This is 2014 Guest2468... nobody owes nobody anything for things that occurred hundreds of years ago, are we that desperate.. Success is earned & taken.. Lets start looking in the mirror, lets address some of our family members for being lazy, ignorant or corrupt f's.. Lets push our people to have morals & enforce the rule law.. Let hold our politicians and business leaders accountable. We are our own worse enemy & if someone give us 10 billion dollars we would still be in the same state of affairs because it would not address our most critical handicap..And that is a large segment of our population are ignorant clinging to the tribal mentality of PLP & FNM politics.

I watched vedios of McCartneys behavior in Parliment & lost a lot of respect for him.. I was hoping he would be a statesman of some sort but he turned out to be just another loud mouth arrongant individual hungry for power.. We are in desperate need of new quality leadership, not the same fools running this country into the ground...

Guest2468, With the exception of Germany and the Swiss, Europe is broke and suffer there own societal problems.. Nobody respects panhandlers and beggers, & if the government of the Bahamas is going around begging nations, we as a society lose credibility immediately.. Can the people of today's Europe be forced to pay for the sins of there ancestors that were committed at a time when slavery was a way of life for many nations.. Lastly, what have we done for ourselves since independance in terms of deal making and education to benefit the population as a whole. We never became a ownership society capable of controlling our own destiny in the world. We did not invest in quality education for all, we did not embrace free market capitalistic principles & allowed our own selfishness and corruption to put us in this state of affairs. Now we want free handouts from Europe.. When are we going to take responsibility for our own economic & social conditions?

We have no self respect.... Panhandling for for reparations...

Ms. Greene is a very intelligent and articulate person & i've seen her in dialogues with absolute morons, Bible tumping, bumbling idiots who can quote scriptures but cannot explain why a so called Christian Nation is so riddled with crime.. However, I would say to her that straight nor gay people can walk down the street without fear of harm. Ms. Greene most of the population live in fear of crime daily, don't like coming out at night and the country is overwhelmed with governmet corruption... Education about LBGT matters can wait, most of our kids are receiving piss poor education in public schools limiting there future.. Let fix this first..

Wooooooo Tal... u gone make some folks real uncomfortable.. I await the responses to this with great curiousity.

Wow conversation gets deluted with religion, & other homophobic matters.. We take a matter of fact or fiction and turn it into a religious matter as if the church can cast any stones. I don't see homosexuals slamming planes into buidings or commiting mass murder in the name of God. The criminal behavior and irresponsible breeding & distruction of our society is the result of the spawns of us so called moral heterosexuals.. Radical Feminism, family dysfunction, sexual irresponsibility, High Divorce, single parents, these matters are whats destroying us not matters of adult sexual preferences. I have never loss sleep at night concerned about being robbed, murdered or acosted in any way by a gang of LBGT thugs. I would go even further to say its the church & religion that keeps many poor & ignorant because it creates this delusion that prayer vs work & knowledge is the solution to problems.. We become slaves to pimps in the pulpit clinging to every word while our own social and financial condition in life never changes.. I see it all the time the worse neigborhoods alway have a church on every block but the neigborhood is in piss poor conditions. Yet the majority of these immoral gays live in clean beautiful neigborhoods with low crime.. Go figure.. If a person is a unskilled, uneducated, lazy moron, being a christian, praying or going to church everyday & quoting scriptures is not going to solve any of your problems..

We have lost track of the basis of this article... The 1 and only question.. Are LBGT Bahamians being persecuted in the Bahamas forcing them to file for political asylum in other countries? Example Nigeria puts people in jail for being gay, automatic asylum, other countries promote violence, discrimination & intimidation of LBGT individuals.. Is this what's going on in the Bahamas? We are not talking in terms of marriage, which i believe gay individuals should have a right to, I'm talking about people persecuting u for being gay.. That means your basic human rights are being violated just for being gay..

Asylum= sanctuary, refuge from persecution...Lets leave all this religious matters alone and focus on facts of the story.. The argument is these individuals are seeking asylum in Canada to escape a system of persecution against LGBT persons in the Bahamas.. That means individuals are being targeted, harmed, threaten and discriminated against for being gay and its an environment of fear and torture. That means this is a epidemic and the laws and culture supports that abuse.. I say while there are bigots in the Bahamas Gay people are not being persecuted and with the exception of marriage are as free as anyone else.. Who persecutes there own brothers, sisters, daughters, cousins.. That being said everyone else including gay persons are not free to move about because of the fear of crime.. If LGBT individuals were to file for asylum based on the crime problem.. Now there's is facts no one can dispute.. Just produce the stats that support the basis for asylum for being persecuted for being gay in the Bahamas. Because i think gay people generally are a lot more successful than the rest of the population & are damn sure some of the best at getting a lot of things done.

@ rachelg, people come here to read & make comment u must respect there right to do so, how can u be for freedom & equality but against free expression. People question the validity of the story because the facts don't make sense, & it sames more agenda based.. what I say to u is I have had family members, shot, stabbed, robbed etc & I myself have been robbed, & people are being targeted everyday for different reasons. Educate me if u can on the statistics by percentage of hates crimes against gay persons for being gay versus all other crimes.. For starters can u advise how many people in the Bahamas were murder, assaulted or victimized for just being gay, not that it doesn't happen but what are the #s.