Congratulations to Ms. Marcher Jean for all the hard work and dedication it required for her to graduate Valedictorian from C. R. Walker Senior High School!
However, If Ms. Marchar Jean was born in the Bahamas to illegal immigrants, she too should be classified as an illegal immigrant. If at least one of the parents is of Haitian origin or decent, according to the Haitian Constitution, she too is automatically a citizen of Haiti. Her being born in the Bahamas does not negate the fact of her heritage, and benefits thereof. "She is trapped" by irresponsible parents that put her in the position she now finds herself. The Bahamas had nothing to do with her being here, and ultimately should not be held accountable for her parents' choice of trying to exploit her as an anchor baby.
Rest assured if Haiti were to become a very rich country tomorrow, Fred Smith and half of the population of the Bahamas would be abandoning the Bahamas and beating down Haiti's doors claiming their Haitian Constitutional birthright!
As Haitians are staunch believers of instilling their culture onto their children, Ms. Jean is 100% equipped to function and live in Haiti. In fact, she is 1000% more equipped to survive and thrive in Haiti than her parents were to live and survive in the Bahamas when they first arrived, not knowing anything about the country, people, language, or culture of the Bahamas!
If Ms. Jean's parents arrived here as illegal migrants and she obtained a free education at the expense of the Bahamian people, she should be extremely grateful and take that education back to Haiti and use it to help her people and country to become better.
The Bahamas, as a country, does not owe Ms. Jean and untold 1000,s more like her citizenship, belongers status, or anything else just because her parents successfully evaded deportation for decades or successive lousy governments failed immigration system didn't do what Bahamians taxpayers pay them to do.
Again, I congratulate Ms. Marcher Jean on her accomplishment and wish her all the best. However, I DO NOT pretend to want her, her parents, or/and the 10's of 1000's of illegal Haitians and others that broke our countries laws by entering illegally, burdened **me** with paying for their education, health care, security, social services, displaced Bahamians and legal migrants in the job market, and turn a blind eye to or facilitate human, drugs, weapons smuggling, and contribute to a parallel economy undermining the Bahamian economy!
I sincerely bless Ms. Jean and **ALL** like her. They are more than welcome to the "stolen" education and exposure they have gained in the Bahamas and I wish them all the success they can attain......**in haiti - not here!!**
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, this is by no means rocket science & even below rudimentary!
Fast-talking, slick, politicians that lead us to where we are have always been the problem. Get back to us when you figure out how to get politicians to do what they are elected to do and actually work for benefit of average Bahamians.
How do you figure Bahamians in the equation at all? Bahamians are discriminated against by their own black governments. They can't get jobs and are begging for food everyday, while ex-pats work and repatriate excess funds, Bahamians can't gamble in casinos, while Haitians, Asians, Latinos, and vertually anyone from anywhere else can, only foreigners benefit from Bahamas natural resources, while Bahamians are totally locked out, iliegals can build shantytowns and make addons to below code dwellings, while Bahamians have to make applications jump through hoops and make bribes for the smallest insignificant building changes.
Drive around Nassau, look and listen to the people you encounter working and you will find 80% of them are from somewhere else! Keep driving through the inner city, look and listen to the people who are unemployed, destitute, bums begging on the streets and people standing in soup kitchen food lines waiting for handouts. You will find they are 100% Bahamians only.
How is it possible that foreigners and illegals live and enjoy the freedoms, perks and fruits of the country while Bahamians suffer?
These are some of the things affecting ALL Bahamians everyday 325/24/7 that we should be marching and protesting loudly against!
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I don't understand why people are acting surprised. **Bahamians were NEVER first in anything by any party.** There is absolutely no discernable difference between the PLP or FNM. Both parties promise "Bahamians first" "We believe in Bahamians" and "It's' the people's time", But their actions prove differently!
This situation, mushrooming shantytowns, illegal immigrants everywhere, and ex-pats working and repatriating funds while Bahamians standing in food lines begging for handouts are some of the things Bahamians should REALLY be marching about.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah! Decades of blabbing, rattling sabers, and jokey threats while Haitians build shanty city's throughout the country. Whose side is the courts on?
When will somebody begin standing up for Bahamians?
The greatest hope we can possibly have is for the passing of a Freedom Of Information Act which would allow the FBI and Scotland Yard to come in, find and prosecute **ALL** the surviving crooks and criminals that have kept our country and people in bondage since piracy and return all that rightfully belongs to the people!
Short of this happening we are doomed to continue down the road to failure.
The Bahamas is blindly rushing into open borders with the highly contaminated U.S. using the need for tourist dollars as our reasoning when the EU is doing the exact opposite based on epidemiological criteria!
If the situation were reversed with the U.S. having COVID under control and the Bahamas being the one with the problem, without question uncle Donald Trump wouldn't allow Bahamians to even enter the U.S. embassy on Queen Street, let alone entering the united states!
The Bahamas should bite the bullet and follow epidemiologically defined guidelines and not allow Americans to enter the country until it is safe to do so.
In the meantime, the government should make our destination more attractive by leading the way by lowering tourism-related taxes and encourage airlines and hotels to take a hit by lowering rates for travelers from approved countries. Local tour companies should also be asked to lower rates to attract more visitors to spend locally.
We need to think out of the box and aim for **"volume heads in beds"!**
Alternatively, if we allow the Americans in at this time our country WILL become overwhelmed with tourists transmitted COVID-19. We will be forced to shut, & lockdown again, and lose all tourists from everywhere.
It makes more sense to have fewer tourists on sustainable bases than many tourists for a short time, only to lose any gains with inevitable shutdowns.
This is all elementary. A simple look at rates in Jamaica, Haiti and other countries and it becomes glaringly obvious that Bahamians are being slaughtered, raped, and mugged, by BTC, Cable Bahamas and Alive!
Canadian banks also get away with massive thief by being allowed to charge a whopping 10% rate of interest on COVID-19 loan deferrals in the Bahamas when the same services are offered in Canada and the U.S. for under 2% rate of interest!
The unsurprising thing is successive governments went along with this pillaging of there "beloved people" for decades.
Disgraceful acts of wonton piracy sanctioned by our loving government!
Excellent! However, the really most unfortunate thing out of all of this is that Sarkis is but one of many individuals living in the Bahamas with the genuine love of our people and financial ability to assist in the development of our country in meaningful ways, only to be Shanghied out of his development by the Chinese supported by Perry Christie's PLP group of pirates!
Sarkis's sour experience attempting to doing business in the Bahamas will have a reiterating effect on other potential wealthy residents why they feel continuously feel insecure in investing in our country which many call "home".
Perry Christie, and the PLP must be made to face justice on an internationally acceptable level if we are to regain the confidence of the multitude of people like Sarkis living here with multibillion dollar development potential.
if found guilty of wrongdoing, Perry Christie, crooked Bahamian lawyers, CCA, the PLP, and any other characters in this travesty must face penalties commensurate with international standards so the Bahamas can openly and freely claim a status of jurisdictional justice and fair play!
SP says...
Congratulations to Ms. Marcher Jean for all the hard work and dedication it required for her to graduate Valedictorian from C. R. Walker Senior High School!
However, If Ms. Marchar Jean was born in the Bahamas to illegal immigrants, she too should be classified as an illegal immigrant. If at least one of the parents is of Haitian origin or decent, according to the Haitian Constitution, she too is automatically a citizen of Haiti. Her being born in the Bahamas does not negate the fact of her heritage, and benefits thereof. "She is trapped" by irresponsible parents that put her in the position she now finds herself. The Bahamas had nothing to do with her being here, and ultimately should not be held accountable for her parents' choice of trying to exploit her as an anchor baby.
Rest assured if Haiti were to become a very rich country tomorrow, Fred Smith and half of the population of the Bahamas would be abandoning the Bahamas and beating down Haiti's doors claiming their Haitian Constitutional birthright!
As Haitians are staunch believers of instilling their culture onto their children, Ms. Jean is 100% equipped to function and live in Haiti. In fact, she is 1000% more equipped to survive and thrive in Haiti than her parents were to live and survive in the Bahamas when they first arrived, not knowing anything about the country, people, language, or culture of the Bahamas!
If Ms. Jean's parents arrived here as illegal migrants and she obtained a free education at the expense of the Bahamian people, she should be extremely grateful and take that education back to Haiti and use it to help her people and country to become better.
The Bahamas, as a country, does not owe Ms. Jean and untold 1000,s more like her citizenship, belongers status, or anything else just because her parents successfully evaded deportation for decades or successive lousy governments failed immigration system didn't do what Bahamians taxpayers pay them to do.
Again, I congratulate Ms. Marcher Jean on her accomplishment and wish her all the best. However, I DO NOT pretend to want her, her parents, or/and the 10's of 1000's of illegal Haitians and others that broke our countries laws by entering illegally, burdened **me** with paying for their education, health care, security, social services, displaced Bahamians and legal migrants in the job market, and turn a blind eye to or facilitate human, drugs, weapons smuggling, and contribute to a parallel economy undermining the Bahamian economy!
I sincerely bless Ms. Jean and **ALL** like her. They are more than welcome to the "stolen" education and exposure they have gained in the Bahamas and I wish them all the success they can attain......**in haiti - not here!!**
On INSIGHT: Marchar Jean was her school’s star pupil - today she’s trapped by a nonsensical system which is a stain on our nation
Posted 6 July 2020, 7:49 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, this is by no means rocket science & even below rudimentary!
Fast-talking, slick, politicians that lead us to where we are have always been the problem. Get back to us when you figure out how to get politicians to do what they are elected to do and actually work for benefit of average Bahamians.
On More Bahamian ownership will deliver optimum returns
Posted 6 July 2020, 6:45 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
How do you figure Bahamians in the equation at all? Bahamians are discriminated against by their own black governments. They can't get jobs and are begging for food everyday, while ex-pats work and repatriate excess funds, Bahamians can't gamble in casinos, while Haitians, Asians, Latinos, and vertually anyone from anywhere else can, only foreigners benefit from Bahamas natural resources, while Bahamians are totally locked out, iliegals can build shantytowns and make addons to below code dwellings, while Bahamians have to make applications jump through hoops and make bribes for the smallest insignificant building changes.
Drive around Nassau, look and listen to the people you encounter working and you will find 80% of them are from somewhere else!
Keep driving through the inner city, look and listen to the people who are unemployed, destitute, bums begging on the streets and people standing in soup kitchen food lines waiting for handouts. You will find they are 100% Bahamians only.
How is it possible that foreigners and illegals live and enjoy the freedoms, perks and fruits of the country while Bahamians suffer?
These are some of the things affecting ALL Bahamians everyday 325/24/7 that we should be marching and protesting loudly against!
On Abaco alarm over new shanty construction
Posted 5 July 2020, 12:01 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Everybody STFU and get it through your ignorant skulls that obviouly Haitians run things here!
On Abaco alarm over new shanty construction
Posted 4 July 2020, 8:16 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I don't understand why people are acting surprised. **Bahamians were NEVER first in anything by any party.** There is absolutely no discernable difference between the PLP or FNM. Both parties promise "Bahamians first" "We believe in Bahamians" and "It's' the people's time", But their actions prove differently!
This situation, mushrooming shantytowns, illegal immigrants everywhere, and ex-pats working and repatriating funds while Bahamians standing in food lines begging for handouts are some of the things Bahamians should REALLY be marching about.
On 'Why aren't we being put first?'
Posted 3 July 2020, 6:52 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah! Decades of blabbing, rattling sabers, and jokey threats while Haitians build shanty city's throughout the country. Whose side is the courts on?
When will somebody begin standing up for Bahamians?
On Abaconians promised action on unregulated shanty development
Posted 2 July 2020, 3:36 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
The greatest hope we can possibly have is for the passing of a Freedom Of Information Act which would allow the FBI and Scotland Yard to come in, find and prosecute **ALL** the surviving crooks and criminals that have kept our country and people in bondage since piracy and return all that rightfully belongs to the people!
Short of this happening we are doomed to continue down the road to failure.
On THE BIG QUESTION: Independence and your hopes for the nation
Posted 1 July 2020, 7:14 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
The Bahamas is blindly rushing into open borders with the highly contaminated U.S. using the need for tourist dollars as our reasoning when the EU is doing the exact opposite based on epidemiological criteria!
https://news.yahoo.com/americans-not-we…
If the situation were reversed with the U.S. having COVID under control and the Bahamas being the one with the problem, without question uncle Donald Trump wouldn't allow Bahamians to even enter the U.S. embassy on Queen Street, let alone entering the united states!
The Bahamas should bite the bullet and follow epidemiologically defined guidelines and not allow Americans to enter the country until it is safe to do so.
In the meantime, the government should make our destination more attractive by leading the way by lowering tourism-related taxes and encourage airlines and hotels to take a hit by lowering rates for travelers from approved countries. Local tour companies should also be asked to lower rates to attract more visitors to spend locally.
We need to think out of the box and aim for **"volume heads in beds"!**
Alternatively, if we allow the Americans in at this time our country WILL become overwhelmed with tourists transmitted COVID-19. We will be forced to shut, & lockdown again, and lose all tourists from everywhere.
It makes more sense to have fewer tourists on sustainable bases than many tourists for a short time, only to lose any gains with inevitable shutdowns.
On Atlantis delays opening to July 30
Posted 30 June 2020, 5:58 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
This is all elementary. A simple look at rates in Jamaica, Haiti and other countries and it becomes glaringly obvious that Bahamians are being slaughtered, raped, and mugged, by BTC, Cable Bahamas and Alive!
Canadian banks also get away with massive thief by being allowed to charge a whopping 10% rate of interest on COVID-19 loan deferrals in the Bahamas when the same services are offered in Canada and the U.S. for under 2% rate of interest!
The unsurprising thing is successive governments went along with this pillaging of there "beloved people" for decades.
Disgraceful acts of wonton piracy sanctioned by our loving government!
On BTC, Cable fees '150 times' more' than US access
Posted 25 June 2020, 9:11 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Excellent! However, the really most unfortunate thing out of all of this is that Sarkis is but one of many individuals living in the Bahamas with the genuine love of our people and financial ability to assist in the development of our country in meaningful ways, only to be Shanghied out of his development by the Chinese supported by Perry Christie's PLP group of pirates!
Sarkis's sour experience attempting to doing business in the Bahamas will have a reiterating effect on other potential wealthy residents why they feel continuously feel insecure in investing in our country which many call "home".
Perry Christie, and the PLP must be made to face justice on an internationally acceptable level if we are to regain the confidence of the multitude of people like Sarkis living here with multibillion dollar development potential.
if found guilty of wrongdoing, Perry Christie, crooked Bahamian lawyers, CCA, the PLP, and any other characters in this travesty must face penalties commensurate with international standards so the Bahamas can openly and freely claim a status of jurisdictional justice and fair play!
On Baha Mar receivers’ actions ‘a shocker’
Posted 25 June 2020, 8:52 p.m. Suggest removal