There are just times when you listen to someone and can only ask yourself; “who is this person talking to?”

Is he talking to us or the voices in his head?

“PM dismisses concern GBPA dispute will undermine investor confidence” – The Tribune

“Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis during a walk through Downtown Nassau on April 10, 2024.

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PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis dismissed concerns that the government’s dispute with the Grand Bahama Port Authority (GBPA) undermines investor confidence and suggested that investors already lacked interest in the island.

His comments came as some GBPA licensees in Grand Bahama lamented the tension between the government and the GBPA.

“Look at what is happening in the country,” Mr. Davis told reporters after a walkabout of East Bay Street. “We have billions of dollars in the pipeline already agreed to and more about to come.”

“If it’s going to destroy investor’s confidence, why are they still coming? The number of projects I still have on my desk to talk about and to deal with are astronomical. The challenge, why is this capital not being attracted to Freeport?

“It’s being attracted in Exuma, being attracted to Cat Island, it’s being attracted to Abaco, to Bimini, to the cays and the Exumas. Why not Grand Bahama, and that’s just the question we have to answer.”

Why is this capital not being attracted to Freeport?

With all due respect but maybe Mr. Prime Minister your answer, of why we have investments in the other islands and not in Freeport, Grand Bahama is because of the “GBPA dispute is undermining investor confidence”, the same dispute that you are attempting to convince the people that would not “undermine investor confidence”; I mean I am just suggesting that this is very STRONG possibility.

And while you ask the question of “why is this capital not being attracted to Freeport?” what about the billions of dollars of investments that Deputy Prime Minister Chester Cooper brags about;

“DPM says more than $2 billion in investments for GB” – February 22, 2024

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 FREEPORT, Grand Bahama – Major new investments for Grand Bahama will provide jobs, construction, and business opportunities, said Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Tourism, Investments and Aviation the Hon. Chester Cooper during the opening of the Grand Bahama Business Outlook on Thursday, February 22 at the Grand Lucayan resort.

Grand Bahama, he said, is the fastest growing island in the country when it relates to air arrivals, and the third fastest growing island overall.”

One thing that is very clear is that the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Investment are not on the same page and maybe, and this is only suggestion, these two ministers should sit down and talk before a person sticks a microphone in their face; otherwise someone may begin to believe that neither of you knows what you all are doing or just begin to believe that one or both of you are just plain lying and you may begin to lose even more voter confidence.

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