I mean besides all of the gang turf wars, robberies and daily murders we are living in a "safe" place...... I know one this for sure, I have never felt as unsafe leaving my house in my entire life in the Bahamas. This country is in the toilet bowl! We need change and we need it NOW!

THE SUPERINTENDENT IS IN SERIOUS DENIAL ALTHOUGH HIS CAUTIONS AND PLEAS ARE RIGHT ON!

"There are a handful of prolific offenders who continue to cause problems for the community"

I would suggest that we are dealing with much more than "a handful" of offenders. If it were so few then the problem would surely be easy to deal with. The government MUST find a way of stopping serious criminals from being released on bail and terrorizing innocent civilians. How long have both main parties been wrestling with this? Why can't the bail laws be tightened up? If judges are under pressure to offer bail because of prison overcrowding then INCREASE THE SIZE OF THE PRISON!. Just get these punks off of our streets. Scrapping this stupid Junkanoo Carnival would contribute $10 million or so to the project for starters.

I like carnival but I agree with you Honestman. Build a jail on a deserted island or cay and put those prisoners to farm. It'seems very serious when a family is attacked like this or anyone for that fact. If we had the PM and Nottage security detail then maybe we could feel safe....but we ain't family, friends or lovers.

Well, I for one am glad Captain Fernandar cleared that up! I was feeling a little nervous at the two murder a day rate lately.

I feel safer already!

"We are safe" says a man who was himself shot and almost murdered outside his own front door. Safe my arse!!!

Who is he speaking for??????? ............ what would 200,000 other Nassauvians say???? ....... the other 50,000 criminals would agree with Ole Clay

The only safe place in this Bahamas is where those who are loaded (gun) are. Ask any average person on the streets how safe they feel. why are the Embassies here in Bahamas issuing warning to their citizens. In the police case, (fisherman will not say his fish is rotten)

This man, who was one chain-link away from being in his casket after being shot by armed robbers, is trying to convince us that we are safe???? I never hear more foolishness in my life.

Remember the commercial with the tagline "you could learn a lot from a dummy"? Yeh, that does not apply here.

Let me quote that great philosopher TalRussell " you can't make this stuff up"

Chief Superintendent Clayton Fernander, like ACP Dean, is probably scatching his head wondering why we (the Bahamian people) are wondering why a man allegedly responsible for “hundreds of armed robberies” was allowed until very recently to elude the police for so long! Both Fernander and Dean will next be scatching their nuts wondering why most of us are afraid of all of the murderers known by the police force to be roaming among us. Meanwhile most of our senior law enforcement officers seem to be competing with Commissioner Greenslade for "The "Largest Waist-Size in Police Uniform Award"!

Wow, what an idiot. We left the Bahamas 2 month ago because of we didn't feel safe and most of our friends i met in the Bahamas aren't living there as well anymore.You need gated communities, you have shootings and murders on a daily basis, no national health-care. I feel sad for Bahamians who actually have to live with a government like that. Get rid of this useless government that's constantly in denial of everything. Makes me really upset reading this because the people who are suffering from this incompetent crooked government are actually one of the nicest people i have met in my life - it's beyond me how the people of the Bahamas allow a government like this to exist. Maybe it's that, most Bahamians are too nice, too calm, too passive.

BaronInvest, I hear you my friend, the Bahamian people are one of the nicest people on Earth. It is unfortunate that their attitudes, well fair, and loving spirt is being changed by the oppression their being led to live by the thieving crooks in their own government. Their being conned, deprived of a good education, purposely led to live in fear by allowing the crime to advance (It keep's the people at bay), no fair global prices on commodities( over $3.00 a gallon for gas in Bahamaland, wow, even in Hawaii the highest price in the USA it's under $2.70 a gallon), all on purpose to keep the Bahamian people down so the PLP can continue their pillaging. Perry Christie (Because I refuse to call him Prime Minister, he's nothing but a thief in my eyes) is no better than a mafia boss in a $2,000 dollar business suit who only takes care of his crew. He had over 40 years to do what's right for the Bahamian people but like S.L.O.P.(I prefect abbreviation for him, I hope he's in the same place Fidel Castro is at) chose self interest,Pindling was Christie's teacher after all. Now as Christie knows his last days are number come election day, he continues to sell out the people's land and souls for every last dollar he can gain to a well known Chinese mobster and his family. I plead with the good Bahamian people to rise up against your oppressors, unite as one love, join the next march. The PLP wants you to believe that the march will do nothing, but in reality it will continue to grow as the PLP's fear continue to grow. They now know you are waking up to their thieving ways, where the hell did $800 million dollars of VAT go too? Do you see new roads my Bahamian friends, do you see renovated buildings, clean streets, clear air to breath, smiling happy people? All I see is decay, pot holes, litter everywhere, bars on doors and windows, razor wire fencing, and unhappy pissed off people; am I right, or am I lying? It is better in the Bahamas, that's no lie, but not right now, and that's the honest truth. March in the next march like your life depends on it, and it does, because tourism is your number one business, and when property investors can no longer live here in fear of our family's life, tourism will be next; I know of at least 30 families who have already moved out of the Bahamas. May God be with you and guide you to victory against the PLP oppressors in your lives; I love you all, and will hopefully see you again when you've taken your country back.

Like a battered wife, Bahamians seemed resigned to their fate. It doesn't have to be like this however. We are free to eject these serial abusers that pretend to care for us.