A webshop is a money launderers' dream. Simply go in and lose consistently, like most people do thousands of dollars per week, profits deposited in a bank, transferred to another account and clean as a whistle. No way any bank should accept these deposits from webshops who are owned by in one case by a convicted criminal, who operated illegally for years, regulated by a corrupt government. This is dirty business and Mr. Gomez knows this.

I am a Resident of Long Island and the truth is there is a great deal of crime here, most of which goes unreported. Furthermore, these crimes are rarely solved. This has less to do with the professionalism of our police officers and more to the fact that they are under resourced, under manned, and lack assistance from a community who fear retribution from criminals. There was a six month period last year in which there was not a single operational police vehicle for the whole northern half of Long Island, a span of 35 miles. I know because the police asked me to drive them to an investigation as they had no transportation. As it was they took over a week to get to the scene of the crime, as usual it was not solved. These officers it must be said many times used their own vehicles at their cost during this period. They are to be commended and our government shamed, it was simply unacceptable.

Murders are not solved on this island. I do not know of a single murder committed in the last 10 years where there is someone serving time for this terrible crime. Long islanders know this, and as such do not cooperate. They know they are isolated, and vulnerable,and the truth is the police take far too long to answer calls, the stations are often closed if you do not have a cell number then God help you. In short we know we are on our own, the police are to far away and inaccessible to help you usually. Again not so much their fault as a lack of resources.

This case of the murdered doctor that Mr. Gibson writes about had this island on edge. How is it that a manhunt is on for a convicted murderer and the public was not warned so that they could be aware and make informed choices? Why the big secret? Any time a hardened convict is released to Long Island they wreak havoc on our trusting, unsuspecting populace. It is unacceptable to hide this from the public given how vulnerable we are. And yes, if the police were more proactive and successful in following up on Mr. Gibson's complaint the doctor could very well be alive today. His complaint was made by Saturday and the doctor murdered allegedly by the same individual Wednesday night. Why so long to catch such a person on Long Island? We have good police but they are under resourced, under trained, and should be more proactive. Long Island has a lot of crime now and most of it is never solved.

Dear Scotiabank, Mr. Gibson's comments are meaningless, purely for a gullible electorate and you have nothing to fear. They are indicative of this promise a lot ( we believe in bahamians), do nothing for them party, epitomized by our do nothing prime minister. He dithers while the Bahamas burns, he should be called perry "NERO" Christie. But of course you already knew that, your were happy to earn $100 million plus in net income during the good years, billions over the lifetime of your existence in the Bahamas which have been repatriated drawing down on our precious foreign currency reserves, while reserving top positions for expatriates on work permit, while offering not a single share of Scotiabank to a Bahamian. And you tell us it is just business and nothing personal.

What should be done is that the tax on repatriated bank profits should be increased drastically and immediately. This will reduce the drain on our foreign currency reserves which are already desperately thin, and it will give an advantage to Bahamian banks. As you shrink our Bahamian banks and credit unions will grow. A good example is commonwealth bank that has over 500 employees with not a single work permit! It is 100% Bahamian. Every share of commonwealth bank is owned by a Bahamian and Bahamians can freely purchase shares on Bisx whenever they like. Not a single dollar of commonwealth bank's usual annual net income of 50 million is repatriated to a head office draining foreign reserves. Please do not take it personal, it is only business, but it is time we truly put bahamians first, and support and invest in those that support and invest in us.

By the way scotia earned 5.7 billion in net income last year, as much as our national debt. How is that for a wonderful corporate citizen?

Devastating for Long Island which is left with just one bank in Grays, a 35 mile drive from either the northern or southern tip of the island. Most of all I feel for the employees some of whom drove over an hour everyday to get to work, and we're dedicated and took pride in their jobs. Scotia rewarded them by laying them off and they have no realistic prospect of employment on an island that is an in an economic depression. Well done Mr. Christie, in your current delusion you would call this job creation.

What an injustice, definitely a case of fowl play.

What a good laugh. I just hope " big Red" provided you with with a good meal of chicken souse, albeit the most expensive souse you have ever eaten.

Truth be told this is the way the political system works in the Bahamas. It is a sad commentary on our state of governance and political interference that Minister Gray could not seem to comprehend that what he did was probably illegal. He was imbroiled in another recent case of interference with an administrator in crooked island. It seems to be his modus operandi, business as usual. It is just that this case became public and I commend the administrator for being honest, and bring it to light in Mayaguana. As minister Gray is the superior( boss) in this case with his employee he has a disproportionate amount of power in this relationship and bears similarly the disproportionate amount of blame.

Tal unquestionably Minister Gray needs to resign from cabinet as it appears he interfered in a judicial process. It is untenable to be sitting in cabinet while a police investigation in ongoing. You should agree with this. As for this case I have heard conflicting reports on both sides. One makes this young man out to be a devil, another a saint, the truth is somewhere in between. But in an effort at true justice I feel his case should have been heard by a magistrate in Nassau. In the interest of justice Minister Gray must resign until he has been exonerated, and if convicted of this serious offense he should be sentenced to at least a short period of incarceration.

Without commenting on the merits of this particular case, I live on a family island and this practice of the island administrator acting as a magistrate really needs to be amended. The power of these persons to incarcerate is truly frightening and they do not seem to have been trained specifically as magistrates. I can understand them having the power to issue minor fines, but they should not have the power to adjudicate a case and sent someone to prison. Those cases should proceed through the traditional court system in Nassau.