I wonder if judges and MP's would fight to give bail to a man who walked into the HoA and shot up the place killing dozens. Even if he laid down his weapon and surrendered would these esteemed people still consider him innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, and thus eligible for bail?

Have you ever known for this type of crime to happen in The Bahamas? But it does happen in America and what are the consequences? For younger assailants, courts are now charging the parents with felony crimes especially if they aided or assist the killers in obtaining weapons or were the registered owners of the weapons used. The mother of the second grade son who shot his teacher and just recently a teen who did multiple shootings, both parents were charged. But in light of this several states, including Florida, no longer requires a permit to purchase and carry certain firearms. What is the message here?

They say execution doesn't work. Ok, What we are doing now doesn't work also. It ia working for the gangs , though. They are giving the death penalty. Kudos to them

Very true. We can't legally execute them, but they can illegally kill or attempt to kill whoever they want.

Again CRIME IS A SYMPTOM of something else or some other things) gone wrong in a society. Focusing just on crime is like spraying water on the smoke when trying to put out a fire. And the route causes of crime here in this country are socio-economic. Conflict resolution nand the lack of job and career opportunities for the young men especially in these areas. A minimum wage job cannot be expected to sustain a young man who may have a family. And when a person cannot catch the bus to and from work for fear of being robbed or even killed on the bud, this will manifest itself in different ways in the community. If gangs offer protection it will be attractive to someone in desperation. And even the need to buy an illegal weapon. Not condoning it but if someone believes it is a life or death situation, they will make a choice accordingly.

The real criminals are the persons responsible for flooding these depressed areas with an abundance of web shops and liquor stores and flooding the streets with weaponized marijuana and other drugs. All the mom and pops stores have disappeared but residents can step around the corner any hour of the day and night and gamble and buy alcohol and illicit drugs. This is not happen chance.

They are also flooding the depressed areas with guns. We cannot get a handle on the illegal weapons, so how can we ever expect to control murder and armed robbery? First they flood the poor black areas with drugs. Now that the drug area is virtually gone, they now flood them with guns. We had better wake up. They are out to extinguish the black man.

This had been going since slavery. The drugs and the guns and the Slcohol and economic depression were tactics the US used against its own Black American citizens during the 1969’s 70’s and 80’s. Residents would wake up and find frogs ( cocaine) and weapons and ammunition stashed in railroad carts in their neighborhoods, it started the crack epidemic of the 2980’s. Despite loud and repeated denials that the CIA was involved, more and more evidence is being revealed that the CIA was actively involved in breeding the cocaine epidemic in the US and the Caribbean in the 1980’s and the corresponding breakdown of law and the crime and the )gun) violence that followed. Is it coincidental that when another of Americas agencies ( or two working together) ATF in ‘operation Fast anf Furious’ lost track of many hundreds of high powered assault weapons, these weapons started showing up and being used on the streets of New Providence and other Caribbean islands like Jamaica, Trinidad and Barbados by criminals and so called ‘gang?’ Is this the reason why legislation to decrimilize marijuana and legalize medical marijuana in The Bahamas is being so constantly delayed? To keep US ‘drug agents’ operating in The Bahamas and causing the results the country now see. How many agents are operating in this country? What powers do they have that exceed that of Bahamian authorities? Who are they accountable and answerable to? They operate on a multi/billion dollar budget? And is their track records ones ( including that of racism ) ones that can lead one to conclude that they have the best interest of The Bahamas and the Caribbean st heart? Remember what the then head of the CIA attempted to do to Dr Martin Luther King when he was about to receive the peace award. Least we forget !

Comrade "Sister" Dame Anita, must restrain that hangin' tongue of hers. --- Yes?

“Moreover, the jailhouse grapevine will advise an accused not to plead guilty ever and will persuade him to apply for bail on the basis that he is not likely to be tried within a reasonable time. It will encourage him to use every device he can think up to frustrate the ends of justice, including demanding a new lawyer, feigning illness and what not, to delay the trial, and to buy years of time on bail, hoping that witnesses will forget their evidence, or die…” (Fmr. Justice Anita Allen).

There in lies our dilemma, it takes so so long for the wheels of justice to ‘roll’ in The Bahamas that criminals can plead not guilty, apply for bail and just ‘wait it out’ no matter the evidence against them! If you can’t put them on trial in a reasonable time, in many cases, for decades, then it really doesn’t matter what the punishment is, ‘Life with or without Parole’ or the ‘Death Penalty’. We keep talking about the punishment and we can’t even get to the ‘trial’🙄 What’s the matter with us?!🤨

Essentially if the current status continues, we’re doomed😳…🙄

My sincere hope is that if ever State Executions of convicted citizens is resumed , that one of these self righteous right wing Christian Pastors, who favour the death penalty, will be courageous enough to step forward from their comfortable and lucrative vocation (so called) to actually volunteer to kill the convict by placing the noose around his, or her, neck and pulling the lever. With this contemptuous bunch though it will never happen.

Maybe they should start with the white woman who killed her husband since you mentioned females. O but O, she has been freed from Fox Hell and is living it up all around the world,

Another talking head 🙄

Allen was COA boss & now in charge of Law Review Commission.

She is part of the malaise in the Judiciary. Feeding off the Treasury and producing NOTHING.