And as you may know, one specific gang in the country is made up, almost exclusively, of persons who are Haitian or of Haitian decent. They are suspected of being responsible for many crimes in the country and have the tendency to go undercover when the police are looking for them. One was recently discovered on a Haitian sloop coming into the country.. And as if it was fate speaking out, a Haitian sloop ended up in the mouth of the canal at the defense force base. While it was suspected that some 250 persons may have been on board that vessel, and while persons in the area claim they heard persons running through the night and vehicles driving through the night, no one associated with the vessel was discovered. But immigration was able to capture and detain some 200 illegal persons to be deported to their home countries. So this sent another clear message to criminals, illegals and the public at large that laws are enforced in the country and crime will not pay. Now the country is waiting on the defense force to redeem itself from the black eye and embarrassment it received when the Haitian sloop creeped up almost in the bowels of the base....undetected.

In addition to this the new commissioner, Reginald Ferguson, let it be known that there would be a major shift in crime fighting and policing strategy. His intention was not only involve the public in his fight against crime, but to target gang members with the intention of dismantling gangs. The vanity of gang life: Killing your own people for what? Because they live in a different part of the island, or because they wear different colors or have different gang signs that you have..how stupid..how dumb. It is suspected that gangs are responsible for many of the killings in The Bahamas, new Providence especially and the commissioner's plea for the public to get involved and claim their communities back is already yielding results. Then the prime minister sent more shock waves when he undiplomatically announced that all illegal immigrants had until December 31 to become regularized or to leave the country. And despite the criticism and public outcry about this, especially from one Fred Smith, who challenged this edict, Minnis stood his ground. And so many who fit in this category, are busy trying to get their immigration papers in order or are preparing to leave the country by the deadline given.

he country was obviously enjoying its second longest 'ceasefire' in at least five years. Then the prime minister decided to un-wire his jaws and thump his chest about the wonderful job his government vis a vis the police force was doing about crime. And just like every this happened under the previous administration, there was another murder within 24 hours. And this begs to asks the question: "what is driving crime, murder especially in this country? Who is really behind them. No one can deny that the crime, murders especially are down. But what caused that? The police have been less visible in the past few weeks (not that this is a bad thing, especially if the desired results are being achieved), and there has also been less police interaction with the public or it was less publicized. But on the other hand there have been significant arrests for gun possession and other major crimes as well as several major drug busts. And with several prominent politicians and other high profile persons being charged with bribery, and corruption, among other things, the Minnis led government let it be known loud and clear that there's a new sheriff in town and, like Papa (his namesake0 papi don't take no mess.'

Does anyone else smell a rat?

It never fails. As soon as the government unwires it jaws and start bragging about crime. More specific it’s reduction the murders start up again. Hopefully this an isolated incident and the ‘ceasefire ‘ will continue

Yes time to stop appearing to fondle the hand of justice and let these criminals know they will pay dearly when they commit crimes, especially violent ones, more especially fatal ones and most importantly those crimes that, if continues, will set the country on a high rock in the wilderness of economic depression.

And another part of Myles Munroe’s prophecy being fulfilled, “And there will be a lot of people dying. And New faces that we never seen or heard of before will emerge.’ May Lady Adderley rest in heavenly peace as this country continues to march on to glory!

They had a similar clause in the Business Licence Act. If you (Bahamians) did not hear from your business licence application it was considered to be (automatically) granted after 30 days (Zhivago Laing was in charge). But when the police came around and you could not produce the licence certificate, then they shut you down and threatened to lock up you and your staff for even being on the premises which you own or was paying rent for). So how much will this act cripple the immigration department; They go to a business establishment and persons cannot produce a work permit but claim they have applied under the commercial enterprises act. So basically the immigration officer is left with no power to do his job. Then he decides to take the person in to custody anyway but gets a call from this "unit" demanding to let the man go or lose ya job...merry christmas then!

and of course if they make baby (or have one while here) with a Bahamian, that child is automatically a Bahamian right? Yes Bahamians we are screwed. When they do drill for oil, you aint getting none.

So is this designed to cut back on all those persons who come in on tourist visas and work out of hotel rooms and townhouses or condos? Because by the time they come in and do the work, immigration still haven't processed their documents and so they work and immigration never gets paid. Also when these people apply for work permits will they put up a bond (preferably non-refundable) at the time of the application. A bond equilivant to the amount of the work permit fee, since the permit becomes valid after 14 days if no response from immigration.