Haitian labor is valuable only because of the fact that it is practically modern day slavery. In every country that has an immigrant problem, they disrespect and denounce the native work force to justify their criminal act of hiring illegals. I read an article about a town in Mississippi that was dominated by illegal immigrants working in the poultry industry. After recent ICE raids, the plant was forced to offer livable wages to citizens. Unemployed African Americans, whose ancestors did those very jobs before they were replaced by underpaid illegals, have flocked to replace those workers. Of course, the negativity has resumed wondering how long they will last, but the real speculation should be how long will the employers be willing to pay fair, livable wages? If Haitian labor is truly needed, as they try to convince us, there is no need to hand over the entire country with stupid citizenship loopholes and twisting the constitution to support illegality. Make the employers pay for housing and a stipend like they do for foreigners that truly have marketable skills and watch how fast they back track on describing the Haitians menial roles as skilled positions.

They are exercising their constitutional right to freedom of speech and the right to assemble.
The Bahamas will remain behind because even those who purport to be exposed and fair minded, who also happen to be the so called leaders and the prominent class, prefer to shut down the rights and opinions of others rather than acknowledge that they have that right. That is the real reason the gender referendum failed. Far too many "educated" people showed that they were incapable of intelligently presenting their views or exercising their powers of persuasion, so they lashed out like idiots at anyone who did not agree with them.

It is interesting too that when the outspoken QC degrades ALL Bahamians in the most outlandish terms, while showing much insensitivity to real victims of concentration camps and ethnic cleansing, he is commended for his harshness and his disgusting tirades are excused simply as freedom of speech. In the US and elsewhere, where freedom of speech is respected, even those considered to be hate groups have the right to express themselves and they do so peaceably. This small group of Bahamians also conducted a peaceful protest. People opposed to the message of any group have the right to oppose in the same fashion.

Black Haitians can't even get in those mountains. Hispaniola may have the highest mountains in the region, but that does not say much. If we are selling out the country based on climate change predictions, might as well let the other country on Hispaniola fish our waters dry. Predictions also hold that the entire Caribbean will be wiped out soon after The Bahamas.

Lol, I agree with you. He better shush!

The author is absolutely correct. The Bahamas has done enough. Time for the UN, France, the US, and if you insist, Jamaica to “spread the love.”

If the government can't even conduct an exercise to get them to evacuate for their own safety, they will not cooperate with the government to uncover real stats on the number of illegal Haitians in the Bahamas. Nobody believes that bogus shanty town report. Not even Haitians.

You want stats? Do Haitians not register with their embassy? Shortly after Dorian, an article in a Haitian publication featuring the Haitian Charge d'Affairs to The Bahamas, stated that there are 200 thousand Haitians in the Bahamas. In another publication, in which he was also interviewed, it was claimed that only 40k of that number were legal.

http://www.haitian-truth.org/bahamian-a…

You are losing it. The guise of disaster? Hurricane Dorian did not happen then? The aid money is being used to assist all of the victims regardless of status. With the majority of those in shelters being Haitians or of Haitian descent, they most certainly are benefitting from the donations. Who is going to pay the Bahamas back for the decades of providing government services to Haitians regardless of status? The relief money is just that. It is not to be used used to manipulate immigration laws to the detriment of The Bahamas or to hold the country hostage. There is nothing stopping any organization or so called humanitarians from assisting Haitians exclusively or showing how they will provide for them if the government were to put a halt to immigration. Adding to the unemployment total and taking full financial responsibility for illegal and out of work immigrants is insane. Once again, you soapbox lunatics are quick to demand from this country what yours will never do.

Different attitude is correct. Jamaicans tend to be a bunch of know it alls who know nothing, but will still try to speak with arrogance and authority. The grandiose tales about a near perfect place called Jamaica is laughable. The Bahamas has a Haitian problem because of the US dollar ratio and their peers who make the illegal voyages possible. Did the Haitian consulate ever resume operations in Jamaica? Maybe you can hop over there on your boat to find out, but beware, Haiti also has immigration laws.

You cannot be serious. The thing that is most detestable about Jamaicans is your arrogance and the condescending ways in which you interact with Bahamians in The Bahamas. The only saving grace is that for all the superiority you all claim to have in every got damn thing, it is comical that so many of you hypocrites will hightail it out of Jamaica if given the chance.

Secondly, it doesn't matter where they were headed. They often wind up in The Bahamas while headed for the US. Same difference. The fact remains you all sent them back citing the same reasons cited by The Bahamas and any other sovereign nation whereally people migrate illegally. The difference is The Bahamas made humanitarian exceptions due to the tragedy in HaitI then and on other occasions. Jamaica did not. The Bahamas is recovering from a natural disaster of its own and Jamaicans have the gall to comment about kindness.

Not surprised at more tone deaf commentary from yet another Jamaican. As a reminder, the deported Haitian immigrants don't need to go to Haiti. Can't Jamaica share the milk of human kindness with Haiti and receive those eligible for deportation? History tells us the answer is no, but it has been 10 years now since Jamaica very coldly deported Haitians back to earthquake ruins. People change. Time to make amends. It was The Bahamas, not Haiti, but The Bahamas that recently experienced a natural disaster of epic proportions.

Any statement that is pro national interest or in favor of the enforcement of immigration laws are automatically classified as xenophobic, hateful, or some other dismissive buzz word. You self righteous lot zero in on and magnify the comparatively few extreme comments to “prove your point.” Many crimes are committed for very sympathetic reasons. The reason laws exist is so that emotion is not the order of the day, either way. The Bahamas is in this position partly because of all the humanitarian and sympathetic exceptions made for this one group over the years. Disagreeing with certain laws does not make it acceptable to break them. Exploiting this Bahamian tragedy to manipulate immigration laws is really low.