Someone writes; "The governing system we operate under depended on and was designed to manage slaves and an empire of conquered/colonized lands ." Well, no, it was not. The British system of Parliamentary Democracy with a constitutional monarch is a system of government that evolved over hundreds of years and included devastating civil wars and several people's rebellions. The result wrested absolute power from a single hereditary monarch to a group of elected parliamentarians who controlled taxes and law making. Although deeply flawed it is a better system of government than most. We are fortunate not to live in North Korea, the PRC, or Russia.

I believe Gambier was the other settlement.

What hugely complex subject in a country like The Bahamas where thousands of the citizens are descended from enslaved people being transported to South or North America but whose ship was intercepted by the British Royal Navy and the slaves freed and put ashore on New Providence; Adelade and t least one other settlement were founded for this resettlement. Then we have so many Bahamians of mixed races, slave and non slave, including at least one former prime minister. And lastly we have the Bahamian families descended from slave owners. Who will get the money. because ultimately it is all about the money?

Every single Prime Minister of this country has declined to accept an award from the Bahamas National Heroes committee. This says everything that you need to know about this particular exercise. No politico or politico's spouse would ever consider giving up their British Honour for one of these.

Babies in the chapel, patients in hall;
If you sick in PMH on your patience you must call.
Overworked and underpaid the staff must struggle on’
You too must struggle to stay alive until your life is done.
PMH was opened in nineteen fifty two,
Treating sick Bahamians when we only had a few.
Now most everyone is eating junk, getting obesity and ill;
But the hospital is just the same ,
which why that chapel done get fill.

There is no evidence that State Sanctioned executions have any effect on the murder rate in a country. In fact the higher the murder rate is the more likely that the country executes people. In the USA is has been estimated that 5% of citizens convicted of a crime are not actually guilty of that crime. Most of the supporters of the death penalty would probably rapidly change their minds if they were wrongly arrested and convicted of murder.

One of the greatest tests that face a leader of a small developing country is hubris. The elected leader. for a four year term, may develop a delusion that he, or she, is a statesman of influence on the world's stage, so much so that he, or she, may forget or ignore the challenges that are faced by the electorate who provided the voting mandate that gave this person the power to even have a voice in international affairs. As always; pride goeth before a fall.

The extremely high murder rate that this country is experiencing, one of the highest in the world, is due to a mix of complex factors; as such there cannot be a single simple solution. However there are things that can be done which will show results in the future. Children who are not properly socialized in the first two or three years of life are much more likely to engage in undesirable behavior. This is a problem for the family to correct, by the time the child goes to school it is too late. An unwanted child is much more likely to fall into this category therefore the solution may be to create less unwanted children by giving women full and complete and affordable control over their reproductive ability. A change in the laws of the land would be necessary to achieve this. Another necessary but politically unpopular thing that the government could do is to regularize the thousands, (tens of thousands), of undocumented migrants who are excluded from the legal work force because of their lack of legal status. These people have no other recourse but to find ways to create an income that is not legal. There are other things that can be done but that is enough for this comment.

There is something just deeply wrong with birdiestrachan castigating someone for being political. Has anyone ever seen a post of birdie strachan that is not political.

Is this an economic battle between a large clawed tiger and a toothless mouse? Who will win?