That's cuz they gats more broughtuptsy than Mad Brad the rapist. They een naming names until dems make da gala appearance at Bank Lane.

Preach it brother!!

Minnis -- move yer azz and get these people behind bars !!

Glenys pretending that she is goody two-shoes and her corruption don't stink.

Now this is batsh*t crazy for this discussion. A little detached from reality.

There is a French term called *force majeur* that is used often in contracts. It means superior force, or unstoppable force, or major insurmountable force. For example, if you read your international airline ticket closely, sometime they reference force majeur in relation to say an act of terrorism or an act of war. A hurricane is a force majeur.

I am half convinced that the situation in the Bahamas is force majeur -- unstoppable. You posited in an earlier statement that perhaps the CIA is supplying guns to the crooks in the Bahamas. While that may be a wild conspiracy theory, it also may be true. A possible reason is that they want to destabilize us to get rid of the Chinese influence. Now don't go running off believing this, but it is a possibility.

Back to force majeur. If it's the CIA, its a force majeur. Can't fight it. If it is rich guys in the Bahamas coupled to gangs looking to make money, then it becomes unstoppable, unless you cut the head off the snake -- the guys funding the gun running. If its the drug trade funding the gun running, then it becomes a force majeur as well, because it is like playing Whack-A-Mole. You get one, and another one pops up. The only way to get rid of it, is to empower the low level gangs who do the work with good jobs -- ie turn around the economy.

Did you read Freakonomics (or maybe it was Super Freakonomics) -- about the low level drug dealers live with their moms? They een making the big money. If these low-level guys had decent jobs, they wouldn't be fueling the drug trade as much. And then the force majeure would become a solvable problem. We need to turn this damn economy around !

I am a little disappointed in the FNM now. Minnis says he is the new sheriff in town, and yet he hasn't fired a shot yet. SLOW !! Someone needs to light a fire under the asses of the cabinet. When Mobutu of Zaire put up the $10 million for the Ali fight, he wanted to show that he was the new sheriff and he wanted the criminal elements to fall in line. He had mass arrests of a 1000 prominent crooks and political cronies. They were marched off to the major soccer pitch and told to count off in 10s. Every tenth guy was shot -- no matter who he was or how politically he was connected. It was a way of showing that the old order was dead and your political connections were useless.

I don't necessary want anyone shot (I would make a few exceptions for the major PLP players) but I do want to see them crap in SLOP buckets in Fox Hill for the rest of their miserable lives. Minnis said that he would do it, and it een happening. The "Its' early" excuse is over.

Co-sign.

Why are they not in jail for white collar crimes? This is why our financial services is a joke. And this is from one who is in the industry!

If it were the Chinese making the decisions, why was James Smith involved. Another poster pointed out that perhaps the Chinese lent the PLP the money to pay the Bahamians. This sounds like a distinct possibility.

I would bet my bottom Chinese dollar that it wasn't their decision not to pay the foreigners.

Damn !! We have to ban those old, fat white ladies coming here for sex with our Bahamian yout'. It's causing the country to go to hell in a handcart.

There is a thought that struck me here about the gun proliferation. It takes capital to import guns. The capital must either come from the drug trade ... or ... a rich someone who pretends to be legit and knows they can make vast profits by running guns into the country. If we only had an intelligence agency that had the smarts to track this down.

Very cogent observation, and a subtle one that most people miss. Oftentimes there is no legal standing for cancellation, or the penalties are such that it is prohibitive to do so.