Ex post facto laws are always frown upon and are usually struck down by higher courts. I could assure that the Privy council have struck down several of them. The general rule is that Ex Post Facto laws can be made re-retroactive if it will result in an accrue of benefit to the individuals affected. If a group of individuals will be disenfranchise then it is usually struck down on the basis of fairness. In the Dominican Republic they were successful at passing a Ex Post Facto law due to the fact that their highest court of appeal is government controlled and thus no autonomy.

Even if a referendum was successful today it effects will not be retro-active. All foreign babies born today still will have the right to apply for citizenship upon turning eighteen because that would have been the law they were born under. By then I will be more concern but my citizenship in another kingdom.

I think the concerns express are hyperbolic. Even if the judge rules in Jean Rony favor it changes nothing. The government already has a policy that has been dealing with this situation for over two decades. What do you suppose was happening when a person beyond the age limit applies for citizenship. It is simply granted. Don't allow your emotions to tell your logic, the sky is falling.

You have to give us more credit than that. Are you insinuating that we don't have the aptitude to be the employers and that we are destine to be employees. I hope you are been sarcastic.

Although there may be some lawyers who are Fred Smith's equal, many of them are sold out either to the PLP or the FNM. No one can claim that Fred Smith shy away from taking on either party.

Although I sympathize with individuals losing their jobs, the government must take steps to bring the deficit under control. Either we swallow the small bitter pill administered by our owns hands now or swallow what the IMF would push down our throats later.

The saga continues. Its obviously an abuse of the process. The Supreme court had given the Department of Immigration two orders in 2017 that mandates Jean Rony be returned by a specific date. The government ignored those orders. Travel documents were only issued after the Supreme Court provided specific instructions to the government that would have made the ignoring contemptuous. No that he is back, you arrest him. Even if the last ruling was stayed what about the rulings in 2017.

Why did the government wait so long too call for an emergency stay. An emergency stay should have been requested before the travel document was issued. It makes us look backwards as a country. Is his travel document valid or not valid. When a person comes on a flight and you deem him illegal or undesirable, you put him on the plane and send him back from where he came.You don't put him in a detention center. The situation has become political and politics always leads to mischief.

Ever heard of finger print.

The boats were a dumb idea considering that 80% of the Bahamas is too shallow for them to maneuver in. Small planes are a better idea for patrolling and once a suspected boat is spotted a go fast vessel can be dispatch to intercept.