Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham has promised a crackdown on foreign fishermen who are poaching in Bahamian waters.<\/p>\n
Mr Ingraham, along with Defence Force Commodore Roderick Bowe and Deputy Prime Minister Brent Symonette attended a town meeting in Spanish Wells where fishermen made it clear that if govermment doesn’t do something, they will take matters into their own hands.<\/p>\n
Ingraham, noting the importance of fishing in The Bahamas, told the group that part of the problem is Bahamian women conducting sham marriages to foreigners and Bahamian boats hiring foreign employees.<\/p>\n
“The Deputy PM is here, he is the Minister of Immigration. I have asked them for a list of all the permits for all foreigners on all boats in the Bahamas which he has now sent me, and I will send them something back very soon on that issue. We expect to reduce substantially the number of foreigners who have any kind of permits on these boats – but that ain’t ga stop them from getting these ‘quickie marriages’ now.<\/p>\n
“But for the actual work permits, to work on these boats or the compressors they use to get all these conchs will be reduced substantially,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mr Ingraham said that “big” fishing companies that have vessels which employ foreign fishermen will soon start “squealing” not long from now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[72,39,41,59],"class_list":["post-10823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-employment","tag-fishing","tag-immigration","tag-islands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}