And what prevents this scumbag from going back to assault his girlfriend again?

Dr Sands’ questions should have been volunteered when the fund was set up, not drug outta incompetent possibility corrupt officials.
Who decides if you and/or your loved ones are covered?
Is the criteria like everything else in this country-ie. not based on need, but one’s political connections?
How many have drawn off the fund, how much money is left?
How many folks have the ability to draw off this money?
Isn’t this just typical!

PLP Chair Mitchell is angry that the press didn’t wait for Bowleg’s response?
Would it have been any different, made any difference to the findings of malfeasance?

And an audit “is just a snapshot of what the auditor found on that day or days..”
So what, the information would be different the next day? The money missing would suddenly appear? Please!
And as for Mitchell calling out the financial watchdog out for ignoring “the principle of administrative law in the Bahamas, Mitchell himself broke the rule book a thousand times over.

So we’re getting news of fairly small increments of fraud that were fairly predictable given the present administration, what we want to know is where did they stash the $millions upon $millions of money absconded from the Bahamian people??

Women are not safe from Bahamian from Bahamian justice.

Sounds like they gave up the chicken feed and kept the goose!

It would be laughable if it wasn’t so hypocritical for Commissioner Fernander to boast of “serious crime decreasing” but rape has increased in the same breath.
Nor are these crime statistics taken into account and added to “serious crimes” but that wouldn’t allow him to proclaim his and this government’s latest fraud.

And what’s up with removing the number of statutory rapes from the number of rapes in NP??
Last year according to the RBPF there were 61 rapes and 134 cases of “unlawful intercourse”.
That means there were at least 195 rapes, so surmising since half or more aren’t reported.
That means that at least 134 children under the age of 16 were raped, double that of “rapes”

And since the reported stats in this article of child sexual abuse are not included by the RBPF, what pray tell is that number?

And there is little chance of adopting a child under care in the Bahamas, that permission must come from the families of these poor souls, the Aunties, Uncles and Grandparents.
And they would rather have the state house them in one of the government’s ‘care homes’
where they receive none before they let it be known ‘officially’ they’ve refused to bring up their own or admit that their son is in jail or their daughter’s on drugs.

But they’ll be there in church on Sunday! Just without those who need their family so desperately.

Rape in the Bahamas is likely the most prevalent, most under reported crime in the Bahamas.
It is a crime that often scars victims for life.
We know this from data the world over and contributing factors, like a disinterested, misogynistic and corrupt law enforcement and court system, society etc.,.

So why does this lede read “Man charged in Golden Isles robbery and sexual assault” when your article states he was charged with the more heinous crime of rape?

Isn’t this a good example of disinformation to teach journalism students, ie. the deliberate spread of false information with the intent to influence public opinion and/or obscure the truth?

Worse this disinformation on crime has been repeated in multiple editions, so would your readers be correct in thinking your ‘news’ media isn't news’ at all, but rather a partner in a campaign of disinformation?
More commonly, propaganda led by a government, and disseminated through their media resources.

So how is this ‘news’ that informs Bahamians, especially women, the Mothers and Fathers of children here?

The Tribune’s failure of the most basic moral tenet of journalism put lives at risk; and while the Tribune might be shielding the abject failure of this gov’t today, since this commonwealth runs on tourism…?

And yet you obviously feel you’re above the same restraints you demand of others towards yourself ie. to be “halfway decently accurate” when “attempting to discredit or criticize..
Your history in these pages precedes you, your oft repeated casually cruel misogynistic innuendos and outright falsehoods are everywhere here man.

I used disinformation not misinformation because the former means using false information that is deliberately intended to mislead.
And that’s your schtick. I didn’t attempt to discredit you, I succeeded using your own foolish rush to judge these girls, your own dumb obfuscation.

The rape kits brought later were a face saving gesture we know has no bearing here or in any rape case for the reasons I stated.

I know the videos you’ve referenced ( and so does every other reader)
because you told us.
And that nurse you disparage time after time?
She’s a Reg. Nurse Practitioner, that means she has a practice in the US, she’s authorized to write scripts. She has over 25 years experience.

And “disintelligent”…really??

Usually as we age we grow wiser, we don’t tend to believe or get excited about gossipy video ‘evidence’ in this age of disinformation.
Would that this poster had acquired that wisdom…
The videos he’s referenced have long been labeled as not showing the victims in question.
And one has to wonder as to his concern over rape kits since it has been reported here in this newspaper that the police might gather such evidence but they never send it off to a stateside (or any) lab for testing.