I had the same thought. Sad.

Lets just fix the problem. Find the file and DENY her citizenship and then deport her azz!!

She's not entitled to any darned thing!

Actually, that's the issue with our stupid Constitution. It does not say the word "legal" and the Haitians have been taking advantage of if from creation to pop out babies and bring their bastard kids here for a free education all at out expense (thank God for a dumb Minister of Education who has now entrenched the right) and then assert a right to citizenship at 18.

We can cry blood and they will not fix it. Welcome to the modern day Baha-Haiti! Better yet, welcome to HAITI!!

All this carrying on for "papers" (in a very misleading headline a few weeks back, I might add) and they don't even have the money to get the treatment. I mean, why fool the public into believing that you want to go for treatment but the Bahamas Government would not give you the proper papers to travel when clearly you don't even have the money, even with the darn papers!

Opinions are like ars-wholes. Errybody gat one.

Kiss my opinion - said no one ever!

So the now "legal" web houses are complaining that the "illegal" web houses are taking advantage of the tax levy and need to be shut down. So before the PLP got paid off and made them "legal", what were they? I guess they were always operating within the law, then?

We gat all kinda mouth now that we legal and when there was an outcry to shut them down for years while they were operating "illegally" nothing was done. So now that they gat some "illegal" competition and it's now an issue????

You just can't make this stuff up! :-))

Yep. That's them in a nutshell. Everyone is in their pocket, particularly the Government officials. very very shady business people.

The only thing that gets their attention or stops them is a lawsuit - fact!

I read the letter from the Lyford Cay Association in its entirety and I do agree that the move to take away the word ‘seasonal’ from the Real Property Tax Act was not well thought out. The removal of the word allows a foreigner to be taxed at the full rate even if he’s only in occupation of his home for less than 3 months in a year. We all know that most of these persons are indeed ‘snowbirds’ and only in occupation of their homies for about 3 months or less (usually during the winter season) in any year. How do you now proceed to imply that they are in occupation for 6 months and then tax them at the full rate for multimillion dollar homes, when the act defines the home as a ‘second home’ which clearly means that they are residing elsewhere and this is not their main home.

In its haste to tax everything and everyone into oblivion Turnquest and his team clearly did not think this through and with the singlet stroke of the pen were seeking to kill the ‘second home market’ which attracts the wealthy to our shores.

Glad to see somebody woke up and reversed this.

Cas - I find your comments to be spot on.... nothing disturbing about it all. The only disturbing thing is how these people continue to rape the system and would do anything for a precious Bahamian passport all while continuing to swear allegiance to a country most have never been to or wouldn't go if they were paid to. Trying to evoke sympathy for papers and a newspaper that fuels it. You can't make this stuff up

Enough with the sympathy card. So she's entitled to expedited citizenship just because she is sick? There are other options. Go get a Haitian passport (which you are entitled to) or go to another country where you can legally travel for help. America is not the be all end all and further the Americans turn them down for visas because they know if they are this young they will migrate and not come back. What guarantee does she have anyway that the Americans will even give her a visa to travel even with a Bahamian passport. Sounds like they just want the passport.