Maybe the spirit of this proposed law is not to offer permanent residence automatically, but instead to stress that the idea of citizenship for the said class of persons is no longer an option.

It may be a limiting options, not offering new ones.

We dont do enough business with the EU to make this even a subject for discussion. How about a trade deal with Iceland? Do we do much business with them? No.

Tell EU to blacklist us and all the other colours of the rainbow. We have real problems to deal with in this country and dont have time to turn the apple cart upside down to suit them. Make it known worldwide that no companies having roots in any EU country (except UK which voted to leave) is welcome to invest here.

Not welcome. Go away. Thank you.

We will be fine.

Can PMH buy blood pressure pills for granny now?

Lower the flag to half mast.

Sickened...people with mental health problems are often shunned, scoffed at, or ignored...until they show up at a school or a former place of employment and kill a dozen people. Then they become celebrities. Or in the case of this guy, they rape someone and end up serving in two jails double time.

In either case it does not bring back the dead or turn rape victims into virgins. We need to focus on prevention.

The goal should be to prevent these problems from occurring by making mental health care available. More and more people are mentally ill because of the garbage we eat that we call food, esp. that consumed by pregnant mothers.

Ronald Reagan closed down the public mental health clinics in the USA because of the abuse there. Patients were living in squalor who were poor and those whose families had a tiny bit of money to bribe the doctors got better care but the doctors would deliberately keep their meds just below sufficient to get well so they became permanent resident patients just so they could keep getting bribes.

He could have chosen to implement better oversight and jail the offenders. But we know the innocent suffer for the guilty and he chose to go the other way. Here we do the same thing. We have the free mental health clinic at the top of market street with pretty good doctors, but the administration deliberately rotates the doctors between there and PMH so that long term patients hardly ever get to see the same doctor in follow-up. Psychiatry has a lot to do with eye contact and body language and some things can't be fully made wholesome in "the chart."

We have a choice as a society; health or death. It's a choice. We are probably too dumb to choose the right one.

Joe Blow & Sickened hopefully God will have mercy on you for your sins. HE will because HE is God while we are just mere animals eating and defecating being unwise to the teaching of Jesus which is forgiveness - especially you two.

As for the prisoner, maybe the resident Haitian Ambassador can bestow upon him honorary Haitian citizenship and then Fred can get him out and under doctor's care in a jiff.

...oh, and of course i mean if we dont have to pay for the dredging or the pier or anything else. They invest and profit. We collect departure tax. Everybody is happy. We get money for every visitor - better than Oban where we don't get one cent per barrel of oil thru the out-pipe.

I see no problem with this cay development. Yes, our "take" financially might be low - but people returning home and saying they had a good time in the Bahamas will do good to improve our reputation.

If they pay regular per head departure tax, that's good enough. If they pay less than that then it should be shut down.

Dont send magistrates to islands where they are apprehended!!!! Send all apprehended to Inagua, even if caught in Nassau, Freeport, or Abaco. Send the magistrate to Inagua every time. Even if caught at the North Pole disguised as elves.

Thank goodness Mr. Bethel is standing up against the Taliban before they start to implement FGM.

Good work. Keep it up AG.