If a work permit will not be issued when a Bahamian can do the job, the we better have a whole bunch of people start gardening and house cleaning and child care etc. All those permits can be revoked today.

As for construction, it’s just like any other profession, those coming from fully developed country’s will always be needed. Some inevitably end up with their own businesses here, usually with a Bahamian partner, but notice not one prolific construction company is run and managed by Bahamians. Not Mosko, not ISD, not BHM, Not Woslee, Not SMG, none of the good companies rely on Bahamians for leading roles. Now ask yourself, which came first, the success of those companies, or the foreign staff.

I’d rather we move ahead as a nation with plenty foreigners, than we limit ourselves to what Bahamians can do. We don’t exactly have any shining stars !

What a complete moron. The key to a nations success is to draw the best and brightest from other nations.

We should openly give citizenship to any professional who out shines a Bahamian.

All our successful companies are run by foreign or are monopolies

If Minnis really wanted to do something about illegal immigration he would do more and talk less. He talks one way when talking to Haitians and another when talking to Bahamians. Why don't they start by confiscating passports in Bahamian names from people who cannot even speak English much less pronounce the name in 'their' passport!

> PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis has instructed Immigration Minister Elsworth Johnson to form a “strike force” targeted at aggressively pursuing undocumented migrants throughout the country.

>Minnis said: “I have given the minister with responsibility for immigration (Elsworth Johnson) the task of establishing a strike force whose mandate will be to aggressively pursue illegals both throughout New Providence and the Family Islands...."

Minnis must think the Bahamian people are stupid. As minister of immigration it has been Elsworth Johnson's duty since May 2017 to aggressively round up and expeditiously deport illegal Haitian aliens. But Elsworth Johnson is a well known Haitian sympathizer, as is our creole speaking minister of immigration, Frankie Campbell, and our minister of foreign affairs, Darren Henfield.

Minnis very deliberatedly appointed these three Haitian sympathizers (Johnson, Campbell and Henfield) to their respective cabinet posts knowing full well that their ministerial portfolios involve many issues associated with illegal Haitian aliens, including ongoing close contact with representatives of their huge invasive force in The Bahamas. So who does Minnis think he's fooling by instructing Elsworth Johnson to form a special strike force to deal with a most serious problem that he should have all along been aggressively addressing as minister of immigration? Once again Minnis is just proving himself to be nothing but a bag of most insincere hot air. The illegal Haitian aliens now know for sure that Minnis has their backs because a well known Haitian sympathizer like Johnson is not going to do diddledee squat about our many illegal Haitian alien problems.

Minnis is using 1 of the 3 items all Governments use when things are going bad for them. This time it is the foreigner, other times it is whitey and others the gays. This is just trying to drum up support for him. Remember it wasn't long ago he told all illegals to leave by the end of December ( i think 2017 or 18). What happened in January? Nothing. I expect nothing will happen again here.

An Immigration Strike Force is long overdue. Bahamians are frustrated to the point where there is no shortage of people who would volunteer for such a force. The Bahamas must not be allowed to become the eleventh department (state) of Haiti.

Read the article. Do you really think a strike force formed by our minister of immigration (Elsworth Johnson), who is a well known illegal Haitian alien sympathizer, will aggressively round up and expeditiously deport the huge force of invaders squeezing the life out of us? Come on man, give us 'true' Bahamians a break before it's much too late!

The recently elevated into role immigration minister is the ideal latest chosen Imperialists red cabinet member volunteer to jump to participate in PM's pre election campaign's theatrics. Stay tuned for the PMO's photographer's staged photo ops - featuring the PM and his puppet crown minister - riding shotgun, all over, up and down streets colony's out islands- along with uniformed immigration officers - accompanied by contingent heavily war dressed and armed at the ready do battle with targeted Haitian males, **females, the young and old-aged** - committing no greater an offense other than going about their daily tasks likes shopping, working, church, Sunday school, medical and other important appointments, banking and grocery shopping.. All aimed at satisfying the pre election **over-sized ego of but one priorities mixed-up comrade man's.** Can't write this. Just, **can't.**

We shouldn't need a special task force if the existing entities were all doing their jobs properly in the first place. (Another waste of our money!)

It is a fact that Bahamians don't seem to want to do the jobs that Haitians are happy to do-. live in maids, labourers and gardeners etc. Be careful what you wish for...When the price of domestic workers increases it will cause everything to cost more.
Even though they are disenfranchised and treated terribly by Bahamians, the Haitian diaspora have helped build the Bahamas, they are very hard workers, they turn up on time, they respect the law, they go to church, they bolster the economy, they pay NHI and Taxes, they would probably not overstay visas if the immigration process was faster and more efficient.
They would probably want to retire in Haiti if travel / documentation process was less risky for them.
I wouldn't want to live in Haiti right now, I don't blame them for wanting to get out. We should be kinder. They are from the same descendants as Bahamians lest we forget!
There for the grace of god...
One day our Bahamian children may be begging to live in Haiti when the sea level rises. We already have thousands of Bahamian Climate Refugees in the USA right now.
It's only a matter of time.

One thing is for sure assuming you're a 'true' Bahamian: As a sympathizer of illegal Haitian aliens you're going to get everything you deserve in life, including a squalid existence as a second class citizen in your own country.

Trust me.....nobody's going to Haiti when the sea levels rise.....nobody.

His rhetoric is somewhat Trump'y

You mean his arrogance and outright nastiness. Minnis has all of Trump's weaknesses (and then some!) and not one of Trump's strengths.

This government has thousands of illegals in one place right after the hurricane. They allowed them to slip away into Bahamian communities and into existing shanty towns..now they want to go hunt down those people......Jesus, take the wheel.....please!!!!!!!