Guess if the AG don't like it it has to change ay

The Bahamas is on the way to a passible total loss of it's once great tourist industry and all these politicians are doing is spewing horse$hit and birth rites

The Constitution of The Bahamas is quite literally being shredded by the present majority of weaker legal minds within our judiciary.

We saw pretty much the same thing happen in our public education system once the better educators had either been forced to leave our country by the likes of Loftus Roker, or forced to find another career in order to be able to feed and clothe their families, or eventually retired from teaching.

Our country is already very much over populated as it is with a most serious illegal immigrant problem to boot. Unconstitutionally allowing Bahamian men to automatically pass citizenship to their children, regardless of whether their child is born out of wedlock to non-Bahamian mothers, all but assures many thousands of bastard children born in other countries around the world, most of whom are now adults, will be asserting that their natural father is (was) a Bahamian and, accordingly, this now gives them the right to live, work and receive social welfare benefits in The Bahamas as Bahamian citizens.

Right now the Privy Council in the UK is well known to have a very leftist leaning 'human rights type bent' to it which means yet another nail could be hammered in the coffin of The Bahamas.
And we can be rest assured that the poorest of the poor in the much lesser developed countries will be using this horribly misguided Appeals Court ruling to try gain entry to our country as quickly as possible.

As if our country's ship wasn't already grossly overloaded and steadily sinking!

Wow! a little prejudice maybe?

OK....but only a tad so.

This country is a sinking ship because there are more people with uneducated views like yours than the opposite. All the people with sense and brains are taking off for better lives in other countries, while we debate about whether children born here to Bahamian parents can be citizens.

You are correct. The brain drain of our educated is alarming.

They have gone because they see the advantage of living in the real world of the 21st Century and not the current Bahamas stuck in the old out dated thinking of the19th Century.

... regarding citizenship, the "father" of a child is always an assumption that should be undergirded by DNA testing for paternity!

This is a back door way to constitutional reform in 242 ...... the citizens have abdicated their power to the courts

Or, the court is actually protecting the right of Bahamian citizens.

Dream on!

Weeeeell mudda tek sic,...tens of thousands...should apply for their passport and voter's card....Looks like plenty, plenty, plenty more chairs for citizens and accompanying children, their children, everybody grandchildren attendees for few weeks away upcoming Independence celebrations.

Muddoes dred, looks like there will to be more chairs, seating arrangements on Fort Charlotte as tens of thousands more wearing their Bahamian colours with pride and waving their flags behind the top Bahamian Govt Officials, Bahamian dignitaries, distinguished guests.

Errybody...singing in toppest ceremony of annual Celebration of National Independence of the sovereign and independent nation. Looking forward to looking at the tv monitor at site past film clips as the Union Jack flag is lowered in reverence an the Bahamian flag rises in steadfast dignity an pride, our beloved sovereign an independent nation.

.......er, and to read therafter of the Bahamian Officials going back across the ocean to the former colonial rulers after all dese years.... to find out who the Bahamian citizen is.

That's a good one!

**So far** the constituents across **all we realm's 39 electoral constituencies** are protected in knowing that under the rule of **Thee** Mr. Minnis. em's, has outright denied AG Comrade Carl Wilshire even the slimmest chance that he'll come **doorknocking** as a candidate under the red party's banner.
**The office of the prime minister** has issued a stern warning to all constituents: **Should AG Comrade Carl Wilshire be spotted, physically doorknocking - you **ARE** to report his sighting - immediately to the party's Mackey Street's General Election Command Headquarters," yes?

Is it time to clean up on Aisle 6 at the Department of Immigration? Article 6 says: “Every person born in the Bahamas after 9th July 1973 shall become a citizen of the Bahamas at the date of his birth if at that date if either of his parents is a citizen of the Bahamas.”

Not so fast; no clean-up on Aisle 6 is warranted.

Chapter II, Article 8 of our Constitution states: *"A person born outside The Bahamas after 9th July 1973 shall become a citizen of The Bahamas at the date of his birth if at that date his father is a citizen of The Bahamas..."*

It really doesn't take a genius to figure out the knock-on-effect on Article 8 of our Courts' very misguided interpretation of Article 6 when it comes to children born abroad out of wedlock to non-Bahamian mothers.

The Constitution is indeed being 'unconstitutionally' re-written by the Courts behind the backs of the Bahamian people.

I fail to see what the issue is, what you quote as Article 8 is exactly what the court ruled. There is no requirement for wedlock, you are simply adding that in yourself. So every person born in the Bahamas with, at least one Bahamian parent is a Bahamian, and if born outside of the Bahamas, if the father is Bahamian. Again, no mention of wedlock.

Maybe you should be agruing that women should be equal citizens to men, because the second part makes a woman less of a citizen of the Bahamas than a man.

But you'd just rather go on with your bigotry.

You're just not the kind of person I consider worthy of pro bono legal advice. lol

Children born to unwed mothers have always been given citizenship. Indeed we as a Christian have always rewarded her adultery and punnished the Bahamian mother who dared to marry a foreigner and have their child outside The Bahamas by denying it to those children.
Where have you been???

Your sarcasm here is warranted but many may not appreciate its significance.

The final yea or nay on baby citizenship must be part on the mother ..... who for 9 months have to endure some the following..... heartburn,... morning sickness,... bleeding gums, ...constipation, ...fainting, ...varicose veins, ...vaginal discharges,...backpains,...fevers,...tiredness,...urge to go to bathroom visits,...trying to fit in car, etcetc and the wanting to eat icecream and sardines in the middle of the night. This should be moreso specially if the male who impregnated the female out of wedlock is not around.

No male allegedly being the father of the baby being carried for all the months of pregnancy by female and wid back pains, vaginal discharges, above mentioned etc should have male, the leading figure more than that of the carrying pregnant unwed mother.

Sorry to hear you had such a difficult pregnancy. lol

You should talk to some of the Medical doctors on some more of these challenges females go through in this nation. lol

The no comment code of solo and private practice doctors, **aren't inclined** them be **publicly** seen and heard, speaking negatively of their colleague's governance, yes?