Some of my children are born in the Bahamas to a Canadian wife, we immigrated to Canada 51 years ago and it took ONE visit to Citizenship Canada to obtain Canadian citizenship for them, not decades, this saga of have honest citizens beholden to the state has to STOP

If this is really a "no brainer" bill, .. Is it just a lack of political will. .... .,That has stymied every attempt before, , ,, , To have women be equal under the law? .. .. .Or should we look back on the unholy alliance. .. ... ... .. 'Tween self-serving Drexel and Crawl back through Vomit defiance. . ....One mortgaged his soul to get re-elected, . ..... ..The other bargained his sons to be cabinet selected. ..Self serving acts that sunk the referendum.. ... ... Thus back to the 19th century women's rights they send 'em.
Sigh.

A Bahamian man OR woman should be able to automatically pass on their citizenship to their children whether married or unmarried. To think otherwise is non-sensical.

She is correct. Only someone with no brain would supporr this sell-out of Bahamians. Why are there so many traitors in this country? A country full of traitors cannot survive.

I think Allyson Maynard-Gibson and these other activist have a hidden agenda besides the constitution already makes it clear what a Bahamian male or female can do in relation to passing on citizenship to their offspring. AUTOMATIC BAHAMIAN CITIZENSHIP IS GIVEN TO PERSONS:

Born in The Bahamas to married parents, with either parent being a Bahamian citizen
Born to an un-married Bahamian female in or outside of The Bahamas
Born outside of The Bahamas to a married Bahamian male who was not born outside The Bahamas
Adopted by a married Bahamian male
Adopted by a single Bahamian female

You need to listen to more talkshows, as they know more about the constitution.

Not "Either parent". If the mother is Bahamian and married to a non Bahamian, the kids are not automatically Bahamian, regardless of where they are born.

I once heard someone say that a Bahamian woman should have her kids before getting married to a foreigner, then marry the foreigner.

However, even under the existence of such laws, applications have been known to languish for years before being approved or rejected, inconveniencing and discriminationg against many people who have always lived in the Bahamas and who were born to a Bahamian mother married to a foreigner or an Unmarried Bahamian father.

My family arrived in Eleuthera in 1647 as an Eleutheran Adventurer from Bristol,England via Bermuda.
Our daughter with an American father has been denied citizenship twice, once under 18 yrs and once over 18. 376 years of Bahamian family, still in the Bahamas and she cannot be a Bahamian under the current law. But…. a foreigner who spends enough money in the Bahamas can purchase citizenship. Thank you Mrs Maynard. This MUST change.

Mine a few years before yours, it took me over a year for one of my children, that's a year of runarounds request for documents etc. that in the end was not required, the people in this backwards government are hell bent to make you give in,

Had Allyson and her political colleagues not hijack the referendum for political purposes, this would not be an issue today,

Exactly!

The foreign affairs/citizenship/passport office is perhaps the most corrupt sector of the Bahamas Govt except perhaps... all the other parts of the govt.