You are missing my point...it's a foreign investment bank...not a retail bank, dealing more than likely with foreign clientele who are also not Bahamian...they will fullfil the image of what they are needing to portray for their clients...now...retail banking is completely different!!

OK so...you have a bank like UBS...which for the Nassau branch is purely a 'wealth management' branch, all they do is have high level consultants on hand to be in office for when a client walks in and wants to assess his existing portfolio and change up some investments...those people will never be Bahamians, so of course they will be paid big bucks...the clientele does not want to come into a Swiss (Investment) Bank that handles their multi million or billion portfolios by some Bahamian that can't string a few sentences together. But, on the flip side, they built and paid for a multi million dollar building, they employ Bahamian security staff, clerical staff, gardening teams...all sorts of people in so called 'skilled labour'...but you are going to piss them off and drive them away. Very intelligent train of thought.

Kind of guessing that is a file photo of him from the bank...and he is Swiss...not French.

Yeap...and to really add fuel to the fire...the majority of the population would not be on this island if it were not for some of those elite white folk that they keep raging about that bound them to slavery and imported them to the Bahamas...but that is another story altogether...but one that is often overlooked at the convenience of a lot of the people who rail against the nasty white foreigner taking all those Bahamian jobs...

Curious...were they 'fired'...as in fired with cause and no pay, or were they paid out their full severance package and made redundant? If they were paid their full severance package, the union needs to shut the hell up and start stirring up crap...especially since it does not impact one of their union members anyways. Maybe...just maybe, these managers were bending some rules that benefited the union members and that's why they are up in arms...who knows...just more curious as to whether they got paid their severance or flat out fired with no pay.

The silly thing about it is this...not really a black or white issue, just a common sense issue on behalf of the officers. You have a 'top banker'...you pull him over, he does not DENY that he is working, doesn't claim to be a visitor, he tells you he is the director in charge of UBS. Chances are he was driving a car owned and registered to UBS. You know where he works, they have a massive building and complex right next to East Villa near Waterloo. This man is not a threat that needs to be detained and possibly deported for being an illegal. Send him on his way, alert head office, have them send an immigration officer to his offices at a predetermined time to give him time to get his paperwork out of the safe or safe deposit box which is likely where a Swiss minded individual would keep important documents and document him. Or tell him he needs to report to Hawkins Hill with his papers and meet this specific individual...otherwise we will be forced to visit your offices. It's the shady characters out there that you can tell without much difficulty that they are illegal, are they in a big fancy vehicle dressed for work, then tell you, no, I'm just visiting...with a briefcase on the passenger seat.

So many other ways this could have been handled, but because the immigration officers were power tripping, it ended up like it did and might just be the final nail in the coffin that drives UBS out of this country...they have already been pairing down their operations significantly and I believe there were in fact talks of them closing the Nassau branches in the past couple years.
There are better ways to go about it is all I am trying to say, having the gestapo stop you at roadblocks with a massive chip on their shoulder and something to prove, is not the right way to go about it.

Bear in mind, harassment goes both ways!! I've seen countless woman harassing male staff members...so it's not just a law to protect the females.

Wasn't the FNM that said it...wasn't it Leslie Miller...or another PLP MP that was quoted in the papers basically saying the local populace is too ignorant to understand the issues so they will decide for them what is best...and I think my paraphrase there was being NICE as to what was really said.

Driver's license is not sufficient proof of immigration legal status...they will still haul you off.

Had an acquaintance of mine show his permanent residency 'electronic credit card', along with his drivers license, and NIB card only to be told by the thugs that there was a problem with his 'papers' and he needed to pull over to the side of the road and await a supervisor to sort the matter out.