Glad to see Dr. Allen walking the talk....a man of his word...doing for his people....too bad we don't have politicians that do the same...and other church leaders that just sit around and play with themselves....

"Allow Bahamians to express their opinions on what should be done to combat illegal activities." This is a great initiative. I always looked up Dr. Allen as one of the more sincere social leaders of our country. But when people express their opinions on what should be done, who is listening? The raw reality is that criminals are the ones who are leading this country. How can you get criminals to listen to advise on combatting crimes of which they themselves are the perpetrators?

crime is the responsibility of the govt

it is the responsibility of govt to tighten up the justice system to get these recycled criminals off of the streets.

then it has to clean its own house. start with compliance of the required declarations and accountability thereto. then move to implement the freedom of information act leading to a more transparent and accountable govt, not giving the appearance that politician and their supporters are walking hundreds of millions out of the treasury/bank of the bahamas for their personal benefit. what message of integrity is this setting for the uneducated population?

then with the millions not "missing", diligently fund initiatives from urban renewal to various private programs such as PACE and Dr Allen's Family to catch the pregnant teenager society has turned their back on. rebuild the family structure and moral. education and prosperity will follow.

it starts at the top. why do people not speak out? because they do not want to be victimized and shut down.

if the top lacks integrity and cannot accomplish its objective of providing a safe country to live in, the law abiding will take it into their own hands.

More window dressing and false hope. After 40 years if increasing crime and at least 10 solid years of crime, especially rape and murder, being at epidemic proportions, the bow ties should be off and a hard and fast battle to stomp out crime in full effect. An effort that cannot ionly involve the police acting like firemen running here and there to scrape bodies off the streets, even in broad daylight now, or to console rape victim after the fact. Time to stop breeding criminals, cloaking them and treating them as the victim.

“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”
― Aristotle

I don't agree with you on much, but I do agree here. Our young men who are the criminals, are not stupid. They may be illiterate, and poorly socialised, being children of children but they are not stupid. They know that there is no percentage in education unless your parents are rich enough to send you aboard. They know that working for the man will only give you a poor-paying service job. They see that the people in power are getting ahead by being dishonest and stealing from the public purse. They know that there is one set of rules for them and another for the politicians. There is no damn way to get ahead in the Bahamas with the monolithic economy and the major businesses (tourism) owned by foreigners. Bahamians do not own the hilltops and beaches. These young men who shoot first don't care whether they live or die. None of them expect to reach a ripe old age anyway. The only way to fix this, is through the economy by making all Bahamians as a whole prosperous. That idea is preposterous to the kleptocrats in power and the retarded, brain dead prime minister, and his half-gay cabinet who's only aim in life is to see how many sins of the flesh they can commit and steal the people's money. There are no patriots, or honest men or even real men in the governing party of the Bahamas, and most Bahamians are too ignorant to see that.

But yet there is light at the end of the tunnel. If only we learn to dig together and in the same direction. Politics by nature is a dirty and attracts the dishonest, yet there can be good governance and and a progressive nation.

Its a crime to talk about crime in The Bahamas ........... Doc please get the message sent by the Police, UR2.0, who continue to believe that marching bands will solve our inner city problems.............. Stephen Dean will be the next COP by selling his BS for 10 years.

ANOTHER KILLING THIS~MORNING as CDU on JFK is taped off from the public and a lifeless body lay on the ground next to a champagne colored car. Not sure of the circumstances so cannot say it is a murder, but you can say someone has been killed.

And he has been doing the same thing for how many years? what are the results?