These police take too much criticism from the public. They are damned when they do and damned when they don't do their job as the "arm-chair critics" feel they should.

Personally, I don't care how they are caught as long as the criminals are caught. It always mystifies me why these criminals behave the way they do in such a small island. There really isn't anywhere for them to o go if you the police force is strong enough.

Keep up the good work.

I'd like to know who pays for these people to go back to their own countries. Surely they don't have any money to get back and I doubt the Haitian government have the money either.

The Bahamas doesn't have the money to waste on these immigrants so there should be a better way to deal with them. One that would be far more cost efficient. Even putting them to work off their flight costs would take jobs away from the locals. It would be good if this manpower could be put to use somehow to improve their livelihood and benefit the Bahamas government.

But they don't learn!
I went to a Thursday night meeting in February for some sort of gold scheme out of Switzerland. I could not believe the gullibility of the people in the audience. They swallowed the story hook, line and sinker!! "This one is different" they said. "Our own people wouldn't scam us" they said. " So and so from town made so much money" they said. "This one is different" they said.

So how are you doing now folks. They are always asking you to put $200 or $300 more in to buy something and you'd get another $5000 - $6000 back. Such nonsense.

People will never learn. Right there in the meeting I googled this organization and up came SCAM in the biggest, boldest lettering and no one believes me!

Don't expect the government to help you through this or God for that matter. Prayers won't help. What will help is using your brain. If it sounds to good to be true then it's a scam. Report to the he police and run away from the scams!

I just left the meeting shaking my head and muttering to myself "stupid", "stupid", "stupid"!

So many of these ideas are excellent so start doing instead of talking, folks. If the jetskiers are a problem, get rid of them. Ban jetskiing! Then restart the program by hiring, investigating and licencing the operators.
Better educate your children. Give them an education where they can study and explore the world, not just your 21 x 7 island where they get into trouble. This would involve raising your standards and enforcing rules and regulations to live by. Sounds rough and tough but many of your boys have all this wasted testosterone so use it and start rebuilding this island instead of tearing it down. And your girls! OMG, none know how to keep their legs closed. To have two, three, and more kids without the father being around is not the way of life these girls should be following. Talk about living in the past where slaves had to have babies to keep the mastas plantations well staffed. Those days are over. Having children now should be because the parent can raise the child with dignity, support the child, feed and clothe the child, not drag it up by begging on the streets or getting welfare money. Get some pride in yourself and in your country. Make the fathers responsible for their kids. If they can't afford them, don't have them. Snip! Snip! Snip! How many generations of uneducated, fatherless children does the Bahamas really need.

It's about time that something is done about the trash and fiith strewn about the island of New Providence. From the moment one drives out of airport property one sees trash all along the roadside. I'd like to know why are they waiting until October.......are the waiting in hopes another hurricane will take away the trash??

Communities can start now to clean up! Let's not try making this a black/white thing. This is taking responsibility of keeping ones on property, community, and country clean and tidy.

This is ours mentioned a balled up napkin being tossed from a car window. When I was in the Immigration building in February, walking up to the 3rd (?) floor behind a female employee, who threw her white styrofoam container in the stairwell, I questioned why she couldn't take it to her office and but it in the trash. After she glared at me, sucked her teeth, looked me up and down then told me to stay out of her business!

I picked the up container myself. Once I was called in I took the container as well, telling the clerk and pointing out the women saying I'm sure she dropped this by accident and might need it later. She was so pissed off with me! The clerk called the woman over and have it to her.

I have to say it made my day!!

Isn't your comment a racist comment Sheeprunner12?
I don't see how the Commomwealth Games cater to white folk. Are black folk not allowed to attend? Are your athletes not supposed to run in white games?

If the Bahamas wants to improve itself, let's start right here by knocking the chip off your shoulder. The Bahamas consists of many colours and when we finally realize that colour really doesn't mean a damned thing will this country start to improve!

So glad to see Bahamians have voted for a better party, one who will work for the people and not just themselves.

Now is the to clean up the island of New Providence bringing it back to what it should be. getting the young people involved, helping them gain some pride for their country while making some money to better themselves. Help the youth to get out of gangs and rid the island of guns so they'll be productive members of this beautiful nation. And with perseverance we might even help some of the youth to get off drugs!

The Family​ Islands need so much help to restructure after two devastating hurricanes after being very much ignored by those who were in charge.

The Bahamas are in a positive position now to be the most beautiful place in the world to live, work, visit and vacation.

I've just come back from a 30 year absence and I'm utterly disgusted by the dirt and filth on this island. No one seems to have pride in their homeland.

Garbage is strewn along the roadways, in downtown on the streets and even in the stairwell of some of your government buildings.

I can not understand why this government hadn't put money into this beautiful country instead of allowing it to deteriorate to the depths it has. The only industry the Bahamas has is tourism and no one wants to come because of the dirt, crime and lack of civic pride!

Come on Bahamas. Clean this place up, make it the beautiful it can be before your money is devalyed and the Bahamas becomes another Haiti.

I am a white woman who was married to a black Bahamian back in the '80's. We lived in a nice neighbourhood and I raised his children for many years but I eventually left because of the racism against me. If it was the neighbours, who renamed me "the white b**ch" to the teachers redoing the children's hair because it wasn't the way black children should wear it, to the grandparents telling the kids they didn't have to listen to a thing I said because I was white and knew nothing of their culture. Of course I knew the culture, also the children would come home crying because of their hair being redone. So childish! However, there is only so much one can take so once the children were well on their way to making themselves a good life, I left. To this day I've not been back and that breaks my heart because I've always felt the Bahamas was a beautiful place. Although now I think it's not what I've made myself believe it is, now with the disrespect the drugs , the shootings and yes, the now ingrained racism. If people have take offence to what Mr Smith said then they should stop, look around then do something to change it!

This whole issue is called deflection, my friends. Deflection from the real problems in the Bahamas: corruption, high unemployment, corruption, high gas prices and did I say corruption. Let's just focus on a few women wearing tank tops or sun tops, that's far more important for the country than the unholy corruption from this government.