Nassau, Bahamas — Bahamas Press is becoming increasingly concerned with incidents coming to our attention at the Parliamentary Commissioner’s Office. The department charged with the registration process of citizens for the upcoming general elections.
Information coming into BP confirmed residents with valid passport along with a current voter’s card are being turned away. We were told of an incident where a Bahamian woman in the Sunlight Village area was turned around at the office, even after presenting both documents on three occasions.
Meanwhile, BP can confirm six residents of Mackey Yard area in the Fire Trail community were recently assisted by a top FNM to be registered. We are told all the persons were without the required documents; including information relating to their status in the Bahamas.
We are told all six members of that community were registered by the Parliamentary Commissioner’s office last week. All the persons we are told only presented their driver’s licenses and their former voter’s card. None of the persons we can confirm presented any form of birth certifies or valid passports in the process.
Prime Minister Rt. Hon. Hubert Ingraham along with several Cabinet colleagues recently visited Mackey Yard, delivering a truckload of assistance from the government; including the rebuilding of homes for the squatters to get a first preference to purchase the homes built at the expense of taxpayers.
We are concerned, increasingly concerned with the number of “CROOKED” incidents emanating from that department charged with holding FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS! We have no confidence in the current Commissioner, Errol Bethel, to weed out such CORRUPTION and bring the needed transparency and accountability to the agency.
Bahamas Press invites members of the opposition parties to begin reviewing persons on the register list to verify their legitimacy!
We are told that FNM general in the area registered some 300 illegal voters in the last elections, and he has already begun his work on the ground in the area.
This is not something to be joked about. The last election was IMO completely invalidated in the Blue Hills and Garden Hills constituencies because of this same kind of behaviour. Those persons who have been turned away need representation from a lawyer, as their rights are being taken away from them, and the BAHAMIAN who is registering non-Bahamians on behalf of a particular party [was the name Peter Carey?] needs to be arrested, charged, and jailed.
If we don’t return to the legal application of processes in this country, we may indeed find ourselves in a situation similar to what has been seen in Egypt. I would hate to have that in our “quiet storm” country….
I hope members of the PLP has assigned lawyers to this concern and advise supporters to seek representation for such.
WE NEED CHANGE!
BP
If people start to get and do thing like the Nationalist of any country do, then the powers would then listen,go figure…
Ain’t nothing Papa can say or do now cause the die done cast for him. The FNM sold out we Bahamians Lands. FNM may just repeat the history of the UBP. You remember how few seats Pindling left the UBP with after he whip their backsides so much Sir Stafford Sands run to the Cayman Islands, never to set foot on Bahama Land again. In fact I think they bury him in the Cayman’s. I ain’t sure, sure it’s true he bury there but maybe somebody know of his Tombstone anywhere in the Bahamas? The few left standing after the General Elections under Ingraham, going end right up where they start off from, at Spring Hill Farms up in Fox Hill. It be the first time most these FNM’s even been to Fox Hill.
@ Grouper Mouth – Are you serious? Is if that bad? Well, that certainly explains a lot. It’s no wonder Haitians all over the side of the road and in the middle of the road and coming up to people’s cars when they’re on the drive thru at Wendy’s and McDonalds! They think they straight because their PAPA on their side. Well, I know one thing – they understand REVOLT and street fight! We’ll just have to do what we have to do. If their PAPA gets in again, can you imagine what he would do to our land? They already start talking about township…. you all just assumed he meant for the rightful people in this country! Mudda sick! That’s why they don’t care what we think. They are giving out citizenship like crazy to get votes – one of the Haitians who got it and works with me told us so. He says it’s so easy now! Egypt should be a lesson to them. They’ll feel it when it comes close to home.
ingRUM and the Foreign National Movement, along with the corrupt to the core errol bethell head of the Electoral process need to be thrown under the dungeon at Fort Charlotte!!!
now you all understand why the police get all those guns to protect the corrupt government and the Haitians only Bahamians you see them pointing guns at
yall can’t see them hatians get ing-rum fixed the only passion ing-rum show is to towards them this country gone. obeah all over this land now we killing one another we need to show this country is for bahamians first. where there is no leader the people will perish.
my wife and i went to register friday past and i asked the officer why in the year 2011 they are still writing voters card by hand .he said that’s the way the people at the top want it and until we have real change things will remain the same.people it is time that we get rid of the played out politions,they benifit when the system is in termoil no checks and balances thats why forighners white and black can get on the ballot.we need change people not 5yrs from now but when that election day is called let everyone 45yrs and under send these old playedout leaders home for good.
Am on this case and will endeavour to expose these junkalists at the Parl office who still wish to sell their country for a dollar.Quick justice will do the trick as this time what happened in 2007 will not go unpunished.
What; starting that foolishness again? Don’t they know that the process is being polluted by this and any short term gains will not be worth the long term damage? Or don’t they care? Rodney, you said that the culprit is Peter Carey? If true, he should be castrated and then they should chop off both hands as punishment for breaking the law.
Post the names of the persons that were registered. You must have the names. If they are on the voter register, it is public information. let’s see who they are. Let the Commissioner investigate the documentation provided to determine the authenticity. If they are not Bahamians lets have the police pick them up today.
@ jay
I am going to tell you the truth. All week now I have been racking my head and wondering if when Papa and his cabinet meet behind them closed doors “for their “let’s pretend” cabinet sessions of we’re for all Bahamians, I’ll bet you a late Percy Munnings 60 to 1 odds, them couldn’t recognize an unemployed Bahamian, unless their “official Bahamian spotter, does point one out to them, See, only cause you read the Bahamas Press, you get the Real News about Papa and his boys having “official Bahamian spotters” on our government payroll. If you think I’m joking then you go stand in Churchill Square and wait for the FNM MP you voted to send to the House to walk straight by you just like you’re some Coppertone foreigner.
@ jay
I am going to tell you the truth. All week now I have been racking my head and wondering if when Papa and his cabinet meet behind them closed doors “for their “let’s pretend” cabinet sessions of we’re for all Bahamians, I’ll bet you a late Percy Munnings 60 to 1 odds, them couldn’t recognize an unemployed Bahamian, unless their “official Bahamian spotter, does point one out to them, See, only cause you read the Bahamas News, you get the Real News about Papa and his boys having “official Bahamian spotters” on our government payroll. If you think I’m joking then you go stand in Churchill Square and wait for the FNM MP you voted to send to the House to walk straight by you just like you’re some Coppertone foreigner.
Bahamians are having a hard time all around. No one is giving us free land and free utilities. The Prime MInister needs to watch what’s happening in Egypt. If he continues to make Bahamians second class citizens in their own country, no one should be surprised when there is a mass revolt. We want these Haitians OUT OF OUR COUNTRY. We’re not going to sit by and let ANYONE give them our land and our children’s inheritance. If the government doesn’t do what they supposed to, the power of the people will. The Minister needs to get rid of these people before the population starts to do it for themselves.
MY GOD NOT AGAIN. THESE PEOPLE LIVING HERE AND VOTING ILLEGAL. THIS STUFF JUST GET UNDER MY SKIN. THIS IS WHEN YOU HAVE A MAN WHO REFUSE TO GIVE UP POWER. WHERE IS ALL THE OTHER PARTY? NDP.. PLP.. WHAT HAPPEN TO ARE COUNTRY THIS WILL BE ANOTHER UNFAIR ELECTION.THE FNM OUT THERE GETTING ILLEGALS TO VOTE FOR THEM BUT GOD STILL ON THE THROWN.
BP, you don’t want call his name but I will. Peter Carey needs to be locked up and thrown in jail for this foolishness. He may like it in Fox Hell, especially if they put him in the sissy section.
you will more than likley get you wish 1-Luv but……I have to remind you of a few famous quotes ……….Albert Einstein
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” “The difference between stupidity and genius is that
genius has its limits” change is not every time the best way to solve a problem. We need new blood to come into play, the old gaurd is just….well……….OLD .
We need a SOCIAL JUSTICE office to expose these creatons for their corrupt actions. Meanwhile, to borrow a phrase – It ain’t long now!
@1-Luv: Let’s see…. You want to form another bureaucracy to police the corruption in an existing bureaucratic organisation..? Hmmmm….
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