THE BARBARIANS AT THE GATE

Last week, the Free National Movement and its partisans were busy trying to spread panic in the population because Haitian migrants were on the move up The Bahamas chain, trying to get to the United States.  The weather is good, there is physical collapse in Haiti and no government, so this is a prefect recipe for smugglers.  It is not a new problem.  It is a predicable problem. The problem is that despite us as country having to deal with this for over 200 years, people still do not seem to be able to manage what is happening. Anyway, by week’s end the Ministers of Defence Wayne Munroe and Immigration Keith Bell had managed with Bahamasair to get 510 out and another 500 will go out today or tomorrow. So let’s keep calm, avoid the xenophobia and simply put these people back on the plane and send them back home.  There was lots of talk about the PLP’s decision to end the ban of travel from Haiti.  This is really because Bahamians have been stuck there and cannot come home. But never mind that many FNMs said, let them stay there. So much for standing up for Bahamians.