What sort of patient is this suspect? A fellow who goes there for therapy and a drug protocol or an in-house patient? What was his supervised status?
Is he back in hospital, or was he beaten so severely by the police he had to go to hospital l?
And now the police want to give the impression they’re ‘Johnny on the spot’ because they exacted some sort of righteous justice on a suspect?
Doesn’t this sort of loutish behavior ruin cases?

And their big news (their only news) is they’ve got DNA (!) and when will it be sent off to wait months for a result since the RBPF will not spend the money needed to have it expedited.

If the police had started their investigation the day her Mother reported her missing Adriel might be at home right now.
Shame

"the commissioner has taken the position that we will immediately take the position now to send out a MARCO Alert once the alert as been reported to the police"

Fernandez' new "position" of immediate response is already the law in the Bahamas under the Child Protection Act! Action must be taken within 24 hours!

He and Dames claiming the MARCO alert has not been delayed is an insult to all those in the Bahamas concerned with the safety and care of children, worse is Dames' passing the blame onto parents.
Yes Adrial's Mother delayed reporting her missing by about 12 hours to the police, but how does this exonerate the police in their delayed response, stop them from doing their job?

They did waste time, it took over 24 hours past the time of the Mum's report to issue an alert which strangely co-incides with the time of the discovery of her body.

The delayed alert aside, one cannot be faulted for doubting if any police investigation had even begun by the Wednesday when her body was discovered.

For one thing her Minister who was concerned for her safety took it upon himself to search and question those along her route to school about 12 hours after the police were alerted.
And if an investigation HAD been underway any calls alerting the police to witnesses who had likely witnessed her abduction would be of interest-correct?

Then there are the events of Wednesday evening 48 hours after she'd last been seen.
So are they lying in an attempt to obsfucate the time of her death to excuse their delay?
And how could they have started an investigation rewithin that previous 24 hours if her body was discovered on the exact route said investigation should have already searched?

This country has laws to protect children, and a $$million blast system to alert every community, what it lacks is any sense of a human duty of care, the will to actively participate in the protection of it's children.

Another investigation that will not resolve the plain facts: when members of the public require and call for police assistance they do not receive it. I know this from personal experience.

What nonsense! Dr Minnis is exactly right.
How could Davis&Co send Bahamians into a war torn country and declare that they are not in harm’s way?
As for Mitchell’s ridiculous explanation for the fact that RBDF has officers to organize Haitian migrants once they’ve arrived in Haiti? The Bahamas gov’t doesn’t show that much care for them when they’re in this country let alone after they’ve been repatriated!

And even the Kenyans have had little success, not surprising since they number 400 against 200 gangs with up to 15,000 members.Their mission is reportedly short on equipment and money.
The Kenyan officer in charge, a former director of police in Kenya who’s served in other peacekeeping roles said he was surprised that gangs operated in broad daylight killing with impunity.
But hey no worries,
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/09/us/k…

That depends on whom the threat is directed and given who the BCCEC represents and the consumer has not nor will be protected from any such threats. Especially given that the Bahamas Bureau for Quality Standards has so far been a non performer as well for Bahamian consumers!

This is a big deal for small businesses here given their reputation for price gouging and for long suffering customers.
My example below shows the inequities.

For example once I put my address as in Nassau Bahamas I was offered a long list of products to choose from in every category, certainly not “only a stream lined list” and the customs duty and VAT is shown as well. There are some delivery charges within the Bahamas shown such as for a large screen TV ($188) (and the VAT & customs duties are shown and they are correct)
but it must be noted that DHL offers pickup as well.

If I choose to purchase a smaller Dell laptop 12th Gen Inspirion 15” 16RAM 512SSD for $578 there is no duty of course but the VAT/1% fee calculated to roughly $65 is much lower than the retail store in Nassau offering it for $900 VAT inc. The weight is under 4 lbs.

So yes the end is nigh!

Boy o boy!
Power on this island is all sewed up-and that pun is intentional folks.

So we have two Cabinet Ministers bemoaning the high rate of suicides in the Bahamas however despite their corresponding portfolios public health and so called ‘national security’ neither presented a single resource available to Bahamians to turn to help their loved ones or themselves!
Wouldn’t being in charge of our public health and security include developing solutions and resources to combat such a scourge?

Think of the stress amongst healthcare staff, EMT, police and fire dept personnel burnt out by their challenging work environment here working under a governance that willfully, studiously ignores stress applied from staff shortages, lab, bed and equipment shortages, poor wages. faulty equipment.
Worse they work while their bosses preen before the press, lauding themselves as they attempt to make silk purses from their schemes wrought from their pig trough, ie. purchasing cheap ambulances useless for health emergencies that involve any one of the Bahamians who make up 50% of
the population suffering obesity and/or heart disease!
And how would tourists react to the release of statistics of harm they risk on their vacation??

Then there’s our Mr Munroe, he’s spent his entire career railing against and making millions taking advantage of the corrupt justice system, the police services in particular, now he’s 3 years into the mandate for reform he demanded and he’s remained hands off…
Why is he so determined to preserve the ongoing corruption? Is it because he’s now Boss Hog and he knows he’ll resort to the same playbook as before when he’s in private practice?

I’ve worked with firefighters and police officers, they have the highest rates of depression and ennui manifested in domestic violence, substance abuse and suicide.

What does one call a loud mouth who bewails poor governance but when handed the power
to do something about it refuses?
Who acts deliberately to ensure those who clean up horrific scenes after we drive recklessly and let our emotions direct acts of heinous violence have no place to turn for spiritual, physical support and no money to seek that care elsewhere?
And above knowing that one’s privacy is sacrosanct.

What do we call such people beyond hypocrites?
Why PLP of course!

My goodness but character will out!
Since the property has been handed down from Mother to son, one must assume his son is a minor and thus the attempt to steal his inheritance.

Hopefully if Mr Burrows didn’t make out a will, and if his son is a minor his bank will appoint a guardian to save him from his contentious and greedy aunts and uncles!

I’ve noticed the Tribune has stopped publishing the count of the running total of homicides inflicted upon this community by the corrupt criminal enterprise known as the current government of Davis&Co.

Not quite a free press eh?

So 3 years after promises to bring renewables efficiency to the Bahamas,
3 years of enduring the world’s scorn from Davis’ yapping hypocrisy we’re getting a “forum for discussion”??
Indeed one may truthfully say 3 years of waiting for any promise fulfillment!
Now Bahamians must wait for their next campaign: “This time we really really will keep our promises!”