Very good point, and really, if we think about it, if roads did not exist, these gangsters would not have been able to surround the victim and shoot him.

If we're not willing to immediately ban all roads and streets and bridges, then shouldn't we at least consider a waiting period and background check on all roads?

If it saves one life, isn't it worth it?

It's not really about Dr. Martin Luther King, though. It's about immigration, legal and illegal.

Look, many Americans would love to live in the Bahamas but realize your country enforces its laws; we respect that. We know if we travel to the Bahamas and stay past our return date, immigration officials will lug us to the airport and put us on a plane home. Fair enough, them's the rules.

Illegal immigration hurts everyone.

Oh, playing the 'race card'? Didn't you get the memo? It's no longer valid.

This isn't about race, black, blue, white or purple. This is about illegal immigration and someone's attempt to shame Americans into not visiting.

Here's the juice: boycotting travel to the Bahamas helps no one and hurts everyone, most of all the Haitian people.

American left wing politicians just had their heads handed to them last week, so they're casting about, speaking out of turn, telling tales, in effort to rehabilitate their image.

Many people from all over the world love to visit the Bahamas, as does our family, which will continue to do so for years to come.

The Haitian problem has been ongoing for decades, and Americans in particular are in no mood to be told what to do by politicians.

Your post reminds us again. to understand the present, look backward. Exactly as you say, forty or more years ago many expressed concern about the 'mandate' to drive qualified people out of the country; trained hoteliers, concierges, so on so forth. The consequences were not hard to foresee.

Forty years ago the MOB coveted the Bahamas as did the communists, particularly castro's goons, along with their drug running pals.

In manner of a busted toilet, the Left brought up the same old stuff, pitting one against the other, fomenting resentments against anyone qualified and/or successful in their field, in order to create a permanent underclass which always would vote Left.

By sheer coincidence, leftist Lyndon Baines Johnson and Teddy Kennedy pushed the same initiatives stateside, with equally dismal results.

Today the results are clearly visible, not a pretty sight.

And today as then, the same Leftist initiatives are underway with equally tediously predictable results.

Often, that which the Left hopes to inflict upon America it first experiments with in other nations, to perfect the mischief prior to 'bringing it home'.

Agree, as you say it is the road to darkness, with the Left as lamp to the feet of the naïve.

Spent some time last week photographing the New Providence skyline, particularly looking south and west from the hills overlooking the harbor. Wondered what it was that seemed 'off' in addition to the spectacular waves of rain which washed thru on Wednesday morning. Of course, the familiar exhaust plumes from Clifton Pier and Blue Hills Power Stations seemed at times conspicuous by their absence. This article and your post in particular well explain why.

With Baha Mar due to light up, and the chicoms' patience not unliminted, it will be interesting to see how this power shortfall on many levels is resolved.

To anyone familiar with the bad old days, it was immediately obvious returning to Nassau during the late 90s that the FNM had brought about prosperity and many other changes for the good.

Kudos to MP Greg Moss for bravely speaking the truth. The power to tax is the power to destroy. Europe's VAT tax has long depressed business and harmed independent businesspeople and store owners.

No society ever taxed itself into prosperity, quite the contrary, taxes reduce everyone.

Agree.

Exactly. It's not that they don't fear getting croaked in the chair, they just believe they're invincible, that the police will never catch them and even if they do, no court will convict them and even if convicted, they'll 'beat it on appeal'.

"Go ahead and convict me. History will absolve me."
- Fidel Castro-Ruz, ca. 1955

It does seem like a long time to wait, doesn't it? Some of us might be old by then....