Wow. This article follows the same outline as "The Tipping Point".

You go to great lengths and details explaining how crime is horrible and must be dealt with, blah blah blah - BUT then at the very end (just like in the other article) you shoot the whole thing out of they sky by saying that Govt's plan to impose a serious increase in police presence and perhaps even use the RBDF in high level crime areas is the wrong approach and instead we should basically go in alphabetical order by community name ("borough" you say) or corner by corner. So they should move without regard to where the crime takes place?

Should they move in a north to south direction? Should they use street names in alphabetical order or Constitutency names or perhaps they should put all the places in a big hat and draw names out like at a raffle and go in that order?

While the idea they have of trying to tackle the high crime areas might not be perfect and the best that could be achieved, it does seem a bit hard to argue against - and certainly not worthy of a lengthy article.

Police plan to step up operations in high crime areas. You seem to be saying no. Uhm. Some kind of discrimination? I can see the news articles from that state rep in Miami now "Bahamian Police Discriminate Against Criminals." LOL

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You are so off base that you can't even see the baseball field.

"The level of chaos..." paragraph is simply a demonstration of desperate people trying to bring attention to serious problems. Did it work? No. Govt did not sit down with anybody to talk, just like they didn't with VAT. So the result will be more "chaos" as you call it. A few weeks ago persons in Haiti tried to demonstrate against the Govt there, and were turned away by U.N. "peacekeepers". I guess our Govt will be calling for them to come here and "keep Bahamians in check" anytime between now and the end of this year as the "chaos" gets worse. Desperate people will try to rally and fight for their country and their very lives, but not to worry - the U.N. will shoot us dead if we get too far out of line.

As for the immigrant problem, perhaps if you started a website listing all of the available jobs in this country that Bahamians can apply for - so they don't live under the "mistaken" impression that there is no work out there - you could settle them down about their "misguided" view that foreigners are coming into this country to take away their jobs, their land, and their culture. Maybe a few pictures posted on Facebook showing empty seats at the public clinics that Bahamians may come and sit in to await medical care would help too. Maybe the Haitians can hold seminars teaching us how to hide from and avoid the U.N. troops since many of them have experience in that field from their island.

There are very serious problems in this country, as your article started off trying to say - but then you slid off the railroad track by belittling those problems as if they are minor nuisances and we should just all join together and sing Kumbaya.

I enjoy a lot of your articles, but this one seems fairly untied from reality.

Wake up and smell the coffee.

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The great thing about our democracy is that citizens ARE allowed to beg their government for information. LOL.

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He has it right with the 2 1/2 year thing. I recommended that two years ago (you can see in the posting history) - but that the Constitution be amended so that Senators are elected every five years - BUT at the mid-point of general elections. In other words 2 1/2 years after the bell rings - we ring another bell.

That removes the ability of the ruling party to have a friendly Senate, if the people decide they are unhappy with how a ruling party is "ruling" after 2 1/2 years, then they can fill the Senate with opposition Senators.

This I believe is a good idea, that might just be too good for Bahamians. Only Americans are likely worthy of such democratic flexibility - or is it just that we don't care?

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Those junior MPs do not have the guts to vote NO to Bills brought up for a vote in the House - so they get what they deserve.

They have the power and authority to vote in the House of Assembly and they will not use it, so they shouldn't complain about people who have even more power than them and won't use it.

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They ga sell everything except Rum Cay.

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Wow. Laws from 1956. No wonder we so backward. Man hey.

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Absolutely correct ! While we mainly hear about the rogue officers who deal drugs or are involved in some kind of mischief - they are few and far between.

The vast majority of police are hardworking and concerned members of their own communities and are very very underpaid for their labour.

I am sure they are gratified knowing the positive difference they are making, and that in itself is a form of payment - but it doesn't help them when they get their shopping cart up to the check-out counter.

This is what people need to better understand when they see millions here and there wasted by Government - in for example buying inefficient engines for BEC or paving a road only weeks later to dig it up again because somebody "forgot" to put in another cable that was needed.

Those millions of dollars could be divided up between our police and our teachers to make us into a more civilized society that appreciates those who labour tirelessly for us. Add to that nurses at the clinics and hospitals and also those very highest slaves on the slave-worker totem pole being the members of the Dept of Social Services. Their pay is so low (when computed against ACTUAL hours worked vs clocked) that they are practically paying the Govt to allow them to work for us.

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Yeah, hope they don't apply that logic in rape cases. The committee has found that the rapist's actions were taken with either the knowledge or consent of the lady. You mean the lady who was raped knew about it?

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