Economist - wow looks like this is something we can agree on. Yes, we should abolish our dollar and use US, like Grassroot says they do in Panama etc.

The PM does not need a new Act of Parliament to limit salary deductions of Government employees. I knew of a lady in the Ministry I worked at for 4 years whose take home pay monthly was $14 (yes fourteen). These are all approved internally. The banks as for a letter of salary assignment. The Ministry of FInance can make their own policy and simply say from today forward no employee shall get a salary assignment letter if such assignement would take their total assignments to be more than 25% of their salary. Their take home pay must be 75% of their salary. They could do it with one stroke of a pen.

However, here they are playing innocent. Christie is the Minister of Finance (in his spare time from being PM). He could do it in one day.

Also - what does he mean 22%? The Bank Act limits any loan interest including fees and any other names that banks want to call charges to a TOTAL of 20% per annum on the principal.

Anyone finding that they are paying more than 20% on a loan (or I should say being charged interest and fees totalling more than that) should telephone the police.

**TheMadHatter**

The policy came into place on Oct 1st that everyone has to have a passport of their nationality (and if not bahamian passport - then residency stamp or work permit or visitors permit or whatever).

Answer : START having unannounced raids on at least 2 places per week on every island. 7 busloads of immigration and police officers pull up to a gas station on Carmichael Road - or Prince Charles - or any road - and hop out and surround the whole place and search inside and outside every closet every cubby hole and ever single person found no matter what they look like are asked to produce their passport with (if needed) supporting documents (photocopies of passport and documents are acceptable if the copies show all important info including pictures and id numbers) or if tourists they can say what hotel they are staying at and calls can be made to the hotel to confirm their identify and they can state their date of birth or whatever to confirm what is on the hotel's photocopy of their ID on file.

Those who do not have such copies in their purse or back pockets or wherever - even if they are clearly a Bahamian, known to some of the officers - are taken to the detention center for processing until their family members bring documents or phone calls are made to the office to confirm their identity and legal status.

A couple of these raids and all Bahamians will start carrying copies of their documents, and others too.

Then we can separate the wheat from the chaffe.

**TheMadHatter**

Economist: The time of "ideas" is over. The time for action is now.

If you have a brilliant solution - post it on facebook so everyone can consider it. In the meantime, we will be happy having a non-brilliant solution and that our stars that we have any kind of solution instead of nothing.

I am so proud of Min. Mitchell for doing something.

My fear is, that as a man that is doing something instead of just talking - they will probably take away his politicians license - LOL.

Min. Mitchell please keep up the good work !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There are so many Bahamians who support you but are afraid to say so for fear of losing their job or some other tangled web of status that they are enslaved in by these immigrants.

Spoitier - yes it is tough to pay for 100 to be deported to only be replaced by 100 more coming in.

That is a part of the point of these new policies. To make it difficult to live here as an illegal. RIght now, via the telephone and Internet, Haitians in Haiti are well aware of how easy it is to come to the Bahamas and live. If you are Haitian - you get free everything. And if anybody questions you or tries to stand in your way - they are called a racist and are probably guilty of violating some U.N. Treaty that says that Haitians are better than Jesus Christ and simply cannot be touched.

They know that.

That is why they risk life and limb to come here. The Bahamas says come here and take all that we have. You are better than us, and we deserve nothing and you deserve all. Nobody and nothing can stand in your way. Come right away, don't delay.

These new policies have already been heard about all over the land of Haiti. They are hearing that the Bahamas is waking up. Of course Haitians already here are trumpeting the call for us to go back to sleep. They are saying stop abusing these poor innocent defenseless Haitians - who have nothing and are merely trying to earn a living for their poor desperate families.

You can keep believing that if you want.

This is a war financed by the Haitian Govt. The sloops bring in cold hard cash and it is distributed by the generals to the troops to buy baby food and anything that they need to accomplish their goal, which is...

Majority Rule.

Grassroot: You obviously missed the article a couple months ago when the immigration officers took the child who was abandoned at home with the stove left on when the parents ran away during a raid. The immigration were accused of taking children away without their parents. Now you say take them away?

You see, there is nothing immigration can do that doesn't "look" bad. It is a tough situation and the answer is simply tough. Few had anything to say about the parents that ran off and left the kid in the house with a lit stove that may have caught fire.

You keep on worrying about those "kids". They are going to grow into adults and have more kids - and will before long be the majority in this country. Our country works by majority rule - and they are well aware of that. They will rule. A Haitian PM is not far in our future.

If you want a Haitian ruler, you can have one. Fill out your papers and apply for citizenship in Haiti. When you get approved, let me know and I will personally pay for the one-way plane ticket to get you there.

Too many churches being built. People spending too much time preparing for death, instead of being concerned with daily life. Some people attend church 3 and 4 times a week. That is just crazy.

**TheMadHatter**

Central Bank did not have authority to fine BOB 10g a day for not filing proper reports, so I'm sure there is no air quality person with any more authority than the authority to request no onions on her whopper at Burger King.

**TheMadHatter**

The cost of rebuilding such a country is the same as it would cost to rebuild Haiti. It already IS such a country, and we are trying to stop our from being a photocopy.

It's not only about the cost, it's about them being here taking up space and breeding to become the majority in this country. Bahamians are not the only ones who believe in majority rule. Haitians love Pindling for making that rule of thumb.

Yes, God help us all, including Haitians. However, he can't find them to help them cause they made a change of address.

ThisIsOurs - you are right. I don't know that. My point is that action is finally being taken, and the FNM seems unsatisfied. It is hard to tell if they want action of inaction.

Of course I am not suggesting either that the PLP are innocent sheep in all of this. They know that the Central Bank governor had no authority because they know the Law. They left the Law in that state of affairs just so that she could not do anything. So nothing was done, exactly what they wanted.

"Activists Slam New Immigration Move" says the article.

Well I hope Fred and Darville keep their "slammers" well oiled and fueled up, cause more moves on the way.

These two dingbats don't seem to realize that Haiti has declared WAR on the Bahamas. We are having to fight for our very survival. Haitians don't send money to Haiti (or what they do is returned to them when the sloops come back, by presenting their receipts) - instead Haiti sends money (via the sloops) to the Bahamas to support their troops on the ground. That's where the money for food and supplies comes from in large part.

If Fred & Darville would agree that for every Haitian or "Haitian-Bahamian" in this country we can grant a residency-with-right-to-work permanent permit to that same number of Australians AND that same number to any NATO nation citizen - so that we in the end have DOUBLE their number here - then I would support leaving the Haitians alone.

But, of course, they would not agree to that. Why? Because if we had that policy then Haitians would not be able to become the majority - and they would have fought to have Majority Rule Day on Jan 15th for nothing.

**TheMadHatter**