I applaud him for standing up. It is us Bahamians who often allow ourselves to be mistreated here and abroad and say " thank you sir, may I have another?" Trust me I stand up for my rights whether its informing politicians or the newspaper. This was a condescending remark to a very well written explanation about a traumatic event. You are trying to taunt him for standing up for his rights. Yes I am a Bahamian and my parents` parents parents are Bahamian in case you say I'm some foreigner or sell out Bahamian.

So only go where you can speak the language? Do not branch out and explore? Not every American, Canadian or Japanese traveler to The Bahamas can speak English. Can you imagine what would happen to our country if only persons who could speak the Queen`s English came here? For one kiss the value of our money good bye and who do you think help fill those penthouse suites at Atlantis? Do not blame the victim that is victimization and you just defile the victim again. We should be better, more intelligent and tolerant than blaming victims in 2014. The fact that this event also occur in every country doesn't make it right. If I come across suspicious, detain me, but give me due process. Allow me and those trying to help me every right we can be afforded. Also you just never know who that person is that you mistreat.

Also honestly thank you for informing us about our own laws and policies as we do not seem to know them. I personally do not travel to America with a lot of cash, I use my debit or credit card. In the past when I have traveled with BSD I exchanged it at the airport (she probably felt she could do it here at ours) or at one of the malls. Come on people with all the warnings about our country coming from the U.S embassy, what tourists travels here with large wads of cash....... let's continue to demonstrate the Christian nature we are known for. I am not condemning the workers at the airport. I just know I wouldn't want it to happen to myself or anyone else in a foreign country. Let us use professionalism on our jobs as well as compassion and common sense.

Let us please my people, stop discussing how terrible things like this have occurred to us also in other countries. I want to first say that I am appalled at this situation. If this truly happened no one should be treated like this regardless. Those of you trading horror stories stop and think about if it was your foreign born spouses or this happening to your wives, daughters and moms in a foreign country. Regardless she should have been given an interpreter and every opportunity should have been given for her to reach her consulate or family. This lady was in a foreign country and could not understand what was happening. It seems we have all judged and condemned her to be guilty. Let us treat people respectfully and none of us would want to spend time at the Detention Centre. Even prisoners of war are expected some humane treatment. Please save the rude responses to my comments and instead pray about why some of us are so cold hearted. Even if she was coming here to commit a crime (something that has not been proven) you treat people to humane conditions and whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty. I hope her and her beau wipe their feet clean of this country and do not return. I pray nothing like this ever happens again and we need to rehab the Detention Centre and the prison. These are human beings we are discussing. I am so sorry sir and madam for what you experienced in my country, regardless of the full story. This was wrong....... come on my people who I love dearly......

Please don't do it. I am a Christian and an educator, and I say the electricity should have been off months ago. I live on an island where electricity is constantly off due to problems with the powerlines and such. We manage to survive quite well. Also school would have been closed at the time this situation occurred. I applaud the company for waiting until the kids were home, which they didn't have to do. Min. of Education claims they didn't receive a bill, even if this is so, the bill was not paid from September. Ministry of Education should keep their house in order and be abreast of their bills. This is highly inept and the PM's response is disgusting. I do not care who is in power (no pun intended) if the bill is not paid, disconnect it. Can you imagine how much government owes BEC, BTC and the water company? Perhaps we should practice paying the utilities to alleviate the constant need for borrowing or creating new taxes. Furthermore probably if government paid BEC we would be able to upgrade the facilities and alleviate the high energy bill. If I am wrong and government is exempted from paying utilities then I apologize. Think on it, The Freeport Power Company just had the nerve to stand up to big bad government, there are so many other companies who wouldn't dare. I just pray that the government is paying the light bill for the hospitals and clinics.... Let us teach our kids to pay their bills and that when they do something wrong to admit it and own up to it. No wonder so many of my students blame someone else for their wrongs and mistakes.

Right on I agree with you. I wish to add that one of the arguments posted in an earlier comment's attached petition, is that Haitians take Bahamian jobs. Seriously? How many persons actually want a job performed by Haitians?
I tried hiring Bahamians to clean my yard, we got tired of running him down to show up to work, whereas the Haitian guy comes like clock work. Use any excuse to not want Haitians here except the job one as we won't do those jobs especially for some of the pay which we give them. When it comes to jobs, be more upset with the foreigners in the banks, hotels, schools as educators, construction sites, etc. As they actually can impede or hinder qualified Bahamians from getting a job. When it comes to foreigners we open our doors to them willingly as long as its not Haitians. I personally don't have a choice but to love and respect people regardless of nationality. They are already here, change the laws but don't mistreat the people Find solutions not bigotry.

There are Haitians who are here legally working and have children born here who only know this place as home. Also there are children who have Haitian mothers and Bahamian fathers and are told they have to put in forms at 18 to decide if they want to claim they are Bahamian. This also can take years and these children and parents are here legally. I do not have a problem deporting illegal immigrants. We have already taught them in schools and treated them in the clinics and hospitals so now that they are able to contribute we block them?

I agree with the man. The people are here so lets naturalize them or whatever the correct term is. Let them be able to get jobs and better themselves and contribute to NIB. We are attaching a stigma to persons who wish to change their station. In part we are responsible for the state some of these people find themselves in. For example not only do they often have trouble getting certain jobs but it can be a hassle for these students to get into college. Listen we already fumbled the ball by not being vigilant and now these people are here so let us extend brotherly love or at least address this pink elephant in the room. Now those who are here illegal is another ball game and I won't attempt to enter that game.

They had security officers on duty at the time? This seems to be a school with a lot of technology so I am hoping they had security cameras, then again they could have worn masks. People have no respect for anything. So we are tying to cripple the educational system which is already handicapped. People if you know anything, turn these criminals in. Do not let them impede our kid's future. Develop a conscience people.

I agree people should have a right to privacy but we need to protect persons in organizations who have not signed confidentiality agreements, and reveal very vital information. I notice we are more concerned with the fact the info was leaked than the actual facts of the leaked material. Why is there not sufficient background checks into persons placed in such important positions or even considered for these positions? It seems like some of these MP's and political persons feel our laws do not apply to them. I am also sure that if the FNM was in power their information would be leaked also. Long story short, get your house in order especially if you are a public figure. You want to lead and be in crucial positions, remember the higher the monkey climb, the more you see his behind. Make sure clean your closets out and bury the skeletons 10 feet deep. Better yet follow the laws of this land or step down.