Evil forces know the power of their works. Just a few years ago there was a wholesale attack on the clothing and jewelery market. Almost ever piece of clothing had demonic skulls or up side down crosses or angels wings attached to dragons or misquoted scripture on them. Sometimes you would walk into a store and see a blouse with a pretty rose on in but when you looked closely, the rose was actually a skull disguised as a flower. Some shoes would be plain and simple on the outside but when you looked inside the shoe it would be lined with skulls or some demonic quote. Even belts and jewelery and sunglasses had skulls embedded in their design. Why would manufacturers of these items go to such extremes to get you, the consumer to celebrate death? Our count stands around 64 with less than half a year gone.

If you believe the bible then you must also believe that demons are real. The issue is not weather or not the pencils moved or even what caused them to move but the fact that young people are involved in some form of demonic worship or activity. I have been advised a long time ago not to even play horror movies in my home as they draw demons who can possess someone present in the house. There have been reports of young persons going to watch horror movies and never being the same person after. Even the video games,especially the ones where young people spend hours upon hours killing police and innocent civilians are not safe. Something known as "channelling ". Occurs where the player of the game becomes "possessed' and will attempt to live out what he was doing in the game. This may not happen until years later. Some say that the Charlie is just a silly game. I know one thing if we were caught playing something like that when I was a kid you wouldn't know where "Charlie" came from with a belt and tore our backsides back into civility. Cards, dice and domonioes were also considered tools of the devil and were not welcome in our home.

Another one killed tonite behind a f adderley

The question is who is benefiting from over 100 Bahamians being killed, most in cold blood, over the past 10 years. It is said that to solve a crime you should follow the money trail. But this is a matter of national security at the highest level. Even the Prime Minister realizes he is not safe and hence he has more than quadrupled his security detail. The rest of us (commoners) do not have that luxury so we must stay in this Bahamian game of Russian roulette and see who the next bullets are for. But yet many are becoming numb to the reality that around 150 People will be killed in this country this year and less than 15 of the killers will receive a jail sentence.

While the intent of the new laws are understood, this is going to be a tough cookie to crack.
Firstly, the 10 year limit on car imports: This is intended to prevent persons from importing ole junk cars, (where the freight and shipping is more than the value of the car) and having to dump them a few months later. This adds to the clutter of junk in the islands (new Providence and Grand Bahama especially, and also depletes national revenue because the importer does not get value for money. In fact he contributes to government expenses when the derelict car has to be collected and dumped. However most cars being imported today do not fit in this catergory as the expected life of a vehicle is 15-25 years and trucks up to 30 years. The reason why there is a drastic price drop in vehicles in the 12-15 year age group is that Japan also does not want these vehicles on their roads and so they export (or dump) them to places like the Bahamas, South America and the rest of the Caribbean. Not only do they avoid the expense of having to dump these cars but they increase their exports and get into markets that the US cannot access. So from a national economic view the government should make a cut off point. It is better to spend a few hundred dollars more initially for a vehicle and get value than to bring it all the way here and have it sit as a lawn ornament a few months later.
In the US a wreck is defined as any vehicle that has to be towed away from the scene of an accident. Regardless of how minor the damage, if the vehicle can not be driven away, then it is considered a wreck. And since these cars cannot be resold in the US they sell very cheap and besides the safety issue, that is a problem when they arrive in The Bahamas. In many instances Bahamas Customs do not accept the value declared on the vehicle. Then the importer repairs the vehicle and resells it for near pre-collision value. Since there is no title check, the buyer is not aware he is purchasing a wreck vehicle and, in some instances, when he has an accident, it is fatal or the injuries sustained are more serious than if the car had not been repaired. They are probably the reasons for bans on wrecks. But what about persons who import these 'wrecks' to canabalise parts to repair their on vehicles? Especially for parts that can no longer be found on the retail market and the only other means is from a wrecked vehicle? Does 'the dog' eat their lunch?

sixty two murders and half the year ain't gone yet. At least 62 more to go before December 31, 2015. Isn't it time to dig deeper and find out who (or the real motive) is really behind theses killings? Or do we really want to know. A stronger Bahamas cannot continue to lose more than 120 of its citizens to murder each year and not even know the motive behind more than half of them. Especially as the killers are getting bolder as if begging for something to be done to stop they. This is out of control !

Unfortunately at least SIXTY more Bahamian families will have this experience before December 31, 2015.

Did Government hoodwink and bamboozle small and medium business owners? All along they were saying they did not need an accountant, now they are trying to pass a law that requires all VAT registrants to have their records certified by an accountant. They are now passing laws that require all VAT registrants to file monthly, which will be severely burdensome on small and medium businesses, and persons applying late for business licenses will be FINED (10% surcharge) How hoggish can this government get, especially when it comes to business owners? Do they realize the effort that goes into applying for a business license, getting health certificates, bringing national insurance and property taxesup-to-date, and finding the funds to pay for the business license...now an additional 10 percent surcharge after increasing the license by over 300 percent only recently. How many MP has filed their fincal disclosures yet and what penalty is being meeted on them.

Time to get serious about crime...where is swift justice? The punishment must suit the crime..

A pre election budget or good news for real?