The Bahamas should remain neutral in these affairs, move collectively with the Caribbean Community, and proceed with an assurance that any negative or future legal ramifications, or damage to its economy for its unguided support of the US's Unilateral Sanctioning of The Russian Federation and Its Citizens, that the Bahamas or any Bahamian Citizen would be dually and immediately compensated should there be losses. And without such guarantees, the Bahamas may want to consider carefully its actions.

*Franklyn Robinson,
Donald W. Davis Junior High School,
Class of 78'*

Anita introduced me to high hurdles after I was impossible at basketball; I went on to hold the junior and senior school 110 High Hurdles Record (78 - 81) at the national track and field levels.

Anita was a giant of a person and a lasting inspiration to me and, I am sure, many, many others.

Rest in peace Anita, you have done well.

***Inna Lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un - "Indeed we belong to Allah, and indeed to Him we will return."***

There is no complicated narrative that explains Dr Minnis's ineptness. The position of Prime Minister was entirely beyond his ability; there is no reason for Bahamians to be shy about this fact; he was out of his league, totally. Bahamian politics is a little mix and balance of skills that very few have mastered (Pindling, Ingraham and Christie to an extent.) And the jury is still out on Brave, although he had enough time in the shadows of the country's two great masters (Pindling and Ingraham) to have learned a trick or two.

The shell, killing and downing of passenger plains started eight years ago, and that is not laughable ...but it speaks to how fickle some of us are. We choose not to read but to follow, staying ignorant just because it's comfortable and shameless to know any better.

Educate yourself and not be influenced by evil forces that will turn on you in half a blink.

Permanent Council Decision No. 1117
Publisher Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Date 21 March 2014

"women and children being killed from shelling" in 2014, why didn't you care then? I guess it was laughable, right?

I guess you must have the worst seat in the house, and the lights are dim or your vision so poor. I will ignore your rant about CCA and the Chinese Investment in the Bahamas, which surpasses any combined investment by the Americans in The Bahamas in the 70 plus years of US/Bahamas relations. Furthermore, the Bahamas tourist strategy, which Sir Stafford Sands created, initially attracted British and European Tourists who were more wealthy than the Americans. Sir Lynden Pindling ditched the pound sterling and ran away the wealthy European investors, residents and tourists, deciding with plans to develop the Bahamas after a US/American model, creating places like Freeport. For Sir Lynden, the young black "boy leader" who found himself the leader of a (cashless Bahamas) the American model, at the time, was his only option which also nearly cost him his life.

The convenience of your location and the all-important Americans are not welcomed or feel safe (on the cheap) in no other country. As a result, cheap boxes called hotels finance by the Bahamas for the American operators of the 70s and 80s created the new model we ended up with, which is no indispensable dependent on American tourists. Still, a use/use game of I need your dollars, and you need my cheap vacation packages created the tourist industry we see today that is US military base independent.

As it is looking, you may be the one looking a little ignorant and naive.

overdosed on American propaganda, but you are not alone. In time, as so many have, you will wake up for your addiction.

To those who live in a world of pseudo realities and are of the "deaf talking to dumb", please read:

This Crusade is not new for Russia, just the same old trick on a new day. The difference is that the Americans are predictable; most of you may not know that this event has happened to the USSR 9 times. The Allied Forces, as they were called, before the creation of NATO, had worst planned for the Russian People; the Ukraine issue is only a dirty, sinister ploy that covers the West's true intentions. Lookup code names like (Trojan, Pincher, Bushwakker, Crankshaft, Halfmoon, Cogwheel, Offtackle, Charioteer and Dropshot. All nasty dark plots to annihilate "wipe from the face of the earth", quoting a former American President about the people of The Russian Federation. In the past, there was Joseph Stalin, and we now have Vladimir Putin (the master spy) to disrupt the evil plots of the Godless, Soulless, Dark hearted People.

The Americans are no one's friend, and it's a phenomenon of consumption, its uses then discard, it abuses then boast, it lies and then prides itself for doing so; it has no friends, only opportunities.

**Who is paying for the losses from the Illegal American Sanctions? The Bahamas can choose to stay neutral; international politics should not be The Bahamas' concern and remain a welcoming country to all. The Americans have no creditability and are not worth the effort considering when they are ready to turn on us; they do, and mercilessly.**

I guess you are not so old to know any better; all politicians "apologise" it goes with the culture, and in the Bahamas taking the Bahamian People for a ride, and making empty promises for five years job of easy money and privilege some politicians will even eat their vomit. I was told that the job is so sweet, why not; I must feel good because a failed politician said sorry, and I paid him to serve, hell no, my disappointments are worth much more than a sorry.

Damage done, lessons learnt. Bahamians need better, and we demand better. Bahamians will not be bamboozled by proven failed politicians who, when in need, look for the understanding of supporters; those days are finished.

The level of hurt and disappointment in the entire Minnis Administration is irreconcilable. There are no reprieves, no reset buttons. As long as the FNM continue to push its failures under the fool's carpet, it will remain in the dark wilderness of political failures.

The names of **Wells, Campbell, Bethel, Turnquest, Minnis, Pintard** will forever be edged in stone, as the people who let down the Bahamian People.

> (killing the dreams of their
> brothers)

Delivering them into the hands of the PLP, returning the country to an ideology of victimisation, partisanship, and evil corrupt practises that many were confident we would not see returned to the lives of Bahamians for a very long time.

The wilderness is dark, my friends, very dark.