Tornado in Tampa. Ripped40 foot trailer filled with mail to shreds. What's going on

Is this a redemption of sorts for those accused of dropping the ball on hurricane Joaquins' preparation, response time and ample warnings?

A blood moon storm. Most people will not experience another one in their life time. Remember The Carolinas and parts of Florida are still under (sea) water.

*Actually the record of 127 will be surpassed before the end of October, meaning the murder count can go as high as 153 for 2015.

sad to say that, based on the trend for the year, and a trend that was developing over five years, the murder count for 2015 will surpass the record of 127 murders set in 2011 in the next three weeks. That will be the first week in November leaving about seven weeks in 2015. If the senseless murders continue unabated, another 19 - 21 murders will be committed before the end of the year, bringing the total for 2015 to around 150. Those are the facts void of prejudice, void of politics. A sad state for our country to be in.

Chucky you know what you are saying is the most beautiful Bull$shit and riddled with lies. How long can a hotel security keep a job if he is raping hotel guests? absolute fantasy land lies! it is people with warped imaginations, like yours, and extremely twisted truths, that add fuel to the fire and try to bring this country down. Young people, for the most part, want a job, and want to be productive law abiding citizens. When gun manufacturers can sell an illegal weapon for 3-5 times the price illegally as what he can sell a legal weapon for, then there becomes a large black market. And when he can advertise and promote his product by glamorizing and glorifying all sorts of guns in music and movies and video games he can triple his sales. Then he pay to have rappers put "its ok to kill your homie' among other things, in their songs. Why in over 40 years of illegal handgun orchestrated crimes hardly anyone is brought before the courts***and sent to jail***for importing illegal weapons? #organized crime. President Obama is currently under fire for suggesting stricter gun control laws in the US. Follow the money trail and see who is flooding the US and the Caribbean and the Bahamas with illegal weapons.

The fact is that the police must come up with more effective means of policing and gain the support of the community. Strip searching young men in public is not an effective response to crime, it is demeaning, dehumanizing, embarrassing and counterproductive. At least 90 percent of persons strip searched by police have committed no crime. This was a tactic used in the US against Blacks to restrict their movement and intimidate them. They were racially profiled and stopped and strip searched by police then thrown in jail, sometimes under planted evidence. The effect of seeing young black men being strip searched "all over the place" by police have the impression that black men were troublesome and criminals. It was also used in apartheid South Africa to restrict the movement of black folk and for the police to effectively discriminate against them. Black peoples were required to carry a national ID card, which was seldom issued to them . When they were stopped by the police and did not have this I'd, they were beaten and thrown in jail. Some were never seen again. If strip searching young men in public was an effective policing tool then why is the crime rate increasing, murder especially. It's more like someone's sick sex fantasy to be undressing young men in the streets. Making them take off their shoes and stand in rain-soaked streets and digging down in their drawers and even their wallets. What effect does this have on young persons coming from school every evening and seeing young men spread eagle across vehicles and being searched in the most violating and demeaning manner. Many who pass and see it do not view the police as the good guys, especially since many of their attitudes are rotten to the fore. Some block intersections with their vehicles with no consideration when they do these searches and threaten to lock up persons for only looking their way. You cannot intimidate people in this way and espect them to respect you as a peace officer. Some stop trucks loaded with construction workers and strip search everyone. Such a lack luster form of policing that rarely yield results. Send some officers downtown and search the tourist in this manner and see how quickly Nassau becomes a ghost town.

Seems like all the blogs above were written by the same problem. Nassau we do have a problem. Yes with crime but the average tourist visiting the Bahamas is as safe or more safe than most major cities around the world. Of the 5 million plus tourist visiting the Bahamas only a very small amount are exposed to crime and violence. Unfortunately there was a killing on Potters Cay last night that may have been witnessed by tourists. Several persons were shot and one is confirmed dead. It appears The murder count will hit 151 this year and this is scary and should concern everyone. Some believe a lot of these murders are a result of gang warfare but the police seem to have made little or no effort to stem gang activity in the country.

There have been instances where your police had stopped trucks loaded with construction workers and threatened to " lock up everyone " if they find drugs on the truck". Isn't that the same as saying they will lock up they own "ma" if she was on a jitney and they find someone with drugs on that bus. See how dumb and idiotic it becomes especially when overzealous cops are involved. Our major problem in this country is should be murder and violent crime while drugs and drug possession should not be ignored the following backdrop cannot be ignored: Some 23 states in the US has legalized marijuana for medical use. Meaning you can go to a doctor complaining of headaches, blurred vision or pain and get a med card that allows you to buy marijuana from a vending machine at your convenience, no further questions asked. More than FOURTY sTATEs in the Union have decriminalized marijuana in small amounts considered for personal use. FIVE states in the US have legalized marijuana, allowing residents to cultivate it process it possess it , sell it and consume it. The last state to do it allowed it to be tax free for three months. Most persons in the Bahamas , Nassau who are stopped and strip searched by overzealous police do not sell or even smoke weed, why is the commissioner still using sere ration and apartheid weapons against his own people? Why?

If public strip searching was effective then why is violent crime, murder especially increasing? If you Mr. Commissioner, who claim to be a decent man, and who many feel the same way about you, see nothing wrong with publicly strip searching young men, then why you and Krith Brll and BJ Nottage and Brave David and Perry Christie volunteer to be strip searched in Rawson Square at the next sitting of the House? Of course you may say that you are not a suspect in any crime. And that is exactly my point. ninety five pecent of all persons stopped by your officers and stripped searched and publicly violated have committed no crime! And if you still don't see no problem with your actions, send police downtown and instruct them to publicly strip-search the tourist the way they are doing young Bahamian men and see how long it is before Downtown Nassau becomes a ghost town or before a travel advisory is issued against the Bahamas for civil rights violations or before cruise agencies pull their ships away from the Bahamad