What do they mean the cruise lady had "a quantity" ???? Like 3 joints? Or ten pounds?

Again, where is the Christian Council here to protect this lady from .... (well there are things you can't say - right? - our Libel laws are strong in this country.

This insanity is costing all of us. We are paying a very very high price to maintain our stupidity.

These old laws need to go the way of the horse and buggy.

Yep - complete with all the hidden microphones and video lenses.

You are 100% correct. Same in Freeport. The new owner of Port Lucaya has been trying to pressure the shops and restaurants there to stay open - but all they do is complain. The tourists go scuba diving, come back to hotel and shower, then they want to have dinner and walk around the shops - but TOO BAD for them - we ain' wann dey money - we dunn close and gone home. Let them go spend their money in Cuba. We got all we want. - LOL. Port Lucaya people must be crazy.

This mission will fail, because it says they are going to talk to all "appropriate" parties. In other words, people who they don't think should be given a voice - will be ignored. People not allowed to speak, often resort to other means of getting their point across. Oh well, this is no surprise. More violence as usual due to lack of discussion and real democracy.

**TheMadHatter**

Sounds like another Cuban missile crisis. Will the USA blockade the Bahamas and prevent ALL Chinese ships from entering (regardless of what they are carrying?) I sure hope so.

Last week I would have said that things in the Bahamas could t get any more stupid or serious. Obviously I would have been wrong.

I deeply apologize to my fellow citizens for my lack of foresight.

There must be something we can boycott to show our distaste for this? Any ideas? Will Bahamians come together to do something? or will be bend over as usual and stock up on Vaseline?

**TheMadHatter**

That is a disgusting idea. Basically what this does is force people to accept being treated like an animal for 7 years, instead of 20 years - because they have no other reasonable choice. Not everyone can afford lawyers,and not everyone who is arrest is guilty.

These liberties of bail and release are made for YOU !!!! YOU, you silly person. You must consider what would happen you were wrongfully accused. Did you vote for the wrong party? Did the ruling party have a "friendly" policeman arrest you for no good reason and accuse you of possession of heroine or cocaine which he/she had in their pocket?

The Court has said two years is reasonable. Do you think it is reasonable for YOU to sit in prison for two years even though you have done nothing wrong? Do you think it is reasonable that the Govt cannot bring you to Court and present their evidence and obtain a conviction of you - if you are guilty - within two damned years???????

i don't think that people not convicted in two years should be given bail either - I think they should be released without condition. Completely set free. They should even be paid $10,000 per year for being held as an animal without sufficient proof to convict.

FIX the damn slow system that holds people like this - and figure out how to convict real murderers and other serious criminals in a reasonable time. We were supposed to get 10 new criminal courts last year - DId we get them? DO they have judges staffing them (one for each court at least)???? Of course we don't.

But you go ahead and be stupid, and remove the protections that protect YOU and then when you get a really really bad PM like Papa Doc - then YOU can be put in prison for nothing forever. Good luck with that.

As citizens we cannot even obtain a listing of persons held in the prison, their dates of entry, and expected dates of release,and accused/convicted crimes. You can't even get information as a citizen, so how can you expect anything real?

**TheMadHatter**

Debbie you are talking to someone (Birdie) who would actually vote for Pindling should his name appear on the ballot next election -nevermind that he is dead. That is just the way old PLPs are programmed. They cannot be re-programmed. If Christie told them they must cut off the head of their first born, they would rush through the kitchen looking for the sharpest knife.

That is only because you and your buddies in power, and in the public service when out of power, are doing whatever they can to rid Freeport of "the white man" - no matter what the cost. You don't care if 20,000 black men starve as long as you can get rid of the remaining 200 white men in Freeport.

Well, that is your choice, and the choice of those who support you.

or .. Butler as PM and Bran as DPM. Now that's some fireworks. AND exactly what we need is fireworks, and action, stir up the pot, get shi...(stuff) done. Changes - new things, modern thinking, awareness of reality instead of languishing in the past.

Unfortunately, not enough persons in the Bahamas truly wish to embrace change. They are HAPPY the way things are - and change and fixes would only take away their long list of things they have to complain about. They would have to find something else to talk about then, and Erika Kane has retired from Soap Operas, so that idea's out.

Correct. Two PLP's defending each other. Nothing new.