The noose is tightening ................ the writing is on the wall .......... we are paying now for decades of diplomatic, institutional and criminal slackness .......... not even a Canadian embassy here ................... and their banks run our domestic banking??????.................... Suckers

http://www.bahamaslocal.com/showlisting…

Shirley Street Plaza

Yes, a presence but not much else. Only 2-3 people on staff. Everything is in Jamaica (just like the UK office; British High Commissoner?)

This has less to with the Bahamas and its political parties - PLP and FNM. This has a lot to do with Canada filtering its Borders against terrorism.
Please read more educational information on the internet, this will help you understand what is going on in the world around us. Not just PLP, FNM and DNA.

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Wow, this is a "clear" message being sent to The Bahamas, and Others! Notice also, no possibility of appeal, merely "clarification"! Things looking "dead" bad, versus good!!!

According to their site you can apply online for it. This has less to do with us but more to do with terrorism. Canadians tightening up their borders. I really can't see how this get the PLP fault this Bin Laden fault the Canadians where slack with their borders for a bit now they experiencing terrorists acts on their soil. My God people does everything in the world has something to do with Bahamian politics. British citizens even need one. Jeez people use the internet for more than facebook and porn.

Hi Mitchell.

Yall need to let politics go

You of all people should know that the connections between organised crime and movements of their proceeds of crime to and from terrorist groups in connection with the funding of the activities of the latter are well-known and well-established.

So Pindling era drug dealers cannot go to Canada, nor people who cannot go to the US now.

Welcome to Fred, the Mugabe of the New World. Xenophobia has a price.

WELL WORTH REPEATING: What most Bahamians do not understand is that other governments around the world, like the U.S., Canada and the U.K., are very carefully observing the out-of-control nature of our passport issuance procedures. Already Canada has put the Bahamas on a list with 30 other countries whereby a Bahamian passport alone will not be sufficient to gain entry into Canada, even though Canada and the Bahamas are both Commonwealth countries. The Canadian government now plans to do its own due diligence and vetting of Bahamians to determine for themselves which of us can have travel privileges to Canada. The Canadian government simply believes it can no longer trust the chaos in the Bahamian passport office under Fred Mitchell's portfolio to issue passports to bona fide Bahamians who do not present a security risk to Canada. This is what happens when Christie appoints a an incompetent bungling idiot like Fred Mitchell to oversee the proper management of the affairs of our passport office....our passport office has imploded into absolute chaos under his watch...and we the Bahamian people suffer by having our travel wings clipped, not only by the chaotic processing delays within our imploded passport office, but also by other countries like Canada that are rightfully very fearful of the security risks the mismanagement and resulting chaos presents for them. Fred Mitchell should hang his head in shame and resign from the cabinet. He is now nothing a serious national embarrassment for all Bahamians. His recent comments about deporting Sarkis Izmirlian are but one example of his scornful, belligerent attitude; his lack of diplomacy and airs of superiority are traits that this wannabe intellectual will never be able to overcome and are very much ill-suited to his position as Minister of Foreign Affairs. The reputation of our nation in the eyes of others has been seriously damaged by his shameful conduct on so many occasions. Many of our foreign friends find him utterly disgusting and repulsive in so many ways. How much longer are we Bahamians going to be made to continue to suffer as a result of Christie's tolerance of this grossly incompetent and disgraceful buffoon?

Canada's concerns also extend to the Christie-led PLP government's failure to effectively clamp down on illegal immigration and human-smuggling, and the very cosy relationship that certain of our senior politicians, like Christie, Wilchcombe, Davis, Maynard-Gibson et al., enjoy with the racketeering mobsters behind the cross-border criminal activities associated with the online gaming web shops run by the likes of Flowers and Bastian. The U.S., Canadian and U.K. governments all have grave concerns about the extent to which corrupt politicians are allowing the proceeds of crime to influence the decisions of our government and the resulting heightened security risks this presents for their own countries by individuals travelling on a Bahamian passport who purport to be a legitimate or bona fide Bahamian with no serious criminal record.

This has NOTHING to do with Christie or the BAHAMAS. The Canadians are simply protecting their things. We should follow suit, irrespective of TOURISM, because sooner than later, the TERRORISTS will infiltrate in greater numbers. They are here now in sleeper groups. You had better beware; the SNAKE is in the GREEN GRASS.

That is why we are in the state we are in now with Highshuns and Yardies and Chings............... slack border control ........ we need to follow suit with certain countries who have large numbers of illegals here

Ya mean ta tell ma we is gat snakes here dat does bite worser den Franky Wilson! My God, we mussey be in big trouble!!

The connections between organised crime and movements of their proceeds of crime to and from terrorist groups in connection with the funding of the activities of the latter are well-known and well-established.

Man listen......

Bahamian people paying fa dey own stupidity!!
Bahamians were never, ever, ever, ever suppose to vote for the PLP. Now..... the country is a complete mess and the innocent must suffer with the guilty.

So...... I ask the question again........ where y'all gold and blue PLP flag is nah???? How come y'all een gat yinna PLP flag hangin in ya car window no more??? I tot y'all say da PLP was da only ting ya want!