NASSAU, BAHAMAS The National Insurance Board (NIB) is collaborating with the Department of Immigration to produce a card that will be issued at birth and indicate a persons nationality, Minister of Public Service and National Insurance Brensil Rolle told Parliament today.<\/p>\n
Rolle, the Garden Hills MP, while making his contribution in Parliament to the mid-year budget debate, stated: What we would like to do is issue a card from birth so that we could follow you from the time you are born in The Bahamas using one identification number and one card.<\/p>\n
Rolle noted that the NIB card has widespread usage in the country.<\/p>\n
What we propose to do is have a card for anyone born in The Bahamas, he said.<\/p>\n
They will get a card with a unique number. What the card will say is that you are born in The Bahamas. If you are Bahamian, your status will be Bahamian.<\/p>\n
If at the time of your birth we cannot determine whether you are a Bahamian or not, we will just indicate that your status is unknown.<\/p>\n
Collaboration is ongoing with the Department of Immigration. We will not do and cannot do anything that usurps the power and authority of the Department of Immigration.<\/p>\n
Rolle stressed that NIB will not get into determining who is a Bahamian after St Annes MP Brent Symonette who formerly had responsibility for the Department of Immigration cautioned about making pronouncements on a persons status.<\/p>\n
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