So I assume you would be happy to go to prison for a crime that your great great grandfather committed? Should Italians hang their heads in shame because of all the atrocities committed by the Roman Empire? How conveniently you forget that the west African transatlantic slave trade could never have existed without the African hunter tribes who made a profit rounding up members of other tribes and selling them to the slave traders.
History has shown that black Africans are perfectly adept at plundering resources and killing each other, with more deaths, by far, due to various African civil wars in the post-colonial era than ever occurred at the hands of white Europeans. The story of a colonial African country with a strong economy and plenty of food that gets its independence and then gets run totally into the ground by their black African leaders is a common one...with Zimbabwe as the star example. But you go ahead and keep blaming the white man. My ancestors were brought to The Bahamas in chains and I recognise the horrors that they endured; but there is nobody alive today who has the blame for that.

The point isn't the amount of the $200 fee. Of course that is negligible. The point is the hoops you have to go through, the phone lines at Immigration that never answer, the lack of transparency or timeline certainty, in other words it is a hindrance to doing business. Why should potential investors go through that headache when there are other, more progressive and less xenophobic jurisdictions that will welcome them with open arms.
The Bahamian labour force would not need any protection if we actually focused on improving it through seriously better education and encouraging seriously better work ethics. As long as we seek to protect our, on average, poor quality labour force from the realities of better educated and more motivated outsiders, the longer we will encourage the malaise. Work permits are the labour market equivalent of communism, which never creates efficiency or improvement. We need a free labour market where genuine competition will force us to pull our fingers out and start making the improvements we need to make.

Nice idea, but fear it will add to Bahamasair's inability to make ends meet.

So if Atlanta is only "USA based", where does the city of Atlanta spend the rest of its time when it's not in the USA? Does it go on holiday to the south of France, perhaps? Stupid is as stupid writes. And don't get me started on this ignorant use of the phrase "would have"...If you say "I would have done something", then that must logically be followed by an explanation of why you actually did NOT do it. I would have lived in Atlanta for a year, but I decided to stay home instead. D- average in action.

Thank goodness we do not generate nuclear electricity. BPL can barely keep regular gas turbines running. If the usual attitude of sloppy maintenance and union interference was applied to a nuclear facility, we would have a nuclear meltdown disaster within months of it being commissioned.

I wonder if "SP" is a real person, or just an account based at the Chinese embassy...SP= Sino-Propaganda?

One hour should be fine for domestic.

"I love the People's Republic of China"? I guess Mr. Sands doesn't value things like freedom of speech, freedom of association and democracy!

Maybe this is why the PLP ministers spend all their time in other countries, so they can enjoy good cell service…and they can make the Bahamian people pay their roaming charges, and their first class flights, and their five star hotels, and their Michelin star restaurant meals…sickening how these guys use the Public Treasury to finance their luxury joyrides all over the world. And now we hear the PM is in Saudi Arabia…guess he heard they had some really nice hotels and restaurants there. Mitchell is even worse, but the irony is that he hates foreigners in his own country, but loves nothing more than being in their countries, living life on the hog, smoking cigars and all the rest.

You should also apply to have their bank records revealed. This Committee has made a string of absurd decisions contrary to the interests of the communities that will be impacted. They ignored the most obvious truths. I cannot think what makes people with a little bit of power do completely absurd things other than getting paid off.