Great news! I support this initiative 300%

It is ridiculous mindset amongst our people that we can take money and not pay it back, that foolishness needs to stop.

Just tell everyone that if they have not come to an agreement to pay the loan off going forward starting September 1st and then on the first of each month, you will publish a list of those who owe and what. You will find that the shame will cause a large number to come in to pay. Although of note if not already done, there should be a policy that the loan is not repayable until the person is earning over a set figure (say double minimum wage or triple etc).

Suppose said persons never earn double/triple the minimum wage, or perhaps not even bother to work? What then?

Then it is a freebie. The idea of student loans should be to enable a person to get a better paying job after they have gone to college. If it has failed then there is no point going after it. The hope being the vast majority do earn more and pay back.

Now we're talking sense! Non repayment of legitimate debt is tantamount to theft.

Do it!!

What's to follow next by the 1950's mentality stubborn comrade minister - debtors imprisonment order be executed by education ministry?
The Colony of Out Islands education ministry is the only subsidiary crown to have mobilised its go after students collection network be operating 24;Hours around clock.... while the property owners behind walls most secluded away from ordinary populace were given a tax collection pass, yes, no......
Please we beloved Queen, you has look into such "recalcitrant” matters, yes no..............
I guess be difficult be advocating imprisonment of school officials who whilst on "PopulacesPublicPurse's"s" are but carrying out ministry education's very own "state sanctioned policy" which outright encourages the beating of school children's, yes, no.................

Did Pindling, Wallace-Whitfield and Hanna not send Bahamians away for higher training with the end goal to bond those students to Government for improving the system? ........ Those students are still running the public sector today.

Now that Ingraham and the FNM came up with this "free-be" scheme to win the 2002 backfired on the Treasury, this 2019 reincarnation of the FNM want to garnish wages????? ........ SMH

Each ELA student loan is signed off by a guarantor(s) ........ Find them and garnish their wages. The guarantor list may just be a bit embarrassing to the FNM politicians (their friends, family, & lovers).

Nothing but grand standing by Lloyd for the consumption of those who do not know that the action he's promising cannot be limited by discrimination to civil servants. Furthermore, the wages of most civil servants have already been garnished by the banks with large consumer loan portfolios like Commonwealth Bank and Fidelity Bank. And many civil servants have monthly consumer loan repayments (principal plus interest) as high as 70% or more of their gross monthly wages. There's literally nothing left of their monthly wages for the ministry of education to garnish, and Lloyd knows this to be full well the case. Also, does anyone with an ounce of sense think for one moment that the Symonette family will let the Education Loan Authority compete with Commonwealth Bank for the garnishing of the meagre wages of civil servants? There's a greater chance of the sun not setting this evening!

> “When we came to office in 2017 and I credit the great work of the former chairman and present chair in bringing this where it is today, over $150m was owed to the Scholarship Loan Division, today it is $83m.

What LLoyd very deliberately refrains from disclosing is how much of the decline from $150 million to $83 million is attributable to loans that were simply written-off for the benefit of both FNM and PLP connected muck-a-mucks. He's also misstating these amounts by not including the very significant accrued interest amounts due on the outstanding loans. Yep, Lloyd is a - - - - - - - - - - - - of the highest order. LMAO

We will never know about the repayment claim ........... the ELA records are sealed tight ..... No civilian can see them ........ So, we have to "take the word" of Lloyd ........ SMH

So much for all of that freedom of information talk that Minnis gave us before the outcome of the national general election in May 2017. There isn't an honest soul among the whole bunch of current cabinet ministers. Those who voted FNM in the last general election 'got swing' real bad. FNM, PLP, DNA....all the same....no real difference. Honest, intelligent and hardworking Bahamians with true statesman-like qualities steer well clear of the dirty cess pool of politicians and civil servants who are doing nothing but destoying the social and economic fabric of our society.

Mudda, the present FNM will submit every Department or Ministry report that was left outstanding by the Christie Government .......... because they do not want Gravy Brave to use his PAC power against them ......... This is a game that they are playing ......... They will ride the stupid Major ruling until 2022.

Actually, I believe you are talking more sense than the Minister, particularly with regard to already garnered wages.

New consensus growing amongst number advanced thinkers comrades is for age '10' be first year enroll children's in academic learning, yes, no.... which calls complete closing down all Colony of Out Islands grade schools operated by government over next 24/36 months time-frame

Too many schools in the Out Islands ......... they can close at least 50 % of them.

DA ....People knows...the employees done have loan withdrawals/SALARY DEDUCTIONS - govt can check most all govt employees.... from almost all their paychecks.....the unemployment rate is highest .....da gubbermint financial subsistance is over 10,000..pore people needin ......even limited clothes for school chillrens.....knows great difficulity to get persons to qualify for greatly discounted lot an home housing.....1 in 7 Bahamians dont know where next meal coming from...Poverty rate like some 15%....MINIMUM WAGEstill years now unchanged....before ....REGRESSIVE TAX.....affecting pore people worser...VAT......
REPORT: BAHAMAS has second-highest economic and social inequality in Caribbean from Latin American Economic Outlook 2019 Report....article in Nassau Guardian 22 March, 2019...BEY EVEN DA ODDER DA Y.....ACTING FINANCIAL BIG WIG.....say one tingfor rich peoples........an...an...an......DID ONE U-TURN ON trying ...... trying to have rich people whip out money.....Now true to form it gan be getting blood out of stone...pore people poorer dan poor.......tyin to gets dere pound of flesh outta people......(NOTE: NO INCOME TAX & NO CORPORATE TAXES for rich people).....an......an........an.....2 week before election pore people is king an queen fer dere votes....an after ....different...new govt elected same ting dropp on backs of pore people.....

That too, AND maybe if they closed the 24/7 numbers houses there would be more funds maintained to pay bills.

YOUR comment may be the key to .....doable changes in betterment of the lives of pore and increasing numbers patrons including bankers, white collar workers who seem to go to the far away outlets so they cannot be seen and on increasingly frequency. The revenues I believe some 600M pa and profits some 200M and extracting bulk revenues from poorest areas. Seems what is sacrificed to channel to pore gets redirected to web shop gambling. owned by 8 operators/owners

Your comrade once had an out-of-body experience (OBE) giving my own earthly soul a rare travel into future communication experience with different kinds souls of spirits, yes, no.................. witnessed, heard, exposed things which years later still baffles hell out me mind...............

Comrade Tal you never fail to disappoint, always talking non sense & off topic.

Anyway, this story seems to go away for a few months then reappears.

The system was designed so if the student is unable to pay of his/her debt, the guarantor would pay back the loan agreement.

Why does it seems as a surprise that they are going after the guarantors (most cases parents) when this is what suppose to be done.

Collect with interest!

Shouldn't surprise why Imperialists red shirts government's substantive cabinet comrades are clamping down garnisheeing wages 46% all employed by government even placing possible debtors imprisonment closer doorsteps forcing thousands individuals either under debt serviceable waters, or pretty damn close treading debtors water be's keeping they heads above water by remaining upright and pumping they legs likes be's swimming for their lives......yes, no.............

Forgive the debt. It's the most Godly and Righteous thing to do. On another note the Social Security Administration /Government has been robbing people for years. I along with countless other Americans never agreed for them to take out money from our weekly/Bi-weekly/monthly wages. For the sake of setting me up for when I get to be the minimum age (No American wage earners input went into determining the age it would be disbursed) to benefit. Thats not for anyone to do against any persons will. You work from the age of 22 until you retire in 25 years. You're 47. They've taken at minimum $100 a week for 25 years. Considering wage increases and promotions. That's at least $125,000.00 Sitting somewhere that truly belongs to that worker. Within that time Americans have families and end up with kids with student loan debt. That money that's owed could minimize personal debt, purchase homes, be invested. Also, at 47 it's not available to get the money you've worked for. That's a crime itself.