I can see how people are upset by these reprehensible acts of criminals but I don't see the country descending to flogging in any form, public or private. We have to understand that the only persons who will get any benefits from flogging is the person doing the flogging and we as a country should begin to realise that we are dealing with some devious individuals and the only thing to do with them is to put them in prison for a long, long time so that when they are released they will not be any problems to anyone else.
We cannot be seen to be sympathetic to these people, we have been saying for ever that possessing an illegal firearm is against the laws, that using and trading in certain drugs is illegal, that raping and murder is illegal yet almost every day we have people being apprehended for doing these things. How long and what does it take for our Leaders to realise that the country need to be serious with them.
One area I do not see our Legal minds looking at and that is the payment of Bonds to the courts. Does anybody ever asked where persons who have not done any legal work in their lives manage to come up with $10, 20 and up to $50,000 cash bail; where do they get hundreds of thousands of dollars in some cases to pay Lawyers for defending them, who check on where these monies are coming from, who cares?
Let's get serious and begin to do something about getting a hand on crime in this country.

Why did the Prime Minister go beyond the Labour Agreement and give additional compensations to these greedy union members? Didn't he know that this only give them strength to gouge more money from the government.
We should understand that this money that they are trying to grab belong to the people of the Bahamas and cannot just be given away. These civil servants should be fired for walking off their jobs especially at this time when the economy had just taken a terrible hit over the past few years. The whole world are still reeling from the economic downturn and the government of the Bahamas was clever enough to keep the economy on even keel and did not have to part ways with any civil servants but was able to generate employment so that persons could be hired during these times.
Apart from being able to maintain an over bloated civil service, the government were able to make vast improvements on roads, utilities, made much needed adjustments to our social services by implementing unemployment assistance, implement free medicines for the elderly and civil servants, built airports in the capital as well as certain Family Islands, major improvements to hospitals in Nassau and Freeport and is building mini-hospitals in various Family Islands. These are only some of the Works undertaken by this government during what is said to be the most serious downturn in the last eighty (80) plus years and these greedy civil servants are attempting to destroy our economy.
They are intentionally trying to destroy our country by calling work stoppages at this time and should be thought of as traitors. In fact the Prime Minister should dismiss them outright and reassign the defence Force workers to replace them.
One of their major gripes is that the government stopped their overtime and since they had built that overtime income as a part of their budget, the Government should allow them to continue ratcheting up overtime, in some instances up to three times their basic salaries. What they must know but chose not to understand that overtime is not a right and one should not budget this income as definite income, that other Bahamians should be hired and just as what was done a shift system should be built into the system.
On another point, this could be a part of the problem why the road works was over budgeted. It was said that persons were not used to working in shifts and demanded the company to pay overtime.
The government must realise that common sense has to be brought to bear when dealing with dispensing our funds and we should do so just as private enterprise would do it.
Thank you