I will never disrespect the Haitian people or their decedents. But according
to what they are saying if true. they would be better off in Haiti.. because
things are really bad for them in the Bahamas.

The definite for low cost affordable housing in the developing islands. Haitians will have to learn to assimilate. Keep cleaner sorroundings, use the laundromat instead of hanging clothes on the line and cut down their family sizes to make accommodations more affordable.

These "shanty towns" have only flourished because of lack of governance by almost every agency, department or ministry. If the current government is finally going to ensure that rules and regulations are obeyed by all, then these folk will have to join the rest of the country or take off. They should have accumulated quite a savings by now, or would have if all savings were not sent out of the country to bring in more under the radar. Things are tough and times are hard for most Bahamians so it is more than ridiculous to play the xenophobia card.

You packaged it quite nicely

Pointed all this out prior to this anticipated outcome. ........Its supply and demand forces at work....the landlords knowing the demand overwhelms supply of rental units simply hold out for highest rents.....POETIC JUSTICE...?...just as the haitian shanty town workers living in low cost homes and have minimum fixed costs in illegally built shanty......could have undermined the regular rate of wages Bahamians pay to live in the real lawabiding world ........Haituns legal Bahamians or not.....welcome to the real world...and join the line of many Bahamian workers you put unemployed all a we now crying pore mout fer help....equal loving expected all ways round .....!!!....funny when yinna in da illegal shantytown all yall crying yinna Bahamian.....now yall have to live like real Bahamians scrappin, yinna is Haishun.....lol

These non-Bahamian people must not think that they can come here and live like they do in the slums of Port-au-Prince .......... They cannot expect our laws to be disregarded by them and we not try to correct this problem ............. That is really delusional on their behalf.

True, there may be unscrupulous slum lords out there ........... but they must be prosecuted as well.

Finally, we are headed in the right direction to level the playing field!

These people work for the same amounts as the average Bahamian but choose to live below the poverty level like sardines in cans, pay no water, light, phone, NIB, laundry etc' bills AND send a good % of earnings back to Haiti to help family and bring in more parasites as well.

Now they will have to pay rent, light, phone, and water bills like everybody else! This will cause a correction that might force them to better assimilate when they find themselves living hand to mouth for survival like everybody else and do not have the luxury of excess cash.

The 1st reality they will face is landlords will not tolerate overcrowding and poor upkeep of their rental properties!

I visited 3 money transfer outlets today and couldn't even get in the doors because of these people. Many of them have 2 jobs and make more than the average Bahamian but choose to live like rodents for the convenience of saving and repatriating funds.

the rent in abaco will be 900 or more regardless of who you are. the products and services are expensive regardless of who you are.

the salaries are lower in abaco too, compared to similar jobs in nassau.

in reality, even bahamians who live in the shanty town have to stay there because, to afford 1000 dollars a month it takes 3 working adults, and they will bring with them 6 children and gramma to live in a 2 bedroom apartment. the landlord then evicts them.

I couldn't agree more. As a white Abaconian it is distressing how expensive rent is and life in general is........it doesn't matter who you are, Abaco is so expensive it's a wonder we don't have thousands living on the streets

Don't pull the rest of us into the collective stupidity of the few. . .perhaps ignorant, but not the nonsensical non-reasoning like that around this site. . . THIS GROUP OF PEOPLE ARE NOTORIOUS FOR SENDING MULTI-MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO HAITI. . . they cannot ship out millions yearly and then complain that they cannot find money to pay the rent in Abaco. . .THEN PERHAPS YOU CAN'T LIVE IN ABACO IF YOU CAN''T AFFORD THE REQUESTED PAYMENT BY LANDLORDS. . . anywhere in this country you either pay the amount requested. . .talk the landlord down. . .or go somewhere else!!

more like... in a few days Bahamians will celebrate the fact that they voted out their white slave masters and voted in their black slave masters and nothing much has changed in 40+ years.....Yay independance.....

**"We do this, live this way because it is all we have," she said. "We can go out and pay rent if it was affordable. But the second they see the Haitian in you, then you know the price go up.
#"When I came to The Bahamas, I knew it would be hard, but I didn't think it would be like this. Every day you are being hunted and taken advantage of.**

And still they do not leave but rather stay and breed burdening schools and clinics. This country is the one being taken advantage of, big time!.

So, true .......... and more than double that when you add up all of the expenses they cost our Government services ...... repatriation ..... crime etc.

I always get backlash for this because of the xenophobic nature of our society but I feel there has to be a way to be fair to Bahamians, while still treating Haitians with more respect than they are shown. I don't believe in shanty towns... but besides that many Bahamians treat Haitians terribly (as if they are sub-human). <br/><br/> Yet at the same time we call ourselves a "Christian" nation. God created all of us equally. We will be judged by the way we treat our fellow man. Let's hold up the laws of the land, but do so in a humane manner. (I don't know what the solution is but let's remember that God made them too.)

Yeah? You think this bad? try riding through 'Lil Haiti' in Florida with your Bahamian flag blowing on your car, see if you make it out alive. I don't condone treating anyone less than human (whatever that means) however, but, the idea that making it easier for those regardless of their national origin who continue to BLATANTLY break the law, deliberately refusing to add to the build-up of the country but just sucking it dry, and adding unsustainable strain to the public sector that those who have pride, those who try to stay within the law have to pay for while they themselves are having a difficult time make sense? Migration is good, but help build the country rather than just sucking it dry, then leaving and moving on to the next juicy prey, leaving us with just flies and bones to build it up again.

So true Pastor Troy ........ Miami is so ghettoized that they even have Bahamian enclaves ........ But this breeds serious problems with administering and securing these multi-national ghettos ......... Too much national security risk

You will always get backlash by those who gave up honest thinking long ago.
Which is most of the world now, The Bahamas is no exception.
It is much more convenient to blame our problems on "others" rather than see the rot that has occurred for generations now among our own people.
Do we not read the other stories in the paper, that do not involve Haitians, which have brought our country to our knees?

I had family members who lived next door to some Haitian people. If you come from a shanty town I probably won't rent to you. Most of them do not abide by the occupancy rule and most landlord will not tolerate that.