Rules for thee, not for me. We live in a joke of a country/society. I urge anyone with half of a brain to make the proper arrangements to leave The Bahamas. I love my country but the WORST thing about it is the people. Their mentality and attitudes will be the downfall of this great nation.

*Update* Now having listened to the official statement and as someone who has spent time in incarceration. The lie that that food was being prepared for prisoners is an OUTRIGHT LIE!!!!

Look at the bright side, maybe they received an exemption. You know those exemptions that allow the requestor to be open doing the same thing as others who are closed.

With Ash, it was NOT a law - to my understanding it was merely an 'executive' order. Please let's translate the strict meaning of each.

In the meantime law abiding citizens will continue to suffer because lockdown is the only answer to the problem. Let me guess what is next. The matter will be under investigation,lockdown will continue,and we will wait the report of the economic recovery committee. NIB lines and especially soup kitchens lines will grow longer and longer. Join the line people. A man with a plan

Anyone know who owns The Getaway Restaurant & Lounge in the Golden Gates Plaza?

Why has The Tribune concealed the name of the reporter who broke and wrote this story? Is it because The Tribune already knows who owns this rogue 'law & order' breaking establishment and the police protection the owner(s) receive?

Such a bold, brazen and defiant establishment likely has not paid any business license fees, assuming it even has a business license, or paid any of its required national insurance contributions for many years, if at all.

The Tribune is either consumed by fear or sorely lacking in investigative journalism skills - which is it? Readers have a right to know, especially given The Tribune's much touted Latin motto on its masthead, the English translation of which is: *"Being Bound to Swear to The Dogmas of No Master"*.

They probably have concealed the reporter’s name to protect him/her from physical retribution from the police — especially since the police are known to shoot first and ask questions later.

I’d normally agree with you on the need for full disclosure — but in this case, I can see where there would be real fear for the reporter’s physical safety.

Well, there goes The Tribune's ability to 'live or die' by its motto in reporting the news. Readers will now have to read every news story in an entirely different light, always being left to wonder what was suppressed from the story out of fear. And so much for free press in our country, period!

Uh ... they actually did report the news. They simply protected their reporter from physical danger through retribution by the police.

The violation of trust would have occurred if, out of fear, they decided not to publish the story at all. I’m often highly critical of this newspaper ... but not this time.

And I suppose you believe The Tribune has a duty of trust born out of fear not to investigate and disclose who owns the Getaway Restaurant and Lounge in the Golden Gates Plaza?

From the standpoint of journalism ethics, The Tribune should not publish a news story unless it is prepared to name the writer/source of the story. In fact, whereas professional news reporters can lay claim to anonymous sources for their stories, only in very rare and under the most exceptional circumstances can they avail themselves of anonymity when publishing a news story they have written.

Lowering the bar in the way The Tribune has done creates too much room for potential abuse, both by the writers of news stories themselves and the editorial staff of The Tribune itself. Besides, I'm sure the owner(s) of the restaurant in question would have a legal right to know who wrote the story as would the police in the event of any legal action they might wish to pursue for reputational damages, etc.

Your lofty ideals for journalism would be defensible in a first-world society where the individual reporter would be relatively safe from fear of vengeance at the hands of the police. Sadly, we both know this is not true in the Bahamas in the year 2020.

The Tribune published the story, and The Tribune will stand by it as an institution. Every day of the week The New York Times, The Times of London, etc., all run unsigned editorials on their opinion page. Go look. This is no different.

If the owners of the restaurant care to sue, they are free to do so — but keep in mind, in any action of libel, truth is the ultimate and perfect defense. You can’t successfully sue a newspaper just because their story made you look bad. And there is NO legal or ethical requirement that the story carry a byline.

I’m beginning to believe that maybe YOU are the owner of the restaurant ... 🤣🤣😎

In the case of a newspaper, an editorial by definition expresses the opinion of the newspaper's editors or publishers, i.e. the entire editorial staff of newspaper itself is the source/writer. That's quite different in professional journalism from a news story attributed by the newspaper to one of its news reporters on an anonymous basis. And believe me, I have no relationship whatsoever to that restaurant. LOL

OK, I believe ya ... 🤣🤣 ... I did +25 years as a writer and editor at a major daily U.S. newspaper. Many stories ran with no specific writer’s name attached, for many perfectly valid reasons — tho fear of having a cop kick the shyte out of ya would not have been among them, for us.

It was not at all uncommon or considered to be unprofessional. A reporter could request that their byline be withheld for any number of valid reasons. The byline would then simply read “Staff report” — similar to this case.

Again ... I am often critical of The Trib, but not in this instance ... I once saw some cops kick the tar out of a mentally ill guy for no reason. Scary guys.

As it is, there have been at least 10 cases reported of people leaving food stores with their just purchased groceries and before they can leave, they are blocked by another car - the last case the car's occupants were a woman and two men. They demand the groceries, take them and drive off leaving the purchaser traumatised and without the items that they waited in line for and for which they paid.

each officer should be fined to show that there is no favoritism . If people are getting tickets for no mask use , then they should be fined.

But that will never happen and this is why the Bahamas is in the mess its in. Rules only apply to some.- That never works.

It remains to be seen whether Minister Dames and Police Commissioner Rolle will be wrongfully allowing the owners of this eating and drinking establishment to ***getaway*** with having defied the lockdown orders. Pun fully intended. Or will we find out that Minnis wrongfully granted an exemption to the owner(s) of this business establishment, thereby once again demonstrating his propensity to illegally determine the winners and losers in our society today?

Why are they blocking the policeman's face? if that was a civilian they would not have blocked the face out and what's going on with the body and dash cameras which were supposed to come into effect August 1st, these are some of the reasons why the average citizen has no respect for and do not trust or like the police. The tribune is nothing but a big scary cat they are fake, if the PM is caught doing wrong he should also be called out, NO-ONE should be above the law. The poor, unemployed, break and the hungry person is locked up, paraded in front of the camera and fined just for trying to survive ( looking for food and water ) and the protected are shielded and have their faces blocked out. The Bahamas will never be a ***first*** world country as long as we have ***third*** world thinkers and leaders. The outside world looks at us as a corrupt D-average banana boat third world s$$t-hole just looking for the right price to be sold. Waiting but not holding my breath to hear Mr Police Commissioner and Mr Defence Mimister's response

Kudos and thank you to the front line job of Reporter(s) or contributors for the revealing story of GROSS blatant evident disobedience of national emergency rules in crises of increasing no disease vaccine killing disease for deathly world wide Covid. Now another gate opens to life threatening concerns of persons from site now going back into community and also National Police Workplace and mingling with co-workers from office to office.

The police have to eat. Who knows they might have been given a free meal,

LET Them eat.

All this D grade crap. must give some a superior delusion.

Because one has a D Grade . does not mean that D graders do not have
brilliance in other arrears.

So who decides which restaurants are 'favoured' for patronizing by the police? Sounds like more unconstitutional cherry picking by government of the 'winners' in our society today. But then again you would know all about wrongfully cherry picking the 'winners' given that you're a diehard PLP supporter always posting F- grade crapola to this website.

The police can buy their own food to eat at the food store like the rest of us, even perishable food on those days of the week when the food stores are open and they are on duty. Besides, not eating so much is probably a good thing for many of the more obese police officers.

... agree. Well said.

Why pretend act out be shocked when catching the constabulary defying Mr.
**Theodore** Minnis's restaurant lockdown law when you never raise an eyebrow when the same constabulary is arresting and placing** by the hundreds** before the **Central Authorities** hired-gun judges who are taking the **groceries money** right out pockets the done financially strapped to pay up to $5,000 in unconstitutional court fines enacted by the** 35 House-elected red coat MP's, and politically appointed Senators.** Nod Once for Yeah, Twice for No?

Listen, do what as I say and NOT as I do! Or else!!

There was no outcry when the PM had a kodak moment sandwiched between two men
masked dropped. with whisky glasses on the table. and he appeared to be wet right up.

So that justifies what happened here? Or any other repugnant behavior? Really? Spare me.

I love when yall pick and choose the parts of the article to take note of. The police shouldnt be there nor the private citizen. So when they raid the place, i hope yall advocate for the owner, police and the citizen to be fined and their porkchop dinner confiscated and given to a homeless person.

Rather a full line by line analysis of the article?

The highlight of the story is the police as the headline and photo, 1st 2nd, and 3rd lines, and the focus of the story is.

No one walks out of a movie and say, "I know Morgan Freeman was funny but what do you think about those hilarious extras"

My mouth is watering. It has been a long time since I've had a good pork chop dinner, or any dinner for that matter, from a restaurant.

Government's Official VAT Register shows the Taxpayer Identification Number for the Getaway Restaurant & Lounge (TIN # 100049134) is registered to Mrs Angela Camille Johnson.