This has become a mess. The way he explain it does sound like a bunch of shit tho. I don't understand how the judge have more power than the leader of the country. I thot he cudda ova rule erryone cept the governor general or sumtin....ine kno. I don't think she understand fully what she do. Ya done cant stop the boats from coming in with illegals, now no one in control or overseeing who and where they going to build na. Common sense would tell you a whole shit load of people coming to build in that area na. Try put yp something b4 the injunction ting ova. If they mash down 20 home, when they go back after dis whole court ting it ga 60 new homes. Watch da wibe. I wonder if that judge should even be allowed to BE a judge in our country anymore. Her decicion could have consequences beyond control. For instance 60 go up an hurricane hit an we have a repeat event. Its highly possible because, during the pandemic where these people get money from to build a properly regulated house? Building a house up to standard structure wise don't take 2 an 3 days. So if they don't have funds to do that den wat kind of house you think they gonna build? And i could hear people talking bout kids and stuff and a roof over your head, but if that roof be the same roof to fall on you an your family an kill yall how worthwhile was a shanty home? If that home gone have you under the impression that you SAFE, but when a storm comes it get destroyed along with you then what? I would not want to put my kids in a house i know aint safe because now im endangering them even more than not having a house. One ting i have come to learn bout the government, that is it seems like only the white man signature on a contract and a supreme judge could stop them from doing what they want. Lol that signature on that BPL oil drilling contract the sword of god to the government.

You do not want to live in a country where the elected (or not) leader has more power than the courts. then you would be somewhere like Myanmar, China, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, etc. etc. watch what you wish for bulla

It certainly seems Minnis, Bethel, Bannister, Johnson, etc. have found an accommodating Supreme Court Justice like Cheryl Grant-Thompson to provide them, and the entire FNM party leadership, with the cover needed to once again just kick the can down the road.

Rather than taking urgently needed action to address the explosively growing shantytown crisis, which is integrally tied to the unchecked and out-of-control illegal immigrant crisis, it appears our most senior elected officials with the help of a most accommodating Supreme Court Justice prefer instead to have our country's laws selectively enforced to suit their own interests and political agenda, and be damned The Bahamas and the Bahamian people.

Cheryl Grant-Thompson's ruling means our small financially crippled and very fragile nation will continue to be crushed both economically and culturally by these lawless shantytown communities that are now sprouting up everywhere at a torrid pace. Chief Justice Brian Moree should have long ago intervened rather than idly sit back and allow the court system to be used in such a disgacefully abusive way.

It's all too obvious that Minnis and his AG Bethel will do whatever it takes, including using the courts in a devious way, to ensure the large population of voters in our country of Haitian ancestry do not feel alienated in a national general election year. And of course one of the big beneficiary in all of this deviousness, is none other than QC Smith in his quest to make us Bahamians second class citizens in our very own country.

Everyone get so emotional when it comes to the Haitian issue. All the learned judge said, was allow due process to be complete. There is an injunction in place for some shanty towns. It is judicial courtesy to wait for a ruling to see whether you are within the law. You don't ran off and go to another Shanty town and do what prompted the first injunction. Yes, we understand that the government needs to score browny points before election.

Cheryl Grant-Thompson has been deliberately dragging her heels on this most important and urgent shanty town matter ever since the original injunction was put in place a long time ago. And Minnis and his flea-ridden AG Bethel just haven't seen fit to have her address the matter with any great despatch.

The judiciary is broken and has been long before Cheryl Grant-Thompson was appointed to the Supreme Court. We can't get murders heard in a timely manner.

A politician or civil servant can do only that which the law allows,
A private citizen can do anything save that which the law prohibits.
A point not understood by Mr. Bannister, obviously.
NONE OF THEN HAVE ANY POWER! They Have Authorities as delineated by the RULE OF LAW! FULL STOP!
That they exercise extraneous "Powers" is why the Country in the mess it is in.
Their Authority has to have limits, or you end up with PIndlings, Hubbigities and Minnis's Micro Managing every aspect of Civil life and opportunity. (note, there isn't any)
Civil servants have no power to Deny anything, but simpley to ask for the provision of what the law requires be submitted for a rubber stamp approval.
However, it is the people who are at fault, thereby allowing a constant stream of malfeasant imbeciles to be elected.
This whole "permission denied" or "stalling" is garbage created by those who would rule, not govern!
I say the above to say this: we were not capable of self determination and Independence then nor are we now.

The first time the Ministry Of Works Realizes That They Too Are Subject to Law And That They Are Not The Law. LOL. if MOW did their job the way it is supposed to be done, ALL OF THIS WOULD NOT BE AN ISSUE. Plain and simple the Ministry of Works F'ed up repeatedly over the past 40 years and now we have to try and fix it. Better to move on, accept the F up and tidy up the house going forward. Just because you f'ed up doesn't mean you don't have to follow the laws. In order to prove guilt you have to do just that prove guilt.

Desmond is out of his depths on this. How do we know none of those buildings were erected more than 21 years ago? How do we know they did not get permission to build there? All the records of Min of Works in Abaco were lost and destroyed in 1999 and again in 2019. Why does Min Of Works never deal with the huge number of open cesspits and septic tanks without covers (both extremely dangerous for small children), the homes built too close to the road (one new commercial one in Abaco is about 3 feet from the road boundary. how about the Central Pines where rules state 1 building per property but so many now have 3 and 4. No commercial activity in central pines but guess what? MOW lost its integrity when it applied to rules to one person but not another which started 40+ years ago.

You obviously didn't see any of the aerial photographs taken of the current shanty town areas in the immediate aftermath of Dorian.