I am Bahamian Born and raised, of Guyanese decent. My father was a civil engineer, who worked on projects in the Bahamas from the creation of Sandy Port to the building of Atlantis. My mother, who due to circumstances decided it wasn't worth the run around to get a work permit for herself inseatd volunteered in the schools and the hospitals (she worked for **FREE**). Although my family lived in the Bahamas for over 20 years (I being born during that time) we were unable to acquire permanent residence (let alone citizenship, but residence would have been good enough) and as such lived in the country on an annual work permit.
When my father passed away I was made a stateless person (at about the age of 15). The country where i learn everything about life and being alive turn around and tell me not only am i not from there, but that i don't belong.
All i hear about the Bahamas immigration policy is about blockin haitian. My family only ever contribueded to the development of this country - the thanks I have from that?
**I am an exile from my own country.**
But what happened to me? I had to apply for landed immagrant status to Canada, which although a country I was not from at all in any way, dealt with the application in an organized manner allowing me to **actually have somewhere to go when i was kicked out of my own country**
Am i more Guyanese than Bahamian? More Canadian than Bahamaian?
the two country i can live and work - Guyana + Canada
Result - no matter where in the world i go, I am a 'forgiener' because i am labelled as such in my OWN country. Although not the worst outcome from the current system in the bahamas, **know that it's bahamians who these policies really hurt, not forgieners.**
like well mudda tek sic sey, Canada passport internationally in less than three weeks. Bey I can tell you in Canada, regualr renewal, less than a week - bey a couple days you have your thing - dats normal time.
Dats if it's last minute, expired, whatever, it don't matter! it's a renewal! It's not complicated!
An you call the ppl unorganised? Bey next i guh hear SP is runnin for PM and he win dred - you fit in wid the politician dem for realll
Well lord dis man a real fool. Everyone upset cus it's jobs dey want yinno, and it's dem same job what chinses look like dey could create and we know our own govt can't create. Den when tings get rough our mp's is act like fool like dis muh bey!
I want smack dis fool with one fact for all he 'get out of the bahamas' bs : our money ein even bahamian!
Dats right man! we have US money and some show show 'bahamian money' just to make tourist feel like they're abroad. **6M tourist a year is our economy.**
Bey y'all take out dese same foreginer dat ppl like to dis so quick out the picture the bahamas would be just like Haiti. YA bey, freddy would be like one a dem boys who get caugh in one boat off exuma - den you seem him ball for Lord and Mercy!
Tough situation. In Jamacian they send the army into troubled neighbourhoods. This increased (and harsher presence) doesn't solve crime however. It can lead to either the residents being abused or made to feel like criminals (JA army patrol with guns UP and finger on the trigger), oor it could lead to criminals moving to other (otherwise peaceful) areas to commit crimes.
The real issue i believe is jobs - we all NEED to survive, some (there are about 11,000 unemployed youth) see the life of crime as their only tangable option
What always kills me is that if Pindling, the child of west indian migrants, was born in the Bahamas today, he would be informed by such policy that he is not Bahamian, like many born Bahamians born after 1973.
However, we all know him as 'father of the nation'
He say half the people in jail ein even convicted. If I'm not mistaken you require bail in such a circumstance, not parole. Then as Mad Hatter say, they think talking a loan agaist updating the justice system is the best idea (Jamacia recently changed ganja possession to a ticketable offence rather than a criminal charge). In a time when all we hear the gov't saying is debt, how they talking out more loan?
I think dis money goin' in someone pocket, and we all looking round like fool and paying VAT to do so
Bey, who believe all this name calling and blame laying... all without any evidence!
"He added that the truth surrounding the mega-resort’s controversial development will be revealed once the “dust has settled”."
Why we can't get truth now? Dey lie so much i sure they ein even know what truth is.
How mitchell could talk when he ein even want 'non-bahamians' in the country, yet his PLP jumpin in bed with nuff Chinese? And it's the Bahamians who fronting the hotel bill ....
Bahamian 'Leadership' has long been a frustration of mine. There seems to be a total lack of transparency and accountability.
"This government is the stupidest government in the entire history of the Bahamas" <- 100%!
People does get mislead with all the mudflinging and political retoric, not realising that it's not a PLP vs. FNM issue, cus all of them are buddy. Infact, all of them are the same ones dem who been screwing the Bahamas from when i was a child. IT's the same damn mp's, same damn people, and dey is get more stupid / greedy as time goes on.
How any bahamian could back up these politicians after these past few years where we seen unabated crime, shameful corruption, and now the new trend of juicing the bahamian people for foolish gov't spending.
Dey talk about more jobs and we does get less jobs, higher cost of living... well damn
TruePeople says...
I am Bahamian Born and raised, of Guyanese decent. My father was a civil engineer, who worked on projects in the Bahamas from the creation of Sandy Port to the building of Atlantis. My mother, who due to circumstances decided it wasn't worth the run around to get a work permit for herself inseatd volunteered in the schools and the hospitals (she worked for **FREE**). Although my family lived in the Bahamas for over 20 years (I being born during that time) we were unable to acquire permanent residence (let alone citizenship, but residence would have been good enough) and as such lived in the country on an annual work permit.
When my father passed away I was made a stateless person (at about the age of 15). The country where i learn everything about life and being alive turn around and tell me not only am i not from there, but that i don't belong.
All i hear about the Bahamas immigration policy is about blockin haitian. My family only ever contribueded to the development of this country - the thanks I have from that?
**I am an exile from my own country.**
But what happened to me? I had to apply for landed immagrant status to Canada, which although a country I was not from at all in any way, dealt with the application in an organized manner allowing me to **actually have somewhere to go when i was kicked out of my own country**
Am i more Guyanese than Bahamian? More Canadian than Bahamaian?
the two country i can live and work - Guyana + Canada
Result - no matter where in the world i go, I am a 'forgiener' because i am labelled as such in my OWN country. Although not the worst outcome from the current system in the bahamas, **know that it's bahamians who these policies really hurt, not forgieners.**
On Concern policy could lead to statelessness
Posted 15 July 2015, 10:44 a.m. Suggest removal
TruePeople says...
like well mudda tek sic sey, Canada passport internationally in less than three weeks. Bey I can tell you in Canada, regualr renewal, less than a week - bey a couple days you have your thing - dats normal time.
Dats if it's last minute, expired, whatever, it don't matter! it's a renewal! It's not complicated!
An you call the ppl unorganised?
Bey next i guh hear SP is runnin for PM and he win dred - you fit in wid the politician dem for realll
On $200 to beat the passport backlog
Posted 15 July 2015, 10:20 a.m. Suggest removal
TruePeople says...
Well lord dis man a real fool.
Everyone upset cus it's jobs dey want yinno, and it's dem same job what chinses look like dey could create and we know our own govt can't create.
Den when tings get rough our mp's is act like fool like dis muh bey!
I want smack dis fool with one fact for all he 'get out of the bahamas' bs : our money ein even bahamian!
Dats right man! we have US money and some show show 'bahamian money' just to make tourist feel like they're abroad. **6M tourist a year is our economy.**
Bey y'all take out dese same foreginer dat ppl like to dis so quick out the picture the bahamas would be just like Haiti. YA bey, freddy would be like one a dem boys who get caugh in one boat off exuma - den you seem him ball for Lord and Mercy!
On Mitchell: Izmirlian would have been thrown out of country in the past
Posted 15 July 2015, 10:10 a.m. Suggest removal
TruePeople says...
Tough situation. In Jamacian they send the army into troubled neighbourhoods. This increased (and harsher presence) doesn't solve crime however. It can lead to either the residents being abused or made to feel like criminals (JA army patrol with guns UP and finger on the trigger), oor it could lead to criminals moving to other (otherwise peaceful) areas to commit crimes.
The real issue i believe is jobs - we all NEED to survive, some (there are about 11,000 unemployed youth) see the life of crime as their only tangable option
On Nassau Village residents tell of their fear of crime
Posted 15 July 2015, 9:47 a.m. Suggest removal
TruePeople says...
What always kills me is that if Pindling, the child of west indian migrants, was born in the Bahamas today, he would be informed by such policy that he is not Bahamian, like many born Bahamians born after 1973.
However, we all know him as 'father of the nation'
Politics is some hypocrits huh
On TOUGH CALL: The immigration question
Posted 13 July 2015, 10:01 a.m. Suggest removal
TruePeople says...
11,000 without job, 1500 in jail, and gov't taking next $20m loan to start a parole system?
In Feburary Perry say JunkCarn would make the Bahamas $30m..... but we still ein got money or jobs... muh bey...
On 11,000 youth jobless on New Providence
Posted 9 July 2015, 3:01 p.m. Suggest removal
TruePeople says...
He say half the people in jail ein even convicted. If I'm not mistaken you require bail in such a circumstance, not parole.
Then as Mad Hatter say, they think talking a loan agaist updating the justice system is the best idea (Jamacia recently changed ganja possession to a ticketable offence rather than a criminal charge).
In a time when all we hear the gov't saying is debt, how they talking out more loan?
I think dis money goin' in someone pocket, and we all looking round like fool and paying VAT to do so
On $20m loan granted to aid access to parole
Posted 9 July 2015, 2:53 p.m. Suggest removal
TruePeople says...
Bey, who believe all this name calling and blame laying... all without any evidence!
"He added that the truth surrounding the mega-resort’s controversial development will be revealed once the “dust has settled”."
Why we can't get truth now? Dey lie so much i sure they ein even know what truth is.
How mitchell could talk when he ein even want 'non-bahamians' in the country, yet his PLP jumpin in bed with nuff Chinese? And it's the Bahamians who fronting the hotel bill ....
On Mitchell says bankruptcy filing was ‘act of unfairness’
Posted 6 July 2015, 2:40 p.m. Suggest removal
TruePeople says...
Bahamian 'Leadership' has long been a frustration of mine. There seems to be a total lack of transparency and accountability.
"This government is the stupidest government in the entire history of the Bahamas" <- 100%!
People does get mislead with all the mudflinging and political retoric, not realising that it's not a PLP vs. FNM issue, cus all of them are buddy. Infact, all of them are the same ones dem who been screwing the Bahamas from when i was a child. IT's the same damn mp's, same damn people, and dey is get more stupid / greedy as time goes on.
How any bahamian could back up these politicians after these past few years where we seen unabated crime, shameful corruption, and now the new trend of juicing the bahamian people for foolish gov't spending.
Dey talk about more jobs and we does get less jobs, higher cost of living... well damn
On Crossing bridge to Paradise Island to cost you eight cents more - in VAT!
Posted 6 July 2015, 2:34 p.m. Suggest removal