Some Tidbits on Peter Nygard Affairs in The Bahamas

• NYGARD Cay, the private home of Canadian fashion designer Peter Nygard, is advertised as a "private luxury resort" with no hotel licence, according to government officials (August 16, 2010)

• FORCES with an "underhanded agenda" are trying to "discredit Nygard Cay" and "push (Peter) Nygard out of The Bahamas," according to an official spokesperson for the Canadian fashion mogul (August 16, 2010)

• Louis Farrakhan Muhammad and Peter Nygard (March 18, 2013)

• • “I was in a place last night,” said Mr Farrakhan, “that was magnificently beautiful and there were all these black people that came past the gate because Mr Nygard wanted them there on that piece of ground that most black people just keep driving by, they make it a gated community (March 18, 2013)

  • The Lyford Cay Property Association is "likely" to become a member of the Coalition to Protect Clifton Bay (CPCB).  As exclusively revealed by Guardian Business in February, the association announced that the government appears "inclined" to grant Peter Nygard a lease of accreted land surrounding his property at Nygard Cay. It now seems that members of the community have taken their opposition to the next level (March 29, 2013)

• MEMBERS of the newly formed Coalition to Protect Clifton Bay took to the airwaves to share their agenda and clarify some of the “thorny issues” surrounding the heritage site (April 06, 2013)

• THE original crusaders for the preservation of Clifton have called on the government to reject any application by Peter Nygard for a grant or lease of Crown land in the area (April 12, 2013)

• AN ENVIRONMENTAL group - Save the Bays, formerly Coalition to Protect Clifton Bay has filed an action in the Supreme Court, seeking a judicial review to stop the dredging at Nygard Cay (May 25, 2013)

• Peter Nygard is not a law abiding and respectable resident of The Bahamas (June 01, 2013)

• THE Coalition to Protect Clifton Bay has won a court ruling halting construction works in the Clifton Bay area by Peter Nygard.  They were also successful in their Supreme Court application to require any dealings between the government, Mr Nygard and Keod Smith regarding Clifton Bay to be made public (June 15, 2013)

• A day after Free National Movement (FNM) Leader Dr. Hubert Minnis blasted the government for “rushing” stem cell legislation through Parliament, his party’s deputy chairman Dr. Duane Sands said the proposed law is “progressive”....Minnis also suggested that the government was pushing the law to appease Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard, who he claimed is a financial backer for some members of the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) (July 06, 2013)

• AN INFLUENTIAL church pastor is urging the government to make its position known as to whether billionaire Peter Nygard’s request to lease acres of Crown land will be granted.  Rev C B Moss, who is also a part of the Coalition to Protect Clifton Bay, insisted that answers are needed over the application especially as hundreds of Bahamians have waited for years to receive such an approval (July 13, 2013)

• Peter Nygard Takes Bahamas Back!!! Who gave The Bahamas to Peter Nygard? (July 16, 2013)

• • Bahamians want to know whether its government is now so indebted to Mr Nygard that his interests will come before those of the citizens of this country (July 16, 2013)

• Canadian fashion designer Peter Nygard said he has no self-serving interests in the government passing a law to govern stem cell research and therapy in The Bahamas (July 17, 2013)

• The Coalition to Save Clifton believes that the government does not need an environmental assessment of Clifton Bay and reissued calls for Cabinet to reject an application by Lyford Cay resident Peter Nygard for a lease of Crown land in the area (July 22, 2013)

• Peter Nygard called The Tribune “silly” to think that he would create a stem cell centre in his own backyard (July 23, 2013)

• • The Bahamian government went into overdrive in Parliament - defending its dealings with the controversial Finnish-born, billionaire fashion designer Peter Nygard, who is a permanent resident of The Bahamas residing at Lyford Cay (July 23, 2013)

• The hubris, narcissism and self-indulgence of Peter Nygard in The Bahamas have earned him the disgust of many Bahamians.  Perry Christie and the PLP’s Nygard Problem (July 27, 2013)

• Peter Nygard has betrayed The Bahamas / Bahamian People's hospitality by assuming to have more rights than a resident’s permit gives him in The Islands.  Where Did Nygard Find The Ku Klux Klan (July 30, 2013)

• The Stem Cell debate has been hijacked by talk about Peter Nygard ...who is very interested in the use of stem cells for anti-aging treatments...  Talking Sense: The Economics Of Stem Cells (August 02, 2013)

• Free National Movement (FNM) Chairman Darron Cash doesn’t believe the party focused more on the controversy surrounding Peter Nygard, instead of the actual stem cell legislation (August 20, 2013)

• Peter Nygard has unlawfully “trespassed” on Crown Land through his construction activities at Simms Point/Nygard Cay.  Government Proposed 21-Year Lease Of Reclaimed Crown Land To Peter Nygard (August 27, 2013)

• Controversial Lyford Cay resident Peter Nygard said that the Free National Movement’s (FNM) politicization of the Stem Cell Therapy Bill was “small-minded” and the group does not deserve to be in government (November 02, 2013)

• The battle between environmentalists and Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard over whether he should have the right to receive permits for redevelopment and land has gone international, ahead of the close of a public consultation period on the matter in The Bahamas (July 07, 2014)

• IN the face of mounting legal pressure and international attention, the government has been forced to extend its public consultation process on Peter Nygard’s proposed expansion plans at Simms Point/Nygard Cay for a further 21 days. In an embarrassing climbdown it has also had to admit to confusion and flaws in the process thus far (July 14, 2014)

• IN a move being hailed as a victory for greater transparency in government processes, Supreme Court justices granted injunction requests against the government yesterday that prevents the Christie administration from making decisions on billionaire fashion mogul Peter Nygard’s applications for building permits and Crown land (July 21, 2014)

• Why did the Bahamian Government attack Save The Bays in Parliament for Peter Nygard? (August 09, 2016)

• Save The Bays is disappointed to find itself yet again the victim of a false, reckless and far-fetched attack by the PLP, as a result of the troubles facing the party's friend and benefactor, Peter Nygard (February 21, 2020)