This, bringing men to accountability is the hardest thing a woman can do.
Doubt, shame, and fear of so many things, will I be believed, will society, our friends, (his family who know him best) shun me?
How can I get on, move on? Will my four boys stand by me?
When I finally called the police on my husband, he ended up making a deal with them and at court the officer said the charges should be dropped.
The Justice must have known of some fix because he refused to dismiss it.
Eventually my husband just fled the country.
Do not think this is an easy road taken.

If Mr Mitchell wants to know ‘what’s going on in the place’ why doesn’t he grab one of those Bahamasair flights??
Former PM Minnis is absolutely right!
It is ludicrous to have people believe Bahamian troops have anything to offer police officers in Haiti who have been fighting siege warfare with the most murderous gangs in the world. Their police stations have been put to the torch, the ministry buildings as well.

And who in their right mind believes the Bahamas got their diplomats out of harm’s way merely to assuage our sensibilities?
Every other country has gotten out of dodge, the American non essentials got out last month under cover of darkness right behind the German ambassador & other EU diplomats.

So to answer the Minister’s question of who in their ‘wildest imagination’ would believe…?
From this government? From this particular man??
Our wildest imaginations do not have that far to leap!

That’s not true.
A child born to a US Mother abroad wed or not, before 2017 is eligible for citizenship at birth if that Mother spent at least a year in the US or it’s territories before the birth.
If a child is born after 2017, the rule is she must have lived in the US for 5 years with 2 of those years after she turned 14.

And the process of acquiring citizenship thru birth to a US parent will always be easier than for that for immigrants who didn’t acquire it at birth, ie. born in the US.
The means of attainment in the Bahamas like most everything else like justice an/or human rights is and always has been misogynistic.
Success now lies with one’s political connections not one’s civil rights.
That should be an anathema, not the rule.

Wrong again John!
Please reference the correct info here.
Unlike the Bahamas’ antiquated and misogynistic laws, women of other countries including America may pass on their citizenship rights to their children.
https://nl.usembassy.gov/u-s-citizen-se…

So this incompetent entity that cannot govern it’s bureaucracy will be fixed by creating more?
In a country governed not by what’s best for Bahamians, but rather ‘where’s my cut’?

It’s hard to believe that the Bahamas will ever recover from six years of this unfettered corruption.

So how much was actually realized from these court cases, ie. as in judgements that were satisfied not ordered?
And how many deadbeat companies are still in arrears, leaving their employees in the lurch?

So women rule you say?
And yet the statistics of rape, sexual, domestic abuse and murder of women and children prove this is a lie.
We’ve heard such foolishness forever, words are cheap in the Bahamas.

Show us the law that protects the rights of women and more importantly, the means by which this law will be enforced by both the judicial system and law enforcement officers.

There’s an old saying that seems appropriate, “like putting lipstick on a pig”

Once again the point must be made that we are discussing how the Bahamas, not Haiti and not the US, treat women and how Bahamians see their role in this society.

And if the US is 'the greatest violator, etc..etc' why do the young people of the Bahamas continue to leave the land of their birth to seek their fortune there?
Especially the women of the Bahamas?

America is hardly perfect, but no one in their right mind would emulate the means of justice, government, education etc that is de rigeur here.

This article references the status of women in the Bahamas.
There is no place for a segue into Black people, Haitians or slavery; though in considering slavery one could make a case for the latter in regards to the statelessness women and their children who are denied citizenship.