the focus already is more on the idea that the pilot was a hacker rather than trying to figure out what caused the crash and/or the recovery of the bodies to help bring closure to grieving family and friends

*No insinuation that RBC was accepting drug money. It just got caught up in a market where there was a lot of it. And the regulations put in place to snag the rogue banks ended up hurting some of the ‘clean ‘ banks. Fidelity had to give up its Western Union franchise to avoid any mishaps affecting its banking business.

Hopefully one of the Local Banks would move into the soon to be vacant RBC on JFK as well as fill the market where the two branches in the Family Islands will be closed. Commonwealth, Fidelity or even BoB. Otherwise government will have to grant some slack to the web shops in those areas to allow (inter-Island) money transfer temporarily. You would think that RBC would at least make ATMs available. Parking is already a problem at all RBC locations so imagine them doubling their customer base. Many do not realize that RBC is a crippled bank and may be limping its way back home to Canada, at least from the Bahamas and parts of the Caribbean. RBC was hit with some heavy fines for what was determined as violations of banking regulations. And to top this it is getting stiff competition from local banks in the Bahamas that it is not use to having. And because it’s loans policies are so much more strict RBC can hardly compete in an area where it makes most of its income. Remember at the height of the drug trade when all those y’all, multistory buildings went up in Miami. Most of them were banks. Would be interesting to know what’s happening with them now.

So let’s bring the culture back where young men were dying in police stations and holding cells and no proper investigations done?

RBC’s actions Does not reflect what it claims it is trying to do. While it claims it is trying to enhance its customer experience and making banking easier it is closing branches full of customers and reducing staff in an already overworked environment. Royal bank workers have already had to quit their jobs for being overwhelmed with work and stressed out. Now the team is being reduced even more. Businesses are complaining that their night deposits are not being processed in a timely manner and now some customers are having their services yanked from them ‘cold turkey ‘ and with no alternative banking available. Who can feel comfortable with their money in a bank that is behaving like this? Irrational to say the least Is RBC making its exit from the Bahamas after over 100 years?

There must be a system of checks and balances. Larry Nasser was a well respected athletic doctor. Yet he sexually abused and assaulted hundreds of victims over two decades. Some were abused hundreds of times. Because one victim was brave enough to speak up against him, Larry Nasser was today sentenced to 40 - 175 years in prison. Now some of the victims believe there was a cover up by the people who hired him. How could so many victims be abused so many times over so long a period of time and nothing is done about it? Because none of the victims spoke up and the code of silence and the abuse became the norm.

Home is home no matter what kind of sh!t hole it may be. When Home sickness hit you, all you want is home. And even your children and grandchildren who may have never visited grows a desire to visit Home. And when you watch the millions of people who have fled their homelands in the Middle East in the dead of winter with the clothes on their back. And the natives In Libya and other African countries who are being butchered alive because people want to steal their countries’s natural resources we, Bahamians, have much to be thankful for.

Today is January 24, 2018 ‘Their deaths mark the third time this month time this month there has been a police-involved killing in the country.” And how much is the murder count?

@rawbahamian ... you must read my post in its entirety and not take things out of context to mean something other than what was intended. We (The Bahamas) have already been down this street of police shootings. In fact the public referred to certain police officers as ‘da death squad’. Because when they come for you, they don’t plan to take you alive. And what was. The outcome of that? The distance between the police and the community grew wider and the violence and resistance of the criminals grew stronger. And more sadly many of the police involved in these killings grew into rogue and trigger happy cops and most had to be dismissed from the force, some for mental conditions. In in the end it was the families of some of these ‘police involved shooting ‘ policemen who had to go to the government or the commissioner, with cap in hand, begging for funds to bury their ‘former policeman’ family member. So what will make the results any different this time around?

This again begs the question, ‘ why didn’t this young man make any attempt to contact his family back in the Bahamas?” Seems like he just accepted his fate being sent to Haiti. Second point: How many other people have been deported in likewise manner but was not as fortunate to have their case publicized and be tracked down with the possibility of being returned to the Bahamas. And thirdly, this should serve as an eye opener for the many hundreds or thousands who have similar status to Jean-Charles. The law requires you to file to become regularised on your 18th birthday. If you are 35 and still haven’t filled, you cannot put all the fault on the government. And also let it be an eye opener to persons who are in this country seeking citizenship or permanent residency. Become aware of the conditions under which your parents fled Haiti to come here. Appreciate the fact that whilst things may not be perfect, you are one of the fortunate ones. So respect your host country. In the United States they are using immigration reform to revoke permanent status from persons who have been living in that country all their lives. Persons who have professional careers and are married with children and grandchildren are being sent back home for minor crimes they committed many years ago. As far back as when they were teenagers in college. And they have even no possibility of even visiting the US again.