So No Bahamians meet the criteria, so you hire Foreigners who don't meet the criteria.....
I swear there is no competency left in the Bahamas Government.

I honestly spat out some tea when I read what you wrote. That is friggin hilarious!!! Thank you.

Here they go again wasting the taxpayers' money, so these two **FOREIGN** DPP's were being paid a salary for six months for doing **ABSOLUTELY NOTHING** and the **BAHAMIAN** teachers denied entry to their jobs and salaries cut for trying to do their jobs. Ah boy only in the Bahamas

Really? What is this, Wow, amazing! Wow, amazing! Seriously? Wow, just amazing!!! I can't believe this, I am so annoyed that I can't even speak. This is very unacceptable , I am very disappointed in our government and our country! How can we continue to waste money and then come to the Bahamian people to increase taxes because episodes like this continue to happen..

Well it’s likely a Bahamian can meet the requirements and given our small nation size, it is impossible to find a Bahamian without conflicts of interest in some cases.

Likewise with the police, we all notice how hard it is to get a police report, when the party is related to a cop, even in matters as simple as a car crash. If the guilty party has police family, they get off.

We all know it’s true

Dumping on Bahamians too much I don't know what some black Bahamian do to offend you... do I encounter hapless, worthless, rude Bahamians on a weekly basis. Yes. But I interact with quite a number of talented educated and forward thinking and moving Bahamians as well. Change yuh circle, everybody een da same.

@Chucky, perhaps, someone with no connection to the Bahamian population would be better suited for the role. We have to train our people to not accept corruption. Until such time, we may have to turn to outside help.

The very incompetent Carl Bethel should do all of us Bahamians a big favour and just resign. Why Minnis has not fired him by now says much about Minnis's own incompetence. Frank Smith has already walked free from the corruption charges made against him and the same is about to happen to Shameless Shane Gibson.

The Jamaican QC who represents Smith is now also representing Gibson. In both the Smith case and the Gibson case, the Jamaican QC has all too easily demonstrated the extent to which senior officers and detectives in our police force are grossly unqualified and outrightly incompetent. Our senior police officers and detectives have in fact become the laughing stock of the Caribbean region because they lack the requisite intelligence and training necessary to fulfil their expected duties, especially as regards the handling of critical evidence gathered during an investigation.

The situation is so embarassingly bad that the Jamaican QC holds the view that it would be next to impossible for our enforcement authorities to prevail in getting anyone of financial means with political connections convicted of corruption and fraud charges. In other words, our country's entire very costly law enforcement apparatus is completely ineffective and useless for the purpose of rooting out, investigating, charging, prosecuting and punishing the perpetrators of major corruption and fraud cases where the accused is politically connected and has the financial means to hired someone like the Jamaican QC to defend them.

We have truly become a lawless country as a result of our very dysfunctional hiring and training practices for law enforcement personnel. There are way too many D minus educated and lowly paid law enforcement officials in our country today, many of whom are of Haitian descent - soon to be Nigerian descent. Many of these officials owe their progression through the ranks to either their political connections and time of service alone, as opposed to merit based on the demonstrated possession of requisite core competencies. It seems this sad state of affairs has triggered a policy of hiring from abroad - case in point being the two Nigerians - but apparently even this has been botched on the competency front.

**Come again,** not first time a red shirts administration tried such scary hire of a foreigner lawyer over Bahamalander lawyer, yes, no ... Didn't colony's former prime minister comrade Papa Hubert, not hire a Jamaican to fill position as colony's Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) - over a local qualified woman's .... You don't make hire a foreigner as colony's DPP up. you just, can't. .

Not surprising, it happens all the time.

There is, under the Legal Profession Act, the concept of "a person appointed to a legal public office" who is a non-Bahamian appointed under Article 117 of the Bahamas Constitution by the Governor-General acting on the advice of Judicial and Legal Services to any public office where the officer is required to possess legal qualifications. It seems to me that both the Ugandan and the Nigerian gentlemen satisfy the charateristics of "a person appointed to a legal public office" as the positions of deputy director of public prosecutions and assistant director of public prosecutions both fall within and are appointed under Article 117 of the Constitution. Accordingly, neither the Ugandan or the Nigerian need to be "called" or admitted to the Bahamas Bar in order to discharge their respective duties as assistant director of public prosecutions and deputy director of public prosecutions. They have been brought here for a particular purpose, to assist with or carry out criminal prosecutions and they should now proceed to carry prosecute accordingly. This matter raises the question of whether a Bahamian attorney going to Uganda or Nigeria has a right to be called or admitted to practice law there without restriction? The argument put forward by the Bar Council is inherently weak as the Schedules to the Legal Profession Act could be amended by the Governor-General to allow these persons and others like them who have not gone through the UK or UWI legal education systems to be admitted to practice law in the Bahamas. The Bar Council should have refused these lawyers on the basis that under the Legal Profession Act and Article 117 of the Constitution, they do not need to be admitted to practice law in the Bahamas in order to discharge the duties for which they were hired.