If the government really cares, they can help donate new stalls for those ppl. I remembered back then when it was big argument of trying to revamp that dock for guess only and the vendors was not having it. A new look would be nice if the vendors are not ban from continuing their services.

This is another opportunity to get rid of all the shanty structures at potters cay and build standardize stone stalls with proper running water and toilets. These stall can then be insured. The present eye sore that presently exist does present a good view for the many guest who use the Bridge every day. . If PGW can be upgraded so should potters cay.

The so called 'vendors' do not own the land that these fired destroyed unsanitary and unsafe shanty shacks were built on. Why doesn't The Tribune's staff reporter investigate who in fact does own the land and who, if anyone, was collecting any rent from the vendors. Like so many of the straw 'stall' vendors downtown, most of these food & beer 'stall' vendors get away with paying no license fees, no rents, not being subject to health and safety inspections, no insurance requirements of any kind, etc., etc. This is because of the pervasive corruption that exists within our government departments and agencies that is supported by the likes of Dumbo Pintard.

Dumbo Pintard in the run up to a national election has wasted no time in suggesting government may have an obligation to put these vendors back in business. Dumbo Pintard apparently believes the rest of us hardworking taxpayers (you and me) should foot the bill for building new stalls for these vendors to get back in business. At the same time he, and of course Minnis, know full well that nothing (nadda) of any consequence will ever flow back into the public treasury to help defray the higher taxes and fees the rest of us will be forced to pay for putting these unscrupulous rent and tax dodgers back in business.

On a final note, just about anyone who has driven past these shanty shacks will tell you they were a terrible menace to traffic with drunks and bums wandering all over the place and others criss-crossing the narrow roadway in a most unsafe and dangerous way. There's simply not enough space to accommodate such vendor-type structures being rebuilt on the same site without (yet again) violating numerous building and safety codes.

All of them are not immigrants. Drunk will be everywhere because they are mostly Bahamians living on the streets. They too have rights to go wherever as a regular citizen. It's so easy to beat down on the poor but the illegal millionaire mafias can live comfortably in the Bahamas running joint operations with government and overseas partners, double standards for the rich and poor in the Bahamas.

Who said they are all immigrants? No matter who they are, they should not be above the law, even if our corrupt politicians for political gain encourage them to behave as such.

How do drugs, sex trafficking, guns coming into the country, from the rich ppl that employs poorer ppl to do their dirty works. They still don't get arrested for running illegal operations because they pay the GOVERNMENT off. They torture the poor more than the rich here.

The churches do more feeding programs for the drunk individuals than GOVERNMENT.

Out cable beach look like a dream compared to the lower class bahamian communities. The GOVERNMENT doesn't give a damn about the poor citizens or the poor at all. Places like Kemp Road will never have good roads like out west. If it does not cater to GOV, they ain't checking to upgrade.

Truly sad that persons who may have been getting back on their feet are facing another setback. But in terms of forward thinking and planning, officials can see clearly what a huge fire hazard (hazard in general), those structures are. similarly for shanty towns.

Stop allowing these ramshackle disorganized structures to pop up all over the place. If they are not careful in 10 years the entire strip from arawak cay to the point will look like a shanty town. arawak cay is hideous. and we hold it up like a crown jewel. There is a native market in barbados where the locals hang out, cant remember the name. same concept. each "stall" is a uniform wooden structure neatlly constructured and painted in some bright pastel colour evenly spaced out along the compound. Why cant we do something organized and aesthetically beautiful for once? Why do we cling on to garbage like its the best thing ever?"*Junkanoo is the greatest show on earth*" because we say so. It isn't. It's disorganized the costumes are rushed and never finished.call it what is is and fix it.

Couldn't agree more.

‘ The Rosewood massacre was a racially motivated massacre of black people and destruction of a black town that took place during the first week of January 1923 in rural Levy County, Florida. At least six black people and two white people were killed, though eyewitness accounts suggested a higher death toll of 27 to 150. The town of Rosewood was destroyed in what contemporary news reports characterized as a race riot. Florida had an especially high number of lynchings of black men in the years before the massacre,[2] including a well-publicized incident in December 1922.’

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> The Tulsa race massacre (known alternatively as the Tulsa race riot, the Greenwood Massacre, the Black Wall Street Massacre, the Tulsa pogrom, or the Tulsa Massacre)[10][11][12][13][14][15] took place on May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of White residents, many of them deputized and given weapons by city officials, attacked Black residents and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma.[16] It has been called "the single worst incident of racial violence in American history."[17] The attack, carried out on the ground and from private aircraft, destroyed more than 35 square blocks of the district—at that time the wealthiest Black community in the United States, known as "Black Wall Street."[18]