squatting on land is essentially stealing. but that is ok if the poor immigrant does it?

Did you know that these criminals building homes on government owner public Crown Land could have bought a half acre legally for $5,000 from the Bahamas Government. There are 2 sites one in Sandy Point and another Crown Haven. Or they could buy land between the TC airport and Blackwood for $10,000. just visit the Bahamas Department of Housing and ask. Then they don't have to worry about the home being knocked down because they would OWN the land. this is all so silly really. silly short term thinking. Maybe someone could go and provide some education to these criminals so they can become 'not-criminals'.

if you want lawless chaos, feel free to visit Haiti. I for one, think having LAW and ORDER is a good thing. If the visiting or emigrating foreigners can't abide by the LAWS then they are free to go elsewhere. If you want to change the laws throw your hat into the ring and get elected. Anyone who doesn't want LAW feel free to leave the Bahamas post haste.

Bahamians living abroad should not vote. what constituency do you put them in? which MP would get the benefit of a bunch of absent voters. Why would someone living in Seattle for instance for the past 20 years and has little connection to the Bahamas why would they get to vote? enlighten me here please.

read recently and it is appropriate here: to put into perspective how big a billion actually is. a million seconds 11.5 days. a billion seconds is almost 32 years.

don't get out much huh?

anyone ever noticed that the BHTA is really just a lobbying vehicle to influence the government? they do not have the bahamian peoples best interest at heart. The BHTA exists simply to work out the best deals for the big hotels and that is it.

Do bahamas registered cruise ships pay VAT on their sales? probably not. If the hotels are really worried about competition from home rentals then maybe they need to look into why? Do the hotels in the Bahamas present value for money? Do hotels get amazing concession? they can even buy cars trucks boats and not pay a lick of VAT or import duty on those items. What concessions do the average home renter get?

I thought the whole point was to stop spending hundreds of millions of dollars of government money on the policing and incarceration of offenders not to mention the extremely limited court time in the Bahamas. Minnis could literally save the Bahamas Government annual expenditure Hundreds of Millions of Dollars by completely decriminalizing the stuff. He just about to borrow a Billion dollars to prop up the country overhead. it is a no-brainer and the only ones opposed to this are the ones making lots of money on the status quo.

wow