Good idea . Shane and Fred should collaborate and make this the mandatory national ID card for every Bahamian citizen at birth registration. Kill 2 birds with ONE stone.

Bahamas........................... welcome to the Mark of the Beast (officially)

I'm sorry but I'm suspicious of anything thing this man proposes that has a contract attached. Character really does count.

Labour Minister Shane Gibson and National Security Minister Bernard Nottage better have a very airtight plan to prevent the illegal Haitian administrative directorate from compromising the integrity of this new “smart card” registration system.

It is no secret that Haitians have effectively infiltrated and compromised police and defense forces, passport, visa and work permit administrations and rendered every Minister of Immigration in 30 years unable to deal with the Haitian infestation of our country.

This new “smart card” registration system could easily be the foundation, first step and catalyst to turning the corner on getting a handle on the Haitian problem.

Undoubtedly the Haitian apparatus has agents within NIB. These people need to be identified and placed under strict surveillance to guard the integrity of this new “smart card” registration system.

Do we know?????????? Nothing was said about WHO is the contracted company ........ we just heard a ball park figure........$400,000

PLEASE READ AND PASS ON!
This is the link where the full story is:http://si.com/vault/article/magazine…
Across the inky-blue Gulf Stream from Florida, near the sheer edge of the Great Bahama Bank, a new island is emerging from the sea. Although it bears the appealing name Ocean Cay, this new island is not, and never will be, a palm-fringed paradise of the sort the Bahamian government promotes in travel ads. No brace of love doves would ever choose Ocean Cay for a honeymoon; no beauty in a brief bikini would waste her sweetness on such desert air. Of all the 3,000 islands and islets and cays in the Bahamas, Ocean Cay is the least lovely. It is a flat, roughly rectangular island which, when completed, will be 200 acres and will resemble a barren swatch of the Sahara. Ocean Cay does not need allure. It is being dredged up from the seabed by the Dillingham Corporation of Hawaii for an explicit purpose that will surely repel more tourists than it will attract. In simplest terms, Ocean Cay is a big sandpile on which the Dillingham Corporation will pile more sand that it will subsequently sell on the U.S. mainland. The sand that Dillingham is dredging is a specific form of calcium carbonate called aragonite, which is used primarily in the manufacture of cement and as a soil neutralizer. For the past 5,000 years or so, with the flood of the tide, waters from the deep have moved over the Bahamian shallows, usually warming them in the process so that some of the calcium carbonate in solution precipitated out. As a consequence, today along edges of the Great Bahama Bank there are broad drifts, long bars and curving barchans of pure aragonite. Limestone, the prime source of calcium carbonate, must be quarried, crushed and recrushed, and in some instances refined before it can be utilized. By contrast, the aragonite of the Bahamian shallows is loose and shifty stuff, easily sucked up by a hydraulic dredge from a depth of one or two fathoms. The largest granules in the Bahamian drifts are little more than a millimeter in diameter. Because of its fineness and purity, the Bahamian aragonite can be used, agriculturally or industrially, without much fuss and bother. It is a unique endowment. There are similar aragonite drifts scattered here and there in the warm shallows of the world, but nowhere as abundantly as in the Bahamas. In exchange for royalties, the Dillingham Corporation has exclusive rights in four Bahamian areas totaling 8,235 square miles. In these areas there are about four billion cubic yards—roughly 7.5 billion long tons—of aragonite. At rock-bottom price the whole deposit is worth more than $15 billion. An experienced dredging company like Dillingham should be able to suck up 10 million tons a year, which will net the Bahamian government an annual royalty of about $600,000.

Why do I need a smart card for NIB only my number is important.