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I would believe it has more to do with weather & traffic controllers than lights. Many a commercial aircraft has taken off from an unlit runway, it is the landing that is best with some illumination. I also tend to believe that the processing of passengers may have taken the take-off time past dusk.

Anyone who believes corruption is a victim-less crime or accept it as a pay-to-play requirement are ignorant to the devaluation of the country & culture as a whole, the government as a credible governance agency & the individuals as greedy thieves in another Third World Country.
For any investor, N.G.O. or individual spending their time & treasure, corruption cost is funding that is not available for their contribution to the community & economy.
An ugly sore on the face of a nation, irrelevant of their relationship with the US, look at the company your keeping, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, or Haiti & Venezuela as ultimate examples.
After Dorian, You have experienced how the world values The Bahamian People.
Show your true christianity by condemning the practice, by anyone.
be proud bahamians.

No country is alone in this matter. If the mexicans & central americans left the US tomorrow the agricultural, manufacturing & services would halt along with the economy. If the Hatians left The Bahamas en mass, the contribution to the economy would be quite evident & lacking.
The concerns of a country being overrun by a larger population is real in both cases.

The simple process of 2 year Guest Workers with designated IDs per industry, a manageable yearly quota, application process for citizenship (if wanted) & managed with severe penalties for corruption, would minimize the issues in both countries.
Look south to T&C, they recognized the need for foreign workers & investors to advance their country beyond Mere Sustenance. Once managed properly, it afforded them opportunity & economy. One does not loose their sovereignty nor identity with guest-workers, only fill in the recognized skill gaps.
Key words are Management & Non-Corrupted, otherwise immigration is a convenient political football.

To Naughtydread, you statement "Why would any government in their right mind spend millions of dollars to try and fix a desolate rock in the middle of the ocean that produces 0 for our GDP....." This is an interesting statement made by a fellow Bahamian to a fellow Bahamian's need. It only takes one building to be a clinic & school for small populated islands, it can even be the government/post office.
Wonder why people in the US & other international givers did not take that same 'desolate rocks in the middle of the ocean' perspective with GB & Abaco? Why not? Because they are practicing the morals as Human Beings taught by their respective religions. When your neighbor is in need, help them out as you can.
Your comment only reinforces the 'land-crabs in a bucket' analogy. Or possibly They Value what-we-have more than We?

So how many Nassau'vians are going to give up their air conditioners to go to work in Abacos' restorations? Living in on-site tents, community kitchens & bath houses?
The Haitian/Bahamian born community would provide this manpower in exchange for registration/temporary work permits, provided there is a means to legitimate residency status in their adopted land.
The government must consider all available resources & recourse, national & international, to rebuild Dorian's devastation.
You must lead to the Objective, not igniting old political fires for political gain.

... and the country wants to encourage Foreign Investments? As my Mother berated me while a teenager 'Clean up Your Room first! Then clean up the World' An effective US phone service campaign, is based on Not Accepting 'Good Enough'.
It should be our mantra for the next 10 years. It is is most difficult to seek professionalism when all you can see is mediocrity for miles, from who you know, not what..
Can't Cook without any Heat.

Stoped in International Waters, intended destination? It's from where they started from prior to being caught. If it was Cuba, they go back to Cuba. If Mexico, they go back to Mexico. If DR, they go back to DR. The operator of the vessel is always retained, irrelevant of nationality.

Slavery is a horrible consequence of tribal conflict since before men started walking upright.
Animal behaviorist have observed the same activities in many lesser mammalian groups raiding their neighboring populations for food, space & propagation.
The world history indicates that no race has been free of slavery in some form. African, Irish, Roman, Greek etc. Whites on Blacks, Whites on Browns, Whites on fellow Whites, Whites on Yellows, Whites on Reds; Yellows on Whites, fellow Yellows, Blacks, Browns & Reds; Blacks on fellow Blacks, Whites, Browns, Yellows & Reds. And all other combinations of people taken advantage of.
Someone mentioned the Arabs started the practice, I doubt that it was so simple; someone had to capture the captive & benefit from the exchange to the seller, the distributor & end user. Not much different to the commerce of any ill-gotten product. The savagery & brutality of the process is where the crime is and should never be repeated.

Reparation is a convenient destabilizing topic pushed by many manipulating political types, same as the Race Card. Reparations in the form of funds should have a time limit. If the damaging event occurred recently as 50yrs OK go for it. Should our family be at fault for the actions of our great-great-great grandfathers? Should we acknowledge the tragedy & wrong? definitely yes. Learn from the wrong? definitely yes.

Reparation must be paid by Equality & Opportunity; not by Capital, nor political benefiting tribal separation.
Irrelevant of how much melanin in one's skin!!!

While we look at ancestry, let's also look at today's popular culture & entertainment, including the realistic video game phenomenon that promotes violent solutions to any & every problem.
Where is Marshal Dillon in today's rendition of the Wild West, where lives are valueless?.

You Initiate A Fight... You OUT NOW & sent to Reform school tomorrow. boy or girl... simple.