It is sad the situation that Haitians find themselves in. The need to go outside of their country to find a way to survive economically. It is terrible. It is a humanitarian crisis. However, the laws of each country are the laws of that country. You can not expect that the laws are overlooked simply because of your situation. Humanity, compassion, etc is needed when dealing with people particularly those finding themselves in bad circumstances. However, laws have to be followed.

Didn't Marvin Dames say last year how great a job the police did in lowering the crime stats? What happened this year Marvin?

Marvin took credit for lower numbers that came about as a result of Covid lockdowns and curfews. The police didn't do anything to impact those numbers. Given the murder figures now, we clearly beyond the crisis point. Marvin, the Commissioner and the PM need to articulate an actual strategy to policing. You can't simply say you going to increase your presence in certain areas. we paid for shotspotter. We paid for drones. Where are the results? We are constantly buying new police vehicles. We even have cars for the COVID ambassadors. Yet, things are spiraling out of control. Shame on you Marvin! Shame on you!

Are these people serious? An illegal invasion and trampling on rights? Really? If you are illegal and you have a built a structure that was not constricted to building code on land that you don't own, what rights do you expect to have? These are flagrant abuse of our laws and people expect the government to condone that. You're illegal, that subjects you to deportation. You're expected to purchase land, but you squat. You are expected to build in line with the building code, but you don't. As Bahamians we have to abide by the law. So, why should an illegal immigrant not abide by the law?

Anyone who thinks the government is wrong in invading, should get their heads checked. If people were physically abused or verbally abused, then that should be addressed. Every person regardless of immigration status have rights. But, the rights of an illegal immigrant can not be greater than that of legal persons.

Amen! Totally agree. It makes zero sense to talk about new taxes when every government has done a poor job collecting the existing ones. Real property tax, not collected. Issues with Customs with collection.

Even outside of tax collections, we have uncollected revenue at BPL and Water.and Sewerage. A couple of years ago Immigtstion said they were owed money. It's just ridiculous. The system is broken and instead of fixing it, the government wants to get another thing to break.

Lanisha should have been fired. Resignation! This country us a joke. Lanisha Rolle, D'Aguilar, even Minnis, just one big joke.

The murder count is high. Were is the Mr. Marvin Dames? Looks like the "good work" done in 2020 isn't what we're getting now.

2020 stats were low because of lockdowns and earlier curfews, not policing. Yet, Mr. Dames had the nerve to take credit. Unbelievable!

Once again we run into problems because of the moron D'Aguilar.

As a person representing educators Ms. Wilson should help to.come up with solutions to the problem. Educators are on the frontline. So, they should have ideas. It's not helpful to anyone to just criticize.

With regards to the poor performance compared to prior years, Helen Keller could see this coming. Covid-19 along with a terrible plan for virtual learning, did a number on the students. I don't understand how children in the public school system can survive. Some of them come from very low income households with no tablets and/or access to the internet. Given the economic downturn some of them live in homes where the electricity would be disconnected. So, how does a child in that scenario learn virtually. The Ministry of Education has to implement ideas that can reach persons in households with little to no income. Anything short of this is a national failure. What is really ridiculous is the children fell through the cracks while the government talked about a $20 million sidewalk project and giving money to small business owners. Just mindblowing!

What garbage is this? We go from taking a test to.completing a survey. This man has lost his mind. Let's be honest, what tourist is going to fill out a survey each day of their trip? Also, do you really think he is going to deport a tourist our of this country? Every couplenodnwwconds, he change hisnsong because tourists don't care about whatever he has to say.

What? This is a colossal pain in the ass. Wasn't this deal supposed to be finished a year or so ago? Seriously! What kind of BS is this? The government did a very stupid asinine thing in buying that crackhouse hotel. Now we're still holding it like donkeys, while politicians pretend it's going to be sold.