Yikes, the officer. This is what we need to address before NHI

Could the commissioner please put this officer on a diet! His belt is groaning in pain and seems on the verge of collapsing under the pressure.

That belt holdin' his gut in. His face is bloated as well.

so Fox Hill Prison is safer then guatanamo... I mean Carmichael Road Detention centre??? That says so much about right said fweddy and his gang o green goons!!!

On a serious note Fred Smith is a true national hero and perhaps more important to the preservation of democracy in the Bahamas than anyone else today. This government should be ashamed to hold persons for three years in detention without due process, that is a clear human rights abuse.

Pupo even paid the fine and the airfare, and they still keep him locked up for three years........ for no reason

I agree. I'm glad they let them fellas go but it's a shame that it took so long. I know tensions are high and patience is short, but Bahamians are better than locking people up without even charging them.

Whiles I dont agree with much that Fred Smith has to say, our government dropped the ball on this one. There is no way a detainee should be held for three years without being processed, and if Pupo had already been processed and paid his fine, why was he not deported after paying the fine? I dont condone anyone being held for that period of time without being processed, whether its a local criminal or a foreign detainee.

Now that is a real QC for you ......... go Fweddy2 ............ BOL

Say what you like about him but this QC deserves the title. He sure knows the law!

The question is, how many more are being held illegally without trial?

Comrades a sad reflection on Bahamaland.
People who breach our immigration laws should not be treated like criminals.
Close done this deplorable immigration offenses detention center now and either send its occupants back to their respective homelands or free them from custody.
Same goes for anyone up in Fox Hill Prison being held on immigration charges.
Both the PLP and Papa Hubert regimes should be ashamed of their actions against a selective group of illegal immigrates.
Comrades there is no reasonable argument that can be made in law to treat non-criminals
like criminals.

You seem more concerned with reflections and keeping up appearances, rather than on fixing a broken system that might result in due process for Bahamians and immigrants alike. It is administrative failures within the judicial process that result in travesties such as this, and in human smugglers being set free, and in a notorious drug dealer finding grounds on which to sue the government, and there are probably many other failures that we have not yet heard. I say an urgent review of the files of every person (not just immigrants) detained in Fox Hill and the detention center is in order, and all languishing cases should be heard and decided in the quickest possible time frame.

What Bahamas government and his immigration policy doing is wrong They keeping peoples for nothing they keep some people in the Carmichael road detention center for 7 years now for no reason they still in the place now. Fred Smith is a hero he doing great with his people God bless them with long life to continue their good job please human rights need to put eye in the Carmichael road detention center they are abusing human rights there seven years is too much and a lot of people in there.

The government doing bad on human rights they keeping peoples for nothing right now they have more people in the Carmichael road detention center for seven years now without any crime fred Smith is a hero God bless him with his people for long life to continue doing the great work, the human rights need to check the immigration detention center a lot of people in there for many years now.

The Bahamas government doing bad on human rights they keeping peoples for nothing right now they have some people in the Carmichael road detention center for seven years now without any crime fred Smith is a hero God bless him and his people for long life to continue doing the great work human rights need to check the immigration detention center they have a lot of people they keep for many years there.