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Last Updated: Feb 13, 2017 - 1:45:37 AM |
 As we are all aware by now the government and more specifically Prime Minister Perry Christie has been found guilty yet again of misleading the Bahamian people.
It angers me to my core as a citizen of this country that every single promise this Prime Minister has made has been broken. His track record of misleading the Bahamian people ought to anger you as well. After all the pomp and circumstance of August 22nd, it turns out this secret deal that the Prime Minister has kept from us only benefits the Chinese Export Import Bank (EXIM), and their construction company, China Construction America (CCA).
On Friday, September 9, many of you would have seen that the bank, via the Claims Committee has released a new set of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on their website.
These answers they gave on this website are a complete contradiction of what our Prime Minister promised us on August 22nd.
Mr Christie promised the Bahamian people that all Bahamian creditors, including former workers, contractors and vendors had been protected, and would receive the majority, if not all of their outstanding claims.
Well, the bank is now saying that no one, I repeat, no one is guaranteed a payment!
And worse, they make it clear that any payment to any Bahamian creditor will be dependent upon the size of concessions offered to them!
I want the Bahamian people to understand me clearly, the EXIM bank will walk away with hundreds of millions in incentives while we the Bahamian people, who this Government claims to represent, will receive pennies, if anything at all!
And the Government cannot lie to us any longer that this was the best deal they could come up with after a year of negotiating. The original developer, Sarkis Izmirlian put out an offer that would pay ALL Bahamian creditors every penny they are owed, so why did the Government not pursue that offer and save us all these months of waiting and heartache?
Let me tell you why, our government has clearly been bought, hook, line and sinker by the Chinese.
What Baha Mar has truly exposed is how much a foreign government—no less the Communist government of China—is controlling the economic and political future of our country for its own ends. This Prime Minister and his cabinet have deceived the Bahamian people either because they have allowed themselves to be continually misinformed, or, worse, have sold themselves to the Chinese to maintain their own status quo.
Now we finally see why they fought so vigorously to keep these details from the Bahamian people!
This isn’t a conspiracy, it’s a travesty, and it’s in plain sight. If Christie had an ounce of morality he would hang his head in shame, ask the Bahamian people for forgiveness and demit office at once.
We have been lied to, misled and manipulated for far too long, but this is the last straw.
The real insult is that in all of this, we had to find this out from the Communist government of China! Our own government was seeking to, and had concealed the fact from us! If the Chinese Government did not put out these new FAQs we, the Bahamian people, would be none the wiser!
Just like when they blocked the Chapter 11 process claiming national sovereignty, our Government sealed the details of this deal in the Supreme Court claiming economic reasons. Well now we know what they are – at least some of them. But what else has been given away?
This is a national disgrace, and Bahamians of all walks of life should be outraged!
Branville McCartney
DNA Leader
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