....And y'all just realizing this? While the unemployment rate remains sky high!

Why is it Bahamians don't like Donald Trump, but seem to have the same feelings he has with regards to illegal immigrants. Just shows you how we are hypocrites.

It never fails. When a politician feels like he is unpopular and has lost control of the country and his mandate to lead, he tries to appeal to the public hate of foreigners. Oldest trick in the book. This is purely a move made by a desperate man to shift the blame and change the narrative from his own inadequate leadership ability.

Agreed, every Government does this as soon as their popularity looks bad.

You are correct. Of course, people from a country will feel a way if foreigners get jobs. However, it is a credit to the Bahamas that outsiders want to go there. So he should stop the blame game. Trust me, the minute outsiders no longer want to work in Bahamas, that is when you will know teh country is really in trouble

Yet this same arrogantly simple man who supposedly "hates" foreigners just gave a foreign company 65 million dollars plus of our hard earned VAT money, when he could have likely leveraged a purely private purchase of the white elephant Lucayan Hotel using Government pressure points. Can't fool us Minnis. He may "hate" foreigners, but he had nothing but contempt for the Bahamian people. And now he's begging another foreign company, Shell, to bail out the BPL power shortage. This man's lips and his actions are a million miles apart.

well the ones who apply for the NOVS are acting according to law, aren't they?

that is the wrong place to look for people to prosecute.

Exactly.
The problem is that they may granting too many work permits, but this government is the one granting them.
How can you blame the others when you are in control of the government.
There are classes in logic.
Minnis, clearly has missed them all.

Minnis is good a talking! Not so good at doing!
Brent is on a mission, that's why he wanted Immigration!

On a mission to give away The Bahamas?

Former Trade Unionist ....singing a different tune now he on the udder side of the table.....mudda tek sic......
HOW IN THE WORLD MR. FORMER. LABOUR ...NOW PRESENT BIG TIME GOVT LABOUR EXECUTIVE....CAN A FOREIGN LABOURER .....SURVIVE ON MINIMUM WAGES...?.??......AN WHOSE ONLY SOURCE OF INCOME IS STATED IN BLACK AN WHITE ON THE GOVT .....DOCUMENT....ON WHICH NIB..NATIONAL INSURAMCE .....IS LEGALLY MANDATED........AND STILL.....MAKE $20,000. PER ANNUM......GIVEN THE OTHER..... "BENEFITS".....???????....and are the other "benefits" going UNTAXED....???
Wid all due respect Mr. Pinder as the lawful Govt man...it seems you have just revealed something....dishonest.....in
1. Work Permit Jobs advertised at minimum wage BUT IN ACTUAL FACT may be more potentially $20,000..
2. If the Foreign Labourers wages are up to $20,000. Shouldnt their NIB contribitions be taxed on $20,000. than on minimum wage.....????
3. If indeed in fact Foreign worker can be on Work Permit advertising da vacant job as MINIMUM WAGE...but....can make up to $20,000. ....potientially.....THEN ...what is to stop anyone making any amount more than what the job advertises says...???
4. How can any Work Permit Holder survive on Minimum Wage............whochin dey mandated to legally pay NIB on their full earnings....while dey in da country....???
5. What are these other .......potential "benefits"....Mr. SENIOR LABOUR EXECUTIVE......????.........or are these "benefits"......like free schooling ...hospital....free govt services paid for off the Backs of PORE ORDINARY BAHAMIANS.....in what is now seems to be a dishonest process....?..?

@Madhatter, you got it correct again!

Actually they did take ONE bahamian before the courts:

http://www.tribune242.com/news/2018/aug…

How hell does a government possess such ugly big set balls claim they've lost war on something they have thousand percent control over?
More evidence ammunition stacking up justify why Her Excellency Marguerite. has be undergoing some sets royal pains - not make good her royal firing authority strike out against colony islands comrade prime minister and if necessary, the entire contingent other 34 red shirts MP's, for their complicity in propping up the going on's PMO. {Just can't make abundance hypocrisy spilling out this PMO, up }.

......psssst.. Tal....psssssSSTTT ....TAL....
4 Feb 2015 see google google
tribune loftus roker enforce all laws or change them

http://www.tribune242.com/news/2015/feb…

I've finally cracked the FNM Grand Lucayan Hotel purchase code. In order to join WTO and due to devaluation to junk bond status, the Bahamian currency WILL be devalued. In order to hedge against guaranteed devaluation, the Baystreet Boys are purchasing the hotel so they can sell it for US dollars to a foreign purchaser/investor. The Baystreet Boys can then exchange their Bahamian dollars for US dollars before devaluation occurs. This is also why the Baystreet Boys want ownership of the Cruise Ship Port, so they will have access to and a steady flow of US dollars. I'm calling it now! The B dollar is going to be devalued before the Bahamas can join the WTO (the US dollar peg will not be allowed by the WTO!). Change your Bahamian currency now! This is the only explanation that makes perfect sense for the purchase of the hotel.

Ma Comrades Minnis and KP aren't sure how to keep promise brugin abundance high paying tech jobs that even by their low standards was so outlandish that it now looks like they're making out be doing something good Grand Bahamalanders - by sustaining (not creating) few plantation low paying hotel jobs... and all by borrowing millions and millions dollars with added interest payable beholding Chinese plantation owners. { No need make this return plantation days stuff up, now is there? }. Soon Imperial red shirts minister work permits Brent is goin be brungin in work permit holders from India's northern sate Punjab to man's low wage call centers.

Please read this excellent article in full. The relevant quote is printed below:

https://thenassauguardian.com/2014/05/1…
May 14, 2014
Nicole Burrows

Thirdly, will this accession to the WTO eventually force us to remove our currency peg to the U.S. dollar, when, as a result of an unprecedented increase in U.S. imports and decrease in Bahamian exports, our U.S. currency demand becomes far greater than our demand for our own currency?

Could we, one day soon, become a U.S. dollar-only economy?

So..... the govt is looking for revenue....easy one.....now that there are additional benefits say live in maids...... in hiring foreign maids.....the Real Property Tax office should look into the portion of the residemce the foreogn worker resides in as having a monetary value that has not been taxed before.....amd apply a Property Tax based on the applicable portion ratio of residence used as in rental ....equilivent rental purpose.....!!!!

Brent symanett should be locked up for giving away our passports to illegal Haitians and trying to force us into the WTO.

These people áre a bunch of dummies. I'm sorry. **Did they read the CEB bill? Did they read their own edict where ANY Indian national with a Canadian, US or Schegen visa is allowed admittance to any plane headed to the Bahamas and on arrival is AUTOMATICALLY granted a work permit?** Stop this fake outrage after you already open the floodgates IINTENTIONALLY. Rank stupidity. One of the only growth industries left in the Bahamas and you give it away on a platter...

It's almost as if they have a split personality. He in charge but complaining about what he allowing. *No more government owned hotels it's a bad idea! If I had my way*.....

Ma Comrade ThisIsOurs, now you've brought out such unhappiness causing split the 91,409 voting red shirts 10 May 2017 to thinking - how else excepting they must've had split personality have calculated best this election vote for Imperials Minnis, KP, Hon. Speaker Dwitt, along with other 32 Imperial red MP's.

Just blah, blah, blah every day! PGC disease.

Ma Comrades, are there enough circumstances which would compel Her Excellency Marguerite to sign Royal Decree to order the holding of a Special Redo Election opportunity just for the 91,409 voting red 10 May 2017 who voted the 35 reds but only after feeling disenchanted campaign promises PLP's, Green party and Independents..... hopefully to head off a much worse economy under Minnis, KP and House Speaker Dwitt - we colony of islands?

Very disappointing, irrespective of the actual immigration policy/crisis/illusion.
He has basically reverted to good standard bearing PLP policy/mouthing off.
Fred must be thrilled.
What a tremendous disappointment.

Mr Minnis is concerned about the many work permits .Rightly so but his focus is in the wrong area.He need to look into what’s happening in the hotels.Especially Atlantis and Bahamar.Where the expats are taking over middle management positions.Below is an excerpt from a letter in last week guardian.
In recent times there has been a noticeable amount of Caucasian expatriates hired in the hospitality industry holding middle management positions in the food and beverage department. The reality is there are Bahamians who are capable of these positions but are not considered .Not only are they passed up but are passed up in favor of an expat who have never held a managerial position until coming to the Bahamas. Yeah !! Right they could tell us anything.Some of them that worked as cooks and servers are hired as chefs,directors and restaurant managers .With so many talented Bahamians available why is there an expat restaurant manager in a hotel in the Bahamas. Especially an expat who is feeding of his Bahamian assistant .We have been taken back more than fifty years when there were mostly Italians and French maitre’d‘s.Now we are all over the lowly Haitians that are living in the bushes who ekes out a living by weeding our yards.But not lobbying for the lucrative jobs held by the expats.Who are receiving housing allowance and whose children’s school fees are being paid.They come here on limited work permits that are gradually extended to five ten,fifteen years,some of them
never returning to their own countries . How sweet it is.
While our UB students graduating with honors holding degrees in hotel management cannot get a decent job. ”According to societies echelon it is called globalization”.Please free up those jobs and give our young graduates a chance before we lose anymore of them to the streets.

With all due respect, tony pratt.
I have hired and trained thousands of hotel and restaurant workers, very successfully.
If you want a business to work, you must hire the very best people available.
It is not a businesses job to give people a chance.
As a whole, our country has lost the service mentality.
If you can't see this most anywhere you go, you are not in the service business.
After years of being in the business, I rarely hired on experience. I hired on personality. To tell a business to hire a certain nationality, as opposed to the best candidate is suicide for the business.
If you want the best candidate, educate, train and instill in them a good work ethic. If you want a failed business, keep telling them who to hire.
If you want foreigners out of your country, tell your government.
Business people want their business to succeed, and will therefore hire the best people. Once you present that ideal job candidate, clean, prompt, honest, a team worker and willing to please, the employer will be ecstatic and will hire them quickly, before someone else does.
To think that just because someone has education or a degree in hotel management, they can do the job is foolish and unrealistic. You either have a service personality or you don't.
We have a long way to go here. That is the sad reality.
If we start trying to improve ourselves, rather than blame it all on the foreigners, we would get somewhere.
This could happen in the next generation or two.
It won't happen next year, I am certain of this.


I can't say when or why this happened, though I can speculate.

A government of contradictions.A year ago this government passed the commercial enterprise bill. Now the PM is saying too much work permits are being issued.

They also quietly **very** quietly relaxed the requirements for Indian nationals with US Canadian and Schengen visas. They are granted an automatic work permit on entry. Our country has been sold off to foreign interests with the aid of the ICT committee. They created the rules to allow themselves to import Indian programmers for their businesses. And they did t surreptitiously. The man already tell y'all he has no problem using his position for his personal benefit.

No he's not talking about the CEB or The Pointe and isn't that ironic? Now the first thing they will say is we didn't negotiate the Pointe contract. Well, if you want to see what they would have negotiated look at Oban, the BEC VSEP and the Lucayan. We'd be lucky we didn't end up paying the Chinese workers.

The guys from the south of take the low end jobs and the ones from the east to take the high end jobs and the Europeans to take over finance once the WTO accession is complete. And all this happens quietly and slowly while he's ginning up the mob to watch the Haitian community. Next is energy, watch and see.

Ma Comrades, are we returning back 25% unemployment?

- (21 Oct 1977) Queen Elizabeth II of Britain opened the Bahamaland Parliament in the capital, Nassau, at a small-scale but picturesque ceremony. The Bahamaland Prime Minister, Lynden Pindling, handed the Queen the official speech, which she read out. -

........///////https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq4Pu1-Z0yQ