And who is talking to the young men? Who is trying to steer them away from crime and drugs and gangs? Are the police so convinced that all young men are the problem in this country that they now have the right to shoot them down like dogs. Or to pull them off the streets on their way to work or just to the neighborhood store and lock them away for days. Denying family and friends the right to see them and causing them to miss school or lose good paying jobs. Then beating them and verbally abusing them and making them angry and trying to pin crimes on innocent victims, who do you think is the problem? While your children and grandchildren are safe and unbothered in some private school or some high paying government job. The only police about you is the uniform.

Not many years ago there was no such thing as a crime, especially murder, committed with a hand gun in this country. If a person wanted to commit a crime he had to use a stolen shotgun, that was usually dawn off and shortened, a fake gun or toy, a machete or some other weapon that was less deadly. And even when the criminals had the shotgun they rarely had ammunition and so there were few crimes that resulted in murder. In those days the murder rate for the country was in the single digits and barely past three. The point then is the police and other authorities need to focus more on the proliferation of guns in this country and expose who is behind it. After the recent mass killings in a school in America, the president of that country is seeking to arm some teachers and consequently put more guns in schools. The biggest difference between gun crimes in that country and the crimes here is that the offenders in the US are licensed carriers and their weapons are rapid firing and more powerful. There are usually red flags that go up before the killings and the suspect is usually clearly identified and eventually convicted. Here murders are done under the cover of darkness or under disguise , and because the killers are in many cases never clearly identified it leads to additional murders, not unlike domonioes falling on a table. So then police must now go more aggressively after the persons who are smuggling guns in this country. Seeking to arm young men. Then jinxing them to kill one another. Dead. They are the real killers. Not to wait until the country decides to go the way of the US and everyone starts to arm themselves.

In the Cable Beach area and some other places, joggers have a habit of jogging in the street rather than on the sidewalk . So at 5 in the morning they are barely visible even with reflective clothing. And if someone is coming from the club at that hour or still half sleep rushing to get to work.... then there are the Street workers , who put a traffic cone like 10 feet from where they are working. If a car is traveling 30 mph it has to travel more than 10 feet after the drivers see the cone and attempt to avoid the workers.

Does anyone know who was the representative for that area before May 10 Elections.

The light at the end of the tunnel is they are hoping to convert to LNG which will cut electricity bills by by near 50 percent. As you know Leslie Miller tried to make this conversion many years ago, but he did not get the support of his PLP colleagues. as you know there was a powerful Snake in the picture and BEC was getting oil from the Sun. So will it happen some 15 years later? Imagine the hundreds of millions the Bahamian people could have saved, had the conversion been back then.

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> After independence law and order went
> off the rails in our society as a
> whole with slackness and corruption
> from the government on down, who can
> forget the drug days of the seventies
> & eighties when this Nation was
> literally for sale and the cocaine
> epidemic which resulted from?

What message? As was said then and is still true now; The United States couldn't stop the supply of drugs coming into the country because the demand for it was so great. Mexico and Jamaica and Colombia didn't stop the supply because the demand was so great and the market was so profitable. the Bahamas was just a small pawn caught in the middle of a drug war. Whether they, *Bahamians*, got involved would have made very little difference. The drug trade was still going on. As it is today where tonnes of drugs are still flowing into the US with very little or no involvement of Bahamians. But how many Americans, except the small street corner dealers, have you heard of being arrested and jailed for drug trafficking. That's because many of the traffickers are also the law enforcers. Just last week a ship with 93 Million worth of cocaine was intercepted of the coast of Florida. Now we have guns lowing in the opposite direction of drugs. And while high profile persons in the US has been linked to gun trafficking, none have been jailed. And even the marijuana coming here today is not safe. it is highly potent, crossed or hybird and mixed with other substances to make it more addictive and create violence and confusion..Yes many users are ending up in Sandilands. Your attempt to blame the Bahamas or Bahamians for the drug trade is lame. Sick and lame

How many drugs episodes has America had since the ‘80s and 90’s that did not involve The Bahamas? First of all cocaine never stopped flowing to that country, even though very little of it passes through The Bahamas. Marijuana is legal in more than 30% of the US and decriminalized in at least half the nation.! Then there was the crystal meth crisis in the early 2000’s that was accompanied by flammable and bath salts and other chemical drugs that either killed people or set the crazy for life. And of course the country is also plagued with the opioid crisis where patients are legally prescribed drugs that eventually kill them. Our problem here with shanty towns is caused by illegal immigrants or persons on the border of poverty struggling to survive. In most US cities, including those on California, most of the homeless are drug addicts.

> After independence law and order went
> off the rails in our society as a
> whole with slackness and corruption
> from the government on down, who can
> forget the drug days of the seventies
> & eighties when this Nation was
> literally for sale and the cocaine
> epidemic which resulted from?
What message?
As was said then and is still true now; The United States couldn't stop the supply of drugs coming into the country because the demand for it was so great. Mexico and Jamaica and Colombia didn't stop the supply because the demand was so great and the market was so profitable. the Bahamas was just a small pawn caught in the middle of a drug war. Whether they got involved would have made very little difference. As today tonnes of drugs are still flowing into the US with very little or no involvement of Bahamians. But how many Americans, except the small street corner dealers, have you heard of being arrested and jailed for drug trafficking. That's because many of the traffickers are also the law enforcers. Just last week a ship with 93 Million worth of cocaine was intercepted of the coast of Florida. Now we have guns lowing in the opposite direction of drugs. And while high profile persons in the US has been linked to gun trafficking, none have been jailed. Your attempt to blame the Bahamas or Bahamians for the drug trade is lame. Sick and lame.

How many people know that switching to LED bulbs can cut your light bill down. Also switching to a gas dryer from electric. Also putting a solar water heater or putting a timer on your electric heater that cuts in an hour before everyone showers in the morning and the same thing in the evenings. Most timers have a bypass switch if you need to wash or need hot water. Then there’s a 23 SEER a/c unit that burns the same amount of electricity as a ceiling fan. A $600 electricity bill was cut down to just over $200 in the winter and over $300 in the summer.

Seems like consumers will be hit with this additional charge beginning right in the heart of summer when electricity bills are already at their highest.