Comrades! Disappointment is the norm to follow these types public protests.
Now What? Today Friday we got to witness 463 peaceful and mostly hungry souls for constructive change marching on the streets of the capital city to effect constructive change for Nassau Town and across The Bahamaand. An well organized and peaceful protest calling for clearly defined change... but as in what change, I am not sure?
A protest equal in the outpouring of public frustration that also mistakenly believed that they too could effect change by answering talk show host Darold Miller's May, 2013 call to March For Equality.
Many of the 400 souls to answer Darold's call to march would tell you that that the talk show host, left the toilet's frustration seat still in the upright position he found it.

Change will come in May 2017 of that we can be sure. This was only a foretaste. Hard for many people to get off work today to come and protest but it won't be as difficult on polling day. China PLP's days are numbered.

Comrade Honestman, the prophets at the Guardian radio station's talk shows of 20,000 plus Black Friday protestors showing up never materialized. Instead Rawson Square played to a more intimate crowed in the 100's.....including getting close to several senior PLP Crown Cabinet Minister, Trade Unionists - including the DNA fringe party's Bran, who has never seen a public protest he wouldn't park his car to crash in on - uninvited.

Tal, you are trying hard to spin your PLP propaganda but it doesn't matter if it was one thousand or twenty thousand. This was the biggest protest march in New Providence this century. Many people were working and couldn't join in but those same people will find it easier to place a X on the ballot paper come election day. You and your other PLP apologists may scoff at the numbers but Christie and his corrupt government know the game is up.

Exactly!!! Tell him again.

Tal Russell, not only can you not write English that others can read and comprehend but, unfortunately (for you) you also cannot count. Or maybe you are just blinded today by the truth.

Tal is a liar and showing true colours. According to a counting app ( https://countingthings.com/ ) the estimate in the left hand side of the pic is close to 700.

Comrade, the print and radio media houses have reported throughout the day that
"100's" marched in the Black Friday Protest.
How are all "463" of you going to takeover a democratically elected government that has a peoples mandate until May 2017?
What you going do, march to the Churchill Building and shout up to tell 'em peoples PM and his crown cabinet ministers to come downstairs cause the end times are here?
The people who voted back in the 2012 General, will not take kindly to being trespassed upon.

Assume it was 463. When was the last time you saw 463 people march downtown together against the injustices in this country? I wonder if someone asked Pindling what did throwing the mace out the window do? I wonder if Christie will make it to election. Four of his ministers showed up on the parade, will they be bold enough or want to save their own hides enough for a vote of no confidence?

This march was but the beginning, but the real question is where will it go?
how will it end up? One has to understand you are protesting the individuals themselves who have turned the treasury into their own slush funds, turned their Elected authority into personal power, and they will not want to give it up easily. It is noted that a few of the "problems" showed up themselves.
Any game plan, for any objective that runs counter to the status quo, will have to be sustained and long term, and must develop in pace with the peoples stomach for adversity and challenge, and as things get progressively worse economically and socially.
It is a start for accountability however, albeit late.

**......... Thank GOD Bahamians Finally Woke Up From Yellow And Red Tribalism .........**

Congratulations Bahamians. They don't represent us. Never too late to do the right thing. We must take our country back from these thieving pirates!

PLP and FNM must BE THROWN OUT in 2017!

In all honesty, this huge an amount of people in the march is a withdrwal of the mandate to lead. If the PM was in keeping with the Westminster System, he would immediately resign and call an election.

It's about damn time Bahamians finally stood up and protested this crooked self-centered government that is interested in one thing and one thing only - themselves! Elections are nearing and it's time to once and for all kick the PLP out!!! It's time to DRAIN THE SWAMP!!!

Tap the people did the government a favor by organizing themselves together and marching to Rawson Square in a peaceful but forceful way to let the government know they are displeased with their leadership and where the country is headed, among other things. The government now has the option to listen to the voice of the people or to continue business as usual. I hold no brief for no one but 6 months is not a long time from Election Day. Then the people will speak again Tal

"The voice of the people is the voice of God!" The words of Lynden Pindling coming back to bit his party's azz. Perry you listenin?

Comrade Greentea. God dwells among the people and I'm not sure He marched with the protestors into the Peoples Rawson Square.

**The voice of the people is NOT the voice of God.** Like everything else strongmen have for centuries twisted the bible to manipulate a religious people who do not read

"*The LORD said to Samuel, “**Listen to the voice of the people** in regard to all that they say to you, **for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me***"

**Read, the voice of the people was a REJECTION of God as leader**.

"*Now then, listen to their voice; however, you shall solemnly warn them and tell them of the procedure of the king who will reign over them.*"

**Warning concerning a King:**

"*So Samuel spoke all the words of the LORD to the people who had asked of him a king. He said, “This will be the procedure of the king who will reign over you: **he will take** your sons and place them **for himself** in his chariots and among his horsemen and they will run before his chariots. **He will appoint for himself** commanders of thousands and of fifties, and some to do his plowing and to reap his harvest and to make his weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. **He will also take** your daughters for perfumers and cooks and bakers. **He will take the best** of your fields and your vineyards and your olive groves **and give them to his servants**. **He will take a tenth of your seed** and of your vineyards and **give to his officers** and to his servants. **He will also take** your male servants and your female servants and your best young men and your donkeys and use them for his work. **He will take a tenth of your flocks**, and you yourselves will become his servants. **Then YOU will cry out in that day because of YOUR king whom YOU have chosen** for yourselves, but the LORD will not answer you in that day.*"

The voice of people who fear God and keep his laws, is the voice of God. Remember the reason why the people rejected Samuel as their king, which indeed is what is happening in the Bahamas today. They wanted to have a young king and be like the other nations. Samuel was old, but God was older. And yet wiser.

Then before you can pass judgment on the people you must examine the government in power. Are they like King Samuel a representative of God? Or are they like the kings who God warned them about?

'Exodus 16:8
Moses said, "This will happen when the LORD gives you meat to eat in the evening, and bread to the full in the morning; for the LORD hears your grumblings which you grumble against Him. And what are we? Your grumblings are not against us but against the LORD."
Zakariah 10:8
"When I whistle to them, they will come running, for I have redeemed them. From the few who are left, they will grow as numerous as they were before."

What are you talking about? Please read

What are you talking about and rationalizing? It clearly says the peoples voice was a rejection of God. God however allowed them "free will" and "allowed" them what they wanted, a human king. He also told them all the pain and suffering their choice would heap upon their heads. Just because a mass of people ask for something it doesn't mean it came from God. Don't mix it up.

Een nuttin change in two thousand years eh? The King still takin and takin and taxin and taxin then giving your stuff to his people. The taxin and takin king.

AND JUST WHY WOULD YOU THINK THAT MR. RUSSELL?

Big doors swing on small hinges. This protest could be a seminal event in the history of the Bahamas. The most interesting thing is not the wolves in sheep's clothing, the PLP ministers attending, nor Shame Gibson dressed in black, nor Fweddie brushing aside this as minor as a fly buzzing around an empty boil fish bowl. No, the most interesting thing that I find are Tal's comments. Really! It is a bellwether. "Wolf in sheep's clothing" really comes to mind. "Patriotism for sale" and "thirty pieces of silver" are two other ones.

The real tragedy is when Bahamians choose darkness, untruth and evil that casts a pall over their country, their fellow human beings and themselves for the sake of filthy lucre. It is evil multiplied when their inner selves are eventually revealed, and they seek to deceive under the guise of false righteousness.

There has been an egregious murder in the Bahamas -- the murder of a beautiful entity called Truth, and her death has bloodied the hands of the PLP, and not co-incidentally, my foil Tal. Certainty now fills me.

How true! Tal Russell is a complete idiot and blind follower of the plp.
Even birdiestrachan had enough sense to keep quiet.

Banker- You extended yourself to eloquence! Here! Here! Couldn't agree with you more regarding truth. Never seen such duplicity in all my life. Everything is upside down in this country. People believe a lie before they believe the truth. People tell you a lie in preference to the truth. When you are honest you are laughed at and mocked and when you rob and steal and get away with it - you are a big man. We value politrickans, pastors, number men and gang leaders in this country. These are THE most powerful people in this country. They have captured the minds, hopes and dreams of the people and they are ALL liars- in some cases pathological. Truth? In the Bahamas? Man that ketch that last mailboat to the back side of Andros a long time ago. Not a church goer, but its as if there is some kind of spirit of deception over this place- Never seen anything like it. We have to fight on. Can't leave the country in the hands of these Philistines and Pharisees.

I hope this peaceful protest makes some changes. Don't give up. Peacefully make yourselves heard. Then get out and vote on election day. The US made theirselves heard on election day. Your vote does count.

One good thing about this march is that the Parliamentary Registration Department was out registering voters and ran out of voters cards. So that will be the next step VOTING!

Funny you should say that. I actually forgot to ask, where is stink mout Bradley Roberts? All of a sudden he's gone mute and ya can't hear from him? After talking all da horse manure!

Comrades! I never objected to the Black Friday Protest and only sought clarification of its mindset and if the status quo politico had been allowed to muscle in to noticeably alter its media promoted agenda?
Protester prganizers will now have to be careful not to alienate allies such as the Red Movement Party, DNA and Unionists.....stranger than fiction newfound loyalty to allies than as the protest had been heavily media promoted.....and close and dear friends the media sure as hell turned out to be.....none played their Black Friday message louder than the talk show radio stations.
Comrades, to have aligned with Black Friday may just turn into the worst political move by Minnis, cause should I dare ask what in the hell will the Red Movement Party do on General Election Day, when the Black Friday Protest, spins itself into a registered with the Governor General political party?
I mean exactly how many split the number candidates the Red Movement Party can run after carving up constituencies among the DNA and the Black Friday Movement?

You're a historian, can you find one time in history when a long standing power was overthrown that people of disparate views and backgrounds didn't come together to do the overthrowing?

TaRussell, this is not about overturning a democratically elected government but clearly about getting those in power to realise that they work for the public and should listen and act accordingly. Lack of transparency indicates something to hide, vast sums of money are stolen and nothing happens, PLP supporters with criminal records are hired,fired and rehired but never prosecuted. Thank God that placid Bahamians are at least seeing the reality of how this country is being run into the ground.

In days before, any protest like this would have - under linden pindling's government been met with goon squads and retaliation by renunciation of business and shop licences, denial of permits and opportunities, making sure that immediate family and business partners would have any and all permits and applications suspended and denied. These days are a throwback to those dark iniquitous days, but now the people are taking back the power and the government is quaking in its boots after recognising the turn around!

Tal, were you there? your count is far less than 2% to 5% of what I tallied, and I made damn sure that I was there!

Comrade TrueTrueBahamian, does it really matter if my 400ish is correct, or the guesstimate of the protestors numbered at 787....unlike the protest that sprung from the Taxi Strike of 1958, when the then Colonial Governor, ordered for a warship and British troops to set sail from Jamaica to Nassau Harbour to reinforce the 300 policemman's (led by an all white Senior Officers Englishman's Policeman's) whose coloured skins loyalty could not be guaranteed to put down the all coloured protestors..... yet nothing remotely of the sort happened to the Black Friday protestors, under the Royal Rule of Her Excellency Dame Marguerite. Is that not real "People Democracy" political progress?
Comrade, have you forgotten Papa Hubert's, policeman's response to protestors over the sale BTC?

Comrade Tal Russell we are not listening to you no more....

I am wondering why people even respond to Tal's comments. Anyone can see that this woman is bi (plp)polar and anything she utters is pure garbage. Thus, what does one to with garbage? You dispose of it. Come election, 2017, Tal and her kind will be disposed of for good!

Comrade Emac, it just might be that readers respond cause they know I sincerely care, and that I have never blogged to feed my personal ambitions, or to please the political masters. That I can look into people's eyes and become their twin soul to come to these hereto Tribune blog pagers to ignore the critics while I forge ahead with voicing the silent peoples concerns, not Comrade Tal's.

Cause history can't record that no one pointed out the bs. The real question is why do people still clap when the PM gives those long winded off topic speeches?