Very sad. The article needs to have the inevitable quick response info which all persons, Agencies, Church groups, Church leaders, neighbours, community leaders, Charitable organizations publish phone Contact numbers and places where money donations be made to bank accounts, donations of immediate supplies be made etc.

Disgraceful. How in da world the salaried employed NIB for years suing NIB contributors fer not paying NIB dues......an then using contributors money, to purchase these income producing yeild on investments properties and let them run done an rotten.

People should be fired especially when it seems NIB needing for way some time before now... to have NIBcontributors go up of their NIBcontributions to bolster up the ability for benefits to continue way in the future. Photographs showing where peoples NIB contributiong going is quite revealing over years as govts come an go.

Muddoes, if even the NIB had rented the yard for someone to sell coconut water an jelly it would have least been one cent more muchless millions ...even one coconut which would be planted giving the people one coconut tree than before with coconuts now bearing..... than than earning nothing for years an years.

All banks ought to know of the "skimming" of cards by criminals. It is the seems normal procedure for banks to do the inevitable procedure of using the banks battery of lawyers and financial deep pockets to take these cases to overwhelm the customers.

Kudos to Ms. Pinder for having ability to go the distance win the case.

It seems obvious of culprits bank photographs ibank surveillance cameras illegally withdrawing from the account are the guilty ones. The bank personnel involved should be fired and not allowed to be in financial services industry and the banking juggernauts should be given a hefty fine for the wronged actions to customer.

Construction Building Agencies with Architects, Engineers, Surveyors and others must have rules and regualtions enforced or implemented to stop the lawlessness which goes on and in the poor constriction of structures at risk to human lives.

The Authorities must seek out the persons involved in the unauthorized putting together of materials to form structures for not legally approved, but designated human habitation and revoke Licence and label persons from engaging from being in the construction business for years. The building materials usually stamped with store origins can also be traced to stores and this massive ongoing illegal operations require store owners to liase with Building law authorities of materials going into this illegally constructed structures for human abode. and in cases seems even usually transported by stores straight to sites without Building Permit notice.

This rampant ongoing lawlessness of the putting together of building materials to form illegal shelters for human hhabitation must be regulated, especially in light of Bahamas nation facing increased hurricane ferocity and dangerous conditions affecting them.. Good, Authorities approved constructed homes for human habitation is more important in saving lives.

Very good JohnQ.

You have brought up a very important issue. Climate Changes and sea levels rising brings salt water into common drilled wells used with electric pumps and pressure containment tanks. There should be encouragements going back to the cisterns to be built into the housing structures and gutters on ends od roofs channeling rain water into cisterns/water tanks.

Good for Mr. Smith to be the persistent lawyer of some 3,000 ? Bahamian lawyersto be the one to find anyting at all periods on the issues relatin to persons of Haitian backgrounds.

What he should have be BETTER done is to make efforts to educate the persons about the laws that repeatedly and repeatedly an repeatedly kept on being broken, the horrid travelling in horribly overladen sloops without safety equipment, the illegal human trafficking which never have a boat captain, the Bahamas salaried authorities bizarely unable to find the employers of illegal status ones but manages to locate hundreds annually and repatriate them to Haiti , years dat the authorities put small notices in papers for public to comment on person without the photo which since changed, the authorities repeating annually work permits for majority of some 20,000 ? particular category maid, gardenor, housekeeper etc at minimum wage levels whichin Bahamians done know its not living level AND seems to do so until these they have grandchildren and the list goes on..... The BETTER solution, if he can solicit donations per every word spoken it would by now be enough to purchase an entire hotel to accomodate all aggrieved ones with legal status better structually safer humane accomodations. The nation should done learn of hurricane damages to illegal poor constructed structures.

Chillrens and adults spectators should not be allowed on demolition sites! Offically designated personnel must be wearing proper footwear clothing, masks, construction hats etc etc. especially in vicinity of falling debris, items snapping disintegrating, pieces of wood, metal, shards of broken glass etc. Getting demolition done and removal of debris, costs a lot of money to get accomplished and culprits must be found and charged.

Somewhere in these operations there must be persons or culprits responsible for illegal construction, and da bills for be given to them along with jail times. Taxpayers in the entire Bahamas should not be solely responsible to pay the bill, and culprits getting off of these illegally repeated illegally shantytown construction actions. Bill the culprits and throw them in jail where they are guarranteed a roof over their heads.

While in laissez faire free enterprise society, it is likely a business compliance health rating come along to have ratings on businesses ...and customers will just choose where to spend their money. Simple!

All dese govt departments engages in this to arrest only 3 Haitians caught breaking law, in bus, and done breaching the law borders of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, an everybody done know that during the December time, just 5 ive months ago, there are usually more than just just only 3 men in a boat travelling all the way from Haiti. More questioning of these 3 males should be done instead of minor fines and complimentary BahamasAir ? plane tickets back to Haiti.