59,000 given temporary refuge and over the 8 years they have 27,000 children who are US citizens.
Given the math can you imagine over the last 40 years in the Bahamas how many children and schools and money on medical facilities was spent while we have heard every political view but yet to see one employer charged, the second person charged for harbouring, the second human trafficker etc
The only politicians with a solution seem to be the DNA but they cant win a seat.

1.3 billion extracted by the govt in VAT.
What was questioned at the time of implementing the additional burden, paperwork, printer ink, time liningup at the bank, accounting etc was an investigation to see whether the employers of businesses was mot raising their prices to incorporate these costs and in actual increase to the consumers was the 7.5% plus the office expenses and perhaps even a small profit increase?
For instance how many would not want to not round out the prices for goods and services on an already rounded price to again round it off to avoid using coins inconvenient for all??? Or the few I think like the papers in taking a loss by not charging $1.075 cents.

While the dead may have received, it is we the taxpaying living who must question millions of taxpayers moneys spent.
As for Boatd members, yes we have seen the transparency in many entities like the Bank of the Bahamas, but what about the accountability???
Investigations are needed, into the last 162 millions injected, how much money was the appraisal value of buildings and how much was the interest??? Are we the taxpayer paying for the interest these loans accjmulated that they themselves could not recover???

As the CEO/Prime Minister he must be given credit as it must have taken a hellava set of fortitude to come out and say that he changed his mind and likely loose some goodwill stock by this gutsy admission.
Prefer anyday to have a politician come out and admit than to have to listen to double talk, moral manoeuvering, beat around the bush, plausible denialibility and any number of attempts to not do what they said.
While you may have spent some goodwill you would have also gained some.

For all those illegals apprehended Mon 28, Tues 57, Wed30,Thurs 41 and Friday 35. When will the homeowners be charged $10,000 or given 5 yrs in jail or both?? - according to the Immigration Act section (A) amended May 5, 2015.
Furthermore, who will be charged and/or jailed If some have been squatting on govt land?? No one charged yet it seems for sheltering them according to the law.and some 175 caught.

The banks customer loan debt service ratios of a max of 45% of salary for all loan payments and 55% for the applicant to live has been used since the last 25 years and audited yearly by accountants paid by the banks despite the cost of living to survive on the remaining 55% has every grocery ,food, light bill, shoes, clothing, corned beef increasing in price over the last 25 years.

Our Prime Minister of our beloved Bahamaland needs to have a conversation with his Ministries in that one rescinded previous govt policy to now open free education to all in schools and the other where illegal migrants are arrested with their Bahamian born children 5 years old and 2 years old not yet 18 years old, and on the other ministry of Health whrre children of different nationalities are born by illegals and registered by govt with follow up checks into immunizations by illigal migrant parent etc , and also the ministry where an illegal can be here undetected for at 5 years, and the other ministry where the employer is likely to have employed the illegal migrant, and the ministry where the illegal migrant is living sheltered, aided, abbetted by whom in an illegal shanty town ??, and another ministry if they have a drivers licence, and another ministry if they have an ATM card operating an illegal bank account and the ministry which liases with the Haitian Ambassador on their citizens. Phew lots of ministries involved here. Plus the Bahamian or Haitian Church ministry, did they baptise children and have the illegal migrant patent signing national govt papers for church records??
Conversations must start in the govt and then after have the conversation on pay raise.

Thank God for Ronnie Butler. Tru tru Bahamian icon. RIP.

School permit policy has been recinded by the new govt which mrans all children are entitled to a free education.
This is why illegals are encouraged to bring kids or have anchor kids and hide for years into a system for yeats as we the vat taxpayers pay. And we elect whosever is talking about doing something only to get goosied.
They have mobility, churches, human rights activists, lawyers, church pastor advocayes, no building permit shanty towns, have my Bahamas listed as the second language being Creole, squatting on private land in huge Colonies in Abaco, Haitian language on Bahamian public services - call complaints BTC, and now again free education, 200 millon new boats etc
We now have more taxes on the horizon to pay for salary increases and we the prople still gettin goosied and the DNA silent on how they used to say the power of the people is greater than the people in power.
Emac you need to start a political party.

While the Bahamas govt Minisrty says all children entitled to an education the other govt dept says that children belong to their illegal migrant parents who will be deported as they have broken the Constitutional laws of the country.
It is double talk policies like these which confuse and encourage illegal migration where the illegal parent must survive with help and by perfected underground means illegal shanty towns etc to cleverly hide them from Security forces to apprehend them. Children costs money to raise, parents to teach values, broughtupsy, happy livrs, ask any parent.
Just like the Elian Gonzalvez Cuban boyno matter his nationality, he belongs to his parent.