Mr. Mitchell is not serious about intelligently and responsibly dealing with our illegal immigration problem. He is serious about duping the Bahamian public! If he wants to fix this problem he would find the funds to repatriate and empty a detention centre that is already suffering from massive overcrowding, where alleged human rights abuses have been taking place. Instead for weeks he has sending out press releases about an exercise in Abaco. It is merely a photo op, and political lip service duping a desperate Bahamas for real results. We deserve so much better. Repatriate those we have already detained, speed up the regularization of those worthy of it, then do the exercise in Abaco.

If Mr. Mitchell spent half the time he does complaining and maligning human rights groups, on addressing these alleged abuses we would not be in the embarrassing mess we are in. And I am tired of him saying "nor is there any official sponsoring of abuse". We all know this, we are not dumb, the question ( never answered) is did these abuses take place and if so how will they be remedied? But he dances around never addressing the issue hoping it will go away or that the Bahamian public is too stupid to see his verbal dodging.

So if a person is unemployed, and therefore earns no salary that can be taxed, will they be covered under NHI?

Instead of targeting children, perhaps we should start treating them humanely Mr. Mitchell. Time to clean up our act it is getting embarrassing.

Is this Union living in some alternate reality? It can not be the Bahamas, take a look at the over 1000 Bahamians waiting in line at the sandals job fair yesterday. One is lucky to have a job today and rather than jeopardizing it through sick outs should be trying to improve their company. Either way it is irrelevant, if digicell or cable Bahamas get the second cellular license they will destroy BTC and the jobs at BTC are gone anyway.

I am the poster child of a Bahamian who benefited from Cable. At the time of cable's IPO twenty years ago I was 25 and I poured all my savings into buying cable at $1 per share. During that time cable has returned an annualized rate of 14.2% per year for 20 years! And that is not including dividends. Because of cable and other wise investments on Bisx I was able to retire 3 years ago at the age of 43! Ingraham pledged to offer 9% of BTC shares to the public and when he came to power Mr. Christie blocked it. Now he is refusing small Bahamian investors to buy into the new cellular company. It is being reserved for large investors only. And he has the nerve to say he cares about Bahamians. The truth is he does not give a damn about us, if he did he would do what Ingraham did with cable, and the port, and what he planned to do with BTC,let the little man get his shares and get his part of the economic pie. So birdie ask your P.M why he does not believe in Bahamians or at least the little man and only believes in his cronies and favored few!

I love and defend your right to say it my brother. But me and Mr. smith ain't going no where.

So do you support cable Bahamas now birdie?

It became 100% Bahamian owned 5 years ago. That is the current state- buy and support Bahamian!

Birdie if you love the Bahamas and Bahamians so, you would be praying and lobbying yourself for cable Bahamas to win the second cellular license. The government owns 29% of cable (NIB - 22% and the treasury 7%). The other 71% is all Bahamian owned. So if you really believe in Bahamians and this country it is time to start tweeting a new tune and supporting Cable Bahamas' bid.