"*I am not a pessimist, I don’t believe in what ifs.*"

Mr Sands is smarter than me but the "*what ifs*" spoken of has nothing to do with pessimism and everything to do with Risk Management.

What happens in the Bahamas is we've been sold nonsense that everything is great! The worst of which is "*crime is down but murder is up*" it's the most nonsensical mantra ever heard yet they repeat it over and over again as if its a positive. Spinning crime, who knew? Marketers could get a master class from us.

To be a little pessimistic, the crime they want us to know about is down. Or is that also realism?

A few years ago we were told that we were "growing" because 1% is growth and people talking about "real" growth didnt know what they were talking about! But on the ground people were saying, this dont feel like growth and why they running after taxes like hounds and finding all these schemes to tax air? Because, we werent really growing, we were for all intents and purposes, stagnant, and saying so wasnt pessimism, it was realism.

I drove around for a bit yesterday and was totally dismayed by the view of hundreds of Bahamians crammed onto maybe 2miles of beach space but where the view allowed, you could see stretches of hundreds of miles of clean unoccupied white sand, "*high water mark*" another Jim Crow relic they want us to swallow, and saying so isnt pessimism, its realism. This is while Adrian White revealed that someone is being allowed to mow down trees in the marine protected area around Athol Island!

The cruise port just revealed that they're opening a water park. And they say they "*want tourists to explore Nassau*"? Nassau already has two water parks. Tell your guests about them so they can "*explore*". We must open our eyes, our country is being sold off wholesale to the cruise industry. they want to take every penny out of the tourist pocket before they hit the back of the straw market. I wonder why none have proposed purchasing Bay St as yet and placing it behind a gate... well, parliament is scheduled to move... is it the canary?

Pessimism or realism?

Exercise some "*stealth*"?? Brain misfire

Yes birdie we believe that. Because we've heard not one, not 2 but numerous incidents of people being shot while in front of or in their homes by people coming "*out of the blue*". Some lived to tell the tale carrying multiple bullet wounds and others died.

For once birdie I agree with one thing you've said, Scotland Yard should **investigate everybody.**

**Because its virtually impossible for one man to orchestrate and execute this alledged scheme, nobody notice anything strange? Nobody ask any questions?** Nobody had any phones tapped after man on bail mysteriously gets shot one after the next? **Because the public has certainly been asking for more than a year whether these ankle monitor locations were being revealed with ill intent in mind**. Nobody in leadership was even curious? The national security minister nor the PM ever posed the question? Noone? Noone in cabinet said we need an internal police probe? I know I've personally said something was wrong that so many police officers were being caught in crimes. It's all documented in the Tribune. The most serious was an officer caught trying to run from a getaway car after being involved in a drive by shooting targeting a man on bail.

**At minimum the requirements to enter the police force have to change.** This is not the place to stuff with rejects who cant find a job. The mysterious physical damage to prisoners at police stations where nobody know what happened has to stop. The assaults at traffic stops dont ask questions have to stop. If the police force becomes a rogue organization where exactly are we headed as a country?

**I'm still baffled that two men had the temerity to hold Brave Davis and his family hostage at his westridge home. I mean imagine who would consider that? Anyway, they're both dead now, shot while on bail.**

May 15th.

Remember that it was the stated "*strategy*" of the police not to show cctv footage because they "*didnt want to impede the investigation*".

I think our entire country has stockholm syndrome and everybody believes information is bad. Dont share it, dont speak it. Even if true!

It was unfathomable that a police force anywhere in the world having footage of a missing teenager would not take to the airwaves and tv stations to say this is where he was last seen, this is what he was wearing. They sat together and decided to hide information.

What are we to expect from any investigation current past or future? Likely more of the same until we start using intelligence. The real kind.

So Royal Caribbean will take 3000 of the cruise passengers who dare to come off the ship clutching their purse and the cruise port will take the rest. If this govt had any vision they would have bulldozed Arawak cay and created something clean,well planned and beautiful. But who knows maybe the dysfunction benefits them. I still dont understand how people eat at Potters cay dock with the smell of raw sewerage in the air 6 out of 7 days.

No idea of true but wouldnt be surprised. It's odd though. The US media has running commentary on corruption allegations, the Police Commissioners come out and give statements and not one of them says *we can only investigate if everybody stops talking about this case*. Its **odd**

It's in the print version. Its once a week. It is more convenient if it's available online but if it's important, buy a paper.

When I saw the headline, the first question I asked was, how can a senior member of staff hold sway over the direction of investigations with some going weirdly awry and noone notice the signs? It's impossible, at worst someone should say you're not being effective, I need to move someone else here. Because the public has certainly been pointing out oddities. When an organization fails that broadly at the task fundamental to the existence of the organization, it's not just the perpetrator who falls or should fall, it's the entire leadership who failed to notice the signs or to do anything

Agreed, I'm just waiting for the outrage to start when the world media uses corruption and Bshsmas in the same sentence in relation to this investigation

I just read that Dino Smith was the man killed in that brazen Prince Charles shooting. The other guy was killed as well, this means this voice note had to be recorded months ago, months. Months with the CDU head in charge. and somebody being subject to the revelation of this secret voice note.

The Nassau Guardian has the transcript. I maintain that a person who wasnt on the voice note would say, "*that's not me*", it does them no good to sit around wairing as their reputation is damaged if they know it's not them. Noone has made a statement.

"*He appealed to members of the press to understand the sensitivity of the investigation, and asked for cooperation in allowing investigators to proceed thoroughly and accurately.*"

Cooperation with what? To keep the issue quiet? How were the police able to narrow down a voice note to the head of the criminal investigation dept?

That aside, people that work with an individual can very quickly determine if a recorded voice sounds like that person. The next question to ask the person is, is this you? And the person says, no bey that's fake. The next thing to do is call BTC and find out if they have any evidence of a call between this number and that number. If they dont have the phone numbers they ask, do you have phone numbers registered to these individuals? Any calls between any of those numbers?

How long do these obvious questions take to answer? A few hours, but let's say 3 days because other stuff is going on..
like BEC power failures.

We do not have to go through 3 months of silence on this. The commissioner should by the end of this week be able to say, the head of the criminal investigation dept is not the person in the voice note or we have reason to believe he is the person on the voice note