As an attorney licensed to practice in The Bahamas, indeed as the MOJ Mr Munroe knows full well that the protection of witnesses & victims lies within his own ministry.

He knows that the Crown, the courts and the police have an obligation codified in The Criminal Evidence (Witness Anonymity) Act of 2011 precisely for victim support and witness protection as the core of the administration of justice. An Act was worded to protect victims and witnesses like Mr McPhee because these persons were so routinely murdered and intimidated as to render justice moot in The Bahamas.

And yet Mr Munroe declares this obligation lies with such witnesses and victims to provide the evidence of their endangerment??

“Court Justice Officers (CJOs) and the police have a duty to provide protection for
witnesses and victims”…and not “to jeopardize the life, safety, freedom and well being of these and other co-operating persons”
That “the best protection is the awareness of potential risks of harm, to exercise good judgment and caution in all their interactions (with these) prior to their testimony.”

This includes providing for their anonymity from the accused and their attorneys such as redacting documents of “their names, addresses and testimony…up to 24 hours prior to testimony for qualifying criminal cases”.

So Mr Munroe would you care to amend your statement to include a commitment to justice?

It always amazes me that the courts (and parents) treat children so badly.
And although the testimony from this child indicates she does not trust her Mum to stand up for her, that she feared her Mother would allow her abuser to beat her and so invite more sexual abuse, no one seems to appreciate the enormous implications for this child’s quality of life.
Nor the steadfastness and courage it takes to undergo such harrowing experiences, first by her abuser, then police and now this court.

I’m a grown woman, it took me years to acknowledge my husband’s abuse and as I feared, despite all evidence even my own children refused this acknowledgment.

My God. How many more people have to die before this country has the kind of governance that doesn’t work so hard at killing its own citizens?

Those of us who attempt to follow the precepts of our faith in God realize that forgiveness is one of the toughest tasks we must accept if we’re to live in peace.

And unfortunately we’ve all experienced the distasteful interactions, the too often horrific results of those amongst us who’ve not experienced the adult guidance that favours reason over emotion, the application of accountability for one’s actions from their parents, their teachers and coaches, our so called justice system.

Forgiveness without accountability might have to be enough for an aggrieved party but for society?
It’s a ticking bomb, it’s an abdication of our responsibility to live not as humans, but as animals.

Ok…so we learned all about the merits of organ donation.
Where’s the part the matches the headline, ie. why was this man acquitted??

So we must weigh the rights of convicted sex offenders against the innocent and most vulnerable members of our communities?

This shouldn’t take long!

Oh please!
With the amount of corruption revealed in the recent months alone, who needs to work hard directing a spotlight??!!

Davis&Co are not working in legitimate PPPs if they’re making these interest payments.
What this reflects is that their gov’t has failed to prove themselves a trusted entity for any interest by business investments in The Bahamas.

Taken with the revelations of the Gradiner-Davis&Co partnerships. one would be safer assuming that all their so called PPPs were in fact set up in name only as vehicles to tout Davis&Co as successful managers of the Bahamian economy, and taxpayers’ monies..

Thats why there’s no money for infrastructure, for schools & teachers, for any healthcare workers from janitors to MDs, nor to continue any funding for our existing hospitals.

Oh please!
Halkitis was the MOF who oversaw this company getting money to ‘build’ the Eight Mile Rock project/money laundering scheme.

He was their “ consultant” thereafter and likely set up the SPV scheme in anticipation that his election in 2021 would prime the company for more so called gov’t sanctioned projects while in actuality serving as a vehicle for Davis&Co to launder the profits and/or the $$ stolen by Davis&Co from taxpayers.

And of course he prudently resigned his position because the optics of his enabling these money laundering/drug smuggling criminals would make him look less like a self-styled trusted public servant and more like the double dealing crook he was in fact and deed.

And of course once again as the MOF in 2021 he ensured their becoming the contractor for Minnis’ Carmichael Village project. His government had the contract for the infrastructure out, & the contractor had the infrastructure for Phase 1 done by the fall election.

But under Davis&Co??
What, 70 homes built in over 5 years??

The current US anti drug operation no longer relies on coercing low level drug smuggling enablers like Ian Nixon, look at the Caribbean military strikes, look at the sting op netting criminals in the police/military forces controlled by top level criminals who control the government.

That’s because they possess the electro-magnetic and non-kinetic tools that act exactly as described by Nixon (and by afflicted Venezuelans during the Maduro seizure ) in his account of the incident in these pages, ie. being hit by something that wasn’t like any “normal turbulence” rendering the plane without power, electronics and cyber connectivity.