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.

Investigate what? We live in a democracy not a dictatorship. There is nothing to investigate as I doubt slander or defamation against a state is a crime in any democratic country. There is nothing anyone can say defamatory about a country that I could see possibly constituting a crime. An individual most certainly but not a government. Mr. Mitchell knows this of course so nothing as usual will come of it, it is merely political lip service designed to attack his detractors and deflect from his continuing failures in immigration. He is now planning and announcing ahead of time an immigration exercise in Abaco, with no money left in the budget for repatriation. What an joke! Wake up Bahamas Mr. Mitchell is not serious, and is playing you like a fiddle.

Reprimanded for what? because he used the word genocide when referring to the Bahamas? That is no crime, using that word was incorrect, tasteless, and inflammatory but it was nothing to be reprimanded for - it was freedom of speech. As for crossed lines : whose lines? yours or the government, or the man down the road? Who defines these lines? That is the problem with censureship it is used to intimidate and control and is the antithesis of democracy.