I still don't understand why the defense force isn't using more aircraft. Drones are nice but still seem expensive and have a much higher crash rate. For the price they paid for just one of those bigger boats they could of gotten four or five aircraft. And not even regular aircraft but modified ones with actual zoomable surveillance cameras for day and night patrols instead of trying spot it with just their eyes which they seem to be doing now.

Aircraft is also expensive. It's easy to get a loan to purchase but noone finances the maintenance. I still advocate that the best solution is a hybrid system with a partial civilian force comprised of persons living in or near the coast, concealed cameras in sparsely populated areas and defence patrols. Details are deep, you'd have to complete surveillance training, get scheduling right, ensure anonymity and security of participants, don't want any collusion

Relatively speaking aircraft are not that expensive. Smaller aircraft like this http://www.diamond-air.at/en/special-mi… are possibly less than 2mil. Can't imagine the maintenance and crew costs are more than it is for one of those boats. The smallest ones of the new boats we just got cost over 10mil i believe. We need multiple layers to catch these illegal immigrants.

The captain of the illegal human smuggling boat has been here before at least 3 times which is shameful as we should have people ho figure out what iis going on and charge and jail him.
Simple if you cant stop the illegal boats stop the captains.
We should notwait for a bigger disaster to happen if a legitomate ship is to run over one of these packed slow wooden sloop at night and next morning The Bahamas is world news and we will never win that one.

Let the 9 RBDF ships meet them at the border (near Inagua) and open fire ...... the traffickers and the trafficked will get the message in Haiti and stop coming very soon .......... The solution is not difficult, just cold.

Like the idea of gunboat policy/diplomacy.
After all these decades its worth a try.

So the Department of Immigration knows when the boats are coming......emmmm and the Defence force doesn't......interesting.

I think Dames is wrong. He's basing his statement on old methods. Not surprised given the last six months. Hybrid system

Why are we so kind as to send the boat captain back to Haiti so he can load up another sloop and do it all over again? Is he not a smuggler of, at least, humans? Why not send him to Fox Hill?

What we need to do is to publish many stories in Haiti about finding those five vessels overturned in the middle of the ocean or floating around without a captain, and all passengers dead or half eaten by sharks, bodies floating all over the ocean and up on shore. Stories of boat captains throwing the men overboard and raping the women, eating the kids etc.
Then hopefully the Haitian people would lose faith in getting across safely, or will refuse to pay such a high price for such a perceived higher risk. In short, we need the Haitians to think that the journey is so horrific and risky that it is not worth it.

It works .......... That is why they do not come to Long Island ...... They believe we (the white people) will kill and eat them!!!!!! ........... BOL

You are sick for real.

Comrades! Ballsy hey to send an advance communication to immigration's top brass officials that five Haitian sloops “are on the way” sailing towards the Bahamaland with a warning.... catch we if you can?

I do feel for the BDF (nothing Royal about them). It is difficult to spot a red and yellow sail on the horizon, going a full 3 knots, when you are pissed and smoking the latest seizure from Jamaica.

How you bring Jamaica into your mouth? Don't they grow weed in the sunny Bahamas?

It's a backhanded compliment. Your stuff is the best.

Sorry to disappoint. Most of us do not mess with the green stuff. Many do most dont

The captain who has been in charge with illegal trips bringing illegalmigrants to our shores should NOT be sent back to Haiti, but put in the hole (solitary confinement ) for a twenty year stretch. The vinegar of human kindness now runs through my veins and it feels so sweet!

That is torture. You need to check your soul if you have any.

My fellow Bahamian commentators ......... jamaicaproud works for the United Nations, hey???

He's probably an illegal as well and trying to protect his family and brothers in crime. Probably already got ran out of Canada for doing shit and claiming 'I's a Rasta dread!'.

Ok you psychopathic joker. Anyway, put it this way, you would be glad to be in my shoes. Your only asset is Bahamian citizenship, that isntotaly useless to me.. But I will defend justice. To hear you casually talk about killing pro souls who are seeking a better life.

It's only losers spend all day griping about foreigners doing menial work. Successful people who are doing stuff don't have time to waste.Remember you live on a set of islands that hardly raise 20 meters off sea level. Be humble, that same Haiti could be your refuge tommorow. Be humble people have to be fleeing these low lying islands in pacific because the sea is rising. Be humblem you gyys dont grow your own food. Be humble your best and brightest go to Florida and never return. Most of so, be decent and stop advocating atrocities and murder in the name of immigration enforcement.

Five Haitian sloops Sailing on our seas,.. .....
Means five hundred Immigrant Wanna-bes.. ..........
At the Defence Force base they're marching round,. ...........
Not out patrolling Exumas' Sound. ...... .... ,......
The boats don't work 'cos the'props are bent.. ... ...
Since the last time to Andros they went..,...... ..........
Captain CockUp is the nickname, ............ ............
Of the Defence Force officer who gained his fame, . .......
As skipper of the Defence Force boat, ............ .......
Towed back to base barely afloat. .... ......
Perhaps, on foot, he could patrol the shore, . .... .....
To see if those sloops try to land some more. ..

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