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malaise

(268,668 posts) Tue Sep 10, 2019, 10:37 AM Sep 2019

To understand the tension in the Bahamas since Dorian you need to follow

the Comments page in the Nassau Tribune. There are people in New Providence who are very upset that their own fellow citizens have been evacuated to Nassau.
http://www.tribune242.com/news/2019/sep/10/hurricane-dorian-updates/

There has always been tension between the Bahamians and their Haitian citizens.
The greatest Bahamian of Haitian descent is of course the great Sidney Poitier.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9888232/hurricane-dorian-sidney-poitier-family-missing/

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To understand the tension in the Bahamas since Dorian you need to follow (Original Post) malaise Sep 2019 OP

thanks Malaise bdamomma Sep 2019 #1

bahamas are the 3rd wealthiest nation in the Americas, behind the US and maybe Canada... msongs Sep 2019 #2

They are not obscenely filthy rich Leith Sep 2019 #3

bdamomma

(63,791 posts)

1. thanks Malaise

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Sep 10, 2019, 10:43 AM

Sep 2019

interesting articles thanks for sharing.

The rich and powerful who do live in the Bahamas must share some of that wealth and help.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9875569/hurricane-dorian-sean-connery-lucky-survive-bahamas-mansion/

msongs

(67,347 posts)

2. bahamas are the 3rd wealthiest nation in the Americas, behind the US and maybe Canada...

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Sep 10, 2019, 02:44 PM

Sep 2019

these tiny islands with less than 1 million population are obscenely filthy rich and can provide for all its citizens easily

Leith

(7,807 posts)

3. They are not obscenely filthy rich

Reply to msongs (Reply #2)

Tue Sep 10, 2019, 05:18 PM

Sep 2019

Their per capita GDP is more than most countries, less than the US. Don't forget that the US accepted help from Mexico after Katrina. Why didn't the US provide for that small percentage of its citizens in Louisiana as easily? A much larger percentage of the Bahamas' land and people just got whallopped - are there enough obscenely filthy rich Bahamians left to pay for all those who lost everything?

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