It seems like our customs and border security are useless.

THEY ARE NOT USELESS, IF THEY RECEIVES DIRECTIVES FROM HIGHER UP.

Useless and slack not to mention dumb and D-Average, anything foreign can always slip through our corrupt official's hands. I wonder how many pieces of silver were handed to the Judas of this operation.

The ship "Pan Jasmine" arrived in freeport on July 24th and off loaded the infected wood and left on July 27th. It is presently in the gulf of Mexico headed to New Orleans

Because they didn't declare this serious infestation to us I assume that they will never be allowed to enter our waters again and that a large fine will be sent to their head office?

Heads should roll!

If the ship comes back into Bahamian waters it should be impounded, if not impounded any other ships owned by that company. There should be a massive fine for this. However we all know it will be swept under the rug, perhaps a donation for hurricane repairs will make it better.

It took quite some research work to trace through the building, re-flagging and ownership history of this ship but sure enough its current owner is a ship-leasing enterprise based in none other than Communist China. Surprise, surprise.

The Communist Chinese first send us their lab created 'gain-of-function' Wuhan virus, and, as if that wasn't bad enough, they've now sent us the mother-of-all ferociously invasive beetles to finish us off.

The Minnis-led FNM administration's very cozy and most harmful relationship with the Communist Chinese Party is the only explanation for why this Communist Chinese owned ship, which was denied entry to the US because of its poisonous cargo, was allowed to enter The Bahamas, dump its poisonous materials on Grand Bahama, and then quickly leave our country for the open seas.

The constant and very dangerous pandering and kowtowing of Minnis and D'Aguilar to the Communist Chinese must be stopped.

And the Communist Chinese ambassador to The Bahamas, who obviously had full prior knowledge of this ship's rejection incident with the US government because of its poisonous cargo, and who no doubt assisted with obtaining the authorization from our government officials for the dumping of its poisonous cargo on Grand Bahama, should immediately be declared persona non grata and permanently expelled from our country.

Tribanon is a sick troll. It appears that it is programmed to focus on key issues like our Prime Minister, China, FNM and the PLP. It then spins bitterness and insults to demean them. What a shame.

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I dont know @Topdude, something is seriously wrong with our country. Billions flow in and every year we look more and more like a shanty town. Blight was setting in before Dorian. Something is wrong and its at the political party level.

That's what I thought too before finding I had to dig much deeper to wade through the ship's many ownership changes and flag re-registrations since it was built in Communist China in 2010. The ship is currently flagged in Panama. I suspect you stopped at Pan Ocean if you couldn't get behind the virtually impenetrable wall of anonymity known as POS Maritime S.A. lol

Do your own digging. lol

The url link you posted is a dated one. The ship is currently flagged in Panama and STX Pan Ocean long ago dropped STX from its name. You need to continue with your digging. You also might want to dig up who was leasing the vessel at the time it dumped its poisonous junk on us. lol

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Noboby is home! We are led by a culture of jackasses who have no intention to do good by the Bahamian people. When will we decide that we have to be responsible for each other.

When will we have a responsible government ...for the people...by out people ...for all of our people?

Foreigners understand the Third World mentality of 'slip me something & I will look the other way'.
If Bahamians themselves do not respect the sovereignty rules enough to enforce them, why should foreigners do it for them?
Case in point, this event, Cruise ship garbage dumping, Shipping ballast-water dumping, North BiminiCubana, and many more...

Surely there most be some world banned pesticide laying about the Port to douse them Beetles.

They knew from yesterday but yes by the time they found out the wood had already been sent to the landfill. They say the transport trucks were sanitized and the wood destroyed. Time will tell if we have to put these beetles in the freezer for 24 hours beside the killer frogs, curly tail lizards and geckos

I guess you didn't hear about the rattle snakes a few years back. lol

oh yeah...the rattle snakes.. tanks

we forgot the AR-15's, uzzis and bush masters. They could fit in the freezer.

The ship was in Grand Bahama for a full 2 days and 4 hours (52 hours) unloading its poisonous cargo. And these are robust beetles with a ferocious appetite that can scamper over long distances very quickly. You've probably already got a few of them foraging in your back yard. lol

Clearly you are a troll.

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P.S. I really shouldn't be joking about this matter......it's a very serious one. These damn Red China longhorned beetles reproduce at an incredible rate and are super aggressive. They have a voracious appetite and can devour our pine forests within a decade at most.

The ship should be impounded and hefty fines levied. Bradford Marine also.

it should be torpedo'ed

I'm also sure the vaccines they have "sent" to Bahamas was something nobody wanted. They just dumped it here because substandard and the government celebrates the success....

How does this work? Why didnt the US notify the next port? The reporter should find out if they tried

The kind of investigative professional journalism you're calling for here is unfortunately well beyond the skill sets and pay grade of the news reporters hired by The Tribune, and The Nassau Guardian for that matter.

**S-U-R-P-R-I-S-E**.........This government is just as **L-O-U-S-Y** as the PLP!!

So, Joe Darville's weakness is finally exposed. He is a talker. End of story. That ship was sailing along for weeks before it landed in Grand Bahama and it is no secret what it was transporting. Joe lost focus of what is priority.

Why are you blaming Darville and not the totally incompetent Minnis-led FNM administration that in only four plus short years has brought our nation to its knees? We have become a shameful and most directionless nation of beggars under Minnis, not Darville. And Minnis would have us all believe Dorian and the Wuhan virus are responsible for all of our problems, as opposed to his grossly incompetent and failed leadership on all fronts.

Minnis needs to be reminded that all nations were afflicted with the pandemic and that many other nations have also suffered from major hurricanes, typhoons and/or cyclones in recent times, including smaller nations in our region of the world. Yet the current Minnis-led Bahamas government is ranked by various independent organizations as having one of the poorest records relative to other nations in dealing with these challenges. Enough said!

Minnis and D'Aguilar continue to allow the cruise ship companies to pollute our air and dump their shiit and contaminants in our territorial waters with complete impunity so don't expect them to do anything about the dangers of poisonous dunnage dumping as in the instant case of the invasive and very ferocious super beetles.