Hi, Dr. Mike. Kudos and courage to you in your circumstances. I do not believe in karma, or auras or spirits or any of those things. However, having said that, I feel the bad moon that has risen over the Bahamas. Just recently, I have an opportunity to make a prolonged and perhaps a final eventual exit from my homeland. I was filled with trepidation and anxiety. However once I boarded the plane and was airborne, I felt like a weight had lifted from me. I glanced out the windows, and saw the beautiful Berry Islands from the air, and it was a bit wistful, but I could not believe the sense of liberation that engulfed me as I went to prepare for the next steps in my life.

Perhaps, if I may be as bold to suggest, you need to get off the island for a vacation to regain your perspective. The sense of being in the light when off the island continued with me on my journey of discovery. And when I opened these online pages and saw the news and commentators, immediately a sense of darkness re-came over me. I felt like a needed a shower. These pages, like this country, can be like an addictive drug, but they really do not do a body good. Enlightenment and truth and totally gone from the Bahamas, except for small pockets that are hemmed in by dystopian darkness of our country.

In the Bahamas, we do not have a free society. We do not have a healthy society for either body or soul. We do not have a beautiful environment. Instead we have potholes, half-working stuff, a dysfunctional commercial and public sector milieu where we need to transact our daily lives and it adds stress. We do not have it easy. We overpay for substandard groceries and goods. We live in an ocean of mediocrity.

All of this becomes totally apparent when one physically transposes oneself to a healthier, happier environment.

I realise that the Bahamas is your home, but if you would consider advice from a know-it-all plebe, you really need to finish your grief and heal your soul in a more calm and restful place and find the samadhi and healing that simply cannot be found in this dark place. Peace.

banker - one of the bright notes in my daily read of the Tribune242 has been your insightful, often sharp-witted comments and observations about the Disfigured Beauty known as the Bahamas. Your pain over the continuing loss of the humanity and promise of your beloved country was always apparent under the surface of your observations. Sorry to hear, glad to hear, that you've found renewed lifehope in another geo area, yet it's understood that a big part of your heart will continue to grieve for Bahamasland. I get it.
Should you ever find yourself in Vermont/SoCal, give me an e-ring: lunch and conversation. Both my wife and I appreciate your mind.
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Thanks for your thoughts. Once the moderators see an email here, they will remove your post. I don't think that I will make the Vermont locale -- however I have stayed once at a Vermont B&B called The Silver Fox. I like Burlington, although my last visit there was about 10 years ago when a Bahamian expat living in Canada drove me there to vacation. I tried the suicide sport of skiing. It was fun, but I'm afraid that this tropical head and body is ill-adapted to the cold and moving as quickly as one does down the slopes. SoCal is a different story. However, unfortunately, my new job will probably end me up either in Europe or the UAE where I will trade securities for family offices. If by a happy chance, I do end up in the US of A -- I have recorded your email address and will contact you should I find myself with the time and means to visit. Thank you.

I will keep checking back here for news of the Bahamaland when I leave. This place gets under your skin. All I have to do is see the emerald sea through the seagrape leaves, or suck on a guinep that I have bought from a street urchin, or buy a bag of "dark" roasted peanuts from the Rasta near the Village Road/Montagu intersection or buy a bag of stone crab claws from da ramp and it comforts me and makes me homesick and I haven't left yet permanently. I will spend a few months training in Paris and then get assigned.

I am fervently hoping that there is indeed a ray of hope with a new government and that this place transmutes itself to the wonderful place that existed the past that my relatives describe.

I am sorry for the death of your son. But do you have any idea as to who would want
to harm your son.?? perhaps he never told you what was going on with him.

Truly empathetic Strachan. Well done.
How can you even imply that there may be some sort of justification for cold-blooded murder. What sort of person are you?
Please excuse me, Dr. Neville.

I totally agree with you banker. Well said, and good advice.

As long as the PLP exists............ there will be lots of mental illness in this country

The truth is I never said it is right to kill any human being. I for one hate it. It is my hope
that some one the Father or any one else can think of some one or something to bring
justice for his son. I trust his Father understood what I meant.

Banker is writing foolishness. because there is no heaven on earth. The Bahamas is not
a perfect place. But it is the closes place to heaven. The whole world is in trouble because
of the darkness in the hearts of man kind. many have turned away from The God of Abraham.

After all is said and done I LOVE THE Bahamas

Vox nihili.