I wonder if the PM thinks that dropped calls just started happening when BTC was privatized. Back in 2009 pre CWC Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) hands down finished in the top three as one of the worst service providers in the Bahamas—public or private.BTC was an overstaffed company with a labour force some of whom appear to be too lazy to even answer the telephone.

Let me get this straight, you cant get the majority shares, so you go out and bring in Digicel that will compete directly with the 49% that you do own.

They create hundreds of jobs every summer on school refurbishing,this is nothing new. And just because these people have not had a so called government contract in a while so they say does not mean that these guys have not had contracts at all. When a statement like the ones from the two so called contractors are made it has to be dissected because these guys weren't just sitting around just waiting for a summer contract to drop in their laps.

I thought there were 20 murders for the month of July last year, where did the 31 come from and how can rapes be down when we had a serial rapist crew running around the island for the last couple of months.And how come no attempted murder stats.

WoW!!! I wonder how much that contractor who could now send his two daughters to private school got paid. it must have been enough to last the three terms because when school opens the contract is up, so that better be enough money to last until next summer. This story is laughable.

While on the election campaign, back in 2002, Mr. Christie was very vocal about his opposition to the FNM's proposed referendum to the Constitution. The referendum would have eliminated the current discrimination affecting the spouses of Bahamian women. After the referendum was defeated at the polls, Mr. Christie promised, that if he were elected, he would immediately address the problem. He said he would appoint a "special" commission that would review the Constitution and propose the changes necessary, to ensure that our flawed constitution would be brought into compliance with a UN Convention on the non-discrimination against women, which the Bahamas signed way back in the early 1990's. Well, after the election, the PM did appoint the special commission, but it was comprised of political cronies and headed by the very man who installed the discriminatory verbiage in the original document.
Needless to say, nothing has ever been done, and the discrimination continues to this day.

To-date, the Royal Bahamas Police Force's the official murder count stands at 73. Initially, it was for this year it stood at 75, but the Force changed the number to 73, indicating that it decided to re-classify two of the murders to manslaughter. As if that meant that the two man slaughters some how indicate that its not a murder.
Had that re-classification not occurred, the murder count would be higher this year than the same time last year.This same time last year, the official murder count from the Royal Bahamas Police Force stood at 73, which means the murder count for this year, according to the official royal bahamas police force statistics, is tied with this same time last year – not down or lower.
But Murder or manslaughter, whether intentional or unintentional these acts are both death by a perpetrator. So to me the count still stands at at least 75.

How can he blame the bills the FNM passed contribute to overcrowding.The prison is overcrowded because the criminals keep committing crimes and going back again.“If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.” Prisons are not meant to be pleasant places. They are supposed to deter those who may consider breaking the law.

Before the advent of mandatory minimum sentences in criminal cases,l judges had unbridled discretion to impose whatever sentences they deemed appropriate, in their personal view, up to the statutory maximum. Because individual judges differ widely in their personal views about crime and sentencing, the sentences they imposed for similar offenses by similar defendants varied widely. What some judges treated as serious offenses, and punished accordingly, others minimized with much more lenient sentences.
Criminally Minded people are risk takers by nature.Lack of certainty of serious sentences for serious crimes encourages, rather than deters, such risk takers to elevate their level of criminal activity in the hope that, if caught, they will be lucky enough to draw a lenient judge and receive a lenient sentence. The only possible deterrence for people who are willing to take extreme risks is to take away their cause for such hope.

wait minute how many day ones re there?