Is it? Maybe they're bleaching cream manufacturers trying to cut out the middle man. The fact that Jamaicans make up the 2nd largest group of immigrants in the Bahamas, legal and illegal, says they are coming to our islands. And it seems like every other month a group of Jamaican "strippers" are detained by immigration. Things are evidently not that good in Jamaica.

What are you doing but making condescending assumptions that Jamaica/Jamaicans are progressive, peace loving thinkers based on news reports while Bahamians are not. The LGBT community, Jamaican deportees and UNHRC would disagree with you.

Continue to comment please, I never implied you should not. I occasionally comment on the Observer as well. That's one of the reasons I know that Jamaica is not an example to follow...in any regard.

@Jamaicaproud of course we need to know what happened to this man and how it happened asap. So that it can never happen again. And of course comment, but please base your comments in reality and not your grandiose misperception of your country and people.

However, your suggestion that we can learn anything from Jamaica is extremely laughable, especially when it comes to human rights abuses. Even the way you treat returned deportees (your own people)to Jamaica is absolutely dispicable. If we wanted to know which is the "best" bleaching cream on the market we'll ask. But please stop your pretentiousness as if we don't know what the real Jamaica is about.

There's three sides to this story. Not's let make any assumptions about what happened and how it happened.

It's a shame that Bahamians who are less travelled than you would take your word for this. My experience in interacting with locals while living or visiting other countries is they share the same view on illegals that Bahamians do. Explore the world outside of your expat community please...that defeats the purpose of traveling. One off mishaps happens from time to time because no system is perfect. Even the U.K. Is currently scrambling to explain the death of a Jamaican detainee.

Jamaicans and Haitians do not coexist...they act superior to them as they do everyone else. I know too many to believe your delusions but it's typical. Whether the teachers were recruited, or not, they still fled to the Bahamas because the opportunity was better than in the near failed country of Jamaica. With the direction the country is heading we might meet Jamaica in Failure Land, I can admit that, but you would have been there decades before...it's almost there now.

People don't just go missing from the DOI. This undocumented individual could have been released and snuck into the US...to have exactly this effect of reflecting negatively on this department. Or could still be in the Bahamas lying low. Either way, the investigation should start with the boat that was intercepted a few days ago en route to Florida with several illegal Haitians on board.

Are you kidding? Jamaicans abroad rip apart the countries they flee to without shame. So much so you would believe Jamaica had it together and was not on the threshold of becoming the next Haiti.

Even in school the Jamaican teachers were condescending and constantly compared Jamaica to Bahamas, and not surprisingly we never measured up. Currently I avoid certain discussions with Caribbean expats in the US, namely Jamacians, for this very reason. I will not live in someone else's country, benefit from the backs and racial progress of their ancestors and still view them as beneath me. And even while they sing the praises of Jamaica none are willing to ever return. Only then are they willing to admit that Jamaica is as backward as it seems.

The should try Florida. Mr Smith's Cuban's dissappeared last year without a trace and magically reappeared in Florida.

Whether he was deported or discharged from the detention center us hard to trace at all. Was he on one of the Bahamas Air flight's since September? Or was he discharged and hightailed it to Florida to further Mr.Smiths cause?