My Dear Comrades have you noticed how shamefully silent The Tribune’s “blog-it-up” like crazy reds has remained? But not when any individual, be they some distant 10th once claimed be a PLP one time removed, too far away from PM Christie to even bother mentioning?.

I'm no red,. I will support anyone who displays character, integrity, honesty , is intelligent and is in government for the right motives. Who cares what colour tshirts they decide to throw on. I'm definitely not a supporter of the current lack lustre, grimey, seedy crew. In any event I'm quite sure I said yesterday "he should resign".

Tal, this case may get nasty before it is over......................... dont gloat yet

While I am a pro-gun advocate, the law of the land has handguns outlawed at the moment except for very specific purposes and under strict legal constraints. With that being said, if he was in fact in possession of the ammunition, let the chips fall where they may, just because he is a senator, politician and linked to a well known family, if you broke the law, you are just like everyone else, no special treatment. If that means he gets found guilty and spends his due time in Fox Hill so be it. With that being said though, I smell a rat. I'm guessing there is much more to this story than meets the eye. I don't think the Senator, who is more educated than most, would be so daft to pack and carry live ammunition through an airport security checkpoint. Private charter you may get away with it, but flying commercially, through the airport screeners, you can't be that dumb. Time will tell. I wish him luck, he's going to need it.

Comrade not gloating as John B has not been found guilty of anything but why not demonstrate the same respect toward a PLP who has contacts with the policeman's? Instead all hell is blogged-talked-up on these same hereto Tribune pages. I wish the young Senator well, who I had sincerely hoped would be given much better treatment by the reds under Minnis, than Hubert gave to Comrade Henry B. But it is the red shirts who play their politics over denying bail, not this Comrade.

He can't be charged w/having live rounds! For it to be live rounds the clip has to be inserted into the firearm! Where is the firearm???

So if this is some undercover, sinister, smear campaign against FNM powerbrokers............... who is behind it??????? Thats troubling

Mr. Bowstick you are in my prayers, in my heart you are being framed, but let due justice take its course. This too shall pass and I know you love to read your Bible and pray, now is the time to be reading and praying even more. Be strong my friend.

Being framed??? Y'all people don't know this man a? John Bostwick and all of his friends carry guns. What Bahamas y'all living in??? After years of getting away with petty crimes (thanks to mommy and daddy), he just happened to get careless and was caught. Drugs and ammunition pass one checkpoint only to be discovered at the next all the time. This does not suggest anything sinister has occurred. He got careless and was caught. Plain and simple.

I don't know if he's being framed. Likely they were his. Remember the accountability we want the current government to be subject to? The examples we want them to be? It goes both ways. Since this episode I've heard some unflattering things about this man, if true, he shouldn't be there in the first place. The FNM and Dr Minnis know him better than I do, they should deal accordingly if they are serious about accountability, anti corruption and all the other elusive principles

Comrades walk away while you still have your damn Freedom. Live ammunition is when it's ready to be fired, not loaded in a gun's barrel. Since I know not what supposedly took place at the airport between a x-ray machine and 10 live rounds of .22 ammunition, I shall leave that to the courts to decide. But let this be a lesson for all Bahamalanders and residents, that it's a political trick by the red shirts to get you to give up your rights to bail. This may be your last chance and best chance to walk away from the reds "No Bail" games, before it happens to you or someone in your family. If, John B's own red shirts had their political way, would he not have been confined to Her Majesty's Fox Hill Prison for months and even longer while awaiting trial, regardless of his innocence or guilt? Some them red shirts will even Hang ya ass too. Maybe this might serve as a serious warning to sober some you reds backwards thinking up, to be honest to the harsh realities of a red "No Bail" government.

I'm with Tal on the live ammo thing...you can have a box of live ammunition, the term refers to the fact that it has not been physically fired or 'spent'. Any ammunition that is complete, with it's charge still in tact is live, whether it is in a magazine loaded in the gun, loose in someones pocket, or in a bag or case being carried around...it's all live ammo. If you find a random complete bullet lying on the ground, and you pick it up to look at it, you are now in possession of live ammunition and can and SHOULD be charged.

Smt

Tal you keep thinking these things are about red shirts,you have a lot to learn. slowly the rights of Bahamians are being eroded and you chalk it up to sour grapes. Mrs Turner brought up the issue of the NIA and you all say it's political,now we have the situation of the NSA spying. You all better open your eyes.

Absolutely Agree! Red shirts??? REALLY??? Bahamas Freedom and Democracy is being torn to pieces!

PLPs are traditionally deaf, blind and dumb..................... een nuttin change since '67

Conmrade, if only what you're saying was all there is to an already broken justice system, that was made more broken under the Hubert regime. Unfortunately, far too many sit up at Her Majesty's Fox Hill Prison, who are not high-profiled Bahamalandes, showing up in court to face the mighty Judge, with the power of a highly talented legal representation team at their sides. Many who might be equally as innocent as Comrade John B, are financially incapable of posting their $9000 Bail. That my dear Comrade friend is my argument, nothing more. In the eyes of many, Comrade Rodney was treated like trash by this same broken justice system, not charged for being in possession of bullet,s but simply posting photographs of someone on a morgue's gurney. is that the justice you speak of?

What's this? open bahamas court in the park? Where is the witness? Let him/her present, and all others keep silent in the court.

Agreed...if it is a clear cut case of the ammunition being his, he deserves everything he gets. I personally do not know and have not been in Mr. Bostwick's company, so as Cobalt says, he may just be a gun totting law breaking citizen, in which case, throw the book at him. I just hope that the truth reigns supreme on this one, not some sort of cover-up or politcal 'favour'.

We don't know him but the FNM hierarchy does. They should deal with this accordingly if they are serious about good governance. Should he have been appointed to his position in the first place? sometimes people don't get stopped when they're supposed to, no one refuses them... then they meet a bigger, unpleasant brick wall.

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Across the inky-blue Gulf Stream from Florida, near the sheer edge of the Great Bahama Bank, a new island is emerging from the sea. Although it bears the appealing name Ocean Cay, this new island is not, and never will be, a palm-fringed paradise of the sort the Bahamian government promotes in travel ads. No brace of love doves would ever choose Ocean Cay for a honeymoon; no beauty in a brief bikini would waste her sweetness on such desert air. Of all the 3,000 islands and islets and cays in the Bahamas, Ocean Cay is the least lovely. It is a flat, roughly rectangular island which, when completed, will be 200 acres and will resemble a barren swatch of the Sahara. Ocean Cay does not need allure. It is being dredged up from the seabed by the Dillingham Corporation of Hawaii for an explicit purpose that will surely repel more tourists than it will attract. In simplest terms, Ocean Cay is a big sandpile on which the Dillingham Corporation will pile more sand that it will subsequently sell on the U.S. mainland. The sand that Dillingham is dredging is a specific form of calcium carbonate called aragonite, which is used primarily in the manufacture of cement and as a soil neutralizer. For the past 5,000 years or so, with the flood of the tide, waters from the deep have moved over the Bahamian shallows, usually warming them in the process so that some of the calcium carbonate in solution precipitated out. As a consequence, today along edges of the Great Bahama Bank there are broad drifts, long bars and curving barchans of pure aragonite. Limestone, the prime source of calcium carbonate, must be quarried, crushed and recrushed, and in some instances refined before it can be utilized. By contrast, the aragonite of the Bahamian shallows is loose and shifty stuff, easily sucked up by a hydraulic dredge from a depth of one or two fathoms. The largest granules in the Bahamian drifts are little more than a millimeter in diameter. Because of its fineness and purity, the Bahamian aragonite can be used, agriculturally or industrially, without much fuss and bother. It is a unique endowment. There are similar aragonite drifts scattered here and there in the warm shallows of the world, but nowhere as abundantly as in the Bahamas. In exchange for royalties, the Dillingham Corporation has exclusive rights in four Bahamian areas totaling 8,235 square miles. In these areas there are about four billion cubic yards—roughly 7.5 billion long tons—of aragonite. At rock-bottom price the whole deposit is worth more than $15 billion. An experienced dredging company like Dillingham should be able to suck up 10 million tons a year, which will net the Bahamian government an annual royalty of about $600,000.