The corruption of our politicians and our legal system are without bounds.

While you're at it, you should visit the many websites that lay claim to recreational cocaine and heroin having medicinal effects and are healthy for one's mental well-being. lol

Sorry, but I'm not inclined to accept your invitation to crawl down your rabbit hole.

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.

These judges 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 like them will naturally be prone to biase 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. What's proposed in this new legislative bill will greatly exacerbate that problem; in fact put it on steroids!

Bottomline: These tired old 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.

Dumber than dumb AG Pinder and our corrupt PM Davis arehell-bent on taking away all of the most fundamental rights of the Bahamian people.

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 creating 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 Pinder and Davis no longer consider the many D- educated in our society to be their peers when it comes to jury trials. 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 these judges really need to take a serious look at themselves in the mirror because the next notch down this unconstitutional path is to do away with our judicial system altogether and have an authoritarian dictator decide who is innocent or guilty. There can be no two standards of justice in our constitutional democracy and lady justice must remain blind to social class. Justice Sir Burton Hall should know better and avoid keeping bad company.

Communist California has the highest electrical rates in the U.S.A. and is desperately seeking to find a way to reduce electrical rates across the board for all California.

California legislators have been back pedaling on the idea of income as opposed to usage based electricity rates ever since the ridiculous idea was introduced back in the summer of 2022.

Meanwhile Californians and California businesses continue to flee that state in droves for much less costly and much more business friendly states like Texas, Arizona and Florida. California is the first state to have been conquered by the ChiComs for all intents and purposes.

**can you just imagine her and others like her passing legislation that will allow them to determine which customers can and cannot afford to pay for the electricity they consume, with the government designated wealthier having to pay much higher electricity costs for the purpose of subsidizing the much lower electricity costs that would be billed to those designated less wealthy !!!!!!!**

Meanwhile the foreign owned hotels, resorts and other developments will continue to get their generous electrical power concessions and government departments, agencies and SOE's will remain BPL's biggest delinquent debtors, to the tune of mega millions of dollars.

No sane Bahamian should ever vote for any PLP party candidate ever again. The party is no longer progressive ........ it is now down right communist!

And why doesn't corrupt Davis himself not forthrightly address what he is proposing and supporting here??!! He shamelessly let's others carry all of his bad water.

This self-absorbed, egocentric and pseudo-intellectual arsehole would be only too happy to have his hands stained with the blood of our young defense force officers who needlessly stand to lose their lives by being stationed at his urging in Haiti at the worst possible time. Mitchell knows full well that Haiti is now torn and controlled by violent and dangerous gangs that do not value human life. We have no defense force officers equipped and trained to handle or assist in any way with the tumultuous situation as it exists on the ground in Haiti today.

This corrupt and incompetent Davis led PLP government has crippled most businesses to the point where they are struggling to survive with no means of supporting apprenticeship programs of any kind.

Pia knows full well that the extremely high and ever growing unemployment rate in our country today is attributable in large part to government's failure to introduce and implement meaningful policies aimed at stimulating business growth, reducing business costs, and easing the ability to do business.

Government is staring at another year where thousands of young Bahamians will soon be graduating from high school and UB with no ability to find decent paying jobs in the private sector. And Pia knows government can no longer afford to hire many in this year's graduating classes by growing the country's already grossly over-bloated and very costly civil work force.

The size and cost of our public sector has crowded out resources that should be made available to help fund policies aimed at growing the domestic private sector and thereby increasing the country's tax base rather than suffocating it.

Not so when there is documented evidence of physical abuse.

Mismanagement combined with outright corruption.