Has anything drastically been done about the numerous squatter communities here in Nassau and the Family Islands? I recently came across a few here in Nassau, and the conditions are deplorable, with garbage piled a mile high, no toilet facilties, etc. The Mud in Abaco comes to mind.

From my office as I type I actually look out at the mud, through some bushes - the only that has been done to the mud is that, timmigration comes through and counts houses, new ones get demo painted on them, then the occupants come out and paint over the demo sign (good reason to keep that last little bit of paint in the gallon)
The Big Boppa has spent her yearly MHH clean up fund on removing trash and abandoned vehicles from the side of the road through the mud and putting some fill in which helped them access the area better and provided a great amount of parking for the residents but otherwise nothing has changed they have functioning casinos and strip bars there making it the place to be on a friday night in abaco..... if you are into that kind of thing
We have another squatter settlement called the palms by treasure cay, probably as old as the mud but really just in the past years coming into it's own and then there's the newly developing settlement by the old bahama star farm - really an attractive area for the squatter because of the ability to hide a house in the forest and the water lens is quite high there.

But has anything been done..... no there's no money in it so the Gov't won't invest anything into it...

From my office as I type I actually look out at the mud, through some bushes - the only that has been done to the mud is that, timmigration comes through and counts houses, new ones get demo painted on them, then the occupants come out and paint over the demo sign (good reason to keep that last little bit of paint in the gallon)
The Big Boppa has spent her yearly MHH clean up fund on removing trash and abandoned vehicles from the side of the road through the mud and putting some fill in which helped them access the area better and provided a great amount of parking for the residents but otherwise nothing has changed they have functioning casinos and strip bars there making it the place to be on a friday night in abaco..... if you are into that kind of thing
We have another squatter settlement called the palms by treasure cay, probably as old as the mud but really just in the past years coming into it's own and then there's the newly developing settlement by the old bahama star farm - really an attractive area for the squatter because of the ability to hide a house in the forest and the water lens is quite high there.
But has anything been done..... no there's no money in it so the Gov't won't invest anything into it...

Can't immigration raid these places?

new ones get demo painted on them, then the occupants come out and paint over the demo sign : LOL (it ain funny but it is)

Nope ain a damn thing worth talking about has been done. a yr. or two back they went through and actually cleaned up a few of these shanty towns, which in my mind served only to legitimize these squatters notions that they have some sort of rights there. If it was up to me I'd toss two stick a dynamite in erry one a dem dingy damned "villages". How is it that these ILLEGAL ALIENS can come in any time they wish and toss up a "house" with no proper facilities to speak of and the relevant ministry folk say and do nothing. But when the average hard working Joe Blow tries to put down something , God help ya if you missin some papers cuz dey ga have da buldozer there the next day.