Agree with the above ... I posted the first few paragraphs of this story on my Facebook page, my friends are roflmao ... 😎

Name one nation that does that.

I understand the need to obtain permission to enter a country; I do not understand the need to obtain permission to leave. This is yet another “soak the tourist” routine — and a corrupt one at that. The amount of the fee “depends on the officer”? Really?

I agree. The guys I worked with on Eleuthera were incredibly skilled. Some of the younger workers, yeah, they’d lime out on ya if given a chance ... but the contractors and older skilled workers were incredible — better than most of the guys I worked with in the States.

Typical Neil Hartnell article: The issue of “special skills” is raised repeatedly, but NOBODY in this article specifies what those “special skills” are, and Mr. Hartnell never asked.

Good Jeezus, that would seem to be at the very core of the issue! What are these “special skills”? Are they truly skills that Bahamian workers lack? Or just that Mexicans will work longer and harder and cheaper, all day long?

Whoaaa ... by Thursday the test time-frame was 7 days, not 10 days ... that took effect July 1 ... good grief, even our so-called “leaders” don’t know their own rules. Either hopelessly inept or hopeless liars. And you tellin’ me that no unemployed Bahamanians around who’d be willing to do these jobs?

Oh, and Mexico is North America, not South America. It’s north of Central America, so ...

Good grief. This nation is so screwed.

What then? VAT revenues will plummet, so they’ll compensate by raising the rate.

“One local bus driver thinks ...”

What lazy-ass reporting. Interview one bus driver, copy down what he says, and that’s a news story? Or a day’s work? This one guy speaks for everybody?

This newspaper is so, so bad ...

Neil Hartnell is so far up the arse of the Wilson family that he may never again see the light of day. Every time Franklyn or Franon buys him lunch, Mr. Hartnell unloads a story here that’s longer than Leviticus and serves as nothing but bare-arsed cheerleading for these shysters.

Does Mr. Hartnell have any idea how much land Franklyn Wilson seized, or tried to seize, on Eleuthera by “quieting titles”? Apparently not.

Mr. Hartnell never asks a probing question, he just writes down whatever the Wilsons say and unloads it in these news columns. My gawd, it’s shameful for a “professional journalist” to behave this way.

What a pantsload.