I took your advice and wrote them both this email (thanks for the addresses).

Dear Sirs,

I write because I am of the view that your survey has done a grave injustice to the Bahamian people. By ranking the Bahamas only 25th out of 175 countries in terms of corruption, you are condoning and giving veracity to an exceedingly corrupt regime. How does a government get more corrupt than stealing millions of dollars out of the treasury? The Bahamas should be ranked near the bottom of the list of corrupt countries. There are no term limits for politicians and no freedom of information act. Public funds are used on pet projects of political cronies. Tens of millions of dollars disappear without a trace each year. Please conduct more research before making your list next time.

How can I add to such amazing responses as those two previously articulated. Both of these posts should be published in the daily news, as they are more knowledgeable and erudite than any of the blather that spills out of the mouths of our politicians and is printed. Excellent posts!!

The whole Haitian deportation thing was just a diversion tactic for the bailing out of Bank of The Bahamas. It seemed to work, as it got the story of the bailout off the front cover. Bahamians just paid 100 million for nothing. How do you like them apples! This Haitian deportation is a scam, a smoke screen. Is it just a coincidence that it happened just after PM announced the BOB bail out? I think not. Think about it. Don't let the thieves get away with your money again by using innate prejudice and straw men. We aren't that stupid, are we?

I was insulted when the PM compared this to the US bailouts. This isn't even close:

1. The US bailouts were due to sub-prime mortgages, which everyone at the time in the industry thought were a sustainable product. We have no idea what the BOB loans consisted of -- were they even secured? Did they just hand out cash and call it a loan?

2. The US banks that were bailed out were considered too big to fail, because they would jeopardize the entire US economy. BOB is hardly too big to fail. It could go under and most people would hardly notice.

3. The US has the world's largest economy and can afford to bail out failing institutions. The Bahamas' economy is diminutive and on the verge of collapse. It cannot afford such a grandiose endeavor as bailing out a bank to the tune of 100 mill.

It's also insulting that they used a propaganda name like "Bahamas Resolve." This has nothing to do with the Bahamas. Name it the Dirty Politician Resolve. Don't sully the Bahamas' name with your nefarious schemes.

I beg the Press to look into every aspect of this deal, as it stinks to high heaven. What will happen to the 100 million dollars of bad loans? Will taxpayers have to foot the bill? Why was there so much secrecy and deception around BOB's failings? They even called the Punch a liar, when they were telling the truth. What was the exact amount of bad loans lent to politically exposed persons? This is a dark day for both political parties, as their true colors have been revealed to the world.

In The Bahamas, inner city gangsters appear to be sacred cows. The police do not patrol their neighbourhoods in New Providence. They allow these bad boys to roam the streets all night long and gamble, use drugs and shoot off pistols for kicks. However, New Providence is too small to allow this segment of the population to remain unpoliced. The nefarious daily and nightly behavior which transpires in these ghettos is spilling into the wider community in the form of robberies and unprovoked murders. Pindling started the trend of designating gangsters as sacred cows, because they grew up in poverty and were "oppressed" by the white upper class. Even now, with crime at an all time high, politicians don't want to intrude on the daily deviance of the grass roots. They shake in their boots at the thought of "oppressing" persons that symbolize the black slave revolution from the white Bahamian aristocracy. Further, many Bahamian police grew up in these neighbourhoods and would rather show boat on Bay Street than patrol and agitate the backyard of their past. In order for us to survive as a nation, Bahamian police must infiltrate these neighbourhoods and restore them to civility and order, by arresting all evidence of disorderly conduct therein. 24 hour patrols need to be instituted in the hood, which target homes resided by drug dealers and thugs. It is only through extreme surveillance of "bad" neighbourhoods in New Providence that "good" neighbourhoods will be restored to peace.

Major Gwen Anderson: After you had already won, why did you continue to hit him? Did you enjoy it? Ender Wiggin: Knocking him down was the first fight, I wanted to win all the others. So they'd leave me alone. Ender's Game

The Bahamas Police need to bring the fight to the criminals, not wait for them to attack us hiding in gated communities. It's been said the best defense is a good offence. I was angered when the police said they did a walkabout of Blair yesterday. Why didn't they do a walkabout of the neighbourhood where the criminals live? Why not conduct gun searches of all the homes in that neighbourhood? I'm tired of seeing police conducting traffic stops on West Bay Street. The police need to patrol and conduct traffic stops over the hill where the criminals live. By now, the Police must have an idea where the majority of criminals live. They need to conduct 24 hour patrols of these hot zones. They need to make these hot zones the safest place in The Bahamas. It's time to attack the problem at the source -- let's bring the fight to them. Only then will they begin to leave us alone.

Please explain. Has 10 million dollars of Government money been stollen or hasn't it? I could care less about who feels slighted or made a clerical error etc. At the end of the day, all I want to know is if real money (10 mill cash) has been taken.

This is plain crazy. Another pea-brained idea from our feathered friends in power. Let's follow America. Let's follow Obama. Let everyone come to The Bahamas. One problem -- we get one
case of Ebola here and tourism is dead, our economy is dead. The Bahamas believes it is America; this is its greatest flaw. We should follow in the steps of Trinidad and Jamaica and ban travel. Wake up Bahamians and march against this deranged plan. Close the borders now!

This sounds like it could be a case of someone being paid under the table not to collect fees. A full review of this matter should be undertaken by the Press. There is no way an organization would just sit back and say oh well, no problem, keep the 230K, unless some funny business was going on (or they are completely incompetent, which is also a form of corruption).

We are not interested in the party, PLP or FNM (blaming party is just blowing smoke). We don't care when it happened either. We want to know who stole the money. Who holds the money in their bank account at this very moment. Investigative journalism should reveal the shareholder(s) of the shell company -- go to the company registry and check the shell company file. Very simple. Whoever incorporated the shell company is the thief! This bull ends now. The thief must be held accountable.