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.

....he is pure status quo...don't rock the boat, borrow, tax and spend.

....because they don't want to talk about cutting spending, transparency, government waste, corruption, inefficient government etc etc.

....much easier just to cry poor mouth, borrow $2.3 billion last year and now ask for more taxes and say that the wealthy can pay more

...and of course PMH has the bed capacity to handle a potential outbreak of CoVID 19 on a cruise ship based in the Bahamas.

India has stopped exporting vaccines.

Europe has stopped exporting vaccines.

We better secure the Chinese or Russian vaccines.

So how many vaccines will the Bahamas receive 20,000 or 100,000?

With a population of 350,000 when can we expect to get 80 to 90% of the population vaccinated?

Answer these questions and you will determine when the Bahamas will be able to open.

It appears that the second dose of the vaccine is give 2 months after the first dose?

So when we get 300,000 doses we need to wait another 2 months after that for the final ppl to get their second dose.

So lets assume the paho/who sends us 40,000 vaccines every month. That will take 8 months to get 320,000 doses. That's the first dose.

Then we need another 320,000 doses for the second does.

So at this rate it will take 20 months to get all the does.

This puts the reopening of the economy well into 2023.

Remember there are 7.6 billion ppl on earth and every last country, many third world countries with bigger resources than the Bahamas but with cheap small minded governments are trying to get these cheap paho/who vaccines and don't want to pay up for the Pfizer or Morena vaccines with 95% effectiveness.

So I think Minnis should leave the emergency powers in place so we don't get another break out of the virus like the one being experienced in Europe at the moment.

By the way, Europe just stopped exporting the AZ vaccines. So all eyes on India for cheap vaccines.

Forward thinking governments would be wise to engage Pfizer and Morderna directly about a year ago for supplies and logistics.

Better keep the US$ government loans coming in to keep the dollar on par. Better keep the food outreach to feed 100,000 Bahamians. Better keep the emergency laws in place even through the election. No body move.

Yes, they want to get around CDC guidelines and US consumer protection laws and the US justice system and they can pollute or waters without interference from the US. Not to mention they US taxes they would save.

Imagine how much more money the cruise ships will make. The Bahamas and our environment will be the major looses.

All workers coming in will be foreigners. More fees for the Bahamas government.