Oh you silly Tribune. Now that Hubert has been fired you somehow are for the first time freely admitting that we do indeed do have a Haitian problem. Otherwise how could there be such a "A Mass exodus of Haitians from the Bahamas" if they haven't been here all along?

Shoots, Hatians!? For $20 billion big ones a few Bahamians goin too. GOLD RUSH!

Time for our unemployed and righteous Bahamian youth to go invade Haiti. Maybe the manual labour will do them some good...B.I.D...

great comment

Yah man @ B_I_D. All a we need to go invade Haiti and get some gold and silver. Let dem know how dey was makin us feel!!! I gern go build my boat right now.

All the gold and silver in the mountains will not improved the lives of Haiti's improvised as long as their entire system remains corrupted and dictatorial. We shall have to wait to see the degree our Bahamland may have lived through a closeness to the ways of Haiti over the pass five years? I get the feeling we will learn some new and disturbing things as the files and documents are being reviewed.

Yeah we are also getting that feeling of corruption and dictation now that the PLP are back in power so we can fully identify with our haitian brothers and sisters. All the progress of the past five years has already started in a backward direction ... and yes, that's a feeling of OLD and disturbing things ...

That is good for Haiti, but $20 billion worth of gold wouldn't be enough to allow Haitian Bahamian to go to Haiti to get jobs because that will not even provide enough employment to make a major dent in the now population, but will definitely make life better there in Haiti and help the rebuilding efforts. Haiti is not a small country like the Bahamas, so hopelfully the money is use to bring about other sectors of businesses.

Gold in Haiti and Oil in Bahamaland's waters. Sounds like such a sweet, even if messy, of a instant economical savior for both nations. No so fast. Maybe the secret the foreigner gold seekers have been keeping from the Haitians is a sign of what may have been hidden from Bahamaland's natives over oil drilling in our waters by the Hubert regime? They sure as hell won't find any trees up in the mountains, the impoverished Haitians chopped the down a long time ago to use for fuel. In the case of our Bahamland we have licensed a foreigner oil exploration company that it appears we no so little about. The whispers we are reading about in the media has to be of deep concerns to all natives. Drilling for oil in Bahamalamd's waters is not a political party issue. It is the native's issue to accept or reject. Back in the 1500s, Spanish Comrade Christopher enslaved the Arawak Indians to dig for gold, killing every single one of them under harsh conditions and with nfectious diseases. Unfortunately for Haiti once the Spaniards learned of even more lucrative gold deposits in Mexico, they moved on. Maybe there is a lesson somewhere in here for Bahamaland's natives to guard against, cause oil drilling is a dirty and potentially dangerous business? And, where there is big money there is political corruption., regardless of the color red, gold, or green. Once upon a time the sponge business was our economic savior. The natives back then would gather to sing as the song goes, "the sponger money was never done." Thus the wonderful Greeks that came and fortunately for Bahamaland, they didn't leave when the sponge trading business went bust.

in a previous comment you were against oil drilling ,now are you for it with some penny ante company that does not have the capital if something goes wrong ,,BP spent 20 billion in the gulf of Mexico spill and its still not right .....WILL PM PCG PUT THE QUESTION OF OIL DRILLING TO THE BAHAMIAN PEOPLE IN A FAIR REFERENDOM ..I THINK NOT ,BUT TIME WILL TELL!!!

he said he would but it's only been a week and he has broken about 1/3 of his campaign promises already so I doubt Bahamians will get that referendum on oil drilling that he promised ... seriously doubt it

hey this blogging is helping me with my spelling ,referendum ,,,thanks

the Haitian community should be very cautious about uprooting themselves. i have visited Ghana on several occassions. GHANA IS RICH IN GOLD. IT IS THE FIFTH GOLD PRODUCUNG COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. Ghana also has oil, and many other natural resources, but one will not know it because of the rampant poverty and corruption.. the riches never trickle down to the poor. there are very few social services if any. the poor are not considered, meanwhile the politicians and white foreigners hoard the wealth in other countries, so be cautious, pray before you only have broken dreams, . Haiti needs a break, the infrastructure is not there, there is a history of corruption by the ruling parties. so be carefu;. a finla note to greedy BAHAMIANS be careful, the love of money and material things will kill you*>TAKE A LOOK AT sOUTH aFRICA, NIGERIA AND THE SUDAN