Thirty one murders in less than two months. More than one person killed every two days. Did anyone calculate the number of murders from October first to now? It surely is higher than the record set in 2015. And based on the current trend the country will experience at least 20 more murders before elections. Is it fair to the families of murdered victims when the police spokesman makes statements at the murder scene and even over the dead bodies that the victim was most likely involved in crime: drugs, gangs or some other illegal activity. But years go by and they can never tell the family who committed the murder. So lacking compassion. So unprofessional. Preach to the living, not to the dead.

Perry Chrisite is so confident that He and the PLP will win this election. Notice how bold, and boisterous and exceptionally arrogant he has become of late.

The posts got out of sequence because the first on kept getting deleted. Also the bold highlight was not applied when I reposted it for the third time.

ten things to think about before you vote:
1. crime...has crime gotten better and gotten worse under the PLP government? Consider this They campaigned on a platform to reduce murder in this country but before you get a chance to vote some 600 persons, mostly Bahamian sons and daughters will have been murdered in this country since Chrisite dem came to office. Most of the murdered victims are barely 20 years old. 2. unemployment. Despite their claims of having created 32,000 jobs, unemployment is at its highest level in the modern history of the Bahamas. (At least 15% while unemployment in the US is 4.3%). 3. corruption: It is no longer just talks. When your government cannot tell you what they are doing with their tax money, and when one of the most credible persons in government can take to the public and boldly and blatantly lie about your VAT money. Lying Halkitis. 4. TAXES Bahamians are being taxed more than ever before than ever in the history of the Bahamas. Some 60% of the average citizen's income goes to taxes or some form of payment to the government. Yet foreigners continue to get unconscionable concessions and tax breaks and crown land grants. 5 bah mar What exactly is hidden behind the veil of secrecy at Bah Mar? Why did the government interfere with the private business of this company and help wrestle the property from the original owner and dump it in the laps of the Chinese? Who really owns Bah Mar? When will Bah Mar really be open (if at all)? How much of your tax dollars have been pumped into Bah Mar? What additional concessions were given to Bah Mar beyond what was given in the heads of agreement? 6. web shops..Are they really being regulated and taxed or they only being used as a source of additional revenue for the government? Is illegal gambling still rampant, like other crimes, so much so that the licensed web shops are starting to complain. 7. the gender equality bill was defeated, but will the government bring this bill through the back door, or in a more forceful format if it is re-elected?. 8. the spy and intercept bill: One of the most dangerous pieces of legislation ever proposed. Even though many in the party do not agree with it, will the PLP be forced to pass this bill if elected
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Other things to consider: 9. **the national debt** : Despite being promised that the VAT money would go to paying down this debt, it continues to grow by leaps and bounds. Meaning not only is the burden now on you and your children's, but also on your children's children and their off spring for generations to come. 10. **the country's financial downgrades**: four in recent times. What does this mean to the future of the country as far as investors are concern and as for the value of the dollar? 11. **freeport** : Why is Freeport being allowed to dive into such a degree of degradation and decay? the part of the country with the most tax concessions and breaks. Yet it has the highest degree of unemployment and greatest slippage of economic activity. 12. the family islands : Many, including South Eleuthera and those affected by the hurricanes are in dire need of capital injections. Despite the promises little or no help or hope is on the way. Causing many family islanders to come to New Providence, already crowded and crime ridden, in search of jobs. 13. **social services** have been doing a great job in provided much needed assistance to persons in dire need. However this program is costly and not sustainable,at the present level in the long run. What plans does the government have to reduce unemployment and thus reduce the burden on this program soas to keep this safety net much intact. 14. **bank of the bahamas** After being brutally raped and ravished by this government and this cronies, the bank seems to be making slow and painful recovery. What measures are being put in place to ensure that the crime does not re-occur. And how much of the *stolen* funds have been recovered? 15. What intervention programs, if any, are on the drawing board to prevent so many young men from indulging in crime and drugs and substance abuse, and causing so many to lose their lives to murder? 16. **plans for the future** : Since the government has run through most of the plans it met on the drawing board, that were the works of the former government, refitting Bahamas Air with new planes, Defence Force with new boats, The road works completed, The hospital extension completed, what plans does the government have for the future especially ones that involved putting a number of local Bahamians back to work?

So they are going to (try) put a tourniquet on a very bloody situation. The measure may stop the bleeding for a while and stabilise the situation but there has to be urgent and critical follow up treatment. Intensive care. All the factors, drugs, unemployment, gang warfare, family destruction, hundreds of young men who are not properly prepared for the job market or just do not want to be a part of it. All this has to be addressed. A tourniquet when applied properly will stop the bleeding, yes. But only to allow the patient to get to the hospital to have the injury treated. When the tourniquet remains on too long gangrene
will set in.. A much worser problem to deal with.

Yes Obie is too soft on the foreigners. They stuff tax money in their pockets then sabotage the industry causing the country to lose money and the government has to go back and spend many more millions to bring the industry back. It is high time bahamians, black and white, start getting parts of the Bahamian tourist investment and promotion dollar. They cannot just pack up and leave the country when they face a challenge. They have to stay and fight it to the end.

@ Tal Russell, you say the crime problem is caused by capitalism and greed. The most frequent victims of and, apparently, the most common perpetrators of crime in this country are the poor and the disenfranchised, persons barely with food to eat. So are you saying the capitalist society and the greed of others are leading both to be criminals and victims of crime. But if that was true then should not robbery and housebreaking be a bigger crime problem than the tit for tat killing and now shooting into crowds that is going on..

Tap Russel besides needing to learn English, you also need some tutorials in history. There was no defense force when the white boys were in power and neither was there the unabated crime like it is today. But when there were labor uprisings the government of the day (white boys) did bring in British soldiers who shot into crowds and killed black Bahamians. Go do to your research. And yes, much of the violence and killings in the country stems from economic dispositions but yet a lot of it is instigated by foreigners. The Black Bahamian male is the greatest asset and greatest natural resource this country has. So why, Tal Russel, is it being destroyed by the hundreds every year?

The crooked cops don't want no one looking over their shoulder. The genuine cops will do what ever it takes to get the crime problem solved.