Sad. Some real hardened criminals are in there, but there is a certain standard of living that they need to be provided with as well.

Here is the thing tribabon, this is the law being applied equally. If they were protesting without permission, they broke the law. I have trouble believing that Minnis ordered this primarily because it is such bad optics. Agreed on the part about the political victimization in general though, things need to be 100% fair regardless of the shirt/hat colour.

Honestly, our system of governance is far too advanced for 90% of Bahamians to ever effectively understand. Most Bahamians don't seem to understand that there is a legal difference between conducting a walkabout and a protest/demonstration. I can assure you that this was either staged/planned, or a stunning display of incompetence on the part of the DNA. If Komolofe is worth her salt as an attorney, she should know very well that permission is required to hold a protest/demonstration. If not, she needs to retire from politics completely as we can't have someone that ignorant involved with national affairs. This is all one big pity party for attention that Bahamians are getting suckered into joining.

The bright side of that is they will be the first to experience any after-effects, if any.

Did they have a permit? That is the only question relevant to this discussion.

I see this one both ways.

$250 is not enough to live off of in the Bahamas, not in Nassau at least. Rent alone, even in the worst parts, is more than likely going to be over 50% of that. Factor in crazy COL compared to even the most expensive counties in Florida, and you are not going to be able to live on your own without prostituting yourself/selling drugs like so many of our young men and women are doing.

At the same time, many Bahamians want a 500 a week salary when they don't even have 250 a week in qualifications. You would be surprised how many bank tellers cannot even calculate compound interest properly working in a financial industry, or just the general trash tier customer service that most Bahamian businesses have in general. Can I call BPL/Bahamasair/your local business and get an answer? Probably not to be honest. Am I going to pay employees a high salary when they bring absolutely nothing to my company?

This is a two way street that requires understanding from both parties.

Another issue too is that too many Bahamians want big money for unskilled labour. Nobody is going to pay you a high amount when they pick up a random Joe off the street to do your job. Most Bahamians in general just have a very poor understanding of economics and how labour markets work as well.

Lloyd is 100% right in this one. The only sad part is that most Bahamian children do not have parent(s), but only a parent, or a grammy. In short, nobody really cares for these children.

Should be a crime to bring children into the world and give them such a crappy head start in life.

Why don't you focus on the national debt/our dead in the water economy/dilapidated infrastructure/etc. instead of how many penises or vaginas you have in a room.

Bahamians like to follow every sort of stupid foolishness spewing out of America.

Welcome to 2021. Always a white man to blame somewhere for some problem lol.

Plenty "pure" (if you will) white Bahamians still reside here. Have you ever been to Abaco, Spanish Wells, certain parts of New Providence? In general though, you are right in that most Bahamians have some form of mixed blood.

It isn't only us that avoid that like to stay in our "enclaves". Talk to any foreign investor, tourist, etc. well familiar with New Providence in particular. House break-ins and robberies are a very common theme of reasoning among those who live behind the walls and barbed wire in Nassau. Why do you think so many cruise passengers choose to stay on the ship when stopping in Nassau? Sad to say, we have a horrendous reputation for crime abroad.

White politicians have existed in the Bahamas (Brent, James, Edison Key, Larry Cartwright, Ryan Pinder, etc. in recent times) but do you remember all the huff and puff when Ingraham made Brent the deputy PM in 2007? Besides that, you definitely have to run in a place like Central & South Abaco, St. Annes, North Eleuthera, etc. to win. Only so much you can do as an MP as well, which it why is much better to play a part behind the scenes.

Tell me this : who founded the PLP? Plenty of poor/working class white Bahamians here. Not everyone went to St. Andrews or Lyford Cay, as a matter of fact, my parents went to public school (believe it or not). The stereotype of all white Bahamians being rich only contributes to the perceived boogeyman that still unfortunately lives in the minds of so many Bahamians today.

I wonder why we withdrew into the gated communities....couldn't be because of the out of control crime, or the fact that we would like to not get robbed/raped traveling in certain parts of New Providence.

Keep using us as the scapegoat for all of the Bahamian problems, the UBP card still exists in the mind of both the FNM/PLP as a convenient means of shifting all of the blame for the issues of the past 50+ years elsewhere. Using a much maligned example in Bahamian society, Brent Symonette has invested in many Bahamian businesses not just limited to the tourism industry. Still doesn't stop the good old fashioned UBP/race card from getting pulled anytime Bahamas Hot Mix gets a contract. I am sorry, too many black Bahamians have a culture of victimhood and and a "blame the white people" mentality engrained in them from an era what most weren't even alive to witness. Do they still play Roots on ZNS before every election?

As for the ones that only stay in the safe industries, have you ever thought that people go into business to make money? Besides fishing, tourism, or financial services, there are only so many things to do to make a living in this economy. That is fixed, and unchangeable. We hear all of this talk about "diversification", but what else can really be done at this point? That is something that I never get an answer to.