"*Let's all give her the time*"

Absolutely not. This is a crisis. Pick someone qualified to do the job from day one. She may well be that person, but we do not have time to "wait" to see.

A failure could also be the result of lack of necessary competencies... since none have been identified. Just pick someone who sat around long enough and has "years" of obscure "experience"

This nonsense about "*the first female to...*" is going a tad bit too far. Everybody loves Mother Pratt, but does anyone really believe she was chosen by Perry Christie as DPM because he thought she had had stellar leadership skills? Of course not, just the opposite, he chose her because he saw her as no threat to him. There was Brave, Obie and Fred, he steered clear of them and he went for the weakest. Now forevermore we get to hear a fairytale about "*first female DPM*" as a hard earned award. Lanesha Rolle was touted as "*first female Sports Minister*" she stepped in, had people standing when she entered the room, putting her face on medals and she break up the best china while she was at it. But again forevermore "*first female to..*"

I dont know anything about the new commissioner, we are basically now forced to accept someone with no job description. This selection process facade needs to end

"**Reposted from Thursday last week** I dont know why we cant be proactive:

*The PM, Fred Mitchell, Chester Cooper, Wayne Munroe and The Commissioner are unserious. The US and every citizen knows it.*

***The next shoe to drop will be illegal immigration. The US takes that as a serious threat**. Right around 2021 the US released Adrian Fox who was charged with smuggling Chinese nationals and they said he was very helpful, like a canary*

They're made for tv actors. Trump picked them because they look good on scripted tv. Was just having a conversation and told the individual the same thing that tripped them up in 45 will trip them up in 47.... "*time*".

News to the world, "indicted" and "a **high** ranking politician*"

Lol. Still in dreamland.

Trump will be great for the Bahamas! Right? That's what the Trump supporters say.

I said yesterday, I dont know if the drastic actions taken were called for, but certainly something had to be done to put a stop to the undemocratic approach of the Speaker. It is distasteful to the extreme the way in which she intentionally, and with seeming, malice silences the opposition. This is not the way, it is unconstitutional. And to point to "rules" is a cop out. Rules are misused almost every day in organizations in this country to punish persons out of favour with power, even when power is misguided. Brave Davis and Chester Cooper encourage her and have led the entire country down this unproductive path.

But this is what persons without leadership skills do, they ignore the real issues and make it all about the individuals pointing the issues out.

**The country is in an economic crisis and an integrity crisis. A US indictment has implicated a *high ranking politician* in an act of what could be considered treason. Cocaine and guns using police officers as drug mules and govt planes as transport???** And now without explaining how we got to this place of noone knowing anything, we get a PR stunt of a commissioner replacement with no assurance that it actually addresses the problem. If noone has noticed, drug crime in Freeport including murder has been increasing over the last few years. **The *high ranking politician* is still in place, in a position of power, giving orders to subordinates and using our country's resources to do God knows what manner of evil *for the love of money* **.

I just mentioned the mace toss 2 or 3 days ago in response to Licoln Bain's antics.

My assessment at that time was basically that Bain was no Linding Pindling and is all about drama and youtube content generation.

I do not like what the govt is doing in attempting to silence the opposition, it is distasteful to the extreme. I've also said I want to hear the FNM say that they will allow the opposition to have a voice.

I dont know if this drastic of an action was required but I am happy that the govt side was not able to continue with their undemocratic action. My question is whether going forward we will see the mace out the window at least once every five years...

I read the resume of Clayton Fernander listed on the police website and compared to that of Shanta Knowles.

I see no difference. I need to know what qualifies someone to be competent commissioner

With all the courses listed for the former Commissioner, with a highlight on 30years of investigative experience he had no inkling that anything on the scale of this massive intelligence breech was happening right in his department... Why? What qualities didnt he have? An analytical mind? A true understanding of policy and protocol implementation above knowing the words and having a completed course checkmark? I myself kept asking, where all this cocaine going? What was a 30year investigator asking? Mrs Knowles has completed the same training courses, same investigative experience. Did she pose questions to the commissioner stating something was wrong or was she in the dark as well? We need assurance that she (or whomever) is different. We cant wait another 3 years to see if someone learns on the job.

What are we doing in our planning to get a different result? Or, does a *high ranking politician* want more of the same?