Illegal immigration, gambling and the national debt are the three biggest impediments to national development, Speaker of the House of Assembly Halson Moultrie said.

“I am of the view that there [are] basically three significant impediments to national development that the Parliament can and must address,” he said as he spoke to a group of teachers at the House last week.

Moultrie said that the illegal migration places a disproportionate burden on the country’s institutions.

“Illegal immigration causes a number of things to happen,” he said.

“Number one, a person who enters the country without a lawful right to do so had already placed themselves in the position of a lawbreaker.

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