n i c k 🌍🥂

Having a go at the Bahamas Nationality Act talk as report in one of the dailies. I find the reporting absent of important details to allow the public to form an opinion on it. The amendment to the Bahamas Nationality Act ("BNA") needs to be viewed with an understanding of the difference between CITIZENSHIP and PERMANENT RESIDENCE. The amendment does not allow anyone to become a Bahamian citizen for a fee of $500.00. Section 7 of the BNA provides for applicants who are entitled under articles 5, 7, 9 or 10 of the Constitution to apply. The Bahamas Nationality Act is here (pages 5 & 6): immigration.gov.bs/wp-conten… The word "may" is present in the section which means it is a discretion to be exercised, not an automatic right. The link to the constitutional articles is here (pages 19 - 21): mofa.gov.bs/wp-content/uploa… The distinction between citizenship and permanent residence, which is governed by the provisions of the Immigration Act, is that you do not get the right to vote, but you can get the right to work, you also do not get a Bahamian Passport. You do not become a citizen of The Bahamas when you receive permanent residence. You get a long term right to reside. The $500 fee for those who have been refused citizenship, in order to apply for permanent residence should in my view be more, but otherwise we should not mischaracterize it as a means by which people can get citizenship. That's not what it is. Being denied citizenship means you did not qualify under the eligibility/criteria in the Constitution to receive a Bahamian passport by lineage or otherwise. It does not mean you are a bad person, or as is used in the Immigration Act an "undesirable". It just means you didn't make the constitutional cut. Citizenship is a product of the Constitution. Permanent Residence is a product of the Immigration Act. They are not now and never have been the same thing.

Holy Sh*t

This was one of the best dinners I’ve had in The Bahamas in my life. Wow. Mind blown

Tell me something, why do you guys hold the clip on mics in your hands instead of just clipping them to your clothes?

The City of a Thousand minarets

The blessings keep flowing 🙏🏿 Won’t He do it.

I gone in Lumpy’s yesterday and felt like the undercover soldier in the basement bar scene in Inglorious Bastards. That’s a very red location 😭😂

Power exercised without limit Intelligence turned toward control Ambition that answers to itself alone. #Spectre

$1000 later, floor fixed new toilet in.

Real ones know what’s up

My firm is building a strong team of young lawyers that didn’t come to play around. It’s very weird being the senior now looking back at the position I was in 13 years ago. I’m really happy that these set ain’t no morons bey. We have too many dunce lawyers in The Bahamas. Our whole team brilliant, and we WIN 🏆

Our pupils, and juniors are all top tier ✨. Congratulations Bradiya, and welcome to the fold of the utter bar. ⚖️ 🥂

All the hoes dress like nuns.

The word for December is: Daytona

I know this: $636,000 was the bill when William and Kate dem fluff through that time.

“The opposite of love was never conflict, it was indifference.” That has been stuck in my head for a bit.

I know the 🔴 have to resolve their leadership and whatever issues they have, that’s part of growth - ya gotta shift some shit up and choose progress 🌚 in order to be a viable party or whatever ya want to call it. Fick Rox ain’t the answer though 😭