Fred Mitchell needs to stop taking selfies for the press and stop trying to make it appear his immigration department is the 'lilies of the field". Clean and spotless.There is harassment going on and, unfortunately, Haitians are the most common victims. I watched today as they swooped on a work site and arrested a man they presumed to be an immigrant working illegally. Despite showing a copy of his work permit, the man was taken into custody as the immigration officers insisted on seeing the original document. This man had tools that he was not able to secure and his car was parked nearby and he as also not able to secure that. From what was expressed from onlookers, this man has been a legal resident of the Bahamas for over 20 years. But immigration officers pick him up and detain him several times a year. Not only does he lose time from work, but he loses the tools that are left behind when the inconsiderate officers do this and his car was also raided on occasion. So if Fred Mitchell is running an immigration department that is so clean and cutting edge, why does he not yet have a means by which immigration officers can check work or belongers' permits for their validity at the point if interception, rather than having to intrude on and interrupt the lives and employment of persons who have the legal right to be here. No one walks around with original documents in this crime ridden society. Or is there some under-the-table business going on that immigration officers are picking up the same people several times a year and do not know their status is a legal one.

These people sit in a board room (or have someone go on a computer) and build a business module that says if you invest this amount and you want to receive "this amount" given "these inputs then here are the variables. Since the human resource input is the one most easily to manipulate and to replace in the communications industry we have these kinds of "dumping" of human (employees)

And how many persons are on dialysis or have died from kidney failure from smelting copper improperly? They had to use the money they made to pay medical bills.

And how many persons are on dialysis or have dies from kidney failure from smelting copper improperly? They had to use the money they made to pay medical bills.

Sounds like mischief in the making

Did the pot cake just jump ship without a life raft? Everyone know this government is not going to stop the exports despite the millions of dollars it is draining out of the economy annually. And guess who benefits when you have to re-import copper or aluminum that was stolen. The same thing happened with the cash for gold operations. Those people were paying pennies on the dollar for gold. And persons were breaking into homes and businesses or doing armed robberies and taking gold and valuables worth thousands of dollars and selling to these cash for gold gangsters who quickly exported the stolen loot and probably sold it in a different country for hundreds times what they paid for it. Mr. Miller is right. No copper or aluminum is manufactured in this country. And because of the amount that has been stolen and exported there are no excess of these metals here. So who alone will suffer if even a temporary ban is placed on these metals save the copper and aluminum thieves?

When murder cases go for years untried when they finally get to court the accused are set free. Evidence is missing or stale and witnesses are no longer around, doesn't have clear recollection of the incident or are too afraid on not interested in giving evidence to bring attention to themselves again.

Perry Christie try to draw parallels between the BoB scandal and RBC/Finco profits and falling drastically and another Canadian bank reporting a net loss. Did the Central Bank have to step in and intervene on the procedures of any of these banks? Did any of them have to be re-funded? Was the trading of any of their stocks suspended and did they have to remove their bad loans off the books to save themselves? And how did shareholders of those banks find out about those losses? From direct reports from those institutions or from leaks to the press and constant denials of trouble by the Bank? Is the CEO of any of them there banks being fired or being asked to resign?

If government put the same type of passion and resources into fighting crime as it is doing with carnival then the Bahamas would return to being a true paradise. But instead we are seeing close to 400 persons murdered (many assassination style) under three years of PLP governance. So let's grab a costume and go dance in the streets (half naked). While the blood of the innocent flow like a river.

While Perry Christie may be proudly boasting about how successful his government was in implementing Value Added Tax, a burden on the backs of the Bahamian people, his advisors should warn him that implementing it is one thing and sustaining it is another story. VAT is canabalistic by nature and it takes a bite out of everything that moves in the economy. So not only are you burning the candle at both ends ( customs taking vat at the ports and merchants taking from the end consumer) but vat is imposed on every transaction in between. And if there is no real growth vat will feed on itself and shrink the economy to recessionary levels. Persons who collect vat may find after making one or two submissions to the government that they no longer have the funds to do so, or they cannot replace inventory or meet other financial obligations of their business and so eventually they will be forced to close. It will not be a matter of choice. If the economy does not grow it will mean that government is getting a bigger slice of the same pie. So everyone else is getting less. And an even greater danger is if government does not use the funds it draws out of the economy to pay down its debt, then what's next? An increase in the value added tax on an even smaller economic pie? Yes it is true that the US economy under Barak Obama has rebounded. The stock market has set new records, unemployment is down, gas prices are down and fuel is plentiful, crime in most major cities in the US are at their lowest levels in ten years and so is the number of persons going to jail. So do you think the Republicans are going into elections under those conditions? They have already started efforts to reverse Obamas policies and stall the economy. What happens in America will happen here and while we may save a boom, from most indications it will be short lived, especially now with China heading into a recession. Save your pennies and avoid debt.