Can The Tribune please turn off that weather forecast video that comes on whenever you open a page? Lower right corner, black box. It is extremely annoying and if you look at more than one page even more so. Thank you.

Are the police volunteer workers? or self-employed? no, they are employed by the state to serve the state. As such it is very distasteful for politicians to try to shrug all responsibility for public safety and scapegoat the police force, and particularly the commissioner for the countries problems.

A ship is sinking, and one man is bailing water. There was a captain, there were service and maintenance men, sailing crew, etc etc etc. Now the ship catching water and is only Greenslade down there bailing water with his one bucket.

Are we really gone blame him because the ship is sinking? are we gone blame him that the ship still catching water?

He's the only one i see doing a damn thing, meanwhile everyone standing round, weighing down the boat, and not only criticizing the man, but somehow trying to insinuate that the ship catching water is somehow his fault and responsibility.... It ein that the captain never check his ship, it ein that service bey dem is steady skylarking, it ein that the sailors dem too drunk to do work, no, it's all ya little bucket boy fault?!?!?!

This finger pointing blame game on behalf of our elected officials is truly disgusting and emblematic of why this damn country is sinking.

Looks like they cut the weather report off. Nice !

No shit - right back on !

Mr: Hanna is correct. There is to much blame going around. And the people who are really responsible go free. It is all about the hearts and minds of people and what kind of homes they came out of. it is not the Government or the Church fault. The home is the first church and the first school.

so what are you suggesting Birds? the home? what home? who's home? i guess it's the homes who are murdering, not the young men. I guess it's homes that are smuggling guns and drugs across our boarders, not international criminal organizations. I guess it's the home that has resulted in such a woefully high rate of unemployment, not the gov't. I guess it's homes who let violent offenders back out on the streets on bale, not the courts. I guess it's the homes fault that our education is a D average, not the education system.

I guess to fight this we should get rid of all homes in the country... they are obviously the problem........

In addition of being falsely accused and incorrectly used as a scapegoat for incompetency in the political and other social authorities, it has always been my position that the Commissioner of Police, himself, has been and was unwise to have subsumed responsibility for something that has nothing to do with him or his portfolio as Commissioner of Police.

Poor thing has allowed his 'Office' and 'Officers' to have been carrying the bag for the blame for as long as I can remember.

The operative words to focus on in the name title 'The Royal Bahamas Police Force' is 'POLICE' and then 'FORCE'. The law Institution is meant to be a social tool that is called into play to REGULATE (that what it means to police), and then, where there is a breach in the regulations/rules/laws/orders etc, the Institution is called upon to help to arrest the offenders and to the en-FORCE-ment of the law. He, nor his officers, are the leaders of the citizens/the people of this Country. This is not 'A POLICE STATE'

The people are only following their elected leaders to the extent that the leaders are able to inspire them. If then these persons hold themselves out as our leader, then turn around and notice that no one is actually following them, they then ought to conclude that they are by themselves, and, are only out for an exercise, a walk. Leadership is 95% inspiration.

In a significant amount of cases, persons are doing criminal acts because that is what they are inspired to do or what they feel led to believe is the one alternative to survive, resolve issues or to remedy some injustice done to them. Otherwise, there is absolutely no light in and Judicial or Criminal Justice systems. Moses and Jesus taught the people... this was essential. However, one can hardly teach anyone if they are not able to inspire the audience to whom the teachings are needed. Nor are the leaders able to reconcile with the present generation. Personally, I have been waiting to be taught something of value from the leaders of this Country from 1966 and I am still waiting... HELL NO!!! ...I went on and got mine enlightenment through tertiary education by the help of The LORD.

But too many of Commissioner Greenslades' ranking officers were enjoying the false but nostalgic feeling of being important and projecting themselves as being indispensable to law and order. I have always argued that Our Police Force has been operating out of protocol for years.

I hope now that they realized how their egos have cause them to act out inappropriately and disproportionately to their own embarrassment and the decline of us all inclusive of other institutions and governing bodies.

Quinn McCartney is a coward. He has been like a teenager posting comments on Facebook. Really disappointing.

For those complaining about the weather report, there is a pause button you know. We must be cognizant of the fact that the Tribune is losing revenue whenever people decide to read the news online instead of buying a newspaper. Therefore, to make up for those lost revenues, the Tribune must participate in certain online ads. I am not sure if the weather thing is one of them, but we cannot complain when there are ads along with the stories. Yep, that's how most online newsfeed survive.

Paul Thompson said the samiiar words in an editorial yesterday and I wrote in response, but it all boils down to this, the responsibility falls squarely on those who get paid to do a job, no one else. We the tax payers cannot fire the entire police force we have to take cue from the NBA or NFL, the coach always is the fall guy, fire him and take a chance on someone else, its not personal, it never is!...If you hire a maid to clean your house and they are not effective at it, what do you do? You are hired to manage a certain entity and it fails under your leadership what do you do, keep complaining? There has to be change... so we take a chance and see if we get lucky and just loose 140 lives this year as opposed to 149 and then complain more?

Well what if the hiring manager is shit at their job? what is the supervisors are not ensuring employees are working properly?

fire the employees? you gone still get the same problems because the problem is systematic, not isolated to one person or select group of people. It is systematic, from the HOA to the home.

Untill anyone round here takes some small piece of responisibility then it gone be the same thing over and over.

People dem is too good at pointing fingers, and in this day and age if yuh ein pointing fingers is like you pointing a gun, either way the mentalitiy is the same "You're the problem!!!"