Well I hope you all heard the news from the horses mouth that as long as the Privy Council exists, it is highly unlikely that the 'Death Penalty' will be sought. So the question is, Who is really in charge? I know Barbados and the latter also adhere to the Privy Council but at the same time, they are still carrying out the Death Penalty. Hell with the European Union, they have their barriers on crime but what does that have to do with us? Is this government taking 'governance' seriously? This is a prime example of the Government's focus and infatuation with Kleptocracy. This is a Kleptocracy, not a democracy, that is just for 'show'. Our criminals are using old brazen tactics and beat our system every time. I know that the man they charged out of the 60 people held for the Fox Hill massacre (for example), is probably telling the truth. The suspect has given substantial evidence that is alleged to not have placed him on the scene, video surveillance and all yet he is remanded until March for a trial. This is not due process, this is corruption to promote false confession in order to produce a so called 'speedy process'. We the people are not free. I advise everyone to start saving, not for VAT, but to get the hell out of here. The government is not focused on the people, they are more concerned with hiding the atrocities of a failed plan, mainly because of their Pride and now the Privy Council has them by the noose. I rather the Queen of England address us than Mr Oblivious Christie because it seems as if, he dont even care, or too old to possess the mental capacity that the boy who cries 'wolf' will not be taken seriously until it is too late. This whole scenario and many more is why Bahamians dont respect the law, and do as they please. The government is too busy asking others for advice, but how can they if they cant even recognize and relate to the 'average' Bahamian, their way of life. This is crazy, excuse to pussyfoot to excuse and more pussyfoot. I have lost hope for this country.

Yeah, I don't think they ever caught Hal Taylor's murderer either. I was directed to read Nikki Kelly's Monday article, she claims that Christie is the biggest threat to national security, she's right.

Not quite getting the headline. Is there a "Police Alarm", or are the Police Alarmed?

Someone needs to tell our Fearless DPM that crime exists...he was just chirping the other day about how well the fight against crime has gone and that crime is down...

Unnecessary fear is being spread when those in charge are throwing up their arms on combating crime. Crime statics differ with our leaders. Despite crime being down alarms are still sounding. Doesn't make sense when the PM, DPM, Commish of da Policeman's and his direct boss the minister of security seem be at odds. What in the hell is going on with this government? Could there some secret plan afoot to replace the PM that is not being talked about? Even the BEC Chairman appointed by the PM has fired leadership warning shots across the PM's leadership bow, either he brings back the Hangman's noose or get the hell out of the House of Assembly.

Crime is most certainly NOT down. This government thinks the public are gullible fools. Even the 40% that were taken in by the party of false hope at the last election are now coming to the realization that they were DUPED.

Everyone is confused...only the criminals don't seem to be confused. Their goal is to ruin the country and they are succeeding!!

You may soon start to see police officers suffering from shell shock and battle fatigue, not unlike soldier who have been on the frontline of battle for some time. Some may end up in Sandilands, others on drugs or alcohol and some may just become rory's, this is ours' or unconcerned citizens?

@hey lil john ,,many years ago when i was involved in less then stellar activities when ever we needed a handgun we bought them from crooked cops ..we have out breed our gdp and can no longer afford to put the
"unemployable " on the public purse ..The only solution to our rising crime and poverty is birth control /family planning or salt peter in the water ,,short of that our future will be like Jamaica ,closed resorts ,,ghettos and crime ,,you can,t do the same thing and expect different results ,,single mothers of 6 for 3 absentee dads only produce one thing ,,,crimminals

Why are you still on this birth control issue? are you J E L A O U S of a Black Bahamian Man's virility? OR is it The Black Bahamian Woman's fertility? MAYBE White Bahamians need to produce more children, before the Chinese start.

Because the root cause of many of our problems is the breakdown of the family, partly due to indiscriminate sexual practices among single persons, partly due to dual parent homes where parents were never taught/learned how to parent. The virile young unemployed man with 6 children for 5 different women is choking off our future, not to mention that of his 6 children

@LILJOHN ,funny you don,t even now which colour i am ,however your reply proves my point and if a majority of Bahamians think making babies proves there manhood the results are easy to predict ,just what is happening now ,more crime and more poverty ,,,,

Once again Christian John showing us how Jesus would do it

For God so loved the world that he gave his only son to die....John 3:16

That's not what you said before...first impressions...

dang, i did not get an honourable mention!

Unless Bahamalanders want to paint a picture of Bamalmand as some crime ridden group of Islands, somebody had better start to defy those politicians and media establishments who can't wait to use the next "major" crime as their excuse to ring the crime wave bell around the world. We have many Islands in our Bahamaland, for many a major crime is once a year when someone steals their clothes drying on they clothesline. I expect leadership from our PM and over leaders, not throw up their damn hands in defeat to the tiny percentage of Bahamalanders causing problems. Comrades don't help to sell the bad news. Crime is a homegrown product and only homegrown people can deal with solving it. If we grew it we can rip/chop up its damn roots. if the PM and his ministers and maybe the policemans is ducking in fear, we all need to get we wild bush chopping tools at the ready.

*“We cannot hide the truth,” Davis said back in April 2012.*
*“Are we about hiding the truth? Are we going to be concerned about the impression that the truth gives?*
*“The only way we can get rid of these things is to address the issue. The fact is that there were more than 490 murders in this country (since 2007). We can not run away from that.”*
*In a letter to the editor of The Nassau Guardian dated August 29, 2011, Davis wrote that Turnquest should have been replaced because of the rising murder count.*
*“That’s why it is imperative in the upcoming general election that the Bahamian people replace the failed FNM government with a Progressive Liberal Party government that will have the know-how, the commitment, the political will and determination to restore respect for law and order in this country,” *

Comrade I think you totally missed my point. Since you brought the reds into the conversation, probably the slickest trick the devil ever pulled on Bahamalanders has to be from 2007 -2012, when the red shirts tried to convince Bahamalanders that crime doesn't exist. But boy have they changed their minds when reduced to (7) Her Majesty's Official Opposition House seats. Oops, (6) seats cause i forgets Marsh Harbour's Edision done "torched" he red T-shirt. Seems like both the Cooper's Town's "Love Offering" Red Candidate and Edison have become red shirt disenfranchised?

Ok I don't get the point then. Newspapers deliver news. If someone is murdered they report that. If the murder count is rising they report that. If the crime rate is alarming they report that. I don't get where it's sensational to report what is actually happening. I would say our crime is under reported. When a murder is not newsworthy enough to make the front page we are in trouble

Now if someone prepared billboards with those facts and placed them around town, especially in tourist areas, that is definitely sensational because it goes far beyond what is needed to report the news to the public and Brave should be ashamed of that.

The terrifying part is if crime keeps growing and scares of tourism the unemployment will increase dramatically causing a crime wave way worst than it is now.

I really hope DNA gets elected, lets give a new party a chance instead of the dance between fnm and plp

I eehn giving nobody no "chance" with my future. As far as I can see a mini-me Ingraham is leading the party (and I like Ingraham) and those in run up to the leadership all sold their birthright fir some silver, what kind of party is that. They didn't even get out the gate yet.

Your Comrade Green Leader live on this morning's Darold Miller Talk Show actually went as far as to accuse PM Christie performing a cut & paste act, when it comes to the PM's newly announced crime initiatives. Yet, when pressed by a caller Bran himself had to fess-up to his own new crime initiatives, amounting to no more than a cut & paste right from the pages of his old crime solution book. Your Comrade Bran said lots more rubbish and I long for a chance in the coming days to expose a number of the most outlandish solutions i have heard hard anyone offer when it comes to dealing with Bahamaland's serious crime issues. Talk about crime policies in that man's that are call for some pretty brutal enforcement. If Bran really thinks this way, why bother putting the word "Democratic" in his party's name? Today Bran really tried his best to sound too much like a "little Papa" for my liking.

I don't think any of them have the solution, our national security needs to be outsourced.

No they don't have any solutions even in mind. Look at just a few months when Alvin Smith saw the pile of mess Down Town. Before he do what any individual would who respects their island would and remove it himself, he preferred to monitor it for hours and called the newspapers. Now why waste the taught that these other persons have a solution. Traffic signs are needed to avoid simple accidents (e.g. Blue Hill Road south and the entrance of Golden Gates corner with Lily's Takeaway) instructing motorist to keep left of the road median. Yet crime is expected to have a solution. As one would travel around this island, many simple problems with simple solutions go unsolved (fixed) so don't look for crime to be lowered just yet.

Nah cone on, you expect Alvin Smith to pick that up? Seriously?..maybe Leslie Miller, I can see him now "*man who leave their #*%^ *round here, I bet is that Stephano Greene, just wait till I send out the next memo*"

We live in a country where the church is more silent on murder than it it is on gambling. You wanna bet what the rea$on I$?

We as a people need to put a government in place who will start hanging. Be you PLP,FNM, DNA or other if the party you supports or supported is not serious on implementing capital punishment then vote for the party who is. If we don't we will all continue to
suffer.