There was a photo of the sloop in yesterday's edition of The Tribune. Besides, I would like to think that Minnis himself and those reporting to him on this most embarrassing matter were not duped by fake news!

I have met QC Smith on several occasions, the last time being shortly after the passing of the late Colin Callender, Q.C.

**Government + Bank Ownership = Gasoline + Fire**

**KABOOM!**

> This operation - and the entire stop and search operation - last night brought fierce criticism from human rights activist Frederick Smith QC.

QC Smith loves illegal immigrants and being in the limelight more so than he does the Bahamas and the Bahamian people.

Law enforcement authorities then find out that a new battery costs more than the total cost the original equipment with battery included!

You are one of the very few to believe something dead can learn to crawl and then walk. Even D- educated Bahamians know that BoB is propped up by the already overburdened taxpayers and the criminal enterprises run by the numbers bosses, one of whom you sing to for your supper.

Government has yet to explain to Bahamian taxpayers that it has effectively guaranteed the repayment of the full amount (100%) of all deposits placed with BoB by depositors as a result of government keeping the doors of this insolvent bank open to the public. Ergo government has yet to explain how it can justify having fully protected the depositors but not having fully protected the minority shareholders of BoB from the losses they incurred in the value of their shares as a result of government allowing BoB to continue operating as a de facto insolvent entity.

Government has yet to explain to Bahamian taxpayers that it has effectively guaranteed the repayment of the full amount (100%) of all deposits placed with BoB by depositors as a result of government keeping the doors of this insolvent bank open to the public. Ergo government has yet to explain how it can justify having fully protected the depositors but **not** having fully protected the minority shareholders of BoB from the losses they incurred in the value of their shares as a result of government allowing BoB to continue operating as a de facto insolvent entity.

Our police need a lot more basic training, not this kind of equipment. All of the lawyers defending criminals will only use the video from this equipment (if the cams are still working after a few weeks) to mischievously allege police incompetence or brutality of some kind in the defense of their clients.

The only solution is serious and very painful belt tightening......but the IMF knows full well senior elected government officials find doing so politically unacceptable....so the IMF just waits, knowing that the unsustainable debt level will eventually suffocate our small nation, like a huge boa constrictor squeezing the life out of its prey, until its their time to step in and take charge, and we, the Bahamian, no longer have any control whatsoever over our own destiny.