What Culmer said is true though.....

The shanty towns are disgusting at first glance and should all be torn down.

Slow day at the office tribune? If a person then states that is deplorable that the Bahamian masses are uneducated, I presume that would also make headlines, however our D grad point average reconfirms that the average Bahamian is not well educated.

Anyone ever saw a photo or a video of Port-au-Prince or Kingston??????? ............ The only places of Earth that are dirtier than those two is Calcutta, India.

That is why we must get rid of the 40,000 illegal immigrants and the 40 shanty towns in Nassau and clean up Abaco, Harbour Island, Exuma and The Rocks ........ Dirty Haitians.

Yuh see this peesa carelessness? What this bwoy knows about Kingston? Have you ever been there? Keep your slander to yourself. Deal with your incompetent and corrupt army that allows sloops to park on their base and leave us out of your mixup.

Bet you never had life so good!

I don't live in 242, never have, never would want to. Have had the opportunity to visit, I declined. By God's grace, my life has been great ever since I was born in lovely Jamaica.

Jamaica proud you been meddling in Bahamian politics spitting on Bahamians. Face it there are few clean cities.Get a life and stop meddling like isis or Osama in other nations business or Bahamian politics. The rest of Jamaicans are proper decent respected citizens who leave other sovereign nations to run their politics and business of the people.

LOL I cant vote in Bahamas so I have never made any political statement. I have made statements about Human rights and due process, which is a right I have as a world citizen. Even if there was one Haitian in your country you would still be tripping. Hate, Hate, Hate.

That's not exactly true. No one is complaining about Cubans, DR residents, Indians, czechoslovakians or other Soviet block residents and they are all here. People are complaining about theHaitian population because we have a massive illegal immigration problem eminating from Haiti, that's it. Do you have some Bahamians who conflate the issue with insensitivity and hate, yes, and they tend to be the loudest voices. But Bahamians as a whole are very concerned about the burden on our economy of an illegal population that seems to have no end in sight. We cannot support them,nothing to do with xenophobia, it's just fact, we have zero growth and we're on the precipice of a downgrade to junk status. I fully support a change to the constitution that removes any "ambiguity" about automatic citizenship for children of illegal immigrants. We cannot support it.

I have been to Kingston but that was ages ago, I honestly can't recall if it was clean or dirty. What I do remember is loving the island as a whole, all of the other Caribbean island are very beautiful , hilly, lush vegetation, beautiful water, different Eco system to the Bahamas which has its own brand of beauty.

Respect. Sir, I respect you. I do understand. I know how it must feel to be inundated. The issue here is not of Kingston is dirty or clean, we are ok. The issue is that stop blaming the Haitians and blame your government for not being able to Police your borders.
How can a old wooden boat roll into an island without warning? Obviously Jamaica does not have the issues you have with many boats, but it has happened, and they have been intercepted, housed "not incarcerated", cleaned up, fed and repatriated.

However there is a massive guns for drugs trade between Haiti and Jamaica, because they use small fishing boats. My only thing is yes, protect your country. All of us island people are like that. However there seems to be an edge when Bahamians do it, seems to go from protection to almost abhorrence, that is all I am saying.

Maybe you guys should stop issuing any permits for some years while everything is cleared, up. Also the shanty town thing. Jamaica has such a problem, "captured land". I am against that mess. So your Government must find a way to deal with it.

Agree, each government seems reluctant to do anything, I don't know if there are external pressures they are bowing to or whether they don't want to upset a voter base. But the solution seems clear to me. Sensible policy to regularized those here, options of residency and work permits.

As to stopping the boats, I don't think the defence will ever be able to do it with their resources, I'm actually not surprised that they miss boats, all it takes is coordination with someone inland, possibly within the defence force itself. I do not believe they will be able to sustain the expense of a drone program long term if the economy doesn't grow by leaps and bounds. I think what can work is apartnership with a trained civilian surveillance force, no engagement, just surveillance

And yes, some Bahamians have a thing against anyone with an accent. Haitians seem to get the brunt of it. I believe it's because a large part of the workforce is not highly skilled so Haitians are seen as competition for the low skilled jobs, I could be wrong but that's my belief. I had a conversation with my father who told me how much the "white" man helped him to get the things he has today, I told him it was most likely because they didn't see you as competition. When the black man see you, all he see is he have to get it before you.

These so called activists are so lost. Anything that does not support illegal immigration and the poor helpless Haitians rhetoric is taken as fighting words. They are offended by the truth. Instead of calling dirty clean, they should actively try to relocate people from these squalid shanty towns for their own health, everyone else's, and to properly assimilate them into the wider community. One reason it is so hard to believe they simply want a better life is due to the fact that they recreate the very same conditions from Haiti in these shanty towns, and many stay there even after they are legalized and working legitimate jobs.

December 31st should have been the deadline to knock down every one of those illegal Haitian towns. We know nothing else is happening on that date. Once they have to pay the real cost of living, many would probably leave voluntarily.

Haiti does not send us their best! The majority are poorly educated, unacquainted with personal hygeine and lack the humility of Haitians 30 yrs ago. They have nothing to offer this country.

That is the Bahamian dilemma .......... We export our educated students who do not return after college graduation ........ and inherit the dirt poor and unskilled West Indians and others who are a social burden ...... #8BillionDebt

I don't know where you get this "unskilled West Indian" thing from, I know quite a few West Indians inclusive of Haitians and they tend to be extremely bright...well at least the ones I know, yuh know everywhere gat every kind a people. A family "friend" recently passed, he was in his 80's. I was super impressed by his recall of everything, world history, Bahamian history, biology, social sciences etc, he seemed to know everything. He was a teacher, don't know what his profession was before he migrated here.

They can say what ever makes them feel good, But the truth is there should be no shanty
Towns in the Bahamas. It is against the laws of the Bahamas. one can rest assured
there are no Shanty Towns where Fred Smith lives. But I Guess Smith feels it is all right
for other Bahamians.

As for cleaning other people's property. was it free or did the people pay?

When I lived in Nassau 30 years ago we had a Haitian gardener whom we paid every day that he came by. Many times he brought bananas, sours, guavas etc and we paid for them as well. I never asked where the produce came from and he never said.