Right! And I suppose the 40+ students to a single teacher in the average classroom in our public education system is also not due to the overwhelming numbers of children of Haitian nationals who have illegally entered our country.

You're totally off base TigerB, as are most highly corrupt people. If Minnis allows the proposed Oban project to proceed or for that 'pump and dump' penny stock company (Bahamas Petroleum Company PLC) to begin exploratory drilling for oil in Bahamian waters, then he may as well call it quits as a politician because no sane 'true' Bahamian would ever cast their vote for him again. Minnis would be announcing to the entire world his very own self-certication as a politician steeped in quid pro quo corruption if he allows either of these two oil-related endeavors to proceed against the backdrop of the Equinor/Statoil environmental disaster.

The very disingenious accusations of being xenophobic are nothing but a ruse or red herring designed to distract weaker minds from the most serious problem plaguing our small nation today - the invasion of the Bahamas by overwhelming and unsustainable numbers of illegal Haitian aliens. 'True' Bahamians know that such accusations should be allowed to fall on deaf ears because of our God-given right and duty to protect for ourselves and future generations of 'true' Bahamians our heritage, culture, standard of living and overall quality and way of life. That's the patriotic thing for all of us 'true' Bahamians to do and we need to make sure all of our elected government officials understand that they were elected by the Bahamian people to represent the interests of the Bahamian people. It's as simple as that.

Your last sentence wrongfully implies that there are only a ***few*** illegal Haitian aliens in our country. That's simply not true. There are many thousands of them, and even thousands more who have fraudulently obtained falsified paper work of one kind or another from corrupt immigration officials and other corrupt government officials. We are talking tens of thousands - not a few!

You've got it all wrong. The initial costs of joining and the ongoing costs of being in the WTO greatly outweigh the benefits in the case of smaller nations like ours with predominantly service based economies. Only the lawyers would get much richer from various local and foreign enterprises suing our government for not ensuring or facilitating compliance with very onerous WTO requirements. Our government would need to establish an entirely new ministry with hoards of new government employees - it would aptly be named The Ministry for All Things WTO Related - and we already over burdened taxpayers would have to pay for it all.

Someone told me a shouting radio talk show imbecile by the name of Darold Miller or Darrell Millar (sp?) was calling for all illegal Haitian aliens throughout the Bahamas to quickly visit our immigration department where they would be ***guaranteed*** to receive official papers evidencing that they have been "regularized" and thereby escape deportation. Just who does this radio talk show idiot think he is??!! Or does he know something the vast majority of us 'true' Bahamians haven't been told by the very corrupt Minnis-led FNM government?

Churches / religions that choose to inject themselves into local politics by outrightly supporting one group of politicans over another, or one political party or political movement over another should have all of their tax exemptions withdrawn / removed, i.e they should be required to pay business license fees, real property tax, etc., etc. without exception.

Our very corrupt Minnis-led FNM government has only reported 112 illegal Haitian aliens deported since Dorian. This is absurd! Hubert Minnis, Carl Bethel, Darren Henfield, Johnson and Campbell don't dare tell us 'true' Bahamians how many illegal Haitian aliens have been wrongfully "regularized" since Dorian, i.e. given official papers by our department of immigration, so that they can wrongfully escape deportation. Why are these most deceitful politicians telling 'true' Bahamians one thing in public while doing an entirely different thing behind their backs??!! What's happening here is treasonous, nothing but a defiant betrayal of all 'true' Bahamians.

I always knew Minnis was one dumb medical doctor.

Western Atlantic's medical school business model will be no different than Ross University's medical school business model. In fact the CEO of Western Atlantic who sign the Heads of Agreement is (or was until recently) the Vice-Dean of Ross university's school of medicine.

These third rate medical schools are run by astute businessmen and lawyers in the U.S. who have realized that a lucrative niche market exists among third world countries in the Caribbean that cannot retain, attract or afford first rate medical doctors who have trained at better known and better resourced medical schools in the developed countries. The promoters and organizors of these third rate medical schools make out like bandits because they know just how desperate governments in the Caribbean are for healthcare resources and that these third world governments will actually fund their medical school programs and provide their medical students with generous scholarships.

It's a win-win situation for the desperate Caribbean country governments and the greedy promoters and organizors of the third rate medical schools because the graduates are literally trapped in the Caribbean, i.e. unqualified to practice medicine in the more lucrutive market places in the developed countries. The losers are the graduates who think they are qualified medical doctors and the patients throughout the Caribbean that they may come to treat for a serious ailment. Oh well, it is what it is.

The political careers of Hubert Minnis, Darren Henfield, Elsworth Johnson, Frankie Campbell and Carl Bethel will speedily come to an end if they continue providing only lip service to our country's illegal alien problem. The vast majority of Bahamians want to see evidence of sustained round ups and deportations, with regular monthly reporting of the actual numbers deported. In addition to reporting the total number deported each month, the government should also report the total number rounded up for the month as well as the the total number of new arrivals intercepted and apprehended at sea by the RBDF. All of this information should be published monthly in The Tribune and the Nassau Guardian so that we, the Bahamian people, know that our government is actually enforcing our immigration laws and not just giving us the kind of lip service we have been receiving for decades. And Turnquest should be able show in our country's national budgets and financial statements the taxpayers' funds annually set aside and annual spent on rounding up, intercepting and deporting illegal aliens.