Dear Cedric

I do not contest your opinion on the negative affects of Marijuana on young minds. The 500 lb gorilla in the room is the "war on drugs". Since the 70's, an unimaginable amount of resources have been thrown at the crusade against the use of dangerous drugs. 50 years and billions and billions of dollars have been spent. Wasted. Countless people locked up and thrown away the key. Many guilty, many just because they are poor and black. Trillions of dollars seized. Entire shifts in international banking compliance laws around the world. The wider population's civil rights have been eroded. I could go on and on and the global drug problem just gets worse and worse. Even when the government forces have small victories like diminishing the supply of Extacy on the streets by making it harder to get the raw materials to produce it - the drug dealers just make more dangerous synthetic versions in its place. Instead of MDMA its a cocktail of methamphet and fentanyl. Instead of being harmful it is now downright lethal.
So I am sorry but it is so easy to SAY NO to drugs but they are here, all around us. Cocaine has never been more prevalent and so cheap on the streets of Nassau than right now. High grade pot is flooding into this country from all directions including the USA now. So what is continuing to do the same thing that we have been doing going to achieve? Should we lock more kids up. Execute dealers for selling a single joint. Forego more of our civil rights so that people who want to smoke pot can't smoke pot. I don't really know what the answer is but doing the same thing for another 50 years and hoping the problem will fix itself is madness.
In Portugal, they tried something crazy. They legalized all drugs and diverted all of the funds that were being spent on the war, towards healing and reintegrating addicts back into society - and it is working. This approach is factually decreasing that countries drug problems. Now that has got to be an honest approach

what about all of the foreign building contractors and subcontractors that have their own business here because Bahamian Lawyers are fronting for them. The industry is getting so overrun with fly-by-night foreigners competing for every bit that the people fronting are complaining about how many people being fronted. I'm talking about independant general contractors, cabinet makers, painters....

The reality is that it is so much easier for politicians to just keep imagining up new laws and getting them passed when they have the majority in parliament - without ever having to go back and check on the old ones they made. Check whether they work or not, or if they are getting abused.

Just hoping one day that instead of adding more rules, the head of immigration one day asks the question why a lawyer on Shirley St has 15 work permits for 15 different construction companies, that have only been in business for a year ?? When your average small-time Bahamian builder would get laughed off of Hawkins Hill if they applied to get a permit for a foreign business partner

I want to know if it really took a room full of Bahamian Politicians to come up with this one? This is just another mind-numbing example of poor leadership. The cost of living has doubled in the Bahamas in the last ten years and the average worker is earning less now than they were in 2009. Do Ya think that a new law to have work permit holders forcibly removed after seven years (from now) is going to have a positive impact on us average voters livelihood? Hey Joe, you may get a job in seven years, unless they hire the next foriegner of course. Or do you think foreign investors appreciate these poorly thought out brain farts that jeopardize their hard earned and already risky investments in this country? My goodness. The policy does not make political or financial sense and it usually takes people about 20 years to get citizenship (if they lucky) so it barely even falls into the paranoid xenophobe arena.

How much longer are we all going to keep pretending that globalization is not going to affect us so long as we keep sticking our heads in the sand and keep telling ourselves it's better here without foreigners

These small minded and gutless tweaks to the immigration laws must be a joke

yes, Regardless. I just brought some stuff in and the landing charges and various add-on port fees were equivalent to 200% of the actual shipping charges. Completely out of control monopoly

the poor guy must have gotten suckered into one of those phishing scam emails.

"I am the ex-prime minister of the Bahamas. If you bring me $90,000 worth of heroin, I will give you $3.5m dollars"

Be interesting to see how this will affect the political elite and their Piggy-Bank of the Bahamas

Most of you all are an embarrassment to message boards. We had an unfortunate plane crash that is ultimately 110% the responsibility of the pilot of the airplane. For those of us that know better, the hard-working members of the police force, RBDF, Basra and the US Coast Guard were out there doing the best they could with the resources they have and God help us all if Gina Knowles is going to tell us all how an aviation crash investigation is supposed to begin or end. My lordy, people on here talking about the white master's enslavement and majority rule corruption. The man crashed his plane into the sea so hard it broke in to little pieces and you think the government should bring him back to life ? That is what is really wrong !

The reality is that the Chinese Government (and their state-owned and controlled corporations) are not here as sun-loving tourists or altruist philanthropists. They have 1.4 billion people back home that need money and food and they are in the Bahamas to get as much of ours as they possibly can....... and the easiest and quickest way for them to do that is to corrupt and out-maneuver some dumb a... hick politician

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Homemade boat, poorly trained captain and crew, unsafe handling and storage of fuel, poorly installed wiring, a bilge full of fumes and one little spark and she goes kaboom. Anyone who has a clue about boats knows it is that simple