And to think Darville can look you straight in the eye and say all of this while being among the wealthy political class who have left so many in our country with little hope and so much despair. None of them have any shame whatsoever for the horrific living conditions they have created for vulnerable young and elderly Bahamians over the past 4+ decades.

Exposed, you are entirely correct.
Yes, it is sad to see those presiding over what can only be called a "terribly sick society" seemingly shameless over what they allow to continue.
The bottom line is that much of this self harm behaviour is merely one of the symptoms of a nation gone wrong.
There is no better proof than these statistics.
Sadly, the economic system of Capitalism will preclude any form of relief, since this economic system is at the very root of most of the world's problems.
Obviously, this isn't going anywhere in The Bahamas.
We can't even keep our politician's hands out of the nation's cookie jar, and we are going to have a truly Christian national conversation?

And what do you think the data from the next survey will show when marijuana is legalized? Total confusion and collapse of the inter generational pillars of morality in our society. We in the Bahamas tend to look at issues such as the behavior of our youth in a vacuum and isolated from the other social structures. Time for us to wake up.

**"AS USUAL THEY WILL BLAIM THE PARENTS"**

To resolve the problem government needs to simply keep bringing in more Asians, Latinos, Haitians, and others to disenfranchise more of our youth from jobs, hope, and opportunities!

**PLP & FNM - ALL THE WAY TO NOWHERE !**

Who else should be blamed .... the children did not ask to be born. The two responsible for creating the child owe the child whatever support they need to be productive human beings. Our children are rising themselves or the streets are raising them. The egg and sperm donor are out partying.

Guava diff, you are using my line, but you can . They are exactly that, a sperm donor and an egg donor, not a mother and a father. These are both honorable titles they are not worthy of.

🤣 I knew one of you political apologist would be stupid enough to attempt shifting the blame of "POLITICAL FAILINGS" to protect low skilled jobs for Bahamians on parents.

Literally 10"s of thousands of low skilled jobs now occupied by expats should have been reserved for Bahamians only!

No Bahamian will will EVER be granted a low skilled blue collar job in Asia, Latin Ameica, or Haiti!

If foreign employers don't like black domestic workers, they shouldn't be here. They can carry their ass's to another country. We will survive just as well without them too, because their Asian, Latino, or Haitian employees send remittances to home countries which doesn't benefit the Bahamas.

Unemployed, desperate, Bahamian youth's have no alternative but to turn to crime for survival.

Don't act surprised if **Y-O-U** wake up one morning to the barrel of a gun!

Carry on smartly.

Blame the incompetent low-life FNM and PLP politicians have been electing to set government policy. Don't blame the foreigners for taking advantage of our own stupidity. And most Bahamian parents today are themselves no better than their children.....all victims of failed government policies that have only served to greatly enrich the political ruling class.

Do you know where we live? Let me tell you. We have terrible roads with potholes that look slummy, does not do well for our mental state, the electricity is constantly off, the bus system sucks with bus drivers( race car experts) race down the road with no respect for police officers and our laws, we have many politicians that seem to become millionaires in five years while the common man dances to Carnival, the groceries are expensive, the house insurance is expensive, the car license is expensive, the medical is expensive , the restaurants are expensive, the electric bill is outrageous, the government agency workers are stealing all the people’s money, don’t work or answer the phones and could care less. Everyone wants a tip, Bay Street looks like the hood and the road looks and feels like chip. The buildings are an eyesore, and we do not have any pride. I can go on and on , but people feel like there is no hope in this country. It is hard as hell to live here! How can a young 28 year old mother living in a car without a job take care of her 6 children for six different punks? How? Who teaches the girls to keep their legs closed , or the boys to keep their pricks in their pants? Their parents are lousy themselves. We are a troubled third world mentality country !

Things have changed a lot since 1998, I'd say 1998 felt a lot better than today, not that it was great but at least the murder count wasn't in the hundreds back then, it wasn't as congested, friends hung out and played together outside... but now it's all internet, they're isolated with fake interactions.

Yup.

Are these figures correct? If so, let's say there are 100,000 teens. Thus means 20,000 have attempted suicide. In most cases or all there would be a need for some medical assistance. So, that's about 60 ER cases per day potentially. Keep in mind this doesn't include attempts by people outside of this age bracket. If there's a major uptick in hospital visits because of this you don't need a survey. To me, the content of the article doesn't line up with the expected response. Also, why isn't there a mention of what the average figures are globally? Putting numbers aside one death or one attempt is one too many.

GANG activities and intrusion into lives of teenage boys and girls that was not as present before needs to be curtailed and stamped out. Also known fact is the increasing numbers of same teenage age group associated with violent illegal gun crimes and other crimes.

Known FACT of the existence of illegal teenager members in gangs and known existence of Legislation to stamp out the illegal ganggs and its evil existence, need to be immediately activated.

Some law and order and hope for better times and solutions should exist in lives of teenage Bahamians, to be educated in schools to mature into good productive citizens and not to wind up the way of failed neighbouring state of Haiti and decades old knowledge of violent teenage gangs of politicians one known as "Ton TON Macoute."

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