Excellent points John.

By moving focus from the Pandemic, securing vaccines, continuous evaluation of protocols including the need to reimplement negative antigen tests for all persons entering the Country may not end well.

Did you see the video on social media of the partying last night outside a major resort? No one wearing mask in close proximity to each other, only 15% of population vaccinated.

Reward says we will reach heard immunity in August! Let’s pray he is right.

Good points baclarke.

Everyone arriving into the country should have at least a negative antigen test until 70% of our population are vaccinated.

The Delta variant is being carried by asymptotic vacinnated ppl and spreads quickly through the 85% of our population which are not vaccinated at all.

...sadly in our rush to independence and our hastily drafted constitution, local government, substantive checks and balances leaving parliament severely subservient to the executive and the executive subservient to the PM, we have the mess we have today.

Incapable DDK.

You can just read their resumes, look at their education and the narrowness of their exposure and experiences and it’s no wonder we are poorly governed.

You are absolutely correct Bonefish.

This is exactly how the flawed Westminster system works with no fixed election dates or term limits and no local government.

So, to sum up, we have no Census in 2020, we have no new Voters Register in 2021, the constituencies are unbalanced/non proportional because we have no idea where the ppl are, the Boundaries Commission sent an unsigned report to the Governor without first sending it to the PM, thousands of ppl moved from Abaco and Freeport to Nassau but can't change constituencies because you need proof of residency like basic passports and utility bills (washed away in the flood)....we don't need an election until May 2022, if they would remove the focus from the election we could get out a new voters register and complete the census, maybe focus on covid and prepare for Dorian 2.

Bahamians are being kept in constant state of apprehension between Covid, election, emergency laws, Covid Delta Variant possibly being brought into the Bahamas by symptomatic visitors which haven't been tested, PMH full, no more first dosses of vaccinations, only 10% of population having 2 doses of vaccines.

Even if you go to large political rally and you don't have your vaccination ID you could be in big trouble with the law.

So the opposition parties are crushed.

Where is the transparency in this entire process.

When you look at it from a distance it almost seems intentional...but to what end? What is the government trying to achieve?

Good points Tribanon.

We already had 2 referendums on the citizenship these same citizenship issues and attempting to give equal rights to women. One referendum under the PLP and another under the FNM.

The Bahamian ppl have soundly rejected equal rights for women and an advanced society concept of birth citizenship.

So why is everyone complaining about 100,000 undocumented ppl and the extremely high levels of crime?

We have the society we deserve.

Now if we could just lift the Emergency Laws for a couple of days with the 1990 Census and 2007 voters list.

Once the elections is held we can reimplement Emergency Laws so we can stamp out Covid through lock downs.

As Bahamians we really need to behave ourselves otherwise we will continue to get punished.

Thanks DWW.

I agree with you.

There is a real hatred at all levels of society in the Bahamas against Haitians born in the Bahamas with one Bahamian parent.

We call ourselves a Christian Country but we only want “pure Bahamians” - those born inside of wedlock to a Bahamian citizen.

Good luck with squaring that against a realty of 90% of the babies being born in the Bahamas are illegitimate.

So we can argue in Courts with learned QCs and judges interpreting an out dated and prejudiced Constitution against women / it will not change the reality on the ground - undocumented residents breed criminals.

In the absence of a census in 2020 and a new voters register, lets make a best efforts guess of the size of citizenship problem.

Regardless if you are pro or con citizenship for every person born in the Bahamas (like most advanced nations).

Let say 10% of the population doesn't have status, ie. "illegal". So that's 40,000 persons (10% of 400,000). We understand that 9 out of 10 babies born at PMH are out of wedlock.

Independence was in 1973, so there are 3 generations of ppl born since then.

So I would calculate about 100,000 in the Bahamas don't have any status. 40,000 undocumented x 50% mothers x 2.5 children x 3 generations discounted by 50% because its a really bad estimate.

So we could have 100,000 ppl who can't buy land, can't open a bank account, can't get a job, don't have a national insurance number, can't pass on citizenship to their children with an exponential growth rate as nuclear families push to get their children to a developed country as quickly as possible.

So what do these 100,000 ppl do to live? Ahhh, now you getting to little closer to the real intergenerational issues of crime, human trafficking, exploitation, abuse etc.

A country has to be dysfunctional if 20% of its population is not assimilated for whatever reason.

What I can't get my head around is why the government thinks it can resolve this problem through deportation. If you have 10,000 children being born a year, 90% of them out of wedlock and you are deporting 1,000 ppl a year to Haiti is seems that "resistance is futile". In about 5 generations the Bahamas will destabilize as we turn into a nation of undocumented persons.

That's about another 20 years....if global warming doesn't get us first.

....a sure way to loose an election, not even the PLP is touching this topic

....he is, he is still young, once completed at Fidelity I am sure he will move onto Governor of the Central Bank or Minister of Finance in either administration.

Increasing taxes when 100,000 bahamians are in food lines and most hotels are closed and covid variants are raging is crazy.

increase taxes now and the rich will further close what few businesses they still have open.