Well if you talking about lost and misplaced, you probably didnt see how the court documents are kept, which is much worse. The government will have to invest in 21 century technology to keep their initiatives accurate and secure. Labour filing is very old school and still exists embarrassingly in many important government offices.

A tech background criminal should not be able to steal your identity if thats what you are implying. Thats why the right infrastructure needs to be in place to accompany these ID's where as if it does get stolen for some reason, the securities will then take over. Also, the sophisticated form of a magnetic strip should be used to hold confidential information (not the magnetic strip you see on the back of your license today, there are more complex versions) and the actual design of the card has to physically have basic but not confidential information. Swiping the card with secure government database machines will obviously be necessary. Thats where you, the responsible adult, must make sure that your valuable is not stolen and if it is stolen, the above information may bring some closure to your skeptic.

I dont agree with Fred much especially on the basis of the EU, Amnesty and the Rainbow Alliance issues but I think a National I.D card will be a great implementation. It has to be separate from the Drivers License though. Persons complain about carrying passports and other crucial documents. Maybe a National I.D that has all the right information such as, Name, D.O.B, Island you live on, National Insurance #, Passport #, Permanent Resident, Alienated etc. It can be like a permanent resident card in the U.S.A. The only problem I can see arising from this is the infrastructure, meaning accurate updates of the databases and various maintenance's, along with proper electronic communication between government departments. This can also aid in the police in checking up on persons by also upgrading their database. This information can be sourced to a National Crime Database where as Law Enforcement agencies can figure out if persons are wanted and also indicating what they are wanted for. In this day and age with so much diversity and immigration problems in this country I think this upgrade is really needed.

Good concept but the extent of lawlessness here cannot guarantee this. Maybe in the future when the country is more manageable.

Ellison is doing great things. He is shaking the force down for a positive future. Im sure he is under a lot of pressure by the government and people, but you must commend his efforts.

Handcuffing is protocol, even a person under detainment must be handcuffed. Its almost like asking why charge a police officer if he commits an offence because he is a police.. Im so glad that you are not apart of any law enforcement. I am not and even I could understand why he is handcuffed.

I think Ryan Pinder needs to address his vitiligo because that is the only thing thats out of hand here, I wonder if he would consider using dermablend as a cover up.

Exactly, and what is the purpose of the Swiss UBS here that causes an MP to miss lunch break and speed down there to apologize? I never even heard of them until this was brought up as a headline in newspapers. Funny how newspaper companies lacking provocative headlines pick and choose which to publish. This should not have been front page, if anything they should put this maybe on A7.

I have lost hope for this country. @Tal @banker @BID You all are taking this tooo personal. Act right and get treated right. The job of the officers in general is not to harrass the public, yall are the same ones who dont want nobody tell yall nothing about anything especially officers who enforce the law. Yall are the lawless ones in the country because you and almost every Bahamian along with some Foreigners just do not respect authority. I agree with some of your posts on other articles but here and 150+ comments on the one prior, you all have lost the rationalization of this whole process. The immigration officers were doing their jobs. How easy it is for any criminal to claim 'bad treatment' especially when they always get a away with slackness and then finally get caught. I agree with @HonestMan in giving him 24 hours or so to produce, but too much bribery is going on. How embarrassing it is for the country that is already labeled 'for sale' since the 80's for an MP to come out and apologize for the way 1 person was treated (a foreigner at most). The UBS man was not responsible enough to keep his documents on him. If he was in the USA, they would have locked his a$$ up until they could prove otherwise. When yall go to the U.S its like everyone all of a sudden remembers to obey the law, but here, yall could care less about laws because for far to long lawlessness has been going on, and now that enforcement is finally enforced and is proving to be working much better than the past, yall now complain. Who cares if he is a big time business executive. You know how many forgeries, laundering and white collar crimes are being committed in this country by these same foreign business executives that all of a sudden yall cherish so much? But you wouldn't crack down on them because they are such an 'asset' to the country. What happened to the fair treatment of the 'nationals'. Maybe some of these foreigners who are used to getting away with lawless slackness need to resort to leaving the Bahamas when they crack down on them, maybe that way many more Bahamians would get a fair chance in Life in the Bahamas as it relates to business ownership, oppurtunity etc. For far too long the Foreigners seem to be worshipped here and take advantage of our lawless loopholes, and I blame the 2 governments FNM & PLP for letting this get out of hand. Money hungry politicians. When are they going to represent the people that elected them? When they go to office they forget about the people and try to develop and make things better for their own selfishness. There isnt anything wrong with what they did, a white man being held up in a majority black country is for some reason considered a 'crime' here yet they forget that this country is dominantly black.

No I didnt.