My sincere condolences to the family. A very sad situaton.

Over the years, there have been several murders on or near school campuses on New Providence. A young man was murdered on the grounds of C.I. Gibson. A young man was murdered near A..F Adderley at the Hugh Campbell tournament when he attempted to stop some men from stealing his shades. A young man from C.V.Bethel was stabbed to death at the shopping center East Street South. A young man was stabbed on Horse Shoe Drive walking home from T.A Thompson school .He died in the hospital. I personally knew two young men who were stabbed to death in the Coconut Grove area.

There is a lot deeply rooted social problems on the island of New Providence. These problems manifest themselves in the crime, anger and frustration. Everybody needs to come together and put their heads together to come up solutions to these problems.

It was recommended from 1963, 58 years ago that a proper land registry be set up. This was done from the seventies in St.Kitts and the Cayman Islands.

There was a attempt a few years ago to computerize the land records. There is strong resistance to change in this country. There are quite a number of persons who benefit from the Bahamas not having a proper land registry. The Bahamas is a country held back by various persons who benefit from maintaining the status quo.

The purchase of HMBS Lawrence Major was one of the best decisions of the Christie government. That vessel was built in lieu of a next patrol craft. A retired defence officer told me that.

He said that in the event of a natural disaster, you need to transfer supplies ,machinery and men around this country He said some islands don't have proper docking facilities or the channels is shallow. Defence officers explain that to Christie and his cabinet. But Bahamians don't really understand or travel in the Bahamas. Like some one said to me, the majority of Bahamians live in the country of Nassau.

Nursing is a noble and very important profession. Nurses do more than change patients and throw out bed pans. Qualified nurses are in short supply in the first world countries. The US has a very aggressive recruiting program.

Nursing studies is not easy jack. I Know a young lady who finish her bachelor's and passed her nursing registration exams last year. I know somebody whose daughter is working as a nurse in the US making a high six figure salary.

Nurses are fed-up with conditions they work under in the public system, also with the salary and benefits. This problem has been doing on for years .Nurses have migrated from this country and double and sometimes triple their salaries in the US.

I agree with everything written in this article. Immigration is used to build countries. The US and Canada were built on immigrant labour. A relative of mine who lived and worked in the Turks and Caicos told me, there is a large expat community there.

The Bahamian tourism industry took off due to it nearness to the US and the economic embargo and isolation of Cuba. Cuba fell out of the tourism for years. In fact before COV19 hit, more Canadians visit Cuba for vacation than come to the Bahamas. More countries in this region are developing their tourism industry.

A Bahamian with a PHD living aboard, said this ,life in the Bahamas would be very different if Cuba and Haiti were not economic basket cases

The Bahamas has both a governance and management problem. This was evident with hurricane Dorian. A country that sits in a hurricane zone . The Bahamas is also governed on an overcentralized model. Power is concentrated at the center and even some mundane decisions are made at cabinet level.

Persons are selected for certain positions here ,not for their competence. The head of the DRA is an example of that. Bahamians here are fixated on appearance, personality and politics. That is why so many competent persons are cast aside. That is one of the push factors encouraging talented persons to migrate from the Bahamas.

I hope and pray we learned our lessons from hurricane Dorian. However based on many things I have seen or heard in this country, I a m not certain that will happen.

Dr.Major was not a good speaker also. His ruling on documents has rendered the Public Accounts Committee weak and practically useless until recently.

The island of New Providence needed a safe, reliable unified public transportation system decades ago. Not having one is one of the factors in the high cost living on this island and the increasing level of social fragmentation, That was the opinion of a bahamian graduate student.

Bahamians can go right door to Fort Lauderdale and see how a real unified public transportation works. Their buses run on a twenty minute schedule from 6.05 in the morning until 12.00 at night. Bermuda which is just 22 square miles has a sensible public transportation system. Like I was told by somebody despite the Bahamas high level of GDP, this country is years behind in many aspects of its' development.

I was told from last year that Mark Humes was not going to be renominated. I like him as a person. The person said to me ,he just won on the wave. There were several wave candidates in this parliament.

Nicole Martin if elected, would bring nothing to the parliament. She left the hotel union in a disarray, I was told. The Bahamas really needs a strong system of local government to train and prepare people for the national level of politics.

The Bahamas is a country with deeply rooted socio-economic problems. Crime is one of them.
Crime is a multi-faceted problem with many layers.

The first Hubert Ingraham government set up a commission to study crime. The Ingraham government also had commissions looking at youth and education. The Christie government started Urban Renewal. If the recommendations and policy ideas from those commissions were implemented properly along with a sensible ,managed urban renewal program, we could have been in a better position.