They hire these people!
Abaconians always cry about Haitians outnumbering them but delight in exploiting the cheap labour! If you want a work permit then you must first secure housing for your immigrant labour.

This woke DEI government is following behind the likes of Biden and allowing illegals in at alarming rates! We need ICE over here to sort this out!

BS. I'm sick of hearing this cockamamie excuse for these worthless governments to just hold their dick in their hands and do nothing to help Abaco. I'm an Abaconian businessman and I can tell you that it's the bad apples among the second homeowners that are encouraging this nonsense. They don't give a shit about our laws and regulations and just look to hire whoever could do the cheapest most shoddy work so they can turn a profit on flipping a property quickly. Bahamian contractors are guilty of not securing their jobsites properly because Haitians steal everything not chained down but I am telling you from personal experience it's the bad apple second homeowners who turn a blind eye to permits and feel sorry for them (even pay for their kids to go to private school while Bahamian children suffer) that are encouraging this nonsense to continue.

You hit the nail square on the head! Nassau has the same problem only worse, with expats and second home owners.

They could care less about our laws, and why should they when there's no penalty and nobody has been fined for hiring illegals, secondly, immigration can't go into gated communities to look for illegals anyway.

The country is buried in illegals from all over the place being facilitated by expats and second home owners looking for the cheapest labour.

Government is a total joke to these people.

With all due respect, my guess is that many of these people would hire Bahamians, if......
There is a major project going on on one Family Island and almost all the workers are foreign. The contractor is from here and knows his people. They don't want to work. Sorry, but our Bahamian work ethic has gone to shit. Period. Most every Bahamian I know prefers to hire the foreigners. At least they'll work. I have to be honest here. We have as many home grown bad apples as about any place on earth. Fact. We Bahamians wrote the laws. Why can't we enforce them?

It appears as if new shanty towns are being built . Remain vigilant. Unless some one like barbecue of Haiti rises in the Bahamas.

Need to tell the American president to send the Mexicans here to populate our less populated islands. Most Bahamians agree that the Mexicans are being mistreated, so send them here. We are open to immigrants.

Why do we complain about migrants coming here, taking our jobs, over populating our schools and hospitals, yet we see the present day American President as doing wrong for sending immigrants back to Mexico? We should be happy the Haitians are taking over our islands, schools and hospitals. This is what we the Mexicans to do in the United States,No?

Our governments are good at starting programs, and making laws, and poor at consistency in carrying them out and maintaining them.

> Another council member said Bahamians now fear retaliation, describing these latest groups of undocumented migrants as organized and emboldened.

See this is the thing right here that baffles me. I am a son of the soil on Abaco, with lineage going all the way back to the first Loyalist settlers and even to the Eleutheran Adventurers in one line of my family; ain't no driftwood what washed up on the shore is going to intimidate me into becoming a second class citizen on the land that my ancestors built. Conians need to grow some balls and stop letting these little pisstail Haitians scare them. The really sad part is that it's not just the Haitians (even though they are the worst because of their rampant theft, unlicensed and uninsured vehicles that shouldn't be on the road, and the shantytowns) but I have had to report several Americans for operating illegal businesses on this island, robbing jobs from the locals. ABACO IS NOT YOUR FREE ECONOMIC ZONE TO DO WHATEVER THE HELL YOU WANT. Conians are sick and tired of people coming here trashing our island with no respect for our laws, way of life, and the local culture. We are becoming second class citizens in our own island and the governments don't do jack shit to help us. These worthless FNM and PLP gubermints only know Abaco for a cash cow that they don't want to invest a single dime into. Our roads have literal craters in them like it's a warzone, our current is off for hours every day in the summer, we don't have nearly enough police or immigration officers to keep our island safe, and the worst part is neither party cares about us other than milking us for revenue to fund whatever cockamamie scheme they've created to waste money or get kickbacks on. CONIANS ARE FED UP. If these worthless governments don't do something to fix our problems, I can guarantee you Abaco will be sending 2 Coalition MPs to Parliament in the near future at best or the governments will see AIM resurrected at worst. They can choose if they want to start fixing these problems now and treating Abaco the way we should be treated or if they want to have a much bigger problem to deal with in the future. Their call.

Lastmanstanding you are SO CORRECT.
Thank you for speaking out for SO many of us.
I hope that THE TRIBUNE will follow this issue closely until changes are made.
It is a terrible situation that Nassau needs to deal with sooner than later.

Authorities should not be intruding into capitalist market laissez faire free market forces established economy.

Just pouring cheap foreign labour menial unskilled labourers wage range with Work Permits which KNOWINGLY IS NOT free market forces and is dictated by the government authorities ---Minimum Wages $260. ----- is below KNOWINGLY LIVABLE WAGES is wrong and knowingly creates criminal activity in illegal trespassing and illegal structures to house approved WORK Permit workers in 'slave like abodes" without water or waste disposal sanitary conditions.

These Communist decisions on approved certified massive influx of cheap dictated minimum wages in known large Bahamian populated areas and known Bahamian populated settlements for ages is obviously creating continuous challenges of great evil harm to all.

ABSOLUTELY no approval of certified Work Permit workers and increasing unlimited WORK PERMIT duration should be happening to extent that local Bahamian population can be forcibly made minimum ppopulation by willful or unwilful legal authorized action.