Respect to you. You sound an awful like a Jamaican that I know that used to share fry barracuda with me when the Jamaicans come to play cricket under da fort. I actually have a different view of illegals. We are all human capital of some sort, and those that try a different place have gumption -- something a lot of other people don't have. They are risk-takers. That means they are goal oriented, generally hard workers, and have the cognitive abilities to weigh risk/reward and keep the eyes on da prize. It is those people that you want as human capital in nation-building. The unwashed see them as foreign scum. I een fit as a Jeezus beater, but I am a lot more christian than those psalm-singing donkeys here. If we are all god's chirren, then deys one of us. Folks gats to stick together to advance.

True dat. Dangerous. Almost as dangerous as going for square grouper with Pedro.

Because the majority of remittances go through two establishments owned by Bahamians. One on Fredrick Street and other one is run by a Pindling who used to be near the British Colonial Hilton -- the poof scion.

And Pindling was a Yardie, but not a real Yardie. He was a Haitian Yardie named Pendelaine. And quite light on the loafers too.

This gentleman has it right. There should be no arbitrary amount if the business can come in and operate successfully. The economic offset will be huge. And let's take the politics and training bullsh*t out of the equation. The goal of any business is not to train Bahamians -- it is to make money. If a business needs to import ALL of their workers, they should be able to.

Business is very Darwinian -- survival of the fittest and most efficient. The political donkeys do not realise how much it costs to transplant a foreign worker. It is a huge drain on capital. If it makes sense to use Bahamians, they will. Simply because it is good economics. If the path to profitability is without Bahamians, so be it. A viable successful business is worth its weight in gold if it operates in the local economy. These businesses aren't buying Bahamian patrimony, like the hilltops and beaches that we sold to the hospitality industry. They are not getting Crown land. They just want a frigging office, a bank account and the freedom to make money.

The trouble is, in spite of others think, you cannot simply train Bahamians or others for that matter in a year or two. Nothing replaces several years of experience in a job -- especially a job in the knowledge industry.

Either we open our doors and let the business sunshine enter or we build walls, live in our own declining cesspit and throw shiite at each other. The trouble is, we have gotten good at the latter, and we don't mind the smell anymore.

This is news ????????

The elephant in the room, is how the government treats businessmen, specifically how it stole Baha Mar from Sarkis Izmirlian. Why would any businessman think that setting up in the Bahamas is a good deal with its poor ease of doing business, archaic laws and lack of consumer rights?

Your writing style reminds me of my uncle. When he has to write a letter to someone that he doesn't know, or someone in a government agency, he thinks that he must adopt a certain style.

*In reference to the matter of which I am writing about, of which topic I will disclose in detail in this letter, although it has clarity enough as to why I must address this, I first must make the following introductory remarks irrespective of whether you understand the context of aforesaid subject matter which is to be expounded on further after I make my introductory point as stated.*

FYI: Ignorance is a deprived state of worldview, not a lack of grammar.

The government doesn't know how to act fast and the Port Authority is too greedy to do any good. Nothing will come out of the Tech Hub initiative. All talk and no action.

The technology features described here are not possible with the current state of technology. It is all BS.