Crime figures down and the stock market down. Just about every stock. Amazon, Facebook, Ford , even marijuana,both medical and recreational and research are down. only oil prices at an increase (hello BPL). Do you know if they put a solar panel roof on every vehicle they can reduce the gas consumption for vehicles by 30% out right?

So they start off with 2% and increase it every three years? And the minister has admitted that NIB administration has become too expensive. Admistrative and operating costs are gobbling up all NiB funds and if you’re under 40, the NIB scheme will go belly nip (bankrupt) if no serious adjtments are made. Fact is there is too much wastage, fraud, corruption and lack of accountability in government for these systems to work effectively and run efficiently. So government should build in a ceiling cap on how much they can deduct from any employee.

Wonder if they realize how easy it is to realize when the same person is writing under two, three, even four different pen names. But it’s ok. Desperate times makes for desperate people. When you throw rock in the bush the ones who holler is the ones who get hit, except when... see!

Actually it was another double shooting, one person confirmed dead!

Another fatal shooting game n the same general area. The war must be back on.

Obviously licks is ignorant to the facts to which he trying to speak so loudly about. Firstly Mr. Jean was not deported because he has no legal status in this country but because he had no documents to prove he was who said he was. The immigration department wasn’t buying his story about his documents being lost in a fire and they quickly shipped him out before his sister could get some documents for him. Secondly the court of appeals did not rule that Jean-Charles had no legal rights to be in this country. Their ruling was that since Jean- Charles could prove who he said he was at the time he was deported, Immigration had every right to deport him from the country without repercussions. But then this begs the legal question as to how they knew he was from Haiti and what travel documents did they use to deport him to Haiti. You cannot confuse Jean-Charles, the victim, with Fred Smith, the attorney. Jean.Charles says this is an unfortunate incident he got himself in. It is like a bad dream, a horrible nightmare he just wants to go away. He is tired of all the legal wrangling and the uncertainty of his status in this country. Fred Smith is more ambitious. Apparently he wants to continue the fight with the government and with Immigration and is looking for the opportunity to land some heavy blows and collect mega bucks. Charles must now find a way to divorce himself from this lawyer/client marriage.

Well pindling deported several white gangsters and so did Hubert Ingraham. But if this man can prove he was born in the Bahamas and lived here all his natural life, he cannot be deported. he may no longer be entitled to citizenship, but he cannot legally be deported from the Bahamas...and Haiti should not accept him as such.

You need to think before you respond..and especially when you respond ignorantly so.. If an innocent person is in jail, rotting even, and his family doesn't have the means to defend him or get him out, then whose fault is it? The laws of natural justice (and of the Bahamas) say innocent until proven guilty. And everyone is entitled to justice...It is a wicked law that preys on young innocent victims and sends them to jail, and you are wicked for upholding.it. but we understand.
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*"You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt. 22You must not mistreat any widow or orphan. 23If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to Me in distress, I will surely hear their cry.…"* says the Lord God Almighty.

And the thing about this eye-opening episode is that many young Bahamian men or their family members also claim they (the young men, and now even young women), have been arrested, had false charges put on them by police officers and sent to prison (on remand) and their cases are never called for many years. And so they sit in prison for many years because their families do not have the means to get legal assistance. And they grow angrier by the minute, sitting in prison and lost in a prison system for crimes they apparently did not commit. And when they are finally released, they come out with an ankle bracelet or labelled as 'being known to police, which continues to make their lives more unbearable. Whatever happened with the case of the young jet-ski operator who was accused of rape several years ago and sent to jail on remand?

Mr. Jean-Charles and his attorney gave the Government of The Bahamas a black eye. In fact, they went even further than that and, if only for a moment, held the country by its most delicate parts, vis-a-vis, the apparent flaws in its immigration laws or the improper procedures carried out by the immigration department, And it was revealed that the Bahamas may not be the only victim to the Haitian immigration problem, but some accused of being illegal, but were born and raised in the Bahamas, probably dozens of them, may be sitting and suffering in the back hills of Haiti, a foreign place and a strange country they never knew. So is it now the time for both The Bahamas and Jean-Charles to bury the hatchet? to lay down the tools of battle and come to some middle ground. Can Charles be given, if only the documents of residency in this country, with the rights to file for citizenship at a later time, and this episode be used as a teaching moment for everyone? Or will Charles be grabbed up at the most early opportunity and shipped back off to a country he claims he never knew?