The dolphins are imprisoned in the Bahamas and not Maryland and this back-pedaling dumb arsehole is fully responsible for their unnecessary cruel treatment and the fatalities to date. Gomez is a twerp lacking a soul who only aspires to obtain as much money as he can possibly squeeze out of anyone or anything..

All good points.

> Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis noted that the United States, India, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the Netherlands are among various countries that let defendants choose a trial by judge alone.

The Tribune's reporter obviously failed to fact check this bogus assertion by PM Davis wherein he completely omits mentioning the most unusual and exceptionally narrow circumstances under which a jury trial does not occur in each of the countries named by him, e.g. military tribunals involving a defendant who is a member of the country's military. PM Davis also omits pointing out the other important safe guards these countries have put in place for any defendant required, by special circumstance, to undergo a trial by other than a jury of his or her own peers selected from society at large.

All right thinking Bahamians should be screaming for a better public education system and for their constitutional rights to be fully preserved and not in any way watered-down by the granting of unconstitutional choices that should never be allowed to exist.

All of the lazy and pompous judges really need to take a serious look at themselves in the mirror because the next notch down on this unconstitutional rope is to do away with our judicial system altogether and allow an authoritarian dictator to be the decider of who is innocent or guilty of whatever in our society.

There cannot be two standards of justice in our constitutional democracy and lady justice demands the power to pass judgement on any matter determining one's right to freedom not rest with a sole judge who may not bear any reasonable semblance to the defendants own true peers in our society.

This will take our legal system to a whole new level of corruption of the most frightening kind. Lawyers and their clients lobbying for the "right" judge to hear their case will take on a whole new meaning. The one thing our corrupt political ruling class cannot stand more than anything else is our Constitution and the protective rights it gives all Bahamians.

Too many senior judges, now in their twilight years, condescendingly think that they themselves are a superior choice to a jury trial by one's peers. They and other judges will naturally be biased in determining the outcomes of cases where a defendant is "of their own kind" in our society in terms of upbringing, literacy, education and overall social standing and stature. No one person should have the unconstitutional judgement power being proposed in this ridiculous legislation.

Bottomline: To many judges have allowed themselves to become lazy legal louts who really do think less educated persons at the lower end of our society's social spectrum are not capable of serving as a juror. Yet somehow they believe that very same type of person as a defendant would be capable of understanding the consequences of waiving their fundamental constitutional right to a trial by a jury of their peers.

Only lazy judges unwilling and/or unable to communicate with and properly advise and instruct jurors have a reason to fear the dumbed-down D- educated jurors that the failed education and social policies of the political ruling class are responsible for having created in the first place. Yes, it often involves more work on the judge’s part to educate jurors on important aspects of the applicable law but that added effort helps to preserve some of the most important principles behind of our judicial system.

It seems dumber than dumb Pinder and our corrupt PM Davis no longer consider the many D- educated in our society to be their peers when it comes to jury trials. These two demented imbeciles, and the lazy judges who wish to be elevated to God like status over the rest of us, are hell-bent in their efforts to do away with one of the most fundamental constitutional rights of the Bahamian people, a sacrosanct right that no Bahamian should ever be encouraged by his or her appointed lawyer or any judicial officer to somehow waive.

This clown Laroda, like all the other PLP cabinet ministers, always promises to conduct an investigation of one kind or another of the serious matter du jour, but never ever reports back to the Bahamian people the findings of his investigation of anything.

The population of The Bahamas is about to skyrocket when you consider all of the many children of the thousands of Haitian men who entered the Bahamas illegally over the decades but were nevertheless wrongfully given citizenship in exchange for their vote or for cold cash under the table, or for exploitable labour purposes. And these same Haitian men have many children living in Haiti as well as in the Bahamas.

Our already over crowded and under resourced public hospitals/clinics, public schools, social welfare services, etc., etc., will never be able to cope with the explosive growth in our population from the impending influx to our nation of thousands of children in Haiti fathered by Haitian men who entered the Bahamas illegally over the decades, and by hook or crook managed to obtain Bahamian Citizenship from our corrupt government officials.

You seem ignorant of the terrible conditions under which Jews around the world had to live for many centuries. Their ancestors have a lot more in common with our black slave ancestors than many of us might know or care to think.

Yes, the Almighty God will remain, but let's hope the State of Israel will remain too. Remember, it was necessary for a lot of non-Israelis to perish by drowning when God closed the Seas parted by Moses. Threatening to annihilate God's chosen people comes with much loss of life for which the fanatical terrorist leaders of the State of Iran should be held fully responsible - not the Israeli government. Negotiating with fanatical terrorists has never really been an option.

This matter goes a lot further back than the 19th century. Chapter 3 of the good Book of Exodus says all there is to say about God having given the Jews (the Israelites), as his chosen people, claim to the Promised Land of Canaan, now know as Israel.