The following is the response by the Minister for Immigration Hon. Fred Mitchell to questions from the media about the closure of a dental operation in North Eleuthera by the Department of Immigration:

“I received the report. It appears that dental work was being done without a licence to conduct dentistry in the Bahamas. That is a violation of the law. No work permits had been issued for the people performing dentistry. The officials were called on 12 and 14 December and after no licences or permits could be produced asked to shut down. There was some back and forth between officials on the scene,  the sponsor, and the potential patients. The operations were closed without further incidents and the sponsor told the necessary licences and permits had to be obtained if the operation is to continue. The Dental Council formally objected to me about the operation. The law must be followed.”

 

Items being packed up after Immigration and Police showed up at the clinic operations ongoing in Gregory Town on Monday. The group were reportedly pre-warned two days earlier.