All of these pundits are all completely missing the boat. You can all pontificate as much as you like. The Raw Truth from being on the ground in Abaco is that there is no where to live in abaco. The Bahamian workforce refused to live in a man-camp with 3 square meals, room and board plus wages on top. The necessity of the situation required the labour force to live in the dormitory barge and trailers for 6 months and the Bahamains said hell no, we ain't roughin it. By allowing the mexican work force to come in it will allow the cushy front of house jobs to return come December. If we waited on the Bahamians to get it done teh front of house folks wouldn't have a job for the next 10 years. Just look at how swiftly the BPL crew is working to restore electricity. 10+ months and counting - i'm not making this up, there are homes ready to be turned on and still waiting for BPL to get down to them. I am talking at least a dozen i know personally and then many many more as well.
Silly political pundits who think you know everything need to go sit small. In case you haven't heard 90% of the residential structures were damaged or destroyed. Now give me answers to that quandary. That is useful commentary not this xenophobic BS being spouted here.

wilson and everyone knows that the Registrar General records documents. that is all they do - record documents. stop playing fool. You can record almost anything. the registrar is not required to verify the authenticity of anything. or maybe i'm wrong? if they are supposed to be verifying documents then they are sorely lacking. like criminally negligent. is Wilson all RGD criminally negligent? call a spade a spade if you please.

from what i understand none of the government assets have insurance so the lack of construction all risk policy is just par for course. i'm not saying it is right but to pull one instance out of a standard operating procedure does not make a very strong argument.

Quieting does have flaws but it is kind of like democracy, it is not perfect but he best option we have available right now. if you grandfather deal with the documents properly when his father died, you can't get a mortgage against it 100 years later what other options are there available? how else does the average Bahamian deal with inheriting a piece of land with gaps in the title? having said all that it is entirely the premise of the legal profession to ensure that it is always costly and difficult settle these issues.

"audited annual reports on how crown land applications/approvals and land registration are progressing." I completely agree however we can't even get regular updates on regular transactions. Who would agree that a common registry available to the public of every land transaction in the country would be a good thing? The current system benefits a select few tremendously at the expense of the rest of the country. I get asked all the time - i want to buy the lot next to my house how do i find out who owns it? In all developed parts of the world you go into your local town hall and they tell you in 5 minutes - in the Bahamas good luck.

so, um, i thought we had all these restrictions and safety protocols? Minnis cant have it both ways. is the left side of the brain talkig ot the right side?

I wonder if the "Land Lease" was a typo?

Well said

sounds like one side is contracting like government while the other is approaching from business standpoint. 2760 minutes per crew per day? how is this even in court?

So do pets get forcefully evacuated too? what about the material possessions? One size does not fit all. How about doing some real actual work and properly identify flood zones instead of this cockamamie knee-jerk stuff?