There are many Bahamians who can do it and do, and they work at the top of their field. However they no longer live here as this country does not have the type of work they do, or the lifestyle they want. As such they never come back. If we have to have more work permit holders in order to diversify the economy and grow the Bahamian workforce i see no problem with this. Though it won't happen overnight in 15-20 years you will have Bahamians at the top of these new industries. It is people who want to close the Bahamian economy off to foreigners who sell Bahamians short. As Bahamians can not only compete against them but be better then them as well.

So the issue is who is at the top. You would rather have it that no company can work here unless the top position is held by a Bahamian within 3-5 years. Even if this company employs 10-20 Bahamians with good paying jobs. Looks like Bermuda, Cayman, Singapore and other island nations will continue to benefit from the current economic situation, whilst we will have to hope some new hotel opens every 5-10 years to keep unemployment in the low double digits.

Have you read the bill? I can only assume that you have not and are talking about items that are not even mentioned. They can not come in and open up in any industry they desire. It must be one named in the first schedule only.

You make it sound so simplistic when that is not the case. If setting up the next microsoft, Facebook, google, apple etc only takes two years of training why do we not have these by the thousands? Every year hundreds if not thousands of young Bahamians go overseas to college so we should have. Of course most of these then decide that they have more opportunity in whatever country they go to, so we lose the best and brightest. Maybe if we could make our economy dynamic and diversify to other industries we could lure them back. But what we are doing now is not working. Ask most parents with young kids what they would like for their kids to do, and most will be honest and say get to a college overseas and don't come back as nothing is happening here.

How does the post office account for a third of the revenue of Government? I must be missing some part of their daily function as i can't think what they would bring in to be that high. Customs i assume is first with duty, then VAT at inland revenue, then many others such as Car license, Real Property, Casino taxes etc. Can anyone advise? Though this doesn't take away from the fact that that building needs to be torn down.

He is not saying abandon protocols, he is saying abide by the law.

I would have thought being more concerned about the private sector having to either increase their prices and or lay people off to still operate, due to consistent tax increases, increased back office work due to Govt and other items would be better. Especially seeing as this has been caused by all Govts for a long time. But guess that wouldn't make for good politics, and besides it's only the average Bahamian that will have to pay for Govt's ineptitude.

I would wager money on him being right, as every time he has taken the Govt to court he wins. Whilst i fully agree that the Govt needs to get a handle on the illegal problem, this must be done in a legal manner. I know of one legal immigrant who spent a day at the detention centre because the officer said the work permit card could be faked. This is not the actions a nation who adheres to laws should ever take, but i would guess this happens often.
However it doesn't really matter, as this is immigration making a show of force as they were all made to looked foolish by the sloop basically landing on the BDF's front door. So i expect this to be over soon, and of course Govt changing the headlines over MP's pay rises. Always easy to go after illegals whenever things are going bad in the newspapers.

So lets see if i understand this. If you agree with the QC you must want the total destruction of Bahamas, per a number of comments on this page. However not 1 of them has said that he is wrong. This is what the Constitution says. Surely this means that it is they who would like to see the end of The Bahamas, as the Constitution is who we are and the way we and the Government is meant to act.

Who would you have run the Port? seeing as the Government has shown they are unable to run it properly. Whoever does will make money from it (well they should). Surely the best option is someone who knows what they are doing, as the more successful they are the more successful we all are.