When we talk about weeding out the corrupt officials or crooked cops ,where do you think they came from mars ..They came from us ,and a great deal of us lack a moral compass . I put it to you that we would be hard pressed to have a 4000 man police force w/ out a third to half being corrupt ,same goes for immigration ,politicians etc ..In all reality our path is already charted ,another crime infested 3 rd world country where the tourist visit closed resorts .Religion here absolves so many of us of personal responsibility its a crying shame ,,

@Rory Dude we are losing market share to others in the region ,our highest year was 2007 we have not regained that back yet ,while DR ,Cuba and jamaica have gained back pre recession levels and surpassed them ,,we are down 6% in 2013 from our own levels in 2012..its not so much the crime its high prices and bad service ,since the recession tourist found better value for their money ..i don,t care if you call it carribean or region DR and cuba are whipping our butts

@Rory how many affluent people ,our tourist ,decide to vacation in inner city detriot , or liberty city miami ,,,you are still 8 times more likley to be murdered in the Bahamas then the US

not saying he doesn,t ,but everyone has a story how many crooks cop to four counts of murder ??,,was he on the tape at the exact time ,,police give other guys a walk or a favor on other sh##t to talk

i don,t know if this fellow is guilty or not ,however i was not a good guy when i was younger iand spent time in Fox hill prison and US jails ,Everyone in jail is innocent or its some one else fault ,just ask them ..The majority of criminals are anti social and very adept at playing the system and naieve peoples emotions ,,

@tin2014 the majority of our visitors come from the US where the homocide rate id 4 per 100,000 ,ours is 30 per 100,000

Truth is our share of stopover visitors to the region has slipped from 10% to 7% while the Dominican republic,Cubas and Jamaicas have all increased ,,,

@liljohn ,funny you don,t even now which colour i am ,however your reply proves my point and if a majority of Bahamians think making babies proves there manhood the results are easy to predict ,just what is happening now ,more crime and more poverty ,,,,

@hey lil john ,,many years ago when i was involved in less then stellar activities when ever we needed a handgun we bought them from crooked cops ..we have out breed our gdp and can no longer afford to put the
"unemployable " on the public purse ..The only solution to our rising crime and poverty is birth control /family planning or salt peter in the water ,,short of that our future will be like Jamaica ,closed resorts ,,ghettos and crime ,,you can,t do the same thing and expect different results ,,single mothers of 6 for 3 absentee dads only produce one thing ,,,crimminals

@phcardjohnnie such a sad lil man ,,how did race get into a conversation about ph cards ??,,,next you will call me a foriegner or paper bahamaian ,,dude you really are a myopic little idiot ,,the bahamas government is getting double the revenue under cwc ,,,sorry you and your offspring can no longer stand on the road side ,try selling peanuts ,,