baclarke... please be careful what you say in terms of your rhetorical question: "why give them even more money to steal and waste with no real system of accountability in place?".... Why am cautioning you? It is because some persons might come up with an answer...

The operative but descriptive word you used to describe the 'Red Cross Ball', and that should be of significance is "decent". Time to think... and not by Paul D. Reilly either... but by us, the Bahamian People.

Yes there is... the gain is called a social political gain of managing and keeping us preoccupied mentally and emotionally for the period that the Carnival is debated and held.

There a deal on to begin a ferry service now into Cuba... saw it on Yahoo news. Any wonder these two seems to coincide with the Principal in the Bimini ventures also holding strong ties and investment in Cuba? Ouch... even prostitutes are treated better...

Well isn't it?

What you see, is what you will get from Minister Hanna-Martin... and the poor man don't have the intelligence or the courage to make suggestions alternative to what is clearly a hazard to his own life. Are you married? Do you have children? Is your life insurance paid up?

Right on Pubilus... nothing this Officer do on land or in Nassau might be able to stand up in our courts of law. It a matter of jurisdiction.

First thing I noticed as well... goes to show how they are bullshitting the public. Furthermore, when did the downtime period occur within which these RBDF personnel was trained for this wholly new arena of deployment?

Well cut my legs and call me shorty... better yet... piss on my head and tell me it is raining; but only after you give me this brown feces to eat to say that it is chocolate chip cookie.

Yeah... either high on those drugs or hallucinogens, or, high on frustration from marginalization, which causes a sense of alienation, which in turn, brings on the syndrome of 'i don't give a f*%#' no more...

Greentea... you said: "Obviously there is a market..." referring to guns. Yes... hungry, disgruntle, misguided or unguided and no pre-occupation souls are that market. We can, and there is the means to do awy with that market, but some of us hold that it should not be at the expense of the all for me babies.

And as far as the man being justified for protecting his house, mark you, he would be the very one who must sit in Fox Hill prison for two (2) years before he is even considered to go to trial. You were not completed in what you continued to say..., "and obviously these people have no respect for anything much less life". You are right in this respect... but there are others as you and I can see now who don't give damn