The first Hubert Ingraham administration set up several committees to look at various social issues in this country. He was criticized in some quarters for that. Mr.Ingraham to his credit was no fool like quite a number of persons in this country. He saw the various issues that was and will affect life in this country.

The committees looked at youth,crime and education. Reports were prepared and even printed in the press. Consultants also were brought in to look at the organization of the police force. However many recommendations from these groupings were not implemented. Of course, the PLP on regaining the government simply ignored those ideas. This is how this country is governed.

The island of New Providence have quite a number of poorly socialized individuals living on it. They lacked basic social skills. They were never taught or these behaviours modeled by their parents and guardians. You see it daily on this island, the breakdown in families and communities. The country needs trained sociologists and phycologists' to look at these issues. They need to identify and develop programs to arrest and fix these problems. There is quite a number of NGO's working with very groupings in this country. It is going to take an all hands on deck approach to these problems.

Pray tell,how splitting BPL into three companies is going to work. Years of mismanagement and corruption has come to a head.

Sentencing persons to jail for possession of small amounts of Marijuana for their personal use is foolish. That was the opinion of an English lecturer of one of my relatives. He said that they had decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana in the United Kingdom.

You are simply giving a lot of mainly young men criminal records.This in turn is making it hard for them to obtain employment.This is creating an underclass of unemployable people in this country.

The island of New Providence and the entire Bahamas needs a modern public transportation system. A proposal for a unified public bus system was presented in the seventies. It was rejected by the PLP government for the fear it would damage the livelihood of taxi drivers.

The lack of proper functioning bus system hurts productivity and is one of the factors driving the high cost of living here. A lady said this on a talk show. If New Providence had a sensible bus system, she catch the bus to and from work during the week. She drive her car on the week end to go the shop and church.

Bahamians are unwilling to modernize this country. They by in large are struck in a by gone era. A comment was made on social media about the Bahamas.The Bahamas is a country that is struck in the nineteen sxties.

Mr. Mitchell is a petulant child. Arrogant and conceited. Lacking humility and common sense.

Casual disregard for the laws. This is by the politicians who debate and pass laws. This attitude is why the Bahamas is in the state it is.

The law needs to be enforced. Those MPS who consistently flout this law should face the consequences of their non compliance.

@Porcupine, spot on. I said in a previous post in the Bahamas,you need trained psychologists.You also need sociologists who could study and explain the root causes of crime and other anti social behaviour in this country.

This is just a photo op for the minister.The media here in the Bahamas is just as bad. They need to ask questions and do real journalism. There was a grant given by the IDB for a study on the development of a unified public transportation system on the island of New Providence.That was done in 1994. Here we are in 2024, basically no progress to that goal.

SBF arrest, arraignment, trial, conviction and sentencing was quick.The authorities here in the Bahamas should take note. An accused murderer here in the Bahamas was given a court date of 2026. He was arraigned initially here in early 2024. Compare that to the very efficient court system in the US.

Human smuggling like drug smuggling is big business in the Bahamas. A journalist for the next daily spoke about what he saw in a particular island. He said that on a talk show. Bahamians love to pretend, like they do not know what is going on.