It is good that this topic is being aired. No one has accused the Bahamian Justice System of not being awful, underfunded, and dysfunctional. Successive administrations have not seen the need to invest the necessary funds to improve the system. The magistrates are woefully underpaid, there are not enough courts, the Prosecution office does not bear comment. A large amount of money needs to be spent over many years to correct things, in my opinion. Perhaps now the issue has been raised the elected politicians may see fit to address the issue, if they have both time and inclination that is.

Carlos is a highly paid government consultant, he has a background in the business of running a church; as such he is to be believed as an expert on this subject. He is almost certainly not just parroting what he has been told by the salesman for this recently hired company. Sigh....

Crab in it minister Alfred Sears,
Often leaves me quite in tears.
Are they tears of mirth or tears of woe?
It is ofttimes very hard to know.
In a job requiring honourable intention,
And a willingness to follow convention,
He appears to fail each every way,
If we are to believe what the Prime one say.

JoeBloat; thanks for your response. You write; "It is clear to me that people fail to recognize that harsh words will hurt a person far longer that corporal punishment will". While not necessarily disagreeing with your statement totally, I am curious as to how you have this conclusion. Anecdotal personal experience? Reading scientific papers on child psychology? your own internet research? Reading the Torah? Or just a personal opinion?

How long this Grain mil gonna last? We need a sweepstake run, Sebas, Flowers, anyone else wanna run it? I betting on 17month.....

How would any sensible sober person think that they could control a small electric scooter with two people on it on a downward gradient such as is present on the PI bridge?

Our beloved musician, dearly departed , from Cat Island, Tony McKay. aka Exuma, would have been surprised to learn that Obeah was not a part of Bahamian culture.

If this strategy is not just political rhetoric but will actually prove effective in preventing undocumented immigration then I can only wonder why it was not implemented twenty years or more ago.

Hi Joeblown, thanks for pontificating so well. Please continue to beat all those that you come in contact with, and check back in 17 years so we can see how it all turned out. so sad.....

So sorry that you have been forced to interact with some State-Employed-Workers; Not quite all of them are so nasty and entitled. You must remember that they were hired to the job, not on merit or qualifications , but because they voted for the party in power and their MP set them up.