Posted By: lam On: 9/15/2010

Title: execution and faith in god isn't the only answer

the young people of this nation have no meaningful future to look forward to. without that, there is no power that can make them appreciate the value of their own lives and the lives of others. the economy is stagnant and dependent on tourism, a fickle beast if ever there was one. who wants an endless future as a line cook, laundress, or mid-manager bossing other bahamians around under the thumb of a foreigner? hopelessness and a lack of options breeds the desperation and detachment of criminal minds. we should restore fully private banking as a stable and reliable economic base for the nation. young people can be educated locally and expect to have an upwardly mobile career, and employ other bahamians along the way. the people of the bahamas must also take action to make the bahamas a desirable place to live, or face a "brain drain", where all the best and brightest leave for greener pastures and the rest behind to fend any way they can. who can feel good about anything amid all the litter and filth steadily creeping across new providence? who can be motivated to excel at studies that have not been updated in decades? how can the young people of the bahamas be expected to bridge the growing cultural gap between young and old, if the old will not come part-way to meet them? this nation is in the grip of a denial so strong it threatens to shut out reality completely. people who kill other people are not often born that way. they learn, slowly but surely, that they have no hope, that they are worthless, that they are helpless, and that they have nothing to lose. they have learned their whole lives to care nothing for the consequences, to think only of themselves, because no one else will. they learn that the limited choices they have are meaningless in the face of all that is stacked against them. all studies on this matter have shown conclusively that executing people does not reduce crime. it simply makes killers out of all of us. for shame. how can you exalt god in one breath, and suggest killing your fellow man in the next? let he who is without sin cast the first stone. none of us is righteous enough to murder another and call it justice. who will decide who lives and dies? we haven't even begun to address the corruption and incompetence and complacency plaguing our criminal justice system. how many innocent men will be murdered under this guise of justice and deterrence? we need to face facts: we are losing everything that is good about bahamian life because we have bowed down to a foreign master and have let go of our drive to progress beyond that which is deemed "good enough". we must become truly independent! able to pay for the social changes we so desperately need - better education, regular and free trash collection for all people of the island, freely available social support services, affordable housing, reliable and honest police officers, attorneys, and judges and public servants - who get paid a good living wage so that they will not be tempted to accept bribes. and we need total transparency of the government so that we may really know who is working for us, and who is working for themselves. and finally, we need an engaged, hopeful populace to participate in and drive the social changes that actually DO work to reduce crime. the status quo is not working. more of the same is a useless waste of energy and resources.

Posted By: Foreigner On: 9/2/2010

Title: Capital punishment is necessary

Yes Capital punishment is the answer, a murderer should be hanged till death, nobody has the right to take another people life, if the person becomes dangerous for the human society,he should be punished for the betterment of the society.nothing wrong in that. other thing the youngsters should be inspired to get more educated atleast till college level where they can know the values of human being in this world. And I have a request to these pastors of all these churches, stop preaching about the miracles, success comes only by hard work, and God only helps those who are sincerre and hard working, if everything can be achieved by miracles, nobody need to work. just sit in the church and the food be on the table, You have to be real, You can imagine that so much church, Pasters, and the crime is high in the country, everyone want to preach, many of them have made the bible as a mode of employment, everytime you pass around a new church is coming up. even they have started opening church in the rented apartments. we need some real people who can show the young generation the modern life, the science, the developments, engineering.

Posted By: Foster On: 8/26/2010

Title: 'A New Doesn't Cut It!'

Pastor Glenn a new commissioner does not stop crime! This mess up situation starts with the disrespect for 'law & order' in which we should know referring to to 'morality!' Fact: In the pass 10 years the church/members did not reach out to the young people of this Bahamian society! The church has left them in their way ward ways, that created chaos in our society! Look now as you may how much monies they 'church' is reaping more than a 'bank' it is un Godly. Listen 'Jesus' did not like it where the church reap benefits in his father's name as a gambler... I am amazed & shock at I see churches become involved in lending monies for their personal gains, to persons for building homes etc... Their calling was for the prohetsing the word of 'The Almighty God' but not to conduct mischief! As today I trust no man in teaching the good will of God's coming! Let me see the churches members/pastors/owners by the sweat of their brow go into these gunning blooded areas like a pinwood gardens, nassau village. & yellow elder to preach God's Will To Man!
In this I will be confident that 'the christian faith/council' in this bahamas is serious in the faith fulfillment of God's judgement' than the 'flesh!'