Sorry, we can't help Haiti this time. Too many of our Bahamian brothers and sisters in dire need of our help.

Thank GOD Hubert Alexander Ingraham is NOT PM or he would have already been arranging to empty the treasury and urge Bahamians to send every dime they can find to help his Haitian brothers and sisters.

SP, what a mean-spirited post for no reason. Show a little humanity instead of your mean character. Human beings are suffering and you want to make it political. Disgraceful.

DillyTree, SP has a twisted point because we are already sypporting about 100,000 Haitians between here and Haiti and our near broken economy cannot take another hit like that or we will become Haiti chapter 2.

rawbahamian, I totally get it, but whose fault is that? We have allowed this to happen over the years. Bahamians didn't want to work in the fields, the gardens or other dirty jobs, so they were happy to have the Haitians do it for them. Now they complain!

No question, illegal (and I emphasise this) Haitians are a problem and a strain on the economy. However, those that are here legally, are entitled to just as much as Bahamians -- except maybe the vote.

But think what Haitians must be dealing with if they are willing to risk a dangerous passage on leaky wooden boats, and accept poor paying jobs (exploitation by Bahamians willing to hire illegals) and to live in squalid conditions in shanty towns. A problem, yes, but partly our own doing.

At the end of the day, they are human beings!

@Dilly Tree. Thanks for such a great response to a mean and unnecessary posting by SP. You are so right on point.

That’s huge

While on the subject of earthquakes:

"While disagreement abounds on this topic, scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) say that oil production can cause earthquakes, but not the kind reported in the news. According to the Rigorous Intuition, some earthquakes, such as the 2004 quake that triggered a deadly tsunami in Sumatra, occur at plate boundaries where hard, rocky slabs slide against each other to release tremendous amounts of energy. Oil generally is found in permeable sediments that are soft and squishy, not in hard rock. When this squishy land moves, it releases a small amount of energy, which can lead to a "mini-seismic event"-one that is barely detected on the Richter scale. Here's how it works: With high-tech equipment, oil companies pinpoint oil-rich areas and use large drills to puncture the surface below the sea, sometimes as deep as 10,000 feet. As this pricey fluid gets sucked from the sediment pores, the surrounding rocks shift positions to fill in the newly vacated spaces. At a large scale, for example the volume displaced when millions of barrels of oil are produced, the land movement can actually cause a mini-seismic earthquake, according to Robert Morton, a USGS coastal geologist."

Dilly Tree, you bleeding hearts refuse to face the reality that "**Bahamian** humans are suffering" right here! You people need to stop being "mean-spirited" and start "showing a little humanity" for your fellow countrymen for a change!

I don't see any Haitians losing everything they worked a lifetime to acquire or begging all over the place and suffering mental illnesses from neglect and unemployment.

**YES**, it is 100% inescapably political! Which other country ever had a policy of rewarding illegals the equivalent of a years income and no punishment for violating its immigration laws? Neither political party accepts responsibility for the asinine stupidity of **giving away our hard earned tax dollars to illegal Haitian migrants** that further encouraged Haitians to invade our country!

"We the people" had NOTHING to do with causing the Haitian invasion! We need to pull our heads out of our backsides and hold these useless, unscrupulous, self-serving politicians 100% accountable for their actions!

SP, clearly you're not interested in facts -- just your own version to justify your ranting. So be it, live in a cloud of stupidity.

The Bahamas can't even help itself at the moment, we can't possibly be called upon to help Haiti. This is unfortunate but Bahamians FIRST!