Gonna need a bigger van!! 3 in one night...we are doing a GREAT job Bahamas...let's keep doing what we are doing!!

**...................... The PLP & FNM Have Solutions To Crime And Unemployment .....................**

As long as they are the **OPPOSITION**!

Why does this moron continue to blame the government for the violent actions of these killers? How stupid are you? You give new meaning to the word stupid. Has it occurred to you that these low-lifes only know how to do two things? Fornicate and kill.

The Bahamas needs to build a new prison on one of the family islands and send these killers to a hot rock in the middle of nowhere.

The government is entirely responsible. These problems stem from a failing education system, broken families, and little to no support or way out of poverty. Putting more people in prison will not help the situation, giving them options and opportunities early in life leads them away from crime before they start. Crime and murder now is the result of decades of failed social programs and decaying education system. The reason they only know how to fornicate and kill is because they have never been taught anything else.

So what about the so called parents? Do they not bare some of the fault? Is the government responsible for child rearing now? This is the most absurd post I have ever read on this site, and I've read a lot of 'em. Blaming the government entirely for the social ills plaguing our nation... I admit, they should bare some of the blame, but all? I completely disagree. Remember the old adage, "it takes a nation to raise a child". That means everyone, neighbors, the church, aunts, uncles, school, the gov't., etc. Education and teaching should start in the home. The social ills we face are as a result of the breakdown of the family structure, plain and simple. Children having children, and not teaching them how to be law-abiding, contributing citizens of the society. To blame the government entirely, whomever they may be, PLP or FNM, I feel is wrong.

**............................ Reap What You Sow. Jackass! ...............................**

1) Failure to maintain development and population growth equilibrium

2) Failure to share the economic pie

3) Failure to educate the mass's

4) Foreign blue collar workers displacing capable Bahamians

5) Failure to implement prison rehabilitation programs

They were unprepared to do anything else except fornicate for pleasure, and kill in place of reasoning.

The earth is filled with violence and mayhem and the Bahamas is surely getting its share. But in the US seven people were shot in one incident during spring break in Florida. Police shot a man in Illinois right times in his back after he stopped the man for a broken tail light and he tried to run away. Fifteen policemen ambushed and murdered in Mexico. A father of seven had his electricity disconnected. He hooked up a generator in his kitchen and he and the seven children were found days later. All dead apparantly from carbon monoxide poisoning. The enemy appears to be winning but faith teaches that this too will pass.

Get your facts together, the guy who was shot in the back was from South Carolina...not Illinois. Sheesh!

Are you asking where he was from or where was he shot?

Two men 21 yrs of age released on bail?! Wow that's disgusting! Failed parents!!

Sad, but so true.

The difference between violence in U.S, Canada, UK & Bahamas is there are places in those first 3 that have not had murders or violent crimes in decades. Violence can happen anywhere but because of size and economics u have certain choices to avoid high crime or highly populated areas so people are not paralyzed by fear like in the Bahamas especially Nassau. When I'm home getting robbed or killed is a constant thought, it's just stressful to be looking over your shoulder all the time because of the frequency of violent acts on such small islands, I cannot just move 50 or 200 miles away to better environment. Even driving is extremely stressful, nobody follows the rules and half the population don't have insurance or legal vehicles. Face it, drastic changes have to happen or we're left forced to live in a police state to survive.

I am wondering if that murder count has supass 490 yet for the past 3 years.. huuummm,, 127, 111, 119, 123, 41

Well...we are at 41 murders and just past 1/4 the way through the year...we are on track for roughly 160 murders this year.

I am very sad with all these mishaps, which is why I would like to send myself condolences to the families of those peoples. In most cases, a honest opinion from a completely foreign person can help to overcome that difficult time.
<a href="http://www.toot.ro/author/bianca/ ">Sloane</a>

A few years ago I gave the opinion that the economic and social direction the country was taking was not one in the best interest of ithe country or its (native) people. What we have done basically is snatch all the people off the family islands and crowd them ion New Providence. The lure was good paying jobs in the hotels or secure jobs with government. This worked for many persons who were willing to change their lifestyles, better their education or compromise themselves but it left a large segment of the population, mostly males, excluded. They were, by natiure, blue collar workers or field hands and even after a few try's at it they did not fit in in the hotel or corporate setting. So they created a sub-society where they engaged in the drug trade, gambling and other illegal activities to sustain themselves. These activities paid a pretty penny, and even though many of these men spent most of their lives before the courts or in and out of jail, they had respect for life and our murder rate was less than half of what it is today. Now Today, some two and a half decades after the mass exodus from the family islands began, we are faced with the second and third generations of this sub-society. To make matters worse they have now been intermingled with the Haitian-Bahamian sub-culture, gang warfare has been introduced into the mix. Many come from single parent homes, some whose fathers have been killed or are in jail and they feel more isolated from the rest of society than ever before. The drug trade and other activities that their fathers engaged in are no longer lucrative and jobs are even more scarce than before. These people are angry, many feel lost or betrayed and still many are economically desperate and socially empty. They are the ones who will kill in the blink of an eye and until we address this monster that was created over the pass thirty years we may as well start packing our bags now. It will consume us. The problem is too big for Urban Renewal 2.0 alone to fix

Three murders from three separate incidents in a single day and no-one is really surprised or shocked - just another day in paradise! Time to throw the outdated slogan 'It's Better in the Bahamas" into touch. It really isn't better, not at all.