EDITOR, The Tribune

THE Prime Minister is right - “The Bahamas should not be a Killing Field”.

We should leave that to the ISIS, Al Quaeda and other terrorist groups – not our Bahamian criminals. We should, but unfortunately it is a reality we have to live with.

The Bahamas would appear to have more deaths per 100,000 than most normal countries. Of course there are the abnormals like Syria, Iraq, etc. But our killers are not terrorists, not yet anyway, but probably uneducated young men with nothing to do.

Uneducated is the word as Nicole Burrows points out in her very good Politicole column today (November 17). The average policeman probably does not have many BJCs so what do the criminals have - less?

What does this all stem from - education, or rather lack of it. Both the inability of the police to keep the criminals off the streets and the criminals themselves with not enough education to get jobs.

It seems as if forever governments have refused to take education seriously and upgrade the system by throw funding it adequately to allow for improvements. The foreign teachers were kicked out and replaced by Bahamians – not a problem if the new teachers had been properly trained. But they were not.

So, Mr Prime Minister, what are we doing about education now to try and stop the younger generation behaving like their older brothers? You, I understand, have been in politics for 40 years so you must have answers both for the education and the jobs they could do once educated.

P THOMSON

Nassau,

November 17, 2015