The Tribune

A SELECTION of some of the comments posted on social media websites yesterday:

The Bahamas Government should sue Nellie Day for defamation of character. - Virtual Gina

lemme me some straw, it raining inside my hut jed. My grammy jus gone to pick some more :(. - Dolphinesque Conche

The rain is interfering with my coconut modem, but I wanted to thank Nellie for unifying Bahamians with her inane article. - Kimberly King-Burns

You just united people from all over the world, every Bahamian and every lover of this beautiful country we call home. - Cheescake Heaven

You visited The Bahamas and spoke to locals? I'm confused because I LIVE here & was unaware of the massive straw hut situation. - Wednesday Adams

Poor Nellie, this is not your day. With love from The Bahamas. - Valdez K. Russell

Advice: Take the article down and visit the Bahamas and write a better article You would be so happy if this article was about America. - Anthia Knowles

When did she apologize? u can't mean that sorry excuse of an apology that said 'sorry u didn't like the article'... cuz that wasn't an apology. - Lea Eneas

Even in the inner city... THERE ARE NO STRAW SHACKS - Tina CocoBunny Marie

She didn't know what she did by writing that. She awoke the beast in us all. Abagale Cassandra

Don't know why everyone is so excited, she surely can't be writing about OUR Bahamas since we are not "nestled in the heart of the Caribbean" This woman needs to get some Geography lessons besides many other things!! - Andrea Gottlieb

and I invited her to come visit so we could show her where REAL Bahamians - Patty Beardsley Roker

I mean ... huts dont even last in The Bahamas. Pizza Hut shut down. - DragNellie

First of all, I think this is a case of lazy journalism. It seems to me as if she saw one or two areas, got a few "tourist oriented" comments, maybe looked up some old info from the 50s and then made the rest up herself after returning from her afternoon junket.

We are politically part of the Caribbean, but not geographically, and certainly not at its heart. I don't know of any group of people living a bare substistence lifestyle and gathering straw and scrap wood off the beach to build a hut to live in, except perhaps a few newly arrived Haitian boat people.

We have a thriving middle class and the majority of our homes are of construction standards that outstrip many areas in the US. After Andrew, in 1992, people were sent HERE to study our building code and started using hurricane clips and steel reinforced columns in homes in Florida. She makes us sound like some impoverished third world country with people who are either dirt poor or filthy rich. It's no wonder American schools perform so poorly in Geography, History and Social Studies, if this is the example being set by so-called professionals!!! - Graham Thordarson

Vexing - One really cant believe everything that's written in travel magazines. Once on a course in Atlanta, some people actually thought that we, in the Bahamas lived in huts with coconut trees all around. They could not get over the fact that I spoke English well, nor could they conceive how I would make it from Atlanta to Miami by plane in less time it took them to commute home each evening. Probably read something by Nellie Day. - B Williams