A GRAND Bahama union official believes the ‘Bahamian-first’ mantra is just a political card pulled out around election season by both major political parties. “I have a concern with ministers and politicians speaking these things when it comes close to election time,” Dave Barr, president of the Grand Bahama Workers Union said this week. He stressed that the union is in full support of ‘Bahamianisation’, particularly at one industrial company in Freeport where there is a high number of foreign labour. However, he said the union was told by both successive administrations that it could not happen. In the House of Assembly on Monday, Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis voiced strong concern over the number of foreigners working in the Bahamas, both legally and illegally.

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