I read in these pages last year that this gov’t had secured a contract worth $1M+ with an IT firm to update & improve the site.
And that the company had already been working on this project for months, so what’s going on?

Get these assurances in writing..

This is the stupidest excuse for the ever rising rate of violent crime and homicides in the Bahamas which despite the mass murders in the US is still higher.

As for tourists getting murdered in Las Vegas, it was 12% years ago and given their rising crime rate it’s likely higher, and that figure doesn’t include robberies, rapes and the survivors of these terrible crimes.

As for the Bahamas the rate for crimes against tourists run from robberies, rapes and sexual assaults is hardly ever publicized by the authorities and unless victims post the crime on social media we’re none the wiser.
As the previous posters suggested, one doesn’t have to hear specifically that tourists were killed for the reports of generalized violent crime to give one pause about visiting.
The number of times I’ve heard cruisers on Cabbage Beach say that most of their party stayed onboard because of the reputed crime rate…

Put an end to the corruption, good governance is supposed to work for Bahamians not the other way round.

Judging from other condo complexes in New Province the odds of this one generating 30 full time jobs is a non starter, 30 part time jobs is a stretch!
As for 300 full time construction jobs that’s highly doubtful as well.

It should be noted that the NFPA3000 recommendation for these vests and helmets were made in 2014, ten years ago.
Further considering the ‘non rapid’ response of police officers on scene, one can imagine that having first responders held in abeyance until their arrival greatly reduces the likelihood of survival for victims.

And why does the Bahamas not have the will to protect their own citizens?
It’s shameful, always waiting for and/or begging someone, or some other organization to cover their basic needs??

Last year Wake Co in North Carolina purchased ballistic vests and helmets for the 450 members of their first responders at a cost of $650,000.
And we waited 10 years for 40 donated vests and no will for the much needed helmets?

There’s what $700M in property taxes owed?
Money from increased duty, VAT and all those loans that never quite measure up to address the needs of our own because the first cut goes to our politicians sleek in their shiny suits,their ‘civil’ servant lackeys.
We still don’t have an adequate hurricane shelter open in the Abacos!
No wonder we’re an embarrassment on the world’s stage.

Aren’t we in an election year?
There hasn’t been the will to crack down on these delinquents and there is no hope now.

Some of the largest cities in the US that one might associate with high murder rates can’t compete with that of the Bahamas which last year was at 32 murders per 100,000k population.
NYC was 5.5/100,000k
Miami was 8/100,000k
Jacksonville 13.3/100,000k
Rochester 30/100,000k
Atlanta 33/100,000k
Detroit 50/100,000
The murder rate overall in the US has come down considerably since 2020.
It’s difficult with so many guns in the US, but that’s not supposed be happening here.
So one has to ask what would be the stats here if we wiped out the corruption w/police, customs inspectors, etc. and applied the law to those who profit from the importation/firearms sales?

So is it true that the RBPF is not investigating this incident?

This country has to start shutting down corruption in it’s ranks from the inspectors supposedly monitoring the ports, airports, the places known to be ports of entry for contraband like firearms and folks ordinarily banned from entry to the guns ‘confiscated’ and mysteriously disappeared.

I do not doubt that Munroe knows all the ins and outs of police intrusiveness and aggression, as an attorney he makes hay on the denial of civil rights to defendants in court.
And it’s all tosh obviously.
The UN committee here recently spoke on this matter as well, that defendants, and those arrested and/or imprisoned are not given the chance to call a lawyer or a family member, nor is there a working phone for which to do so.
They’re threatened and bullied.
They are not told they have that right nor are they given names of lawyers to aid them.
They’re forcibly questioned w/o their lawyer even after somehow contacting one.

In other words the moment a person comes under suspicion and/or is questioned/arrested all their rights disappear.

And Munroe says he’s going to increase, ensure these circumstances at the same time his government mouths about it’s seriousness in finishing building a prison and system that stands up to scrutiny, safeguards their health, lives and lawful processes?
That doesn’t make sense does it?