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.

They are supposed to lock you up until they can prove you can legally be here before they let you go. You think they are just going to let him go and then go to the company to be faced with some 'run around'. Let the company come and get him if he is such a major asset or if its so serious that he is absent. He should be a responsible legal alien and carry his permit/ID's etc. Come on man, common sense, Ine need no law to tell me that. Yall are the same types of Bahamians who say "Man ine carrying no ID, cuz the police dont ask for them" and then when the Police do ask, you are in a jam, because ya too lazy and irresponsible.

They didnt call/categorize 'Trinidad' as a 'police state' when they enforced their 11pm curfew. That curfew was going on for approx. 2 years or so. The crimes down there are much more horrendous and on a larger scale than we are. Anyone who was caught violating the curfew went to jail.

I really dont understand why carrying an ID is such a big deal. I would encourage Bahamians to carry it everywhere and in any country. Simply being lazy and not wanting to carry a little plastic card that could fit with the rest of your bank cards in your wallets/coin pouches is puzzling to me. For foreigners: You should expect to carry valid ID/Passport/Permits (you are a foreigner that is the only way to prove you can be here) incase they stop and ask. The thing is Bahamians ask for justice, yet are not responsible enough to save their own a$$e$. They did say that they would be doing this, you think if they said 'when' that they would catch anybody. You call yourself thinker, yet you dont really 'think'.

Um those kinds of things you dont know until you are actually apart of the company. You think a company is going to tell their employees all the dirt that is going on especially within the higher positions before they hire you? These things you tend find out after you start working Mr Critical Thinker. What could I have done about that person, Didnt I say I went to labor board about it? Immigration is say 'yea we ga check' but they never do. Im sure now he probably has his papers.

There arent any meetings. This is a lie. The Bahamas will continue to keep its 49%. How can you offer a well known company 51% and then some time later when they already have all of their infrastructure in place, try to take back the majority? People please dont be gullable, the PM is trying to make it seem as if he his doing something productive when he really isnt.

This needs to happen. There are so many qualified yet undocumented Foreigners that are here controlling big time businesses. I was a victim to this myself, in a case where I was actually terminated from a job by someone who didnt even have his residency and work permits approved. The company used to send this man back to his home town every 5 or 6 months so that his 'legal stay' can be renewed as a visiting person. I went to the Labour Board about this and they told me that they couldnt do anything about it because of the fact that I was not working at the company for more than a year. These foreigners are playing the loop hole game with this country. These Politicians make many vain promises without proper execution, then they wonder why the country is being raped of its resources etc.

The problem with a marital-rape law is that many 'spiteful' women can resort to this as a means to imprison or get rid of their husbands for what ever personal reasons. It is really hard to justify marital rape.