They are getting more brazen by the day. Meanwhile we have a political class that struts around town acting as if they where royalty and living large off the backs of hard working Bahamians while they should be hanging their heads in shame for the damage they have inflicted upon a once prosperous nation. The supposed leaders of The Nation are THE PROBLEM!

... return the country back to the CROWN! do as the Turks and Caicos and Cayman Islands did when their country were disappearing under quick sand. return the country back to the CROWN and save that Titanic ship. go back to the CROWN! no shame.

Ya know what, the way things are and are going, fire the whole gov't and don't bother replace them. This country would probably be in a better place if it was left to itself. Instead ( @asiseeit ) the country is being run (under the dirt) by criminals.

I am certain that this country would be far better off if we got rid of each and every one of the politicians in the HOA, they ARE the problem. How we get to that place where we are rid of them is the real question.

I feel ya...

I was flabbergasted when I read this. Is anyone safe? I mean, what does it take to get our lawmakers off their asse** to amend the laws for stiffer penalties for criminals? I guess the numbers business and stem cell is far more important than the lives of our citizens. I am just so gad darn sick of living here!

Wow...Used to live in that area near Pastor Rex. Hope all is well with him and his family. As far as the crime problem is concerned in this country, things will get far worst before it gets better. I have already started making plans to get the hell out of here!

Comrades while no one is looking to underplay the seriousness and fear surrounding this crime against Preacherman’s Rex and his wife, let’s not follow the usual Pandora’s politically twisted bloggers catcalls for stiffer law enforcement and punishment which always erupts following such incidents, mostly directed against PM Christie’s administration.
Your blogger catcalls will not motivate the policeman’s to move any faster towards the apprehension, trial and eventual conviction for the rightfully guilty.
Comrade Bloggers, if you truly believe the government can and should do more to reign-in crime, then use your bloogers energies towards becoming more community crime proactive.
Even when community Town Hall events are held - fewer than a dozen or so will even bothers make their physical voices heard?
Truth is few, if any, residents have even bothered to ask the Commish of Policeman's Greenslade to call and attend Town Hall events in your own damn communities and neighbourhoods?

This Government has fostered a lifestyle that the average Bahamian is, and will forever be, unable to attain in the normal course of living. In my view it is largely the fallout from the proliferation of the web shops but also the flaunting by the civil servants and politicians who have been the beneficiaries of unbounded corruption. No one will ever know how much graft was paid out over Baha Mar and every other FDI under Christies watch. Reading these comments is getting scary because there is only one way to get rid of a bad government before an election and that is not good but the commenters are growing in number, and also in fury and the pot is starting to boil over. I hope Tal and birdie are in fact government trolls because somehow the word need to get back.

An 81 year old retired minister of the gospel who lives in an older Bahamian community- not Westridge, not PI and five gunmen- not 1, not 2, not 3, BUT 5 ARMED men, enter his house at 3 in the morning to rob his family? For what? What did they expect to find? What exactly did these fools expect? Sociopaths. Our problem is deep. Guns coming in from somewhere. Obviously there is a market and obviously these people have no respect for ANYTHING much less life. You enter someone house for 'things' and threaten peoples lives for 'things'? Lord have mercy and you need five guns to do this? If it was just about things, thieves would wait until you left. But oh no. Now the thieves choosing to rob you while you are in your house. They are interested in terrorizing people, hurting people, inflicting pain. They get a thrill from fear and terror and the sick power they feel they have for a minute - not what they get. This is the problem. And politicians sitting on their duffs doing nothing and too many so-called Christians sitting around claiming nothing can be done because its the last days (so you know they ain't trying to do anything). One day soon these thieves will break into the wrong house, and some fella will have five dead thieves on his living room floor and the nation will cheer. He will then pack his bags, head for the airport and leave the country for the rest of his life. We have to turn this around. I cant imagine what this country will become otherwise.

Greentea... you said: "Obviously there is a market..." referring to guns. Yes... hungry, disgruntle, misguided or unguided and no pre-occupation souls are that market. We can, and there is the means to do awy with that market, but some of us hold that it should not be at the expense of the ALL FOR ME BABIES.

And as far as the man being justified for protecting his house, mark you, he would be the very one who must sit in Fox Hill prison for two (2) years before he is even considered to go to trial. You were not completed in what you continued to say..., "and obviously these people have no respect for ANYTHING much less life". You are right in this respect... but there are others as you and I can see now who DON'T GIVE DAMN

And one more thing. I was at the regatta over the weekend and for a minute I observed all the police officers on duty. Now I am not a little person, at least not in my waist, but I ain't no police either. 90 percent of the police officers on duty at Montague this weekend were severely overweight- Some were beyond huge. Some had gun, but the guns- and I am not joking - was sometimes up under their armpit in the holster- couldn't pull it to save their own lives much less mine. This may seem like a small thing, but I had no sense of protection, and felt not an ounce safer from the presence of these men and women. The first rule of law enforcement and the military is DISCIPLINE. This discipline begins with physical fitness. From Greenslade down, the waistline of our military demonstrates an undisciplined force. One thing about Mr. Dames, I used to see him running all the time. I also was looking at some old photographs of the RBPF from the sixties and those fellas were FIT. Today? JC. A LAZY UNDISCIPLINED Police force.

Yep

This is bad. Truly. 81 years old?? They fought an 81 year old man?

The number of obese officers on the force is truly amazing, I don't mean that in a derogative way, it's just amazing that on an armed force, so many of the men who are supposed to be the protectors are obese. Losing weight is **not** easy, but they need to do something, take them off active duty, over the next three months, their only job should be losing weight. I don't think our problem is insufficient officers, it's the quality of officers and the tools available to them

These home invaders have got to be high on weed, cocaine, liquor and/or other mind altering drugs or a combination of them. Were their parents drug users from the '70s/'80s which resulted in them being born addicted? Do they have brain damage? I would like to know if tests are actually being done on these criminals to compile information and see what are their physical issues. All that dope smoking and rum swilling must have done some serious damage to them and therfore, Bahamian society. They lack empathy and are a menace to us all.

These criminals fit none of the above. (Well most of them do smoke weed. But that is not the reason for them committing crime.) They are the average Joes of our materialistic society. These are young men who grew up with messed up priorities. Their mothers bought them Jordan tennis for $150 bucks, even when their grades were bad. They learned that being a drug dealer or a thief is hip. So whenever the economy gets bad or any of these materialistic individuals loses his job, he feels that it is his rights to take money from someone elsem by any means necessary. These people don't care if it is a pastor or a street bum. Their urge for couple a dollars to buy something that in their eyes gives them status in our broken society far surpasses what is right or wrong.

If this is the case, and it seems plausible, we have an even bigger problem

I don't know. I believe some of them are just BAD but also wondering if any information is being gathered to determine if this NEW Bahamian is truly psychotic, do they fit the recognized profile? Something just ain't right.

Yeah... either high on those drugs or hallucinogens, or, high on frustration from marginalization, which causes a sense of alienation, which in turn, brings on the syndrome of 'I DON'T GIVE A F*%#' no more...

Just wonder if Rex Major & family feel any different about the death penalty now?

On Cable 12 News clip he spoke for corporal punishment, hanging and cat 'o nine tails in Rawson Square.

Thomas- it is the case and you are right !

First, and as much that must be said, I my sincere sympathy to Dr Major and his family during this sad time and event in Our Countries' history. I stand and pray along with you for your full recovery. Amen.

And too the common man and families in The Bahamas... we ALL are in this together and now we see that it is not only us who are made to pay the heavy price, but some of the affluent class as well...

I concur with the comments made by Pastor Rex Major in the aftermath of this assault on his house and family. In essence, he said that this is an outcome of our society promoting and uplifting criminals and their deeds.

Persons to become Vatican Saints are made to undergo strenuous examination which can sometimes extend over hundreds of years. However, in The Bahamas, Mr. Craig Flowers went from an UN-REPENTING, UN-REMORSEFUL 'CRIMINAL CAUGHTRED-HANDED' to a 'SAINT' over night thanks to Appeal Court Justices who made that decision in the Court of Appeal case of Mr. Flowers' criminal trial.

Then, the Chairperson and pivotal decision maker on the Appeal Panel, goes on to be recommended and knighted a 'Dame' for her contribution to the Judiciary. True to the slogan, "EVERYONE"S A WINNER"... Just now I remembered a movie that came out back in the mid-seventies starring Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby and I think, Richard Pryor, 'LET'S DO IT AGAIN'.

Oh LORD, Our God... if this, their actions, comes before you as a sweet smelling fragrance, then I ask that you receive it and bless them further in their deeds. But if this is not the case, please show forth Yourself and the standard of righteousness by which you want your People in The Bahamas to live by. Otherwise, know that we, the common people, are confused when we examine what their actions and decisions.
Sometimes it looks like those that commit the atrocities, similar to what happened to Pastor Major and his Family, are to be justified... because, it seems that there is one set of laws for them, and another set of laws for us. Amen???

Godson 'Nicodemus' Johnson.