Thank you Mr. Smith for setting the record straight.

This is a positive step forward. When one looks at Cayman v The Bahamas, the size of our populations, and the Billions invested, it is clear to see that this might reverse the downward spiral of FDI leaving The Bahamas.
Cayman is doing so much better than we are. They have had a similar type of immigration policy as the one tabled.

You have no idea. By the way do tell us what "our culture" is? Tell us what we really are? Our values etc.

Looks like Mr. Trump is learning from the Chinese. Nobody told him about "the land of the free and the brave".

Everyone is entitled to the due process of law. It does not matter whether they are legal or illegal, they are still entitled to it.

The Department of Immigration is a mess. They have fought being brought into the 21st Century and are not capable of dealing with this. There are thousands who should have been processed by now and have not.

If we are not careful this could turn into a major international embarrassment on a scale much larger than the fyre festival. Indeed, depending on how we do this we could be inviting international economic sanctions.

In the first instance yes, we are in many ways too small to be able to cover the cost of independence. So the idea of shearing a court of 5 justices with considerable depth of legal knowledge as our highest court, a court that we could not afford if we were to have it as ours alone, has considerable merit.

As for cost, it should be noted that paying for ambassadors, and a foreign service is very expensive. Last year the was a news report that Canada and the UK had agreed to merge certain High Commissions as a way to reduce costs of their diplomatic service so it is not just us.

The cost of sovereignty is high and therefore it has its limitations.

We cannot ignore the fact that we live in a global economy.

A very good article. Look at the pictures of the people who die before the age of 65 they are mostly fat or obese.

Don't worry about Punky. Punky must be fat and has not read the recent report.

http://www.dw.com/en/study-obesity-cuts…

Be it the Privy Council or the CCJ, you are going to have outsiders making decisions in "our justice system.

This is a good thing as small countries with populations as small as ours cannot afford to have it's own final court, both financially and for good independent thought on our system.

Even the UK Courts are still going to be required to look to the European Court in certain matters, even after brexit.

Sovereignty has its limitations.

There is talk of corrupt civil servants and the necessity to move customs officers around. Files at immigration can't be located and people are forced to make new applications or they are told that they never made one, but use a little grease and somehow the file is located.

The IMF is correct and it must be done or the civil service will be the economic ruin of us all.