Obviously the two clowns who posted above are not aware of the conflict of numbers Dean -Patterson is reporting. So they read the headline and support her in her usual attack on Bahamian men.

> “The UN Women narrative on
> gender-based violence in Caribbean
> cites: ‘While the worldwide average
> for rape was 15 per 100,000, The
> Bahamas had an average of 133, St
> Vincent and the Grenadines 112,
> Jamaica 51, Dominica 34, Barbados 25
> and Trinidad and Tobago 18’.

So based on these figures are they saying the Bahamas averages 505 rapes a year?

"**Over a 10-year period, from 2003 to 2013, there were 1,109 reported rapes, according to police statistics.**

This comes after Commissioner of Police Ellison Greenslade revealed last week that rapes increased by 16 per cent in 2015 when compared to 2014." (Tribune 2016).
But Dean-Patteron says, "***Annual police reports document 9,045 assault female victims in 5 years from 2008 to 2012"*** Maybe we have two different police forces operating in the Bahamas?
Why are these people reporting the Bahamas as having **FIVE** times the number of rapes that the police are reporting? and **nineteen** times the number of rapes/assaults combined that the police are reporting? Now you see why travel advisories are being issued? Because we sit on our fingers and believe everything these people with hidden agendas publish. Or allow them to publish unsubstantiated foolishness and get away with it. And let them destroy our fragile and already struggling economy.

Meltdown Marvin has too much on his plate. His food is now starting to taste bitter of bad deeds. If the wrong person says 'good morning to him, they may get shot. His corrupt plan to stamp out corruption exploded in his face. A plan he was warned against trying to execute. He has a corrupt run-a-way police force that is killing innocent citizens, torturing others, including women and also, apparently making others disappear. And answerable to no one. Where is Marvin Smith? Can you use margarine to butter a person? Asking for some MP's.

The heartbreak of just having to stand there and watch the ship sail away. Should they just go home or try to catch up with the ship at its next port stop?

Marvin Dames has become the most embattled MP and probably the greatest embarrassment to the FNM government by his own doings (or undoing). YES the Bahamian people wanted to see an attack on and attempt to stomp out corruption but they wanted clear and natural justice. Not tampering of evidence and witnesses. YES Bahamians wanted a war on crime. But they didn’t expect to be awakened at 2-3-4 in the morning by Black hawk helicopters with officers jumping in and around their homes looking mostly for drugs while disturbing their nite rest and scaring them half to death. YES Bahamians want the war on crime to continue but they don’t want innocent young men gunned down like dogs ( sorry dogs they shot you too) in the streets and no special investigation being launched, no closure to the family and to friends and loved ones. And other persons allegedly in police custody going missing. Yes Bahamians wants criminals apprehended and brought to justice but not if it means police have to beat, torture and half kill innocent citizens to do so or have to fix and tamper with evidence. YES Bahamians want this country to move to the level of the rest of the world when it comes to its drug policy especially as it relates to marijuana. Not in the least that it should be legalized for recreational use, but to move away from the other extreme of zero tolerance. This policy is to imposing on individual rights, when individuals are intimately searched during traffic stops. Small amounts of marijuana should be confiscated and destroyed on scene and/or become a ticket offence where the violator has the option to pay a fine without getting a record. Zero tolerance is too expensive and too impossible to achieve.

I’m expecting to see a surplus budget early next year and a cut in VAT to 10% before the next election. It’s the people’s time.

Ms Strachan, Mr Gibson and Mr Fines were released without charge on January 22, 2018. They were arrested and questioned as officers investigated an attempted murder and armed robbery on Eleuthera. They filed a complaint with the police force’s Complaints and Corruption Unit in February 2018. They have also filed a lawsuit against the police in relation to the allegations.

> Blockquote

So they only give a few days to file complaints against the police? No wonder why the gears of the torture machine (pliers, electric cords attached to metal chairs placed in puddles of water, baseball bats, rope around the neck, getting tossed in the canal at night, threatened to get run over by a vehicle) are so well oiled and the fish bags are so full of hotsauce and sweat. And now even the women dem toting blows from male police officers. Even Haiti does not tolerate this degree of physical abous from police.

At least they can sell tickets for round two.

Well that wasn't the only problem, Some consumers eventually figured out there was a big brassy padlock on their service box, while they was waiting for two days for the power to come back on. Can imagine when the summer heat really start and those a/c's have to kick in as light bills already look like summer

Think they done sniff out that NHI big bag a cash