Was this a case of bait and switch? Where government appears to rich to appease the rulings of the courts. Then as ‘the victim ‘ is on his way ‘home’, government does an about face and puts this man in detention center as a person without status. Just consider the psychological an emotional effects this must have on this man Rony. To be held by immigration for so long in the first instance. Then to have his documents rejected. Then to be expelled from The Bahamas and dumped in a strange and undesirable place. Then to be located after months af despair and lost hope. And to get news and a promise that he will be returning to the only country he knows and will be, at least regularised. Now only to be returned to the detention camp, seemingly where the saga started and again facing the possibility of being expelled again . The thing to bear in mind is if children are born in the Bahamas to illegals it is through no fault of their own. And if the authorities allow these children to stay in the country for 18, 20, even 35 years, The Bahamas makes itself more responsible for creating this problem of persons without status.. So they must either decide to deport these people as infants or small children back to the country of their parents so the children can adapt and adjust to the conditions and culture of that country. If not, and these individuals are allowed to stay in The Bahamas until they reach ages of maturity then Government makes itself responsible for granting some status to them.

In the main time the country is still waiting to see charges brought against the 30 persons arrested a week ago.

With NIB payouts (expenses) now exceeding its revenues (workers contributions and returns on investments) government must really tread carefully as it continues to fire people. Not only does it push up the rate of unemployment and put additional burden on NIB and Social Services but it sends shock waves through the private sector who, too, may want to shed workers. This then will have negative impacts on the economy and the downward spiral will continue. While government may have saved $75 million on workers who got sent home, the real effect of this on the economy is much more. The code words now should be JOBs, jobs jobs and not fire, fire, fire. Even bid business is hurting now.

The stock market has taken its biggest dive in TEN years,the biggest drop since 2008. Is the market correcting itself for all the gains over the past 18 months or was Trump just riding on the coat tails of the Obama Administration. On thing for certain is despite unemployment being at its lowest in 20 years consumer confidence remains low. Very low under Trump's non traditional style of governance. Besides that salaries remain basically unchanged and investors believe that with all the 'new' cash flowing into the economy will lead to inflation. And several big companies earnings were less than expected. what will that mean for the Bahamian economy,that never recovered from 2008 and the 4,000 graduates coming out of school in a matter of months.

And prostitution?

Still waiting to hear who got charged on that masssive police bust that netted 30 people being arrested. Large Quantities Of drugs guns ammunition cash helicopters and stolen cars

That was a part of the problem, but when loans were given out freehand in the `1980's and early 1990's, there was lots of money, albeit much of it illicit, so very few people were defaulting on bank loans. If borrowers did not have the money, they knew some one they could 'borry' it from. And because there was so much rapid turn over of cash in the economy, the money supply multiplied. the economy was booming. Then when the shiit hit, err I mean when the bottom dropped out of the economy hit, persons not only found out they had a mortgage they could not afford, but also a house they could not maintain and a lifestyle they would probably never experience again. Ever ever. Little. children were walking around with 600.00 phones and top brand name clothing from head to feets. And so when the bottom dropped out mortgages and loans were among the first to go delinquent and so loan officers were called to account. Barak Obama came to the rescue of American banks, some who were hit with heavy fines and others who dumped their toxic loans off on unsuspecting foreiign banks. But there was no such relief for banks operating here in the Bahamas, well maybe for the exception of BoB....maybe Bob was related to Fanny Mae and Fanny Mac.

Well one way to start to fix this is to maybe start bonding students who go off to school on government or corporate scholarships. Another step may be to give the same concessions to Bahamians returning home as is is given to forigners, living allowances and transportation,among other things.it will also be interesting to watch what happens in the US as the number of companies bring their operations back to the US mainland. With unemployment already at 3.8 percent and Trump deporting undocumented workers, there will be a severe shortage of skilled and semiskilled workers. And ,if you recall, the big three auto companies, before moving most of heir operations overseas, required factory workers to have college degrees sounds familiar?.. So many of the young Black, workers who came from generations of assembly line workers, went off to school and got degrees. But they definitely will not go to work on assembly lines when they can work a few hours in Walmart and earn the same pay. Then, like here, many of the inner city blacks and other minorities got caught in drugs and gang activity. Many thousands lost their lives..many many thousands. but Believe it or not. If Trump's plans come to fruition these people will go back to wwork.. The gangs will disband and the violence will stop. Likewise here. it was a wickedly hatched plan that was suppose to continue under hillary clinton...that jezebel spirit.

The fact is there is too much of a brain drain the country. Too many of the young Bahamian population are going off to The US, to Canada, to The UK and even now to far Eastern countries for better opportunities. And if they can compete successfully in those huge, extremely competitive markets , then they must have good qualifications with good education. And the markets are drawing them at younger and younger ages. And even now the world of athletics is drawing the young people out this country. And yes, RBC is a lame duck. It is trying to decide if it can heal itself to continue to do business in the Bahamas and Caribbean of if it has worn out its usefulness in these markets. RBC has been hit with some heavy fines recently so, yes it is twice shy after being bitten. And unfortunately money laundering and corruption , including fraud driven bank transactions is not going away soon. And because they feel the regulations are more lax in these parts the criminals keep these countries on their radar. But when you research the amount of fraud and corruption going on in other places, what is done here is just a drop in the bucket. A small drop. The difference is those markets have the volumes and populations to absorb their losses and recover, unlike a small Bahamians market where a single wrong move can wipe a company out.

Maybe you should read your prior post on this incident and that maybe why you cannot make the connection @ catislandboy