What an absolute corrupt scumbag. First the rubis scandal and now this. He should be criminally charged by the attorney general. Who knows what other dirt there is that has not come to light?

Yes when does this never ending, unmitigated stream of " teachable moments" end? Meanwhile the youth of this country lie in blood, daily hunted down like animals. It is enough to make you weep.

Mr. Christie had his chance and FAILED, it is time for him to shut up and leave office. He will never leave of his own volition so it is up to the Bahamian people to vote his incompetent administration out. He failed , it is time to fire him and try someone new.

"Five masked men with handguns", how many handguns are on the streets in this country? They seem as common and as easy to obtain as sand from the beach. Yet the govt. has increased the fees and drags it feet in approving a gun license for law abiding citizens. This is wrong in the face of such ubiquitous guns in the hands of thugs, law abiding citizens need these fees reduced and the process streamlined and expedited so they can protect their families in their homes.

One of those schools is NGM Major in Buckley consistently one of the most outstanding public schools in this country. There is a serious problem that the govt needs to address immediately. There are students there on a government assistance meal program, where they are provided with lunch paid for by the government. Well the govt is now late in paying the food vendor and they are no longer providing the meals. The school has now taken upon themselves to cook a meal for those children each day. This is ridiculous and shameful, the govt needs to see that this is corrected immediately! How can students study when they are hungry? Please see to it that these vendors are paid and our children provided for.

#Commissioner Greenslade said if police are able to arrest some prolific offenders, he believes there will be “no murder report this evening, none tomorrow and none in the weeks and months ahead”.

I have been saying this for a long time. The vast majority of serious crime is at the hands of maybe 100-200 prolific offenders. We need to get serious. The commissioner needs on his desk the names of the 100 most wanted profiled thugs in this country and be relentless in taking them off the streets. If the will was there this could be done in a week! Everyday one is incarcerated strike his name off the list. If the courts release them have surveillance on them 24/7 and lock them up for even jaywalking. Make their lives living hell. This country is so small there is no where to hide, the police know who these thugs are, why do we sit like helpless victims.

And our laws need to be stiffened, some of our judges pass sentences that are far too lenient. If you commit a felony, especially so if you are a prolific offender you are incarcerated for decades not months. Judges that continue to put these thugs on the streets need to be weeded out and removed from the courts.

NHI is such an absolute farce it is hard to put into words. We can not provide the most basic level of care at our government clinics. This is my experience with Simms clinic in Long Island I went there for back pain, beautiful facilities, competent doctor but no supplies or drugs. The doctor asked the nurse one after the other for four different drugs not one of them available. These were all basic, cheap generic drugs. I laughed and asked the doctor about it and he said we order the drugs and they come late or usually not at all. They ended up giving me panadol for my pain. What a joke. They felt so embarassed I was not even charged for the visit.

My wife needed a simple test done, we wait two hours to see the doctor she orders the test, only to be told it is not available. The doctor tells us to buy it locally on the island and come back to her, we drive 30 minutes to a mini mart grocery store and buy the test for $3.09. Why the hell can this frigging clinic not have this test? Absolutely pathetic.

Eleuthera has no doctor, at all on an island 110 miles long. Let that sink in.

Another family island is staffed by a close friend, they bemoaned the lack of drugs, especially an injectable pain medication used constantly. They have it now intermittently because a second home resident who is a doctor flies in to the island to supply the clinic. And we have the the absolute gall to talk crap about NHI. Please supply these damn clinics with the most basic drugs and then move on from there.

Relax everyone, take a deep breath, nothing to worry about. The good commissioner said crime is down 26%. It appears no one believes him.

Hard to believe because Tal for the most part is a very confused individual, but depending how far you go back he is basically correct. The bahamas birth rate has declined 50% from 1965 (29.87) to 2015 (15.04), so it has taken 50 years not 40. In 1975 the birth rate was 25.92 per thousand.

http://www.indexmundi.com/facts/the-bah…

It is best to leave race out of this discussion completely. It is inflammatory and diverts from the central issue. The better way to state the problem of unwanted and uncared for children is that the poor and uneducated have many more children than any other segment of society. High school dropouts have a higher number of children on average than high school graduates, who are higher than the college educated etc, right on up to graduate degrees. So as with so many intractable problems in this country it comes down to improving our educational system. This will take a long time and requires a sea change in our Bahamian way of thinking.

In the short run govt can make quick meaningful changes. Most importantly is to increase the consequences for these deadbeat fathers who refused to support their children. Laws need to be amended to increase the child support deadbeat fathers must pay. It must have teeth and be enforced. Have a court established exclusively to deal will this problem, have it open 24/7. Wages and assets of these deadbeats must be garnished and then perhaps these men will think twice about wanton procreation. At the very least children will benefit from increased material support that they deserve and will not suffer as they are now.

Mr. Cartwright is 100% correct on the devasting impact web shops have had on the Long Island community. It is slowly destroying the economic and social fabric of this island. They are far more devasting than hurricane Joaquin ever was. When you have a single web shop company with multiple outlets generating several hundred dollars profit per month and exporting this off Island it is no wonder businesses are suffering and closing. There is no circulation of money, like a giant funnel sucking resources from the most vulnerable and needy to the rich and greedy.

On the social side you have spouses with gambling addictions, gambling away grocery money, money to pay electrical bills etc, and it is easy to see the impact this has on family life, an increase in domestic violence and abuse, children suffer etc. It has lead too to an increased demand on social services as monies that should have been used for basic necessities are lost.

It appears however, that these web shops are an unavoidable evil as many Bahamians especially the uneducated and poor are hopelessly drawn to the lie of quick easy money. This is why these web shops should be taxed to within an inch of their life, certainly much more than they are now, so that these resources can be used to fund the increased demand on social services. Ideally, they should be nationalized so that the state derives the maximum benefit, as it is the state that is now paying for all of the social ills these webshops invariably cause.