“There is clearly good business in food production,” said Bahamas’ Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Tourism, Isaac Chester Cooper of his country’s nearly $1 billion in annual food imports- close to 20 per cent of the region’s food impo
“There is clearly good business in food production,” said Bahamas’ Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Tourism, Isaac Chester Cooper of his country’s nearly $1 billion in annual food imports- close to 20 per cent of the region’s food impo
Bahamian government to demolish illegal shanties
The Bahamas Deputy Prime Minister Desmond Bannister The Bahamas Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Works Desmond Bannister dismissed calls from United Nations (UN) human rights experts to halt the demolition of The Farm shantytown on Abaco, and said plans are in place to begin a similar exercise on New Providence “very soon”.
In a statement issued on Friday, the UN called on the government to halt further demolitions in The Farm shantytown on Abaco, arguing that the “forced evictions and demolitions” would force residents, who are primarily Haitian migrants, into “homelessness and extreme poverty”.