Published On:Friday, March 19, 2010

EDITOR, The Tribune.

Allow me please to use a space in your paper to thank the Bahamian people for their efforts for Haiti in these hard times.

First, let me thank the Rt Hon Hubert A Ingraham for releasing the 102 Haitians who were housed in the Detention Centre without good care. This was the right thing to do at the right time. Thank you, Mr Ingraham, for being a decisive leader and continue to be strong in your leadership. If you were to consult the leader of the opposition, until now they would be in the Detention Centre. Now the PLP put that on their Political agenda, this not a political issue.

I also want to thank every single Bahamian who suffered with us. Those who contribute, any little thing you give will do plenty. I want to thank Mr Bain who has used Sky Bahamas to fly help to those earthquake victims back home, God will bless you as He ever did before. I want to thank the staff of the Bahamas Red Cross Society, The Staff of NEMA, The Management of Aquapure, The Management of the Rotary Club, all those who take part on the Coins for Haiti, I've watched them on Bay Street and Wulff Road with tears in my eyes, God will bless you guys. I want to thank Mr Flowers for promising $250,000. All those I don't have a chance to mention, I thank you all.

Then for those who are talking nonsense about the release of the illegal, let me tell you that God can forgive you, if you ask for forgiveness because in a situation like that these are not the kind of words you can say. The Bahamas is not situated in the airspace. Natural disasters can happen in any country in the world.

I'm living in the Bahamas for the past 13 years, I've seen Hurricane Floyd, Michelle, Frances, Jeanne and Wilma. I don't want to see any natural disaster in the Bahamas that will affect me too, but the Bahamas is not in the airspace. It's time for Bahamians to stop thinking selfishness and discrimination. One Bahamian said why all the rest of the Haitians didn't die? Can you imagine that?

Bahamians, please, it's time to stop these kind of wickedness and to practice Justice for Haitians, because we are human beings like you are. Why do you always say the Bahamas is a Christian country? Can a Christian country act like a satanic country?

So, be Christian, Bahamians Thank you again and God bless you Bahamas.

OCILIEN PAUL

Nassau,

January 25, 2010.