Interesting reading on web sites this week...

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where can I see a list of all the giveaways...the HOA agreements and the percentage of land giveaway and where they are in our country and was the people who live in those communities notified about it first?

We ready now - may I take this time to invite all of you to the FNM rallies on Saturday, August 19, 2006:

Governor's Harbour, Eleuthera
Freeport, Grand Bahamas
Nassau, Bahamas.

Get ready, cause the FNM has been preparing and we are almost ready, just waiting for the boundaries commission to wrap up their report and for the bell to ring.

where can I see a list of all the giveaways...the HOA agreements and the percentage of land giveaway and where they are in our country and was the people who live in those communities notified about it first?

Well, on the land sale issue you raised, foreigners in 2001 for instance purchased $93 million worth of land and $131 million the following year.

In comparison, foreigners bought $258 million worth in 2004, and $257 in 2005.Prior to 2004, the highest inflow from foreign land sales on record was $161 million in 2000.

You actually can get this info from the Central Bank, which issues annual reports on such matters.

..just waiting for the boundaries commission to wrap up their report and for the bell to ring. [/FONT]

Arent we all!!:sailing: The commission gotta be appointed first!!

Ten Warning Signs
Panic is tearing away at the governing party’s leadership during their last remaining months in office. Recognizing that the Bahamian people are abandoning them in droves, they have begun a desperate campaign to hold their supporters and stem the exodus of voters who gave them a chance just four years ago.

Years of indecision, complacency and confusion have left this already exhausted government with little choice but to govern recklessly in the hope that it can reverse its fortunes. Too little! Too late!

There are 10 warning signs the Bahamian people need to watch for as the governing party tries to hang on to power at all costs, that is, at all costs to the Bahamian Treasury and our shared future.

1. Early Election:

Watch for the PLP to call an early election. In an attempt to cut off the momentum building towards the FNM and halt the drift of the s.s. PLP, Prime Minister Perry Christie is discussing the idea of an early general election.

As the Bahamian people know, calling elections after four years in office has not been a part of our electoral tradition. If Mr. Christie goes early, you can be sure that panic has taken up residence in the governing party’s tent.

2. Giving Away the Country:

They have already given away massive amounts of crown and government-owned land in the hope of spurring economic activity. But most of these have been give-aways for wholly foreign-owned land speculation deals by persons and groups with little or no money, rather than high-end tourism projects.

They create little the wealth and few high-end jobs and business opportunities needed to empower Bahamians and economically transform the Bahamas.

Here’s the governing party’s economic philosophy: wait for foreigners to tell us what our national development plan should be, give away a lot of public land; grant extravagant concessions which do not protect our national interests; and hope for some table scraps to fall to the Bahamian people.

Expect more massive give-away of Bahamian land, rights and treasure as the election gets closer. Expect more Heads of Agreements. Expect more talk; and more talk! The governing party’s economic philosophy reminds us of that old saying: insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

3. Return to Censorship:


Watch as ZNS endlessly repeats the same Heads of Agreement signings over and over and over again, relocates their News Desk to PLP Headquarters, and severely limits coverage of the FNM in Parliament and on the campaign trail.

Meanwhile the Bahamas Information Service will be used as another propaganda arm of the governing party.


4. Rush Job:

They will now rush to do things they could have and should have done four years ago. The FNM left in place many projects and the necessary funds. We left in place plans for mini-hospitals, schools, airport terminals, docking facilities, road construction, hurricane barriers and a host of other programmes you can read about in our 2002 Manifesto.

We even left in place legislation to deal with national honours which they are now politicizing for their own benefit; but more on that next week.

Now because the election is around the corner and people are complaining about broken promises and missed opportunities, they are chaotically trying to make it look like they’re doing something - finally. As a result many of these projects are being done poorly, and project costs are skyrocketing.

5. Blowing the Budget:

The governing party’s indecision will cost the taxpayers millions of dollars and together with belated frantic activity will blow holes in the budget as they try to spend themselves to an election victory. They will now spend recklessly in an attempt to buy off the Bahamian people.

Meanwhile because the “all for me baby” crowd knows they will lose they’re going to greedily grab for everything they can get. And, oh boy! are they grabbing – and fighting -- over the spoils! It’s like Christmas in August as the boys -- and girls – are back with a vengeance.

6. Manipulating the Civil Service:

After four years of promising public sector reform and not delivering, the Minister for the Public Service, Fred Mitchell, is not about to do even greater damage to the Civil Service and eventually make it even harder for his successors to reform the service. The hypocrisy is stunning.

Here’s the plan in a nutshell: the government will lower requirements for entry into the public service and then go on a hiring spree of its supporters. We will keep a special eye on the public service minister as he seeks to abuse the civil service in pursuit of his own political survival.

7. Hiding the Truth:

It seems that the first casualty of the governing party’s election campaign will be the truth. They continue to exaggerate the effect of their urban renewal efforts. Initiatives began by the FNM are now labeled as PLP programmes, including a number of tourist projects and infrastructure improvements.

Recently FNM Leader Hubert Ingraham and some of his colleagues went on a tour of Paradise Island. Mr. Ingraham reminded the nation that all this was initiated on his watch. It is chilling to think about where the country would be today without Atlantis.

8. Creating Foreign Bogymen

In one of his more obvious acts of opportunism and grand-standing the Minister of Immigration, Shane Gibson, cheered on a hastily-planned and ill-conceived raid on mostly legal residents of the Bahamas and then played fast and loose with the facts explaining his role in this embarrassing incident.

The poor Haitian immigrant has now been cast as the latest bogyman of the governing party. In the months following their election to office in 2002 the governing party was busy all over town clamoring to be the champion of the undocumented Haitian who deserved or even was entitled to status in our country.

Now they revoke and/or refuse to renew work permits for these same people so as to create illegal immigrants that they can detain and deport in their staged shows.

The truth is that the governing party only talks and talks and abuses people. But the FNM effectively repatriated thousands of illegals but said little about it and abused none. The record speaks for itself and the figures do not lie.

9. The Illusion of Activity:

After almost four years of the most laid back government in the history of the Bahamas, the Prime Minister is now trying to project the illusion of being busy.

Rather than governing, making decisions and coordinating his cabinet, he is busy doing what he does best: talking and presiding at ceremony after ceremony.

His long-expected and repeatedly delayed cabinet shuffle made for the strangest portfolio assignments in modern Bahamian history. Though the PM gave us the appearance of change, we know that the status quo of incompetence, confusion and indecision is still there in a cabinet he cannot or will not lead.

10. Boundary Changes:

Expect some odd boundary changes designed to save extremely vulnerable PLP MPs. You will recall that the governing party has mastered the art of cutting boundaries in the strangest ways.

However, when the Bahamian people are ready to change governments, no amount of cutting and pasting will change their will.

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Well, on the land sale issue you raised, foreigners in 2001 for instance purchased $93 million worth of land and $131 million the following year.
In comparison, foreigners bought $258 million worth in 2004, and $257 in 2005.Prior to 2004, the highest inflow from foreign land sales on record was $161 million in 2000.
You actually can get this info from the Central Bank, which issues annual reports on such matters.


Don’t forget to factor in the sharp increases in the price of land. The same amount of land may have actually been sold each year. This is plausible right?

Is there any information on the actual amount of land sold? If so, please share it. :)

Sad thing about these warning signs is that the FNM had these warning signs before when they was in power...now the PLP has the same warning signs and they still doing the Bahamian public badly... These parties don't care about us...