all for the revolution of Fidel.

I explained to one of those people that think going there is a good thing; that for example, the average Cuban cannot wear good looking clothes, like Tommy Hillfiger - oh how we like our fashions - even if a relative in Miami sent it; because it will alert the cuban spies and police.

Dressing a little bit better in Cuba, may mean that your uncle or your aunt, your cousin or your sister are in prostitution; you see, free enterprise, as we know it, simply does not exists there.

Everything is owned and run by Fidel Castro, whatever is produced there he owns. That includes, the cigars, the tropical juices, the coffee, .....everything.

You cannot really speak openly your true views and opinions, 'cause you don't know if the person you're speaking to got "ears" out for the cuban government. At the end or beginning of each block in Havana, I saw a police officer standing watching. That officer is not only there to keep order, but there to spy, who comes and goes into the buildings, who does what, etc

I enjoyed walking through Havana, hear the Cuban music, drink the great expresso coffee, admire the old Spanish arquitecture structures, visit the replica of the US Congress look-a-like buildings in downtown.

But I could not enjoy it completely free, because of that nagging feeling of being watched and because of those poor oppresed people I could not really have an open conversation with.

I observed that during the time when the war with Iraq was going on, and the world was not paying attention to Cuba; those poor freedom seekers were blasted out into eternity.

In March of this year, 30 cuban dissidents were sentenced lengthy prison terms. Reformists, journalists, economists who's only crime against their country is to stand up against the Cuban government in search of freedom.

The PLP government should keep these facts in the forefront of their minds. The government should realized that the mentality of a communist is completely foreign to how Bahamians think and feel. Totally foreign. Think about it. A communist is a communist, the state is their god, their rules on ethics and morals are totally different from us.

Is like trying to speak English to a Chinese who speaks no English....or other language for that matter.

I honestly and truly believe that this is the real reason why the USA is after the Bahamas Government right now...

Our poor baggages handlers were simply scape goat by the PLP and guess what more to come....

for cryin out ... this post is from 2003 ..!!

for cryin out ... this post is from 2003 ..!!

:shaky::shaky::shaky:

een nothing change

Obviously someone found this post relevent to his/her current issue! When you check out the ground swell (underground of cos) of Cuban interests afoot in this nation, you will not think that the date of this post is so far fetched!:cutie:

een nothing change


Something has changed. The bonds have gotten tighter. We now have an embassy in Cuba, students are being encouraged to study in Cuba, Bahamians are being encouraged to go to Cuba for medical care, their doctors and teachers are being imported ... even their prostitutes are being imported.

Ya go to the food store and people break out into Spanish, giving ya falsh backs of the shopping experience in Miami.

And what has the Bahamas gotten from these closer ties with Cuba?????

NADA!

Something has changed. The bonds have gotten tighter. We now have an embassy in Cuba, students are being encouraged to study in Cuba, Bahamians are being encouraged to go to Cuba for medical care, their doctors and teachers are being imported ... even their prostitutes are being imported.
Ya go to the food store and people break out into Spanish, giving ya falsh backs of the shopping experience in Miami.
And what has the Bahamas gotten from these closer ties with Cuba?????
NADA!

thank you fred mitchell for nothing!

Something has changed. The bonds have gotten tighter. We now have an embassy in Cuba, students are being encouraged to study in Cuba, Bahamians are being encouraged to go to Cuba for medical care, their doctors and teachers are being imported ... even their prostitutes are being imported.
Ya go to the food store and people break out into Spanish, giving ya falsh backs of the shopping experience in Miami.
And what has the Bahamas gotten from these closer ties with Cuba?????
NADA!


the relationship between the bahamas and cuba is far greater than you suggest...
i'm not pro-cuba, or pro-usa...i'm pro history...and history says that the relationship we have developed over the last century warrants the consideration shown by each country