Like you I am flabbergasted and still trying to figure out this editorial. Is seems like The Tribune is advocating the ilegal immigrants and illegal construction because pople they say need a place to stay to help for reconstruction?

This is in no way responsible jouranlism.

We must deal with illegal activities in the country. Otherise, we might as well allow the children to go to school and sell marijuana cookies, let the drug lords, run wild, allow illegal guns to stay o the street.

I'm sorry but this editiroal enrages me, that a national paper in this country seeks to justify illegallity in people who bltantly break and immigration and building laws and fluant it.

proudloudandfnm I have a strange feeling that the person who wrote this article is no other than Human Rights Activist Fred Smith QC.

So you support Biden who is for letting illegal immigrants into the USA and giving them residency papers, but you are against it when it's for the Bahamas. You are looking more like a Trumpie everyday!

The shanty towns were there decades before Dorian and should NOT have been.. What gives, Editor? Moonlighting for Fred Smith?

Further, there are unemployed BAHAMIANS from all over THE BAHAMAS looking for work in ABACO!!!

You sound stoopid!ask Bahamians what happens when they try get a job in Grand Bahama dude

Mr: Smith can do no wrong as far as the Editorial page is concerned.

Lifts him up for the cases he wins. against the Government..

The truth is he is not good at all. only shows how very bad the Government side is. it islike taking candy from a baby.

birdiestrachan it's quite clear as day that Fred Smith has no loyalty to The Bahamas instead his loyalty lies in Haiti.

Well, of course, nothing adds up In the Abaco Shantytown raid because **arithmetic,** has never been the **Governing Authority's** strong suit.

Tal, but da people in da shanty town is know how to multiply.

I have to wonder whether The Editor is aware that these invaders take bread out of the mouths of Bahamians. Living rent-free and regulation-free in their illegal shanty towns enables them to accept lower salaries, particularly from so-called second home-owners, than Bahamians who must shoulder the high taxes and fees levied on them which allow the invaders access to schooling, medical care, social services and all of the amenities of the country structure of which Bahamians now find themselves deprived because of over-crowding. All of this is due to the lunacy, corruption and lack of action of the governments, past and present, in allowing these foreign elements to waltz in and take over.

DDK I have a strong feeling the person who wrote this article is obviously Fred Smith QC.

This editorial is so biased so as to be actually unworthy of submission and print.

When Fred finnish wit us, da Vaseline company dem gah be rich.

The Tribune's editorial staff long ago abandoned reasoned critical thinking and the putting forward of a balanced perspective on the issues of the day. For them and The Tribune's owners it's now all about pushing the right buttons to titillate the D- educated among us who can read in order to increase their readership and in turn increase their advertising revenue. Quite frankly we're the fools for helping them put aside professional journalism in order to achieve their profit centric goals.

There are several people commenting here who come from families that comfortably avoided military service during the war against the fascist regimes of Nazi Germany, Italy, and Japan. Sir Etienne Dupuch, like the father of the tabloid's editor was brave enough to risk his life. This will have given his family members an appreciation of how important it is that human rights abuses by any government must be challenged. Congratulations to the editor of the Tribune. Ignore the ignorant and ill advised negative comments.

Apropos my first post above: "Quod Erat Demonstrandum" (QED). Thank you @hrysippus.

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Just as a point, I think Sir Etienne fought in the first world war, the Nazis was the second.

As usual in our xenophobic zeal we have missed the point of the article and attacked the messenger.
The author asks some perfectly legitimate questions which none of you have bothered to answer either deliberately or through ignorance.

What gives the authorities the right to steal or confiscate those peoples property? The fact that they might be here illegally doesn’t give anyone the right to steal their personal belongings.
If this was done to any one of you who are posting here you would be screaming from the hills about dictatorships and police states.

How do you operate a refrigerator illegally? Since when is illegal to own and operate a portable generator? Or is it only illegal because they’re Haitians?

Crooked and tiefin Bahamians have been doing this to Haitians since the first one landed here more than half a century ago, but we as a people have now stooped to an all time low, we have truly become a Nation of beggars and thieves.

Apropos my first post above: "Quod Erat Demonstrandum" (QED). Thank you @themessenger.

TribAnonentity seems to have a continuing problem with the Tribune, his always negative comments suggest no positive solutions ever. He should just stop reading the newspaper so that the rest of us no longer have to read his sad comments. Better yet; he should start his own newspapers so we can hurl criticisms at his efforts. It will never happen of course, keyboard warriors like this rarely achieve anything themselves because they are kept too busy trying to keep others down.

@tribanon, your myopic verbiage is just more of what’s expected from you and proves absolutely nothing, whereas the actions of the authorities, well, res ipsa loquitur!

Just another matter if another pussy cat trying to pretend to be a male cat .. again 🐒🐱. Don’t forget the helicopter raids on Bew Providence in the middle of the night, or did u forget already??

And where were all of those helicopters you speak of when Louis Edward Rolle needed an emergency airlift from Bimini to a hospital in Nassau in order to have at least a fighting chance of defeating the suffering he experienced from COVID-19? God rest his soul.

Authorities seem unable to find who is employing these illegals and give them one year in prison for each instance. Unable, unwilling, or perhaps for some other reason that an innocent mind such as mine cannot fathom.

How did living in something you build on land you own or rent become against a law.

Building codes originated due to lobby efforts of banks who wanted a means to ensure their collateral ( your home) in a mortgage was up to a standard.

Then governments use the permit / inspection / valuation to determine property taxes.

Lastly building codes provide a reasonable means to ensure structures are safe for occupants. Statistics show far more deaths happen from state sponsor ed violence or war , than building failure (legal or otherwise)

Living in whatever you choose should be legal. Leat we prefer the poor be homeless and on the street 24/7. So surely a tin suck or a tent is better than on the street.

Immigration issues are just that. And could be solved if the goveremt really wanted to. After all, enforce the existing laws and fine anyone who employs an illegal and soon you would have no jobs for illegal immigrants and likely they will choose to starve in their own countries. Keep employing them and they will keep coming.

It's a bad argument to simply say that since we confirm and pay our property tax etc that we should want everyone else to suffer this too. If the defence force was running around raping like happens in so many backward countries, would you cry " they should be raped too" when it comes to a segment of society escaping the action.

Property taxes , mortgages and building codes are great when you can afford it. But when you earn 150 a week and have a family, I suggest it should be fine for them to live how they want and where they want.

After all it's Bahamians and their freedom to survive as they see fit. Not that it matterS, but if it's illegals ,. That's an immigrant issue, not a compliance issue.

Do you really want to give government control of everything. Compliance just ensures all are milked,. Some should be free if it means their survival.

Why dont you all hold Covid19 accountable. An invader without a Visa. Sets up shop anywhere. Kills destroy, has wrecked the only source of Foreign exchange. How is this rabid hatred going to help.

How is incarcerating more people in Covid infested lockups going to help.

And as a Jamaican, we would not expect you to readily admit that the ruthless Xi Jinping led Communist Chinese Party bears full responsibility for the creation and unleashing of the COVID-19 virus on the rest of the world. After all, Jamaica was the first Caribbean country to allow itself to get hooked on sucking in a big way on the very sinister and evil lending teat ('tit') of Communist China.