The police commissioner promises us that the police will double down on efforts to reduce crime. Yawn, Haven't we heard this many times before? And what does it mean anyway? Were their previous efforts only half-hearted? Yawn again.

Hmmm.......no mention of Police Commissioner Greenslade. Hopefully he's very near to retirement age.

Rumours are rife throughout the legal community that Chief Magistrate Joyann Ferguson-Pratt may be vulnerable to considerable 'outside pressures' of one kind or another in the Frank Smith trial scheduled for late November. Also, a concerted effort is apparently underway to put as much pressure as possible on the limited resources of the prosecutor's office between now and the Smith trial and also during the trial. Hopefully our Attorney General Carl Bethel has his ears to the ground and eyes wide open.

Any information like this should be reported to the anti-corruption unit. Remember it is up to everyone to rid the country of corruption now that we have a government that wants to do that. They cannot do it without the information though.

I've heard the same rumours, but information is one thing and evidence quite another. There isn't a lawyer in the Bahamas who would ever admit to the rumours circulating on this matter (and even discussed on the radio talk shows) and, of course, without evidence, there's really nothing to report to the anti-corruption unit.

Yea right. Old stone face will fix it. If he knows the answers why is he taking so long?
After three murders?

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If the cops implemented sustained roadblocks in and around "hot spots" these thugs couldn't run around armed to the teeth killing people.

Why the police cannot get this through their skulls is a mystery.

Minnis and his current cabinet seem incapable of planning and managing a good piss-up in a brewery. The many burning embers and cinders throughout the social and economic fabric of our society are going to soon start flaring-up as major fires all over the place, and I'm not just talking about the public dump!

Many now doubt either Gibson, Dorsett or Smith will be found guilty and serve any time in prison. Apparently Sir Snake, in a fit of rage when he learned charges had been pressed against Frank Smith, said: "For every one day my son-in-law is made to spend in prison, I will personally see to it that Minnis spends 10 days in prison under the next PLP government!"

Regarding the last sentence of your second paragraph: Did you hear this from Tiger's son who apparently is quite friendly with Sir Snake's son? Seems Tiger's son has had much to say around town about Frank Smith's up coming trial, scheduled for late November and early December. Also wouldn't surprise me if Sir Snake's own son has been running his mouth about this matter......after all, many will tell you he never was the brightest crayon in the box!

How often do they change strategy? Didn't they announce a strategy just a few weeks ago with a picture of a big bus they were going to park across from criminal hotspots? Marvin Dames needs to go spearhead some legislation and let the commissioner "commission"

Unless and until the police and the government and the minister of national security get in their theads that the police alone will not stop the killings in this country and until you get more help on board and society to come together and combat the carnage, the murders will continue. First off, New Providence is not like Chicago or some other crime and violence ridden cities where you hear gunshots going off all hours of the day and all through the night. Usually when gunshots are heard a dead body discovered or someone ends up at the hospital nursing gunshot wounds. Secondly, despite the minister of national security,saying there are crime hot spots around the island, there is no where a normal citizen cannot go and feel he will be attacked or randomly shot at. stray bullet maybe but the murders seem to be directed at certain persons, young men specifically. And also despite the use of the term "prolific offenders", the age bracket of the persons involved in killing both as perpetrators and victims is not increasing. This says that just as many young men that are being killed or sent to jail are being replaced by new and young offenders and victims. Finally the low detection rate and the conviction rate is so low in the country it leaves such a wide, grey area. An area unknown and suspicious. Who are really behind the killings. This becomes especially more suspect when almost half the persons accused and charged with murder are gunned down and killed before they go to trial. Murdered with the precision of a trained assassin. Suspicious.

if they started at the stop lights and arrested all the arsholes that run the lights they would probably wind up arresting most of them and kill (2) birds literally with (1) stone

@ Sealice...why is there always the desire to tie traffic violations with serious crime? murder especially? They are suppose to have a camera system that was (partially) installed many years ago to detect persons who ran the red light by recording their license plate like is done in the US, the UK and other parts of the world. But the lights seem to be so diffucult to maintain. They seem to spend more time repairing and replacing damaged lights than anything else