The majority of crime is caused by young men that have lost faith in being able to build a normal way of life for themselves. No hope of a steady job, having a loving family and the respect of the community around them. Is so easy to blame them, or the police, or the politicians but until the entire village that these boys are growing up within - help these young men to find a path of non-violence - it's never going to go away. And in the end, it affects us all badly when the US State Department starts issuing travel warnings for the whole Bahamas. Yes it's easier "said" than "fixed" but we are all guilty of fixating on getting rid of the criminals when there is another generation of young men being neglected right behind these ones

Is bad enough having Bahamian politicians that are elected by the people to serve the people, telling us what to do all day. When are we going to tell these unelected circus clowns at the EU Commission to stop telling us what to do ? They won't stop. So long as you comply with every jacka... idea that these foreign autocrats have, the more inspired they will be to come up with new ones

I hope they are going to base the scorecard against trying to get a bank account set up on the moon ? Can set up a business account in the US in 24 hours and it takes six weeks in the Bahamas....if you lucky !

Oh how quickly this man has started to sound like Papa Doc. Arbitrarily punishing the majority and blaming it on a minority - and joking about it.......

My brother-in-law has had 4 doses of vaccine. FOUR !! He is currently really sick with Covid....and if anyone says it would have been worse if he wasnt vaccinated I am going to scream. The same people who are telling us that the vaccine shelf life can be extended are the same people who promised us that if we got the jab (ONE JAB) we would not contract covid AT ALL and we would NOT spread covid to grandma. At what point are we going to hold these liars accountable ??!!

Don't forget it is most commonly communicated by intimate physical contact (sexual activity) - so this pandemic will see the need for locking us out of our bedrooms and we will probably need Monkeypox Ambassadors to follow us around to make sure we sanitize our private parts and wear protection whenever we are in close proximity to consenting adults

Everywhere in the world (in western democracies) that government health mandates have been challenged in courts, they have been found to be unconstitutional. And Bahamians tossed the FNM out on their behind because of their disregard for the constitution. So why would you encourage the PLP to continue enforcing unconstitutional laws

Whilst I do not disagree with most of what you are saying, You are completely skipping over the human rights violations that China commits on a daily basis (to fellow Chinese) Uyghurs in concentration camps, the current lockdown of Shanghai, the violent suppression of Hong Kong's civil rights movement, the constant hostile threats of invading Taiwan.
One of the main reasons that China has been able to focus on infrastructure over the last two or three decades is precisely because the USA has spent 3 trillion dollars trying to make the planet a safer place. We are all horrified at what is going on in Ukraine but if you look back over a couple of geriatric presidents' lives, there are far fewer people dying in wars now than ever before. And I am not aware of any evidence of China contributing to anything peaceful, apart from investing in infrastructure packages that small countries can not afford to pay back - and therefore be beholden to China
Have some greedy American corporations and corrupt US politicians taken advantage of the power that the US projects.....probably? Could they be doing a better job at home....probably? However, I think it is very naive to sit back and assume that China or Russia would be doing a better job of preserving your personal rights and freedoms here in the Bahamas or the Soloman Islands. It may not seem fair that someone has to play world policeman - to stop us all from hacking each other to pieces - but am quite sure that if China or Russia was the 'colonial' superpower and you wrote a dissenting piece in the local newspaper, you would not be around the next day to read about it!

Just rub hand sanitizer in your eyes and all the bad things in the world will go away

This government needs to wake up. We have all these corrupt foreign entities telling us to do one thing or another as if they know what is right for our tiny little economy or our own personal health issues ?! The WHO is changing the 'science' daily and there is not one iota of evidence that any of the rules they forced us to follow have ever made a difference anywhere in the world. There is mounting evidence that the vaccines are not as safe and effective as the manufacturers promised us......and last but not least.... we seem to have created a whole new kind of store clerk that spends their work-day hovering around the front door of establishments yapping "sanitize your hands" !! Think about it folks. Covid 1, delta, omicron, it's never going to go away so long as we keep buying into it...Variants pop up in South Africa and a week later I test positive for it in Nassau, in spite of everything we have all done. And in the meantime our entire way of life depends on tourists coming here and having a happy time. Tourists are now coming here from places that have done away with ALL of the restrictions. Florida - No testing, no mask mandates, no nothing! Are we going to be the last heroic holdouts of covid paranoia ? Annoying the crap out of our visitors? Confusing them with weekly changes to the rules. Telling them they will go to prison if they break the rules. Chasing them across restaurant floors demanding they wear a mask until they are seated ?? Telling them to smear some god-knows-what cheap disinfectant on their hands right before they order an expensive bottle of wine.

It is starting to look foolish