First of all, it has always amazed me that the Bahamas allows nurses to practice even in theatre ops without the government’s acceptance of their certification of training and issuing them the proper licensing?

There’s likely a few of reasons that comes to mind taking into account the history of gov’t here.

#1/ Nurses w/o their permits and/or license are likely paid less,so..
. Does not having their lic mean they’re unable to join the union?
#2/ Do hospitals here insure unlicensed nurses? I would think unlicensed nurses would be cost more to insure, therefore my inkling is they are not insured.
#3/ If men and women have studied, paid their tuition and graduated how is it that any governing body keep their deserved certificates from them?
#3/ In light of the gov’t’s poor choices, low wages, poor working conditions and being held hostage by said government, those lucky souls who can get their license are likely to be on the first plane off the Rock for any other place, and there are aplenty who will welcome them with open arms and a living wage.

Dr Darville said an ethics committee will be part of the programme…You have to have watchful eyes.. to make sure everything is above board…no one is coerced into giving their organs”

And therein lies the rub! We have no watchful eyes. no ethical standards and with criminal organ harvesting now rampant, netting big $$$ it stands to reason the Bahamas wants to jump right in.

I read no threats here, just the unvarnished truth to an egoist who true to form, refuses to own his duplicity.

I recall PM Chrètien’s wry remark in the ‘93 campaign to the Tory attack ads featuring his facial defect and it’s appropriate here.

“It’s true I talk out of the side of my mouth. I’m not a Tory, I don’t talk out of both sides!”

How did the issue of reporting the truth about this government’s lack of will to effectively combat crime and corruption become food for this dog whistle of racism??
Eleven years ago in opposition Davis said “are we to be concerned about the impression truth gives...or are we about dealing with the issue?”

And now having been given the reins of gov’t twice Davis has failed to take up that cause.and in his hypocrisy he says the press needs “sensitivity” but means censorship.

It’s proof that the only means Bahamians have in order to prompt a response on crime is the press.
And Davis is refusing to acknowledge that his gov’t and the RBPF’s corruption vaulted this issue onto the front page, and into international media by their fumbling attempts to suppress two police reports of rape by American victims of this crime.

In doing so they gave two tourists a platform to rightly call out the demeaning manner and hypocrisy they experienced at the hands of those Bahamian institutions they foolishly believed upheld law and order.

There’s one shill here baying of the white man’s oppression while spewing misogynistic rhetoric that beggars belief.

Here’s a tip, the next time you attempt to call up such a cause, pray remember that your bigotry towards those who got you this far negates all credibilty.
And likely earns you a cold and barren life…

Where are the two men accused of committing this crime and subsequently fired by their employer?
Are they currently in custody, and why if the women identified the men has there been no announcement as to whether they were charged? Arraigned before a justice?
Why haven’t their names been released publicly?
Such steps are supposedly those of ‘honest investigations’.

Would this have anything to do with one of the men having a long history of not held accountable for his (ever growing) sexual assault record?

You think the RBPF invited the FBI to investigate this?
And invariably expose their own behavior in this matter? Please!

What’s wrong with their pictures in the Bahamas, or of them embracing each other? They’re both young single Mothers who’ve apparently been friends ‘forever’ having what they though was a dream vacation.

You have no knowledge of them to question their accusations, you don’t know whether they were examined onboard ship, yet you’re blaming them and making assumptions which is very misogynistic.

They asked for drug tests which sounds like the correct thing to do, in fact if the officers did act like inappropriately as the women said, which your views/attitude mirror why would they have any faith in the police doing their job?
I wouldn’t be interested in interacting with this pair described thusly either.

They took their FB pages down because they were being harassed.
There is no evidence these women are as you have repeatedly claimed “attention seekers”

They were asked to identify where they were assaulted when given the test results still under the influence of drugs, so their identification I believe would be hazy.
However their attackers being employees at Pirates Cove would likely know where the cameras were located-correct??
If I as a woman who’d been treated with disdain by police officers I wouldn’t let them submit me to a rape kit either, I ‘d go back to the ship’s MO, which they did.
And they even refused to be in the car with said officers…?
It rather sounds like these officers got back to their station, reported the affair and were sent back to deliver rape kits given the recent US warning.

When this was reported here, there was no evidence the newspaper saw the reports that the police said refuted their claims..
And the RBPF working “with the FBI” in no way implies they reached out to them but likely the other way round.

This looks bad and these comments here certainly give credence to the women’s accusations of the police-indeed the male pop of the Bahamas!

Hmm, which should one believe?
The Davis gov’t that hasn’t fulfilled any campaign promises, play their usual game of moving goal posts, camouflaging and fluctuating $$ numbers til one’s head aches??

Or the IMF who’ve tracked the various Bahamian governments and sorry $$ predictions?
There’s considerable amount of money between Davis & Co’s prediction of 0.9% of the GDP and the IMF’s 2.6%, when has this crew ever given out accurate info on anything??

Given that the errors in this system (and I’d expect this gov’t would engage in another ‘expensive’ contract being sold by a local crook) and the bias shown by near every member of the RBPF to rapidly increase our already overburdened judiciary with wrongful death, arrest and internment suits.
They cannot keep up litigating the ones they have now by members of the RBPF!
Look at the deplorable evidence coming from the inquest in the death of those gang members killed years ago.
The police said one thing but wrote an entirely different version of events in their reports written at the time.
How are the gov’t solicitors be expected to defend this particular posse of giggling cowboys?
If they will not take their appearances in court or the efforts of said solicitors what does that say about their policing?
Nothing good, these officers would be better working security at a warehouse, an empty one without goods to steal in

And shouldn’t this country put a priority on being able to track those fitted w/monitors out on bail for murders first?

This problem reached the NYTimes yesterday.
This gov’t has been useless at serving the needs of Bahamians.