Monday, April 18, 2016
By RICARDO WELLS
Tribune Staff Reporter
rwells@tribunemedia.net
DEMOCRATIC National Alliance leader Branville McCartney has called on the Christie administration to reassess the way it approaches crime, saying yesterday it was evident that The Bahamas has an “undisciplined society”, in the wake of the shooting of his cousin Charles McCartney, who was seriously wounded early Saturday morning during a home invasion.
Mr McCartney told The Tribune his family was yet again dealing with an unnecessary tragedy. He claimed that the lack of law and order has allowed the criminals within society to operate without fear or remorse. He said it was time for the government, through its anti-crime efforts, to “sweat the small stuff” in an effort to emphasise that it is serious about bringing an end to the scourge of crime.
“We need to take this country back one act at a time. We have a society in which people have no respect for the law. There seems to be no law and order, even down to public officials parking in disabled spots. It is as if no one cares that wrong is being perpetrated,” he said.
Charles McCartney was shot at his home on Ruby Street, off West Bay Street, around 4am on Saturday. He was taken to the Princess Margaret Hospital where he underwent surgery for bullet wounds in his stomach and thigh close to arteries.
His family has issued an urgent appeal for blood donations so that he can receive further treatment, for which blood supplies are needed by the Princess Margaret Hospital blood bank.
According to police reports, a man with a handgun broke into Mr McCartney’s home and shot him before fleeing on foot. They are investigating the incident.
Comments
Well_mudda_take_sic says...
Christie can only sigh and say to Branville: "Be careful my friend, any of us could be next and it seems to be getting real close to you."
Posted 18 April 2016, 1:15 p.m. Suggest removal
TalRussell says...
DNA Leader’s Cousin "Hurt" In Raid.
Comrade Charles is hospital in serious condition, after being shot by a murderous home intruder thug, and the Tribune's headline reads how Comrade Charles McCartney was "hurt?
Shouldn't him got's "hurt" be reserved for accident victims?
Posted 18 April 2016, 2 p.m. Suggest removal
birdiestrachan says...
The DNA leader will do well in this tragedy not to make it a political issue.because it is not. ,,It is a Bahamian issue , and no one is safe it is beyond a gang problem. It make him look as if he will go to any length for power.
Posted 18 April 2016, 5:10 p.m. Suggest removal
Observer says...
One of the reasons why Bahamians are "undisciplined" is the fact that our leaders, all of them, publicly DISRESPECT each other, in their quest for political 'supremacy'. They act like political cannibals. Monkey see, monkey do too.
Posted 18 April 2016, 5:23 p.m. Suggest removal
sealice says...
course it's a political issue = PLP goon squad probably wearing gov't issued uniforms break in to try and kill his cousin to intimidate him further even though killing his family didn't work before.
Posted 19 April 2016, 8:23 a.m. Suggest removal
Godson says...
Look... the Country don't want ex-convicts to reform and to improve their outlook on life and so what do we expect? In consequence, they are compelled to do something with their lives.
Within this reality, we all have done wrong and have had, and are, susceptible to moments of indiscretion. How is it that we want better but then when others do better, we still alienate, marginalize and utterly condemn them? In this case, being silent and apathetic is just as bad. Is it only when it touches a citizen who is a member in our fraternity or close friend, a families or a person of our 'class' do we raise hell? SAD!!!
People we are getting the outcome of our own lack of compassion, our negative attitudes. Our system of nepotism, cronyism - combined with our hateful and vindictive attitudes - has an inevitable outcome: increase in crime. It may not come upon some as fast as it does to others, but the question is not whether we and our friends and families among us will suffer as a result, it is a matter of when.
We have opened the Constitution to address the inequity measured towards the female gender. What about the inequities that are incorporated within the Constitution that militates against other classes of Bahamians? i.e. EX-OFFENDERS, EX-CONVICTS.
Shouldn't we want to address and fix the other inequities as well? Otherwise, in this fix of hopelessness, we will continue to force our youths to resort to criminality.
Godson 'Nicodemus' Johnson
Posted 19 April 2016, 1:20 p.m. Suggest removal
Observer says...
Spot on Bro. Johnson. It seems that only the elites and the chosen ones have entitlement. All others are not recognized. We have cultivated national social disaster. Harvest time is right arround the corner.
Posted 19 April 2016, 2:38 p.m. Suggest removal
cmiller says...
Take the country back one act at a time........what the hell does that mean????? List the first 10 acts, Bran.
Posted 26 April 2016, 3:01 p.m. Suggest removal
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