I was of the view that there was a shortage of nurses and the Bahamian nurses would welcome the help

Birdie as always. How are the foreigners "vetted" so quickly??

> He acknowledged frustration over
> delays in regularising local nurses,
> blaming slow vetting processes by the
> Royal Bahamas Police Force and Public
> Service Commission.
>
> He said the international recruitment drive, including efforts to bring
> healthcare workers from India and the
> Philippines, is critical while local
> training programmes are strengthened
> for long-term self-sufficiency.

I am sorry, But these two paragraphs here show the issue that something is seriously wrong.

How can you regularize foreigners in no time, but Bahamians have to take an eternity to be regularize? If the process is delayed for Bahamians, then the process should have the same delay for foreigners.

It is clear our governments live by the belief that their own citizens are second class.

Wow , what a ball of confusion with this health care system imbroglio. Seems that the Nurses union forgetting the Cuban export health care slavery system with the Cuban nurses in the Bahamas. The Union needs to take a thorough review of the Health Care Human Resource Management system in the country. Don’t just look at nurses from Ghana and leave the Cuban nurses out of the discussion. Just wait until the nurses from the Philippines and India come. Then the Bahamas will be a stepping stone for them to move to the USA.

The authorities from decades have the information of the growth of our Bahamaland and must have been planning for the provision of critical services expected, common sense.

In raising a child from birth to graduation was mentioned of being in excess of quarter of a million dollars from resources generated in the Bahamas.

Over the years of thousands of Bahamians then moving off to other countries is a catastrophe in losing a massive amount of cream of the crop that is produced in and from the Bahamas.

Quite a national embarrassment that no realistic sustained efforts to stop the massive hemorrhaging of national talents and future development and stability and growth of national pride, when the quite glaring obvious choice of our top students is to find another country to have a better life.

Quite bewildering when our Bahamaland top athletes win medals they are rewarded with money and land ----- and if our Bahamaland graduated nursing and doctors then why aren't these vital medical Bahamians not given at least some Crown land on some islands?
Didn't one of the Prime Ministers with the researched data ----- revealed that Bahamian professionals have difficulty in obtaining land and also had created a stamp duty construction formula for their homes to be constructed?

To keep extremely valuable qualified Bahamians to remain in the Bahamas, just give incentives as free beachfront or beach access Crown land in the family islands to build houses etc and grow the areas. It would be a win situation to use skills gained from Bahamian dollars to be used locally, a win situation for the ill population, a win for the politicians ----- instead of keeping land for giveaway prices to family, friends and lovers.

It is a shame face situation and quite disturbing to see Bahamians forced to run away for a better life and family and friends encourage them to do so in their best interests while nothing substantive done, or at least anything ----- anything at all ------- even a piece of the tens of thousands of Crown land -----tp keep them here.. And quite appalling to continue to see foreign workers have to come from across the ocean to do the work at cheaper labour.

Government knows that Bahamians will either vote FNM or PLP or stay home. Either way they remain in power.

The "brain drain" is essential to the political structure that exists here.
There is no way an educated and sensible person would vote for any of these clowns in office, nor would they put up with the stupid stuff coming out of Darville's, Davis', or any of these joker's mouths.
Why would reasonable people accept that those public servants, politicians we call them, can get rich in 5 years while are best and brightest of our people leave these shores because they are not paid or respected as they should be? Maybe why davis' daughter is abroad, hey?.
These fools we call ministers could never get away with this crap if we had an educated and sensible populace. Most of them would be in jail. Instead, here in The Bahamas we promote them and reelect them.
There is a health care crisis in The Bahamas. Unfortunately, it has been created and maintained by those we elect to represent the interests of the Bahamian people.
As many of the older people are saying, This is the worst they have ever seen.
And, if the PLP is voted back in, it will get even worser.

You have very good comments.

What should also be discussed on the national levels is the costs to our Bahamaland in that the disintegration of the Bahamian social glue of customs and language has created disruptions in the stability of the nation. Our beloved nation has streets where we once raised for 18 plus years of little boys and girls with pigtails and ribbons tied in bows and boys with shiny little shoes saying good morning and now have total new populations with totally different cultures, language and loyalties.

Now what is facing the nation is the realistic request just like Quebec is to now have the Constitutional rights of significant majority of the population to have the language be designated bi-lingual and all information be bi-lingual.

Pointless to have the world known documentation of the bi-lingual language in the Bahamas already documented and the authorities faking it that it is not necessary, as we all know it is now been bestowed on the nation by the forces in the nation to be so in reality.

It is time that there are forums, public discussions on the Bahamianism cultures and values and the national pride which with the once commonly known and the then continuously daily saying "its better in the Bahamas"