Posted on 09/08/2019 5:37:59 PM PDT by LibWhacker
(CNN)As the Grand Celebration cruise ship sailed away from the Bahamas on a humanitarian mission carrying nearly 1,500 hurricane evacuees, Ceva Seymour looked back at the hundreds of desperate Bahamians left behind at Freeport Harbour.
"It was difficult for me to see that other people couldn't get on the ship who probably needed to be there more than me," Seymour, 56, said after arriving in Florida with more than a dozen of her cousins and grandchildren.
Seymour, her relatives and all those who stayed behind are among the 70,000 people thrust into homelessness on Grand Bahama and the Abaco Islands by the strongest hurricane ever to hit the archipelago nation of about 390,000 residents.
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Very few get that tourist “loot”. It’s highly concentrated, I presume jealously guarded by those in on the action.
Aid should largely be in the form of free travel to England. The islands are supposedly the Queen’s, carrying capacity of the land is exceeded, best is that the poor get out of an area they can’t function in for want of space & resources.
(I likewise think US “overpopulated” areas should be addressed with a free one-way trip to BLM land and an option to buy square feet thereof outright.)
This is Katrina all over.
Problem is, it’s not our country! We owe you NOTHING!
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As soon as they set foot in the U.S. they’re never going back. They’ll get on welfare and Medicaid & sit right on the couch in their free apartment. After a few years they’ll be proud card carrying members of the Florida Democratic party voting early and often.
The Bahamas might be a playground for the rich and famous but they’re rich and famous expats, not bahamians. The fancy resorts are owned by foreigners, not locals, and all the money goes to them. The locals are dirt poor, probably no insurance and no money to rebuild. They don’t, and never have, seen it as paradise like the foreigners who yacht and snorkel their way around the islands. Once they get in the U.S. and on the dole you won’t be able to pry them out of the U.S. and back to the Bahamas.
The same as it was in Tortola, Virgin Gorda. Anegada etc NIL.
The British Suck.
The Bahamas are in independent country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bahamas
(except when a major hurricane hits—then, well—can some whiteys come help us please?)
They are a member of the British Commonwealth. Let the BC lead the way.
Not OUR problem.
Nothing but reinforced concrete can resist a Category 5 hurricane.
Yup. Just for starters: "Seymour, 56, said after arriving in Florida with more than a dozen of her cousins and grandchildren."
They hit the USA Lotto.
Her Majesty’s government is sending........wait for it........nothing!
If only a powerful, world renowned property developer was available to help make turn this mess around as best as possible.
Of course I mean Trump and I’m certain the left is plotting to not let him derive one bit of good will from this situation even if it means every former Bahamas resident dies.
Apparently all that membership entitles them to is a message of condolences from the queen.
“SO, the US must have done something to divert it.”
You can almost hear it, “Trump did SOMETHING over Florida to keep it over the Bahamas to wipe out the minorities so he can buy the islands cheap and build his hotels and casinos!”
The world sees the USA as Uncle Sugar. After stealing from us...they despise us. The he** with them. Build the wall...including a financial one. The wealthy in those countries need to dtep up...or experience a revolution.
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