Can't believe how stupid these comments are. 70% of our jobs come from tourism and the financial services industry. We will all be fishing if it wasn't for these jobs and there aren't enough fish to support us all. Roughing up a banker is completely unacceptable. This means open season on all tourists and visitors. They will probably react badly to demands for documentation. The cruise ships keep there passports. People on the beach have no ID in there bikini's. Let's detain them all if they get cranky when harassed for documentation. You are the biggest idiots going supporting any sanctioning of this treatment.

I know of a few million "whites" coming to the island every year that do not have valid ID on them. The cruise ships keep the passports of all there passengers. We need to build bigger detention Centers. These bastards don't have valid ID's. Let's detain all Mr. Mitchel you idiot.

We want guys like this in this country. 90% of the Banks employers in the Bahamas are Bahamian. Let's say for purpose of this discussion they employ 100 people. For every job they create from foreign money coming into the country it creates 7 other jobs. This is a economic statistic ... read economics textbooks (it's called the economic multiplier) if you disagree. These are grocer employees, truck drivers, tire repair man etc. If you want the top executive out of the country to make room for a Bahamian to take his job, UBS will leave for countries that allow the executive they "know" running it. That would have 90 Bahamians out of work and the impact on the economy is another 700 jobs.

I was at a red light on Shirley Street beside a police car. The light turned green but cars kept going through the red. The police ignored them. Another time on Shirley Street a taxi turns from the left lane across a lane of traffic turning right on East Street forcing me to slam on may brakes and drive on the sidewalk. A policeman was on the sidewalk. When I asked if he was going to do anything he said "It's a taxi driver!!". I can give you hundreds of examples of this kind of behavior from the police. We all can. Nobody in this country uses a signal light or wears a seat belt. I have had two traffic accidents, the other parties were charged but they had no insurance and no license in one case. I followed up with the police and nothing was done. Peoples safety and lives are put at risk and nothing is done, but we think it is ok to harass a top executive of a company giving people in the Bahamas jobs. Come on Bahamas.

As for a Police State. Police states have no crime. Countries with dictators have some of the lowest crime rates in the world. We are at the other end of this spectrum. Crime of all kinds are rampant here because of the example the police give for the little things like enforcing traffic infractions and following up on people breaking the law. The message they are giving is go ahead and break the laws, we probably won't do anything. Those people openly breaking the laws are quite often related to the police officers who will openly solicit for the criminals. This open soliciting for criminals is a huge infraction anywhere else in the world but is not even understood to be an infraction here. They enforce the immigration stuff because they are not related to the foreigners. This crime that is running rampant will eventually kill tourism and no one will have a job here. We will be immigrating to Haiti to work. Keep it up Bahamas. We will be treated wonderfully in Haiti.