the friendliness vibe went out the window with Independence and our dear departed SLOP brainwashing of our populace.

So 51% of the murders are solved...really? Have they all gone to court and proven guilty? Best you use the term 'solved' very carefully...in another 10 years when the case finally goes to court it will likely be overturned or dropped do to some forensic or procedural flaw...then your solved stats go straight out the window.

The problem is, we are not civilized down here, and we are not law abiding...your point 1...ban all weapons...they already are, it's not enforced...May not be only shotguns, think it includes all manually loaded 'long arms', shotguns and rifles, things like that, but definitely no handguns. As for the rest...good luck with passing those laws, Would need to dedicate an entire island to house the prison population, plus all your crying civil rights people would cry foul over privacy concerns. Break from the Privy Council and get back to hanging...heck...I kind of like the guillotine!!

Agreed...he did not have his documents...GUILTY...did he say he was legal and could present the documents in short order? He probably would have driven the length of the island and back again to show the documents to that same officer, it's not like he was hiding some big state secret and being deceitful is all I am trying to say.

Back to the Common sense thing...

Good man!! Hang 'em high!!

I've come across MANY Jamaican workers who are just as lazy and maybe even more corrupt and thieves at the end of the day...Haitian, not so much. Knock on wood, had a pretty decent run with the Haitians we've worked with. But, I am sure there are a bunch of bad apples out there as well!!

Shock and awe!!

As stated ad nauseum in the other story blog...was the UBS guy wrong...YES...legally he should have had his papers...did it have to end up the way it did with him being detained...NO...lack of common sense and power hungry spiteful officials is basically what it boils down to. Unfortunately, that is the way the past few generations have been raised, and we are stuck with it...pig headed egotistical people who have risen from some nobody in the inner city to an immigration officer or police officer and want to make your life miserable just because they can, instead of approaching the situation in a calm and professional manner.

I can go along with that...assuming they are able to provide all the proper papers, there should be an apology given...also depends a lot on the circumstances still though and that apparent lack of common sense. If you know it is an obvious situation of the guy being legal but not having his papers on him at that precise moment in time, then maybe cut the person a bit of slack and let them go secure the documents and remedy it. If there is any reason to doubt the persons genuity, then maybe haul them in...but the people enforcing the laws have such a chip on their shoulder and are so power hungry, they'll lock you up just out of spite...because they can and you can't touch them.

But I can see what happens...take Bankers shake down...tongue in cheek...

Good Afternoon Sir, I am an immigration officer, and we are checking people to verify their residency status. Are you a Bahamian sir?

No.

Are you a legal resident.

Yes.

May I please see your work permit sir?

I do not have them with me.

May I please see some identification.

Yes (p*ssed off).

(Immigration officer...Did he just roll his eyes at me or say something cheeky....I'll show his white a&$ who is boss)

Please get out of the vehicle sir, we need to take you in for processing, at which point a couple police officers armed with machine guns spin the guy around and put on handcuffs and probably grab him up under his arms and shove him on a bus.

Kinda thinking that's more of how it happened.