I'm for mortgage relief on proven evicted/homeless people as I'm hearing there are a growing number of families (yes kids too) sleeping in cars in Grand Bahama. The rest with their hand out because times are hard need to reshuffle their priorities and downsize. Yes, ConcernedCitizen I am with you on how most of them are living above their means anyway.

This is definitely not an easy fix and not one that will please everyone, but I will say that something does need to happen. Happen because its needed and is right.

Congrats! I love to run, but I don't think I will ever complete such a feat. Job well done for sure!

Has anyone ever thought of doing something about the high recidivism rate once prisoners are released? You can lock them up all you want, increase their sentences to forever, kill them, or pray for the Great Almighty to take them before their release....but will any of these do anything to ensure they will act right once released? NO it won't (just in case you were wondering).

I speak from the experience of having a family member who was sentenced to Her Majesty's Prison for 8 years. I remember having to vist him there and him remarking, "I get favors from other prisoners because I read and write their letters for them." I know this article is not about education, but another root of our crime problem. He also remarked that none of them had the skills to do anything even when they were released.

For those who can read/write, and have workable skills...what is being done about their psychological state of being that contributed to the prisoner becoming a resident of the prison? I say this because my family member read and wrote well, had a skill, was released and decided he would return to a life of crime. Selling drugs and the like, etc., etc. He later became a statistic of the Bahamas' murder rate (RIP).

You don't have to come from a broken family to become a criminal. You don't have to be someone who needs the acclimation of a skillset, but what are we doing to rehabilitate our fellow Bahamians to prepare them for life on the outside without crime?

Tougher sentences only go so far, we only have so much space (which is a whole other conversation). We need to address rehabilitation in a Psychosocial sense!

It all comes down to parenting and a child's sense of self worth. How about parenting classes? Sure, they all aren't going to show up and you can't force them to, but if you reach one that's plenty. How about counselors for parents? Not just counselors for children.

Children with a sense of self worth no matter how poor don't grow up wanting to get whatever hand out they get from their MP or their aunt who works at Atlantis. They grow up wanting something for themselves, for their country.

Yes, its a different generation. Yes, we grow up in a celebrated ghetto culture. I had an American friend ask me once, "Am I ghetto because I live in the project?" I said, "No, you're poor that's why you live in the projects." Being poor should not be synonymous with ghetto. Poor is a way of life, ghetto is a mentality. Let's teach our children they shouldn't aspire to be 'ghetto' no matter their circumstances.

Police in schools....ever watch the movie 'Lean on Me'? Kick those bad eggs out! Make kids want to behave so they can be in school. I know that's harsh, but its reality. Most of them are graduating with certificates not diplomas anyway. Teach them the way of the world, its an unforgiving place. Those kicked out should be made to automatically report to juvenile detention.

Handful or not...they are the opposition and they are using their voice, as they should, to raise concern over inappropriate political behavior i.e. their job, their purpose! Chrissy Love's dismissal **is** a result of political victimization. Plain and simple. No matter what party you represent,a spade is a spade.

Ms. Love, keep your head up, launch your own radio station.

First of all I am not a PLP and will never be a supporter. What I was addressing was the previous comments of people believing that Bahamians would never farm and the ridiculous encouragement of condoning that young people turn up their noses at farming. Farming can go to high scientific levels that unfortunately uninformed minds in the Bahamas are oblivious too. I hate when people turn up their noses to concepts they are unfamiliar with.

I am not disagreeing that on a large scale given the current 'climate' of agriculture in the Bahamas that it wouldn't be difficult to start even sustain. Anything successful in life experiences failure, sometimes multiple failures. Just because you fail doesn't mean you give up, there are other avenues to explore. P.S. its the mindset like those above that keep Bahamian Scientists who know more than a thing or two on the subject abroad.

Bahamians need to stop looking at hard physical work as slave labor. Particularly when it comes to people who say they need jobs and have no money. Farming is honest work that produces food...that you don't have to **buy**. I hold one of the highest degrees attainable in academia and I plan on having my own home garden one day so much so that I need not go to the food store for my vegetables ever! There is alot of MONEY in farming if you know what you are doing. Look into my people! You can own a farm too, not only be a laborer.