Looking at the picture I would think that all those persons aboard our official government vessel should be wearing life jackets once on board. If any of them fall overboard and drown once in our custody then we Bahamians are getting sued.

Also, our police boat would certainly not get underway with all those persons sitting in front of the cockpit and blocking the captains view, would they?

The country is under siege by relentless invading Haitians and your concern is life vest and the captains cockpit view?

Your national pride is skewed!

Or rather, their sense of human rights is reasonable. In matters of the international public eye, we have received relatively negative reports based on purported mistreatments of persons held at the detention centre. It would then, seem prudent to make sure, at least in part for media purposes that we are giving the appearance of safely and humanely handling such individuals. And national pride is the same pride of prejudice and hate that is borne of racist groups and caste based groups. So I find national pride disgusting because it is the fuel of hate and has no purpose beyond manipulating the populace.

I agree with you SP , SICKENED must be Haitian-Bahamian as all i see are some
apparently WELL FED Haitian ladies hoping to have Bahamian born babies
within a year.
That sickens me!

My Bahamian roots probably go back much further than yours or SP's. I just seem to care for people, unlike you two.

So when Haitians show up in your bedroom at midnight to deliver your Haitian-Columbian necktie, you can ask them if he needs a Kalik, with chicken salad sandwich and if his knife is sharp enough and properly sanitized!

@Pablo - well as we all know by now, the Bahamas does not know ius solis. So being born on Bahamian soil does not do anything for child born to an illegal immigrant - further if you think Haitian ladies are well fed after they endured this trip, you are reasonably unhealthy in your head - so I suggest you zip it, as you don't act like a Bahamian should. Treat these humans humanely, if there is a reason to let them stay, let them stay else send them home. That is the procedure.

GrassRoot my commenting on them being well fed concerns their appearance generally, they are not as big as many of our Bahamian
ladies but none of them appear to be slim.I am sure that our officers gave
them rations to sustain them and improve their condition as you and i would have done.

I just want things done correctly and humanely and for our defense force and other government officials and representatives to do better. There is no need to risk people's lives. I certainly wouldn't be proud if we accidentally allowed 100 humans to drown... would you?

I also just noticed that the defense force officer on the far side doesn't have a life jacket on either. If he has to go in the water to save one or two people he will probably be drowned in their panic.

This summer in the harbour, two of our police boats were escorting a pleasure boat, laden down with some 40+ people on it. The pleasure boat was barely out of the water. But, instead of giving the passengers life vests and/or safely removing some of the passengers onto the police vessels, the police made every other boat in the harbour slow down so that there was absolutely no wake, as any wake would capsize the pleasure boat. The defense force just seems to make silly mistakes that could cost lives. They seem to care... but not too much.

Is the illegal Haitian problem the Bahamian Trojan Horse? Will Bahamians wakevup one morning and find the Haitian flag flying in Rawson Square and Haitians declaring they are now in the majority and have thereby taken possession of our beloved Bahama Land. We need to bring this problem to resolve.

the Bahamian Trojan Horse is Bahamar, my friend. Its already built and it will spill out more Chinese than you can possibly imagine.

and the Chinese Flag is already up there (sic!)

@ Sickened....So when Haitians show up in your bedroom at midnight to deliver your Haitian-Columbian necktie, you can ask them if he needs a Kalik, with chicken salad sandwich and if his knife is sharp enough and properly sanitized!

Don't forget to make sure they're hydrated before affixing your new Haitian-Columbia necktie ensemble. Wouldn't want the international community to view you wrongly at your funeral.

I think refugees tend to migrate illegally to seek an opportunity, and a perceived better way of life. Not to kill and conquer. That would be more likely done by those with hatred and prejudice in their hearts.

Looking at the picture I would think that all those persons aboard our official government vessel should be wearing life jackets once on board. If any of them fall overboard and drown ,But they were not wearing any when they started their search for freedom right ,so who gives a damm .Everything is human rights for these people .They have almost taken away all of our rights.Plus they want to put Haitian-Columbian necktie on us .Tell there Prime Minister take care of their people ,we hardly could get our government to takes care off us.

Why are illegal immigrants STILL being brought into New Providence, where most of the population lives? Wish the brilliant minds in charge would wake up and realize how dangerous this is! Article already states one person aboard was dead.From what? Don't just assume dehydration as there are many diseases around now. They should NOT be brought here; they should be isolated! I think this goes along with the lack of face-masks, life-vests and how they are overloaded/seated on the RBDF boat: lack of planning and the ability to do the same stupid things over and over again. Heaven help us.