how you go from 8 suspects to a cold case?

No one confessed. No hard evidence. No fingerprints. No gun. No video. This isn't the movies.

The eight are probably still "persons of interest"

indeed, it does not mean they stop investigating, at least hopefully...<img src="http://tinyurl.com/c7l9ck6" width="1">

Yet eight persons were detained and the authorities were trying to get the courts to extend their length of detention. Like you said this isn't the movies so how are these persons suppose to continue their daily lives with the majority of the simple-minded persons (co-workers, neighbors) sip-sipping, "See who was locked up for the McCartney murder". If you shuffle your points around and start with NO HARD EVIDENCE, then eight persons didn't have to be detained and now have their name stained.

I don't see anything wrong with the police detaining persons if they have reason to believe that they could have committed a crime. That's standard police practice worldwide.

What I did object to (and I said so on an earlier post) was the request to hold them for a period over and above what the law typically allows. That could lead to serious abuses if allowed. I could see young innocent men with no financial resources being held for weeks on end for no reason.

Reason to believe and just grasping straws is a difference. In an earlier news report it was mentioned that security footage had image of two females in the decease vehicle and there was mention of an individual with dread locks. So for the police to obtain an extra five individuals and no charges were made, it seems like the Investigating Officer needs to sit next to Ortland Bodie because he to has unreliable sources. Probably non of the two males didn't even had 'locks'. Oh Oh Oh, lets think like those whom commented on Bodie's actions. How about wanting the investigating officer be fired from his job for obtaining false information, or in this case information the charges cannot be made upon.

Maybe your facts are better than mine...I thought the media gave the sip-sip about a video only to be contradicted the next day by the police who said they were not aware of a video...

In this instance I don't think theyre grasping at straws. More than likely one of the ladies interviewed was the caller on the night Kurt was killed. He went out to see her and he was killed. Reason enough to question her even if she turns out to be innocent. If she indicated that she was with a friend all night, I would question the friend too. If I thought their story didn't add up I would keep questioning them.

we have become a nation,where its okay to get shoot down like a dog and nobody sees nothing until it happens to them,i feel sorry for the mcartney family,i dont know them personally,as well as all other bahamians who have experienced this murderous demon we are grappling with,i just hope that we do not become a society of vigilante justice,because thats where we are heading,i cant see how all of these people were picked up,then released?without any leads?someone out there knows something and isnt talking,i know it is really frustrating to that family right now,i hope they get some kind of closure.another thing i noticed in this country,we hate to see our own people succeed,like its a crime if someone is more priviliged or they worked hard went to school and acheived something the honest way,but some of our own people hate you for your own sucess!which is wrong!i am sorry to see the state this country has become.

Just mere days since the murder of Comrade Kurt, despite what da policeman in charge of the Central Detective Unit Paul Rolle, who is the policeman heading the case told the reporter that the policeman's still have several good leads, The Tribune turns to an unidentified policeman source to declare that the case has now gone cold? Has The tribune now taken over as the leader policeman on murder investigations?