If your figure of 134 is correct then gives a rate of just over 38 per 100,000 population. This would make us the 9th most murderous country in the world just after Haiti, if using the Bah 2024 figure with statistics for 2023from other countries.

And what is interesting, Bidrie, is the more religious a country is that; the higher the murder rate is. Conversely those countries with very low rates of church attendance also have the lowest rates of murder. Why? Possible to do with the ability of women to control their bodies, or not as the case may be.

The average rate of murder per 100,000 population is 6.3. Last year the rate in our country was 30 per 100,000; which is amongst the highest of any country. The Bahamas also has one of the highest number of police officers per capita of any country in the world. Hiring more police or creating yet more expensive deputy police commissioners is probably not the answer to the crisis that we are suffering. As others have pointed the broken justice system is probably part of the problem. Bermuda shares some common colonial history with the Bahamas; the murder rate there is a fraction of ours; what are they doing that we could emulate?

So who do we believe; one one side is doctor's report, the drug test result, the testimony of the Canadian visitor, and on the other side, there is......well, nothing actually. Perhaps a report of an internal police investigation may be ready in two or three years.

disbared lawyer o. bodie calls the pres elect the Hon Donald J Trump." where exactly does he think that this honorific comes from? surely it is uk not us. bodie may be losing the plot perhaps....

some might describe this whole situation as a questionable copout....

If, and thank goodness that I am not, I was in the unenviable position of being the Prime Minister of this the perhaps smallest, least consequential, of the English Commonwealth countries, then my first and most important concern would be to get elected to a 2nd term as PM as only then do you qualify for the huge pension enjoyed by two term holders of the office, or the surviving spouse of the deceased holder. The amount of our tax money paid out to certain people due to this is enormous and would shock those trying to survive on a paltry $15,000 per month.....Sigh.

This is kind of sad, is this just another person who makes his money from the gambling business trying to buy respectability? Maybe to be appointed as a Bahamian ambassador somewhere that is not very important? Have we not seen this story played out before. It usually takes at least two generations, sometimes three, to elevate a family's dignity from persona non grata to acceptable in any particular social structure. Think the USA's rum running Kennedy for example. Joe Kennedy appointed US ambassador to Gt. Britain in 1940, or thereabouts.

The letter writer asserts that; "Pindling was man enough to do it.". I beg to differ. Pindling had millions of dollars in his bank account that he claimed that he did not know where that money came from. IMO he only called the Royal Commission of Inquiry because of the pressure exerted by the USA & the UK. Who can forget the fear of one infamous cabinet minister too scared to leave Nassau in a boat in case the USA's DEA might arrest him. Perhaps you had to have been there and lived through those interesting times. Have such times come again? I don't know. yet.....

Bahamasair, it’s plain to see, .
has insufficient planes to be, .
A glowing example of the Bahamas, .
Not showing itself as A Republic Bananas. .
Twenty two million dollars each year, .
We’re taxed to keep them in the air. .
State ownership is a waste of time, .
Such malfesance should be a crime. .
sigh.