We get excited to easily. How many publicize raids we have had over the last couple of decades.and they all eventually fail for the same reasons. Logistics. In couple of weeks Bahamasair will be complaining that they need their Boeing 737 because the money they make during the winter period sustains them for four months before they need the public treasury to kick in. Another thing that kicks in is that the early Haitian arrivals start to complain to the Haitian government that they have no way to get back to Northern Haiti. Then the request get send to Fred Mitchel that you have to send these people with $200 so that they could get home and settle in.When Fred Mitchel scoff at the idea approval takes longer for these flights inbound to Haiti. If they had spoken to previous permanent secretaries they would have known this. Or maybe they do know but need to distract the populace. The question is what they need to distract us from.

Its amazing you mentioned Sidney Poitier whose ancestors was from Haiti. So are the Moncurs, Deleveaux, Deveaux, Mitchels and the list goes on. Its amazing that some of the propaganda of the plantation endures today. Bahamian slaves were told that they were from a different breed of Africans(a peaceful tribe)to keep then subdued. The generational slaves believe it but the recent arrivals knew different. They knew that their blood relatives was spread all over the New World including Haiti. Stop spewing plantation propaganda.

Extremely sad. I don't see how we can expect the Politrick lawyer to fix anything in this country when they can't fix an area they are suppose to be experts at. The justice system.

At one point I thought it was pretty sad that Bahamian slave accepted slavery laying down until a research I did showed otherwise. The Abaco slaves rebel in 1787 and the Rolle slave under Pompey rebel on three separate occasion, 1829, 1833, 1834. In fact one of the major reason why slavery ended was because the slave master was made aware that the negro desired Freedom as much as he did, even to the point of killing for it. All this time, I bet you thought it was the abolitionist who was responsible for the Negros' freedom. Fear was the motivating factor that what happened in Haiti can happen anywhere.

Emac, I don't have a problem with her premise but I do have a problem with what she is using to support it. There is always the tendency to cite Mexican immigration without looking at the broader historic perspective. The average person is not aware that when the United States annex Texas, New Mexico and California, it also annexed Mexicans families living in those areas. I simply look at Mexicans moving to the US as them reclaiming what belongs to them.

The source is The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime(https://www.unodc.org/gsh/en/big-… Other sources,Haiti is actually safer than many of its Caribbean cousins. Haiti’s 2011 murder rate was 6.9 per 100,000 residents, compared to neighbouring Dominican Republic’s 24.9 and Jamaica’s 40.9.http://www.bbc.com/travel/blog/201…. The Bahamas during the same year was 36 per 100,000 people.

The source is The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime(https://www.unodc.org/gsh/en/big-… They have quite a bit of data. Five of the ten countries with the highest homicide rate are predominantly black countries. Although there is a socioeconomic variable involve but despite the poverty levels in some pockets of Asia they don't have the same levels of crimes. We don't even need to go that far, how many times do you see a young white man before our courts. Base on our population there should be 1.5 whites for every 8.5 blacks in jail. Most whites in the Bahamas knows this but like the writer don't have the nerve to articulate it. She prefer the easy picking. a minority grouping.

I could assure you that the State Department has taken note. It makes sense from a strategic perspective for the Chinese to have a partner in the form of the Bahamas next to the USA. The US have Taiwan and now China have The Bahamas. Queen eats pawn, now is your move US.

My sister move to the US and my brother to Europe. I did the next best thing. I move to the Family Island.

For the sake of disclosure I have been label a "Haitian sympathizer". Your article suggested that within the Haitian/Mexican population that violent aggression is the trademark of conflict resolution. How do you account for the fact that a recent United Nations surveys shows that the homicide rate in Haiti double between 2007 to 2012 to a total of 10.2 per 100,000.If you do the maths our beloved Bahamas has four time the homicide rate of Haiti. In fact, Haiti has one of the lowest homicide rates per 100,000 people in this region. Another fact, despite making up the largest group at the detention center, how many times a riot at the detention center can be attributed to Haitians. Also with regards to Mexicans immigrants, it is simply Karma in play. 1/3 of the United States is actually Mexico. Check the history with regards to the American/Mexico War. In concluding, no need to say, if Haiti is so safe why don't you go and live there. I am living here because I don't want to be an illegal immigrant in Haiti. I bet you don't have the nerve to write that crime and homicide is more prevalent among Negroes.