If you have the power why didn't you stop it from happening in the first place?

Could I ask that we look back three days or so before this unfortunate incident?

Is it possible for us to ask the question as to 'why was the assailant so purposed to shoot Petty Officer Perpall'?

What caused the deterioration in the relationship between the two officers?

Can it be that the Senior of the two, Officer Perpall, pressed his weight of authority over the young man/gunman in such a way and to such an extent that he lost control and resolve to himself to take matters into his own hands?

That being said, the young man, as so many others might view their situations, might have felt that he cannot go to the other persons in authority to fairly resolve the conflict.

LET US STEP BACK AND TRY TO APPRECIATE WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE CIRCUMSTANCES TO WHICH THE YOUNG MAN WAS MADE TO SUFFER AND ENDURE AS A RESULT OF SOME HIGH HANDEDNESS DEALT FROM HIS SENIOR OFFICER.

in any event, the young man was not of a develop mind to coop with the situation. His resolve was the annihilation of Officer Perpall.

Minister Bethel and all others in the present Cabinet are impotent to stop this from ever happening again. He, nor his Cabinet colleagues, possess the political will or moral fortitude to do any thing different than what is already in place.

They keep alienating the persons who can make a difference. Their pride precedes the fall.

Excellent points!

A breath of fresh fresh air around here. . .SOME BODY IS THINKING. I just told a senior public services officer who is in charge for safety in government building that they must prepare for young public officers coming back to work and killing oppressive rogue senior officers who the their superiors nor the government would deal with. . .usually because they are political cronies! Young officers are getting their careers destroyed all over the place by those jealous and incompetent "placements" that reek havoc and jr officers have no place to get relief from those oppressive bosses!! We had that conversation just two months ago. I expect more of these "going postal" incidents to follow. . .if this government continues to ignore the problem and continue to act like them PLP who are famous for doing business like that!! Maybe now they will listen. . .THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING I AM AFRAID. . .THERE ARE MANY MORE CASES IN PUBLIC SERVICES WHERE GOOD PEOPLE ARE "CATCHING HELL" BECAUSE OF SOME SLIMY BOSS WHO IS NOT CORRECTED IN EMPLOYEE SUPPRESSION!!

These young people een like the older ones who just suffer in silence, get high blood pressure, ulcers, no promotions and retire broken people while them incompetent bosses get the lion share. These young turks will take things into their own hands because they cannot get justice through the system!!

I remember Bethel saying "We can't allow this ever again" after the nun was murdered, after the preacher was murdered, after the little boy was murdered, and on and on and on. Like most of our politicians today, he's all huff and puff for public consumption but can't do a damn meaningful thing about any problem facing the Bahamian people. And Bethel, being well past his time in politics, and loaded with fleas, is of course one of our loudest and most useless pontificating politicians.

I wonder when we are going to get it through our thick skulls that no one is safe anywhere in this country and Government House is no exception. If they want you, they will find you and kill you. My goodness, the GG"s aide was gunned down picking up his child from school and he was a trained police officer. We had a whole Angilcan bishop killed in a church, we have had a Deputy Prime Minister robbed in his home, a mother shot and killed while breastfeeding her baby, an 8-year old who took a stray bullet ... and the list goes on.

We have been playing with crime for far too long and only giving lip service to the subject when it appears to affect the hierarchy.

How much you wanna bet we get a regurgitation of these comments the next time something happens while the persons who hold the power to affect the change in law do nothing.

Y'all need to stop joking!

BRAVO! BRAVO! WELL STATED!

Behold, an observing and realist is among the people. Notwithstanding he/she goes by the name Jacknimble.

#" A SMALL GROUP OF PROLIFIC OFFENDERS KILLING UP EACH OTHER"
and
#"The Bahamian public is generally safe and can feel free to go about their normal business.'
How long have the public been fed these lines? Virtually after the murder of every young man in this country, Even while the family stood grieving and the body still lay warm in the street or even in a vehicle or on a doorstep or driveway. Yes, the murder count is down. Significantly. But what type of message this type of killing sends to the country and to the world? No one is safe. No one is off target, not even at the supposedly most secure compound in the land. Is this just a matter of 'an officer losing his head and attacking and killing another officer or is the devil in the details? As the young, grieving son of the slain officer put it, the last thing he expected to hear was that his father got killed at work. Especially when he was so close to retirement. The commissioner must dig deep on this now, as she should have been doing on every murder in the country. Make sure the killer is caught and also that it is the right person. Dig deep on this one! Along with the almost similutaneous killing of the businessman in Bimini.

Yes, yes finallly some red shirts transparency cause sounds likes someone's heart overcome sense guilt sufficiently so self abstract confession spoken out mouth comrade AG Carl Wilshire, one the most substantive members Imperial red shirts cabinet, for being the only governing political party ever in the Colony of Out Islands political parties history to brungs murder atop Mount Fitzwilliam, yes, no?

Bethell shoots off his mouth ......... despite Dames saying he has to do an independent investigation to get to the root of this RBDF situation ........... SMH

Everyone panicking now. They didn’t heed the warnings. They didn’t hear the cry’s of distraught and heartbroken mothers when their sons were shot down like dogs. In fact they more than suggested that ‘he had to do something to deserve what he got.’ And so families had to grieve in silence and alone why the rumor mill and gossip mongers worked overtime and then some. Do not let this man’s life who has served this country well for three plus decades go in vain. You have heard the cries of his children and the calls for all Bahamians for justice.

First and foremost. Did Mr: Symonette give Mr: Bethel permission to speak.

Now Bethel and No Games are just spilling from their mouths. . It is a very
unfortunate incident that no mortal expected to occur.

THANK GOODNESS DA TOURISTS......AINT BEEN OVER DA HILL....AN ENCOUNTERED ANY ..PERSOM(S)......EXECUTING THE CRIME IN THAT AREA.....AN COULDDA GET HURT ALSO....INNOCENT BYSTANDER(S).....THANK GOODNESS...NOBODY MORE GET HURT.....!!!!!!!!!!

This may not be a good time to say it , but you have to do what the spirit leads you. maybe this is the time for Dames to rethink his decision to send the grandfathers of the armed forces home. NO..it may not have stopped this unprecedented and unfortunate tragedy. But YES them being there would have added depth to the forces and reassurances to the younger officers. We gat your back! Human beings are not robots and when you treat them as such, without only productive value, they become zombies or even killers. and if it was a case of someone losing his head (if that is what they want you to believe) then maybe he would have opened up and vented to someone. But when JFK got murdered the doctors had to disfigure the body so that the wounds lined up with where the agents said the bullets came from. And when the old folks home burned in Jamaica, all the telephone wires were cut.

Those so called "grandfathers of the armed forces" were a huge part of and very much involved with instigating the problem.

Those men were just 'Tell'... No show...

Who knows,maybe te Red necks at the State Department are angry because Hubert Minnis complained to Donald Trump about the way they have been treating us. Helicopters flying. Double murder God is not pleased

Well when you live in a culture of murder no one is off target. In fact no place is sacred ground. The country must now rethink its policies on all murders and all illegal killings... but as everyone waits to see who will be charged and if they acted alone

That U.S. State Department travel ban on Americans coming to The Bahamas is not too far off. The Bahamas rolling out of 5G technology and equipment from Red China will be the icing on the cake. LMAO

Ain’t surprised you are the one to bring this up. Maybe you works for the CIA

The US State department creates its own news and headlines...go to www.watnextinthebahamas.com

So why did the family of the slain officer have to be informed about his tragic death some six hours after the fact. What if the killer(s) had also planned to go after the family