What good does hanging do, (or any other capital punishment) when the criminals know that the court systems are bent in favor of delays, dismissal, bribery etc!? Deal with the judicial system too Bahamas! Maybe we should start the hangings with some of our pitiful politicians?!

bey he talking fool. He just tryina pin blame for crime on PLP an act like he could solve the issue with more state sanctioned murder. Problem is dese fools don't realise the logic they using to kill people, is the same logic people in the streets is using to kill there one another.

Sad to say this but violence (hanging) is the only language these criminals understand and react to. Hang a couple and see the difference in attitude.

so when dey is get shot dead in the street they ein a deterrant.... but rope... bey dat gugh scare then sensible ...

I agree with Dr. Minnis. We cannot continue to just sit idly by and watch the carnage. The present Government is obviously clueless. Frankly, the Minister of National Security needs to be fired and replaced with someone who is not afraid to answer the hard questions. If you need help just ask instead of continuing to ignore the issues and wish them away.

If we need to entrench capital punishment in the constitution then lets just do it or take it off the books. The Privy Council has been going crazy with our ineptitude and our inability to take charge of our own country's laws and enforce them.

I would like to know how many of these dead men have educated parents. And if those parents have decent jobs earning a wage that can support a family. I bet you very, very few do.

The number one problem in our society is that we have soooo many people with little to no income having kids that they can not afford to have. These kids have now grown up with little to no income and they are having kids that they cannot afford to keep. A person living in poverty cannot afford more than one child. The chances that a child living in poverty will make it out of poverty is sooo slim. Sure it happens and there are many intelligent kids that come from poverty but I bet you that those few successful children come from caring homes and not from homes where the father is a gang member and the mother is a 10 cent Ho.

I also bet you that if you asked the teachers of each and every one of these dead young men if they saw this day coming that they would say yes. Too bad we can't hang these kids before they start killing, robbing and raping.

Education and proper family planning. We will continue to suffer as a country until these are improved. We need a national campaign on the options for birth control and we need to educate the children in this country. The best way out of poverty is to educate yourself and the more people that escape poverty, the less crime there will be. Crime and poverty go hand in hand.

Education about Family Planning and readily available birth control products are essential. However, what about the young girls from broken homes who WANT to become pregnant, either to " catch a man", or because they know other single mothers who tell them that their baby is the first person who ever loved them, and that their baby us the first person they have ever loved?

The only real solution is more love in each and every home, more community outreach work by the churches, the teaching of Family Values in the schools,
and most importantly, COMMITTED PARENTING by every mother and father in The Bahamas.

Absolutely. It is a sad state to see how broken the family structure is in this country. There are so many children that don't even have one loving parent, let alone two. On top of that, there are a serious lack of role models for these children outside of the home. We need strong educated woman and men who have broken out of poverty to give these kids hope. They need to be able to see that with education, hard work and dedication they can do and have things they will never have access to by staying uneducated.

As always, Love IS the answer!

Agreed.

My wife and I have university educations and are working professionals and WE struggle, both financially and with our time, to help our kids get decent 'B' average grades. We spend at least 2 hours each school night with our children helping them with homework and projects and critical thinking (which they don't seem to get at school for some reason) and they still have a hard time getting A's in school. I can only imagine the struggle for these ten's of thousands of kids who only have one parent (who only has a poor high school education) and live in an area with gun shots every night and gangs on every corner.

Too large an area of our country is now a ghetto where it is almost impossible to make it out. We need to see how other countries dealt with their ghettos. Perhaps they solved the problem or perhaps they just moved the people out of one ghetto into others. I really don't know.

They'll generally 'gentrify' a ghetto, and relocate poor people elsewhere (ie. kick them out). Also done is mixing low to mid/high housing, so that you don't get 'poor neighbourhoods'. Both of these are done somewhat strategically to isolate the impoverished from each other so that they would be less likely to group together into 'gangs' or activist groups or whatever. They also station police around 'lower income areas' and have them basically lock down those areas to where police is trying to detain or arrest you at a ridiculous frequency, for minor to no issues. Also become more common is secret police video cameras, which is legally grey as it is a privacy issue, but...... law is above the law .....

At the end of the day, those in power don't help poor people because it is not in their self interest. More crime give political positioning, increased funding, etc. etc.

Dr: Minnis I believe is a Roman Catholic, they do not believe in the Government committing Murder. that is what hangings is. But the majority of Bahamians will say :"hang him high" and Bran calls for hangings in Rawson Square. But who will perform the task?

Innocent people have been executed. and persons who have carried out executions are troubled by it in their later days. Guilty people go free, and innocent people are convicted it all depends on skill of your lawyer, or the intelligence of the jury. But as far as Minnis goes he is only looking for votes, and he wants to be PM. No matter the cost,

Hanging solves nothing and is merely an act of desperation designed to convince the populace that government is being strong. The next government should instead concentrate on instituting a zero tolerance towards corruption, freedom if information, a complete overhall of the judicial system, collaboration with foreign police forces, and a major increase in the education budget. Minnis is appealing to the crowd and should know better.

My Comrades, no study by Minnis, would be adequate without reminding him that on the very some pages of his old law book, right there after Hang 'Em High,” he will find Heretics, Apostasy and Blasphemy, that you better not dare challenge or deny Bahamaland's accepted preacherman's authority. Didn't we see how angry they were when, we the people, at the polling stations, did challenge their getting in beds all them illegal numbers men's operators?
I think that old law on the books, does calls for the judges sends your backsides to jail, for up to 20 years, hard labour.

Hanging is not a deterrent or solution to murder it is the sentence handed down from a judge after a person is convicted of unlawfully taking of a life and should be treated as such.

While the death penalty may not be a deterrent to murder in every case, I believe it might be in some cases. Certainly the death penalty is REVENGE and to the families of some murder victims revenge is sweet!... and it might
help heal their aching hearts and help them move on with their lives with some sense of closure. I think that the families of murder victims, are themselves victims of the crime and helping them heal should be a consideration.

Finally the best argument for the death penalty might be the certainty that the murderer absolutely cannot kill again!