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[n i c k 🌍🥂 @imnickmitchell]

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): https://t.co/rFelcOA3zg

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): https://t.co/0UznrzGp2y

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.

[n i c k 🌍🥂 @imnickmitchell]

I don’t think this is the time for either political party to be running this narrative. I want to hear solutions not blame, just fix BPL man. Get on with it. This is not a “partisan problem” this is a Bahamian problem. Muddasick dred.

[Our News Bahamas @OurNewsRev]

Shadow minister for energy, Dr. Andre Rollins, says the recent blackouts have exposed what he calls the government's failure to deliver a stable and reliable power supply.
https://t.co/z6l9AkQzbp

[n i c k 🌍🥂 @imnickmitchell]

And for a little razzle dazzle let’s throw in a thunderstorm. 🌩️😂

[n i c k 🌍🥂 @imnickmitchell]

The next wave in m high demand development is going to be off grid communities, like some of the ones in the family islands where it’s “first off, fxck BPL, and the clique they claim” cause dawg them got their own power generation and it’s stable like them sturdy leg gal.

[n i c k 🌍🥂 @imnickmitchell]

We can’t pretend this is a new problem, or a party problem, or anyone else to blame because anyone could catch the smoke for BPL. It’s been decades dawg, get your shit together.

[n i c k 🌍🥂 @imnickmitchell]

@IllestKevAlive Like it weird but it’s hard to write it off entirely to sabotage. Definitely the primary issue BPL shit been here from Stafford Sands was crank starting his Model T

[n i c k 🌍🥂 @imnickmitchell]

Okay. I know BPL has serious infrastructural problems. But, am I the only one thinking that this is both an old system that needs to be fixed, like yesterday and perhaps a sprinkle of sabotage? Nah? Ok.

[n i c k 🌍🥂 @imnickmitchell]

I blaming BPL for anything goes wrong in the next three weeks.

[n i c k 🌍🥂 @imnickmitchell]

And for the first time in years my spirit didn’t feel cold 🎶

[n i c k 🌍🥂 @imnickmitchell]

It needs to be. It’s the elephant in the room, but you eat an elephant one piece at a time. I wouldn’t ask for an overnight miracle, and I know some improvements have been made but things shouldn’t be perceptibly worse, they should be improving.

[Fashion Killa♎️💫🇧🇸🇯🇲 @PaigeEdisha]

😅😅this a big ask

[n i c k 🌍🥂 @imnickmitchell]

I find this BPL shit and all the discourse around it from all sides just frustrating man.

Can we just fix the problem as quickly, and efficiently as possible with minimal inconvenience to subscribers? Geez man.

[n i c k 🌍🥂 @imnickmitchell]

@_dusktilldawnn That happened at MacFit West before and their generator mussy didn’t kick in so everyone had to leave (this 5:30 in the morning mind you). I was dead mad

[n i c k 🌍🥂 @imnickmitchell]

Who could it be? With that new blue Yankee on, who but me?

[n i c k 🌍🥂 @imnickmitchell]

Abaco has really done a tremendous job of rebuilding. I’ve been privileged to have visited more than a dozen times in the last year and a half, and even in that short time you can feel that though the pivot has been slow, things have turned around.

[n i c k 🌍🥂 @imnickmitchell]

The greatest era is about to start

[n i c k 🌍🥂 @imnickmitchell]

And just like we’ve got another 4th generation Mitchell. My cousin’s wife delivered their second daughter today. Now I gotta have a glass of champagne to celebrate! Yay! 🥂

[n i c k 🌍🥂 @imnickmitchell]

Bey, BPL it’s on sight bey.

[n i c k 🌍🥂 @imnickmitchell]

Seems like some areas are back on now.

[n i c k 🌍🥂 @imnickmitchell]

That ain’t good. I was really into chemistry and playing with fire 😂

[27. @dimvji]

all roads eventually lead back to the interests you had as a child

[n i c k 🌍🥂 @imnickmitchell]

Lord, I pray that You save me from crashing out today. I am again on the brink, I fear.

[Mr. Ambition 🥂🌟 @clement242]

BPL ain’t worth shit