That the dress code in the Bahamas has gone down the toilet is not in question,
what is in question are these arbitrary rules imposed without notice or rationale that can be outlined on inquiry. This is half the problem, few civil servants can elucidate on the rules, never mind entertain a discussions on the purpose of the rules.
Which is exactly why the public is left at the whim of idiocy and the "bad hair day mentality"

what is truly sad is that someone has to tell others what they should look like when they leave their homes to go in public. Not too long ago people had enough sense and self respect to know what was appropriate!

I propose Imperial reds adds one more to their list of NO, NO's. No "Lying" your comrade PeoplePublic!

Chile,ya gotta see that so called ratty, decrepit,non discript,ill fitting,moth eaten thing
that Brent calls a suit.
For such a rich potentate he sure is cheap. I guess when he gets his first rent cheque
from Town Centre he will be able to buy something more befitting his exalted position in
our poor society.
Next time he enters the Immigration building ( which I understand is not too often),
I hope security checks on his sartorial splendor.

He owns the Town Centre Mall, you own nice suits.

That Thomas (the tank engine????) comment makes no sense.
Don't post if you are functionally illiterate.

Lol

It is a sad commentary that we are now at the point that we must make rules about what is appropriate dress. The three sizes too small is not appropriate anywhere. Especially on the gussiemaes!

so yall tink dis Walmart ay? Didn't someone in the previous government get red up for trying to enforce a dress code? So when did stretch marks get sexy?

There is a big difference between sloppy attire and a neat, sleeveless summer dress. There is a difference between women dressing like Victorian prudes and tatty slobs. Also think what's good for the goose is good for the gander. No shorts or short sleeves for one, no shorts or short sleeves for all! Fair is fair. I suppose that is implied in the sign, but not sure the security may understand the implications! All we need is more hilarity is our governance!

Just a humble suggestion, but perhaps government offices could spend less time worrying about the length of a woman’s sleeves and more time delivering the services they’re paid to deliver.

That too!

ODD........dat wid all going on.....seems a deflection from some other issUe......why does a $100,000. Plus salaried Public Servant Ececutice Cabinet Minister....wid so many importznt tings....wprrying bout ... people dressing....HAVE seen many fancy dressed highfalutin....expensively dressed up wemmens ....slickly bend over...clever moves to strategly ......accuentate.....physical ....ammmmm....assets......HMMMMMMMM...wha yinna gon do....stop wemmen bending over to pick ip someting dey drop....???....LOL...actually wemmen likely dresses dis way to see male immigration public servints to get quick prompt service......an now pressure on........its NOW an issue..... NOW DAT EXECUTIVE CABINET MINISTER WID LEGAL BACKGROUND... HAS MADE GUBBERMINT ...OFFICAL POSITION ON ONE ....GUBBERMINT PUBLIC USE BUILDING...........IT IS....should... FORTHWID EXPECTED THAT......THIS PUBLIC DRESS CLOTHING ......BE PLACED ....AN ...ENFORCED...ON ERRY.....GUBBERMINT....TAXPAYERS SPENDING TAXES TO MAINTAIN FER PUBLIC USE.....STRUCTURE...BUILDING...PUBLIC ROAD....PUBLIC BEACH....PORE CHILLRENS PLAYING IN GHETTO....AREAS...

No tiefin
No vote buying
No minister fornicating with junior staff
No sweetheart job giving
No under the table bribing
No over the table to self contract awarding
No crown land to friends or family giving

Since we trying to uphold standards...

well we can see what Ping,,,,, mastered in at that whiteman college somewhere.'how to hate the hand that taught and feed you'.leave it to that way of thinking and we will look like Bain town sooner than expected.Me and mine agree with mr Symonlette 100% every gov building should have the GUTS and follow suit,that will begin a new mindset in this country again,someone should tell these about the times when you could'nt go to a movie, yea the show over the hill without a coat.and when you came out ,at midnight to walk home,three four miles, NO ONE ROBBED OR KILL YOU. bring those days back, we could you know.but we have to start by dressing properly,every day,at home and on the streets.

I support the "Dress Police".
P.S. I supported Ping too and that did not turn out so well either---born loser!!!!
(AKA -- Brent's tailor).

Agree with Hon. Brent Symonette ........... We Bahamians used to be well dressed until we started copying the "jungalist" Caribbean look ........ and the "ghetto fabulous" look from North America ........... Lord, why can't we copy the best from others????????

There is a Public Service dress code .......... managers just need to enforce it for once.

You agree with (Hon - I think not ) Symonette.!!! Reactionary sycophant.
Might as well bring back the guillotine for all your "jungalist ghetto criminals"
Sheepshearer get in the 21st. century.
Bob Dylan----- Your sons and daughters are beyond you command, get out of the
way if you can't lend a hand.

NOTICE.......should be
No obscene lamguage permitted...stead of no swearing cause dere should be plemty swearing as to testifying as to telling the truth.....should include no hoodies as criminal
S usually use dem to quickly cover ups......NNotice seems to have been written by someone who likes to see.......fellas walking about with theeir pants dropping down showing jockey in back....and prison culture whichin is to advertize fellas available showing dere backsides..........sign needs to hav....No Smoking Zone. ...Tipping is Iĺegal.....

NO WEAPONS at the BOTTOM.
Those short shorts and sleeveless Tee's must be something else!

The Minister should know that that .......there can be wemmens all dressed up in the mostest so called proper attire and can be the mostest sexiest alluring senous behaviour in the mostest office settings..........versus.......what he complains of wemmen showing skin who visiting office apparently inapproproate.....zSorry Minister...many men and wemmen are capable of keeping a straight head.....whether looking at wemmen ackking normal dressed in revealing clothing an also doing budiness with wemmen dressed as "proper" but ackking like prostitutes....Employees should be taught bout all these.....otherwise it appoear like profiling pore people ......there is a case on a study done pn coloured girls in a mall being targeted thrown out ...and white ones dressed in same attire who didnt get thrown out.......!!!L

This dress code is making me chuckle. I had the pleasure of visiting the Dept. Of Immigration last year. Although some women had short sleeved outfits on the young men had in ripped or tattered jeans, t-shirts that hadn't seen a washing machine in weeks and some were even barefoot...but let's go after the women who bare their arms!

Off topic but about the building, it is filthy dirty, we were not allowed to use the elevator so had to take the stairs up. There in front of us was a staff member just finishing her lunch out of a take-away container, tossing it in the stairwell instead of taking it to her office and disposing of it properly. I stopped her and told her she dropped something...I don't need to tell you her response. As luck would have it she was looking after my extention and I sat there for 2hrs waiting for a lousy stamp, on a chair that the padding was missing from. 😂😂😂 Maybe the govt. should clean up the building, wash the walls, sweep and wash the floors before telling people what to wear.

I agree with the rule about dressing decently as the implication is that brief or revealing clothing is sexually suggestive. Fine but so hypocritical when we have school dances where the dancing is often vertical sex, Junkanoo which is way suggestive, as is much of the public -adult organized dancing shows put on by schools and other bodies. If you have 5- 10 year olds girating in minimal clothing at public functions how do you expect them to do better when older

Much ado about nothing. There are more serious issues confronting the Bahamas.

Indeed ....... Birdie is the moderate now

What no crown minister doesn't wants is to invite thousands the flesh bearing woman's open up expose they nipples in island-wide protest against him on his failure acknowledge that it hot inside offices immigration. This particular unconstitutional dress code restrictive action comrade Brent's, must have sometin' do up with minister's strict Methodise upbrungin' by wanting add a fifth allis to four alls how woman's are conduct themselves in he Imperial crown ministry's offices.... likes the minister doesn't take seeing too much exposure female's flesh... so man's be subject stroke after display nipples.

We have bigger issues at hand than to worry about "short shorts".

Sad thing is we do (or did) have public decency laws on the books, which aught to be enforced by the police. Write 'em up, let them pay a fine.
Immigration is crossing a line with regards to denial of service. This but one inevitable result of the failure of self governance/personal responsibility, personal pride.