The recently initiated attempt by the Christie administration to stop issuing work permits to non-Bahamian maids, housekeepers and labourers will seriously affect the country’s economic development, said FNM MP Hubert Chipman.
Mr Chipman, (FNM-St Anne’s) is the Shadow Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration.
“We are greatly concerned,” he said, “that the Minister might be using a heavy blunt instrument to tackle a vexing business and social problem for which skill and precision seem to be in order.
Mr Chipman believes that government’s proposals to enact the move by next year is excessively aggressive and should be cause for great concern among Bahamians.
His press statement was in response to Foreign Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell’s House of Assembly address on Tuesday at which time Mr. Mitchell stated that the government intends not to grant permits in areas where Bahamians are qualified to get the job done.
