Stop twisting the truth, else you be telling lies.. Where were the Lucayans running from? (2) Where are all the guns found in the Bahamas manfactured? How are they getting here in a matter of days after being made? Where are all the movies and video games and music that program the young man's mind and promote going to jail and killing each other and glorify drinking and drug use made?
How is it that Cuba is right next door to us but they are not experiencing most of the problems we are? Now that they have opened back to the US wait and see what happens in a few years. Fingers may be used to squeeze trigger or point to the next guy, but hand is made to make gun and put in next man hand to pull trigger. Don't tell half the story else you be telling a lie.

So we are awaiting your suggestions Emac! The church has not failed. Like everything else the church is under attack. There are five institutions that are under attack by the enemy: The Church (religion), Education (you get expelled for praying in school, but they will teach you evolution, Finances (do you know anyone that does not have a financial problem?), The Family (traditional family virtually disappearing and being replaced by single mother families and same sex families) Politics (can you trust any politician today, any?) and even the FOOD we eat is under attack: rather than strengthening and healing our bodies, a lot of it is poisoning us. giving us sickness and disease. Much of it has never touched the ground much less come out of the ground. A plan that was devised in 1970's. Now prescription drugs is a $270 billion industry.

And of course the church must be in the forefront
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"Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain."

The staggering use of drugs and alcohol by young people must be addressed. The exceptionally high rate of single mothers must come down or some how be supplement. The absent father is a serious element in the path young men chose to go. And of course the detection, the prosecution and the detention of murderers must be priority number one. A serious gun culture has been established in our young men. Not having a gun for some of them is like not having a cell phone. And it must be smart and up to date. Back in the 1970's and 80's Dick Gregory, and activist in the US use to say how persons in black neighborhoods would go to bed at night and wake up the next morning and find railway cars filled with guns in their back yards. And of course the young men started toting them. Then they started shooting them and now, Mr. commissioner, they are killing each other with these guns. Who putting the guns on the streets, we must know by now. One hundred and ten dead with 3 1/2 months left in the year. A murder occurring every 2 1/2 days in this little country, this small 'use to be sleepy and tranquil Bahamas.' Fourty more murders expected by December 31, based to the trend of the past eight months to bring the total for the year to 150. Not strangers killing strangers, Bahamians killing each other. All hands on deck (ma, pa, brother, sister, aunt, police, politician, judge, jury, evey one, cause this ship must not sink!

Ephesians 6:12King James Version (KJV)

12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Unfortunately Mr. Commissioner, sir, the problem is even bigger than collecting dead bodies of slain young men. They, many of them, and just victims or casualties, in a war that they, themselves do not understand how they become a part of it. But when almost everything is astacked against you, you retaliate and attack like every other animal on the planet would do: a dog, a cat a snake and even the big elephant.

The attack on young black men started in America in the 60's and 70's or maybe even eariler. and one of the weapons they decided to use was the 'turn him against his brother and let them kill each other.' Hence in every major black country and every major black populated city in the US, black men are killing each other.

They promote it in the movies, in the music and in the media where black men are almost always portrayed as violent and angry and out to kill someone. And drugs and alcohol and other substance abuse is entered into the equation and hence you get the murder, bloodshed and mayhem we are experiencing in every black community in the western hemisphere. Many of the video games teach (channel) young men how to kill and give points for killing policemen and innocent civilians. Young men spend hours upon hours playing these games and eventually their xbox or playstation character crosses over to their real personality. Add drugs or alcohol to the mix and they become unemotional, unflenching killing machines. And they kill not strangers, but persons known and well known to them. So how do we reverse this tragedy, stop the loss of so many young lives, so many families shattered. It is not easy. but not impossible and it will definitely involve more than collecting dead bodies after they have been gunned down. There has to be a serious debriefing of these young men, not unlike when a soldier comes from war and he has flashbacks of being on the battle field. There has to be a call on organizations like 100 Jamz and other radio stations to be more responsible and play less of the violent and anti-social promoting music. There has to be a call on parents to be more responsible and censoring when buying games for their children to play. There needs to be introduction of more positive events and positive avenues for young men to engage in. The high rate of unemployment must be addressed.

Some of these individuals have spent up to 20 years in Cuban prisons. Some claim they were just Bahamian fishermen who drifted in Cuban waters and were sentenced to a long jail sentence for drug trafficking without a fair trial. At least one of these persons is detained at Fox Hill for a matter he allegedly committed 18 years ago in the Bahamas. While the commissioner's concern about persons committing serious offences abroad, then being dumped back into the Bahamas jurisdiction is a genuine one, one must also remember that once a person completes his sentence here or is released from prison, for whatever reason, he or she is sent back to his/her country of origin and from the Bahamas. This policy is wreaking havoc on countries in Central and South America, where the US virtually emptied its prisons of persons originating from these territories and shipped them back home. Many were hard core criminals, gang leaders and drug dealers. The murder count in a number of these countries doubled and even tripled and serious and violent crime escalated through the roof. Of the 3,000 that Castro freed, eight were Bahamians. Others are expected to be sent back from the US and Canada and maybe the UK. So what does the commissioner suggest we do, even with those who are released from prison here and meet their demise in just a short while. The ankle monitoring system cannot save them. Do we then need a half way house type system where these persons are gradually released into society?

October 5 is when you get the document that can retire any pm, elect a new on or re-elect an old and gray one. New voter registration. Ain't long after that.

The problem is Perry (in this instance) hasn't broken any laws. Nothing in our system to prevent you from running for PM more times than Chris Brown ran around the world for the Bahamas. Nothing to say you too old to rum for leader/pm. Is them set that come behind that have to fix the law and/or have the gonards and will power to stand up and fight for leadership. The mantle is not being passed on gracefully. So the fight for it must be fierce and deliberate. There will be casualties but is ever a battle won without one.

That is the problem with our political system. Rather than go to convention and all the delegates to choose a leader, we do "ground" work to prevent potential candidates from running for leader. OR even when there is a race for leadership those with power and resources stack the delegates in their favor. No true democracy anywhere.

We are solidly headed to recording 150 murders this year. Speaking not too long ago to someone who themselves was a murder victim, this person claimed that there is a well oiled killing machine in this country. While many believe it is a case of one set of bad boys killing up another set, apparently it is much deeper than that. This person claims that the power on the police force does not lie with the commissioner but is shared between a clan of about five senior officers. That is part of the problem and a suggestion is that the commissioner shuffle his officers to break up this clan.