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A group of College of the Bahamas students on their way to court in the early 1980s for protesting the treatment of Haitians. The Magistrate dropped the charges.

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INSIGHT: Maybe now you’ll understand - a little taste of dictatorship shows what generations of ‘others’ have endured

Loftus Roker’s infamous “reign of terror” as Immigration Minister in the 1980s is largely responsible for cementing in the minds of average Bahamians the idea that Haitians and people of Haitian descent are second class citizens – actually little better than vermin – and underserving of the same rights as everyone else.

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