Home invasions like this are daily life in Nassau and kept quite by the government and police.

The week prior to this home invasion a Bahamian family along the same beachfront area experienced the exact same horror.

Where are the road blocks in the west that would curtail the movement of these animals? Thugs and illegals drive around Nassau with impunity.

The Commissioner needs to implement "SUSTAINED ROADBLOCKS" especially in areas leading in and out of tourist housing areas.

i,m not for police states ,but i agree w/ you about sustained roadblocks ....I,m a middle class Bahamian and went through the same thing ,,pin number etc ,etc .. i lived a bit ,but still being at gun point is horrible .... I feel for them and i,m sad about our country ..Nobody is starvin here ,,we are giving w/ food or a slow five ,,,,,,,,,,,this is nonsense ,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Just roadblocks in the West??

Look, Nassau is lawless, there is very little enforcement of laws here. Criminals roam the streets day and night, and many that call others criminals are criminals themselves.

Perhaps to even begin to fix the problem, first we ALL need to look in the mirror before we lay down to sleep and ask ourselves - have we partaken in criminal activity today? Did we break the law today, and yesterday, or the day before and so on so forth? Well, have you?

A major problem here is that most Bahamians are ignorant to the law, they break the law daily but do not know it, or do not count that as a law worth abiding by - then they pass judgement on criminals partaking in other crimes.

Maybe the other criminals just see these criminals breaking the law, and then think hey why not me. Even the smallest crimes must be punished, otherwise we are never EVER going to stop the violent more extreme crime - it will only get worse.

Bottom line - SOCIETY is to blame.

roadblocks all over ,,,,and everyone can disagree ,,but when you make more babies then jobs and have an illegitamacy rate of 75% crime and poverty will increase ..we as Bahamians ,not hatains ,had 50,000 births in the last decade ..even in boom yrs 2002 to 2007 only 18,000 jobs were produced ..lets not talk about unfeasible imaginary industries ,,we have very smart business men here that would open business if they could make money ,,we have the lab results ,,Jamaica ,,Haiti ,,are we different ??,,can we have babies having babies and have a different result ??

I agree, in fact look at the families (screaming babies included) today (Saturday) setup on the side of the road illegally, selling drinks and other items.

wow

Such a sad story. You think you are going on vacation to have a beautiful time and then turn up being victimized by thugs who don't have any regard for human life.

Thank God THE plp are in power, nothing will ever go wrong!

Crime grew immensely under the previous government, the Wutless FNM.
The FNM were in power for the past 15 of 20 years - so they take a majority of any blame someone might want to throw at either of the two political clowns. And yes, government could help to prevent much of the violent crime, and they don't - for one thing they could stop the radio stations playing murderer music all day long - this started under the previous administration which, wait for it, was FNM. I would love to see some leadership like that of the FNM 15 years ago, when they banned playing murderer music in public - violent crime DID go down, back then. Now they just want to appease everyone, they just do not care anymore, it is just about votes now, and how much crap they can say to each other on channel 40.

The seeds were sown waaaaay before the FNM took power...a lot of today's *respectable* businessmen played their part in the planting

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This type of crime doesn't happen in the US??

yes it does but less per capita ,and violent crime has been dropping in the U/S ,,Our murder rate is 27 per 100,000 ,the U/S is 4 per 100,000 ....6and 1/2 times higher ,,also we need the Americans to come here ,they can survive w/ out us going there ,,,,,,,,,,,

True, but home invasions do happen in the US very frequently.
I can thankfully say neither I nor anyone I know here have ever had their home "invaded", but ofcourse there is first time for everything.

12-14 years ago I personally was victim of several violent crimes spanning over a few years - meanwhile people rubbed it off as the rare occurrence. the difference between then and now is not just the increased crime rate, but news media also did not report crimes as much as they do now. So it wasn't rare, it happened alot but they just did not hear about it, and it hadn't happened to them - yet.

Also I would question where this house is (Cable Beach is not what it used to be), and who the landlord is.
Also, what kind of home security it has in place.
Many landlords of Short term rentals tend to go cheap on securing the home properly.

You are a bold faced liar and I am a American Citizen! we have our share of crimes over here as well and when we do it's HORRIFIC!!

i am fifty and once lived for 20 years in the U/S ,,SIR /MADAM ..THIS ARE THE FACTS ON THE HOMOCIDE RATE ,,OURS IS 6 AND 1/2 TIMES THE U/S ..BEFORE YOU CALL PEOPLE BOLD FACE LIARS DO SOME RESEARCH ..OF COURSE THERE IS CRIME IN THE U/S ,BUT B/C % WISE THERE IS A LARGER MIDDLE CLASS YOU ARE LESS LIKLEY TO ENCOUNTER IT ..IN TWENTY YEARS IN THE STATES I WAS NEVER ROBBED AT GUNPOINT ,,IN 30 YEARS HERE I,VE BEEN HELD AT GUNPOINT AND ROBBED THREE TIMES ,,,DO SOME RESEARCH ON THE HOMOCIDE RATE ..NAME CALLING DOESN,T MAKE YOU RIGHT

I too live in the U.S, don't think for a moment that the U.S and other major countries don't cheat on their crime rate and Aids rate. However, I don't think it is close to the Bahamas rates though. Another point that you guys didn't touch on is the fact that house breaking isn't as high in the U.S is because guns are legal in the U.S, so criminals have something to fear.

This story should be 6 inches above the headlines. This is what adds to the BS because it is pushed so far back by the media. The media should be pushing these issues to the government but yet they have little professionalism and now we will hear little if not nothing from this story. Just another story as far as the government concern.

Thisis not the first case of this kind of invasion on Cable Beach last week. It has not appeared in any media, but two technicians here on short term work permits were subjected to similar attack and being held captive by two people.

The techs reported it to the police. Then they left the country!

May not be a good advertisement for tourism, but the people have a right to know what is happening, not just what the authorities want us to know.

No matter which party is in power, the youth of the country have been taught by example that a) there is no accountability, b) steal as much as you can, just like the politicians. c) the laws are meaningless.
They are the product that we have built!
To have expected any other outcome would be folly.

If ya start HANGIN these MURDERERS AND CROOKS. The THIEVES/CRIMINALS will HUMBLE themselves. Hanging Execution is not banned here, it just has not happened in over a decade. This government could start hanging at any time! I dont see Barbados or Trinidad abolishing execution and they are still apart of the commonwealth. The government needs to focus on what we need rather than what other people are doing, let them stay right there minding this European Union on abolishing Execution. This country is spinning wildly out of control. This is not Europe!The Queen is only still head of the state because we are using her political system and I cant recall the last time she stepped foot in the Bahamas. Something to think about. People think about morals when it come to executions but you need to ask yourselves, were these blatant CRIMINALS & MURDERERS concerned about MORALS when they are out there killing like savage beasts? We Bahamians need to stop hating each other and work together, its too much jealousy and spitefulness going today.

I do not see the murder/crime statistics going down in either Trinidad or Barbados. Maybe capital punishment is not the deterrent people think it is.

Careful how you call for police roadblocks, they might just yield some them illegals roaming and working in our Bahamaland. It's highly unlikely the government would deport them back to their respective homelands, when those who have offered to "voluntarily" surrender to the authorities for deportation, have been flatly told to stay the hell away from the police or immigration officers. Honestly, I ain't that creative to make up such ridiculously insane stuff.

Until we truly believe and stand up for what we really believe as a Christian Nation (fearing God and not man), this country is in for some REAL turbulent times.

This doesn't sound like the Bahamas many of of us have loved for so many decades. Either the ruling party puts a stop to this or it can expect visitors to seek safer venues.

This sounds like an inside job, doesn't it?