Can someone please explain why the price of gasoline in the Bahamas has crept back up to $5.00 a gallon while the price of oil is still HALF the price it was this time last year?

about crime: my daddy use to tell the story about a person who had no bed to sleep in so he had to sleep on the floor. Then there was the person who had a bed but he had no sheet. Then there was the one who had a bed but just one sheet. So he would have to remove the sheet every time he needed to wash it. Then there are those who have two sheets so they can rotate and it goes on and on to persons who have many sheets and many beds. Blankets even. But the problem in this country is the man who has no bed and no sheet. We have made it so difficult for a person to obtain these essentials today, it causes so many to be lost along the way. We destroyed a lot of homes and shelters in the premis of getting rid of Shantytowns "that harboured illegals". But for many Bahamians they were a shelter in a time of storm. Now drive Cable Beach any hour of the day and see the homeless just wanting a place safe enough to rest their weary bodies or go to Sandilands even and watch them place mattresses on the floors of the hallways for persons who have lost hope or just in need of food and shelter. May God have mercy on them and us too. May he soften the hearts of the lawmakers who bring so much burden on the poor. And the corrupt "your riches is stored up for the righteous "

Minnie is not a failed leader, his ascension is slow and calculated. Rome was not built in a day.

Who said "where there is widespread corruption in a country, there must also be many laws". Call it spaghetti and try sort it out

To take da Bell's argument a bit further: that 25% of the murders each year, at least in the past six years or so, are of persons on bail for murder or some serious crime. So are you Keith 'da Bell, sir that you cannot find enough correlation between these 25-40 murders each year to determine who is committing them?

Not even adding the unclassified deaths, the rate of homicides will apparently triple in 10 years. (from 52 in 2005 to 150, give or take, this year) Something that should concern every single person in this country. And this is in no way to suggest that this is a PLP or political problem. Just recently, after nine persons were slaughtered during a church prayer meeting President Obama stated that the number of killings in the United States of America, was too much for a modern, civil society. Some church leaders are preaching that things will not get better but progressively worse. As long as more murderers remain out of jail and not prosecuted, then the killings will continue.

Do you know this single action makes the government, powerless to prosecute persons who violate the gaming laws in the future. Cronyism. It also makes the judge in the case a balls less wonder as his ruling was overturned on no legal grounds. If this government wanted to accommodate and facilitate Mr. Craig Flowers in getting a gaming license, it should have been done based on the fact that he paid license fees retroactive to the time the infractions were committed. Then anyone and everyone who committed similar offenses during that time period should have been given the opportunity to pay gaming license fees for the year in which their infraction was committed and then have the offences quashed in a likewise manner. Right now Mr. Craig Flowers appears not only to have been given special priviliges, but at the expense of the judge who presided at his trial and the police who did the arrest and prosecution. This makes his case even more conspicuous, to say the least. What happens when others who are accused of other criminal offences (drug smuggling for example) wants a gaming licence?

If there was a man out there "killing men who are released on bail', there is a problem with this. One why should this man have powers that put him above the law and makes him more powerful than any one else. the authority to take many lives. Two, if this "vigilante" actions were effective, the murder rate would be decreasing and not increasing.

*should read "every time this man tries to mix sterile statistics with politics"

While Da Bell admits that murder this year is up 16% over last year, da Bell fails to tell you that based on a projection of 140-148 murders this year, the murder rate will be up forty percent this year over the year the PLP came to office! Every time this man tries to mid sterile statistics with politics he makes himself out to be a blundering idiot! Just a few weeks ago headlines in this same newspaper indicated that child abuse was up 25% and recent headlines confirm that there is a current increase in armed robberies. So whatever statistical decline there may be in crime it is not enough to reduce the fear of crime and the concerns for crime among the average citizen. Three years after being in government da Bell is still trying to blame the former administration. Yet new government policies are making it near impossible for a young man to find employment and an average working man to survive. Yet you hear about all the corruption and t'iefin going on in government.