Don't know who is advising the government on this matter, but several US cities tried to pass laws making it illegal to be homeless. So essentially they would lock up homeless individuals and lose them in jail. And, of course, when they got released, if ever, they would still be homeless and get re-arrested and back in jail. Many have a lot to be thankful for that Hillary clinton, aka MIss Jezebel, did not get elected.

Most of the time they just leave them alone. They tend to make themselves shelter in the woods, which you don't really have. As long as they don't bother people or set up shelter in obvious place's to bring down property values, they just leave them alone. The government doesn't want to support them. It's sad in the winter they occasionally find some dead from freezing to death.

Well said!

Where is the now much completed Census report promised for public release by Comrade Minister Dion Alexander....... cause how can the public fairly judge what's really going on at the long classified as shanty town residential areas..... how you treat the residents depends on are we talking about citizens or not - we do have a greater degree responsibility towards children - regardless of nationality. Will there be NO punishment for shanty town slum landlords and their conspirators..... are they not responsible shouldering costs for a terrible situation of which they have pocketed steady streams rent monies for years? Publicly name them! Publicly shame them! Shouldn't we the public be told who are the shanty town conspirators and how high up a position/status in government and society does they and they families enjoy?

Ethnic cleansing my big toe! These rights groups should teach THEIR People about Immigration Laws, Housing Regulations, Business Licences and Birth Control. If things are so bad in The Bahamas maybe they should jump on the first boat going somewhere more to their liking.

*Stephanie St Fleur, president of the activist group, branded the move “ethnic cleansing” saying it contravened certain articles of the Bahamas Constitution.*

Ms St Fleur conveniently **did not** mention the points in the Bahamian constitution, or immigration law that illegal **Haitians** contravene continuously!

She obviously does not understand exactly what ethnic cleansing is either!

Agreed...Ms St Fleur needs to be EXTREMELY careful with throwing around terms like 'Ethnic Cleansing'. Clearly she does not know her history and the TRUE meaning behind that term.

Yes like the Zika virus and the new outbreak of Ebola that is said to be 10 times more deadly. Do they have viruses that only attack only white people? Well except for that patently obvious one.

Why say white people? What are you getting at?

When Pindling was trying to starve out every Long Islander by not giving us access to any modern utilities etc. back in the 1970s and 1980s ....... that was ethnic cleansing ............ smt.

Georges should educate his people as to what the Government intentions are in regard
to shanty towns. The shanty Towns should not have existed in the first place, They are
illegal. What about other homes where persons followed the laws of the Bahamas
should they be forced to live close to shanty Towns.??

There are no shanty town in Smith Point near the drama king, or on the ridge or
Cable Beach or the Eastern Road.

"Rights Bahamas" should be renamed to "Rights Haitians" .....The principals in that group sure does not have the interest of This country at heart. They anti everything true true Bahamian in this country. We need to pass laws on who or what can use the word Bahamas in their name. Certainly not deceptive groups with take over intentions..

A more appropriate name for them would be "We gat a right to be here, now ya'll Bahamians shut up."

A true, true Bahamian is an Arawak-Lucayan, the rightful owners of the Bahamas. To everyone else, we belong in Africa, America or Europe. If the Spanish didn't kill them off, we would had been back in our side of the world.

In truth, we are all really foreigners and there's no Lucayans left here.

A truly doltish statement for even the Arawak-Lucayans came from somewhere, or did all human life begin in Africa except the Arawaks who God made in the Bahamas!!!!

We live in a world of laws and boundaries, many Haitians keep breaking those laws by ILLEGALLY entering another territory and living there ILLEGALLY. What about that don't you understand?

I once heard a US Congressman addressing some Latinos from Juarez Mexico who had moved to the US. His words were quite simple and to the point. He told them that if they live in this country, the way they lived in their country, then very soon this country will look like theirs.

Likewise to all who choose here to live, no matter of country of origin, but especially to those who try to justify shatytowns. If you choose to live like you did in your country, then soon our country will look like your country!

No we want ethnic cleansing but these soft fools we keep electing are too interested in taking creole bribes and looking the other way then taking care of issues and cleaning up our country

Ethnic cleansing for the Bahamas is the best idea of the century!

Nothing would make "real Bahamians" happier than to rid our country of these Haitian parasites who consider the Bahamas only as an ATM machine. They have no respect for our laws, people, culture or language.

What are you? A demon in human skin?

That is the problem with Bahamians today. Too immature and vile, too much beatings, too much greed, too much vanity and definitely too much pride.

You had never seen true suffering these people see everyday back in their home. You see them as worthless? Then you're a prisoner of the lack of the open world.

The Bahamas was forged by drug money supported by the drug cartels around Latin America, and as such, your country was cursed to suffer crime, corruption and death. Bahamians such as you look down on others because you never had suffering back in earlier times. Personally, did someone from that country killed your loved one? Or you benefited when people started to use cheap labor on them?

What is your problem? I await your answer.

...bey, cant win fer losing...one minute dey saying plenty Bahamians allso living in der shantytowns ...next minute dey is Haishuns living dere....so who is all the politician catering to cause ...they both done broke der law of building illegally......
What we really need dead bad.....is fer any Bahamian politician to remember dere oath of serving the Bahamian peoples country first....try an do the Abraham Limcoln thing and preserve the nation......one Bahamas government of the people...by the people and for the people........an try pass legislation to discourage illegals risking their lives at sea to bring their children for free schooling and making it illegal for Bahamian School officials to ask children for documented identification whether they are illegal or Bahamian so that they can benefit from the 300 million dollars in Education that Bahamians pay in taxes fer it.....off of the backs of der pore Bahamians

Rights Bahamas just go to court, UN, AMNESTY, UNHRC OR THE INTERNATIONAL COURT. . .they done told Haitians that they are not stateless in the Bahamas, there is no economic refugee status for any person and EACH NATION HAS A UN-SANCTIONED RIGHT TO MAINTAIN STATE LAW. . .AND NO OUTSIDE NATION HAS ANY HUMAN RIGHT TO INVADE THE OTHER'S BORDERS WITHOUT COMPLYING WITH ITS LAWS!!

These HR persons in the Bahamas are some of the the dumbest or the smartest in the whole world. . .ALL OTHER NATIONS WILL NOT ALLOW ANOTHER NATION'S CITIZEN TO COME TO THEIR STATE AND ESTABLISH A STATE OF LAWLESSNESS. . .NO NATION WILL. . .NOT EVEN HAITI!

....ah yes..... but these are officials wearing the Bahamian flag on their lapels ...following their legislated laws that ...Bahamians must pay taxes to educate another countrys children !!!!......

Haitians are not an ethnic group .......... they are black people just like 90% of Bahamians ..... The Chinese are an ethnic group .......... and they are a far more sinister group of immigrants.

further to sheeprunner12 post, The official United Nations definition of ethnic cleansing is "rendering an area ethnically homogeneous by using force or intimidation to remove from a given area persons of another ethnic or religious group" so if we are all black people and its not religious, how is it ethnic cleansing? we need to be careful throwing these terms around. next we'll hear the shantytowns are terrorist training camps or the gov't action is a crime against humanity. come on, give it a break!