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• Bahamas: Disasters

  ’The poor are punished’: Hurricane Dorian lays bare inequality in the Bahamas

  14 September 2019, by SMITH David

  The tourist destination relies on a life support system of fishermen, hotel workers and laborers – but they’ve been hardest hit.
  Holidaymakers queuing at immigration at the Bahamas’ Nassau airport are still serenaded by three pink-shirted men playing jovial music. They are still sunbathing on (...)

• Bahamas

  Chinese Investments – An unhappy affair: The changing fortunes of a China and Hong Kong funded Bahamian mega-resort project

  30 October 2017, by LEE Robin

  In April 2017, the first part of the Baha Mar, a 1,000 acre luxury mega-resort in the Bahamas that will eventually consist of several hotels, a 100,000 square foot casino, a golf course, spas, shops and restaurants, constructed by China Construction America, finally opened. The event was marked (...)