Very good points.

What is critically needed is the schooling of Bahamians, is that the rights and freedoms which was struggled for by their parents and grandparents for which Bahamians enjoy, These freedoms and rights which Bahamians are taken for granted should be reinforced in selecting books like George Orwell's Animal Farm in schooling Bahamian students.

Thank you Uncle Sam for rescuing 166 people in Bahamian waters and more than 2,400 migrants who have illegally entered our sovereign Bahamaland borders in unseaworthy vessels..

Shouldn't you by now after all these years of where the VAT gone?......isn't it quite obvious a government agency is involved. lol

Many years ago many Cubans travelling abroad would try to defect and lots of ballet dancers and baseball players would do so.

The Cuban government obviously got smart for the survival of their communist regime and imposed a law to punish the defectors from returning for about 8 years to prevent any contact with their Cuban and friends. In addition to the punishment, the remaining families and friends of the defectors have to cope with the sigma of living in the Cuban communist controlled state.

It is naive for countries to not realize the the utter desperate measures to see Cubans intercepted by non Cuban vessels or photographed by planes in the waters trying to flee highly police controlled communist Cuba with many in makeshift inner rubber inflated rubber tube rafts. Extremely dangerous trying to travel through shark infested waters, limited drinking water, hot sun, through Bahamian waters Cay Sal area and to be lucky the currents float them to the US.

After years of Cubans trying to escape the confines of the evil communist state and the returning of Cubans leaving the country, it would seen obvious there must be extremely well enforced state measures in place to ensure its citizens return and with any amount of US hard currency for the continuance of the evil repressive communist regime over its population.

Yes.

the beginnings of government officials representing the nation starts with the individual having a good knowledge of the Constitution with is preamble being guided by Christian principles. Persons furthermore takes their oaths and places their hand on the Bible.

It should be fully aware that the the Communists guns, killing people who oppose them, jailing opponents, victimizations and repressions of the rights of the people have been documented. Opposite to the beliefs of Bahamians, Communists officials do not have Bibles in their hands nor allow religion.

Soon Bahamians will be reflecting on the Remembrance Day of our highly patriotic dutiful Bahamian sailors when our Bahamian Defence Force was doing their duties on their Bahamian naval vessel the Flamingo in protecting our beloved Bahamaland from invading Cuban criminals on Cuban vessels with 3,000 lbs stolen Bahamian resources.

They Cubans called their government ant their military Mig jet planes with big bullets starting gunning down our boat with its 19 crew and Bahamian flag clearly on top mast on our vessel. Even though the boat started sinking, the Cuban planes kept on shooting. Even our fellow Bahamian sailors was swimming to put distance from the sinking vessel the Cuban jet planes kept on shooting big bullets at our sailors in their backs. Our sailors, our brothers, our family Sturrup, Smith, Tucker and Williams bodies was never recovered.

Not only after murdering our Bahamian sailors in such atrocious manner, the Cuban planes then went on in our Bahamian territory clearly known as Bahamian islands and terriorized our families and citizens on Ragged Island without regard to notifying our Bahamian authorities of what is happening.

All Bahamians must have a look at the paintings depicting the horrible killings of our brothers by the Cuban government, as our Bahamian brothers and Flamingo patrol boat crew were on duty in their employed government duties and protection of our beloved Bahamaland.

Political asylum, perhaps not but a residency system based on skill levels and other points. A point should be for period of work location to family islands with housing for the approved resident medical personnel.

On the amounts of people involved from what seems to be the present levels currently employed in the Bahamas, seems to be a few hundred Cubans compared to the some 30,000 ? workers who annually seek to renew work permits and only some 12,000 have permits renewed.

Authorities need to publish these work permit data. No corrupt govt official(s) should not be a part of a system where humans, individually or in groups are rented out to other countries for a money price decided between one controlling govt official and another country's govt official especially when a democracy based constitution of freedoms and human rights as humans and government is a party.

Possible solution.

In light of the crises and the root of the issues going to the continuing attachment to communist regimes versus the democratic based regimes seems to be at least offer Political Asylum to these Cuban medical personnel and the teachers.

There are some 24,000 Cuban medical personnel in some 56 foreign countries filling critical gaps in those countries, should at least offered Political Asylum to remain and bring their immediate families to live democratic countries and of course their wages remain in those countries.

Cuba communist government from inception has been spreading its evil communist ideology to other countries.

The spreading of its communist views was through its various forms of assistances and in support of its communist repression of the population.

Some of the past incursions into other countries assistance was like the support and construction of a long runway capable for heavy military use aircraft on the tiny Grenada island and leader Mr. Bishop who did not fare too well, another incursion was into Angola with its communist troops which did not fare too well, other was in Guyana with its main communist backer Russia and influences leading to chaos in taking over enterprises as state businesses. Support and communist influences in numbers of central american countries with communist groups forever fighting governments creating havoc with peoples lives. No country should be furthering the evil communist countries with a record of repressing peoples rights, seizing peoples properties for the state and the denial fundamental rights of freedoms like those in the free world enjoy.

Current example of communist ideology in action is like Ukraine, one of the largest grain producing nation supplying grains to the world's struggling nations being deciminated by neighbouring communist nation.

Given the visual increasing signs of more and more and more Bahamians are on the streets begging, pleading for help, many on the streets with cardboard signs written pleas for help, many on the streets in dirty clothing with dark dirt all over, some on those lying on the street corners by Boat Alley wrapped up in blanket sleeping, one sleeping in a store lobby area right by Market st. and Wulff rd., number by the Boyd rd, numbers by Shirley st and other places.

Bahamians are in need of help and in growing numbers and obvious for those who can be seen on the streets there should be obvious that there are many who are not on the streets also needing help and other various forms of help.

Extremely sad to read this story. May he rest in peace.