ACTING Prime Minister Philip 'Brave' Davis told reporters outside of Cabinet this morning that he was unshaken by yesterday's armed robbery.
When asked if he was frightened when three gunmen entered his home early yesterday morning, Mr Davis said, "they don't call me 'Brave' for nothing".
Mr Davis also took the opportunity to underscore the importance of the public's partnership in the fight against crime, adding that the government was committed to ensuring a safer Bahamas for all citizens.
While he has not requested additional personal security measures, Mr Davis confirmed that adjustments will be made to his security detail.
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ThisIsOurs 10 years, 4 months ago
What a dumb statement and such false bravado. Navy seals will admit to fear when facing potential harm. Was he not afraid that his wife or someone else could be hurt? It's not the lack of fear that makes you courageous but rather how you react when the fear hits
proudloudandfnm 10 years, 4 months ago
Stupid. How old is our DPM? Of course he was afraid! What an incredibly immature statement....
JohnDoes 10 years, 4 months ago
Let us not forget how he got the nickname 'brave'. If them robbers stuck the gun down your throat you probably would say, 'they dont call me biggity for nothing'. You are a DPM, such ignorant sayings need not to be said, it is you that is now in place of the PM, when they hear the bahamas they now hear you. Lets get serious and not forget that these 'robbers' are still at large.
TalRussell 10 years, 4 months ago
Comrades we still have 21 days to go before Bahamalanders 2013 #1 Stupidest Comment by any Politician award winner is announced. But the Acting Prime Minister shouldn't 'fear' some credible threat appearing over the count-down days leading into the New Year. But there is always BEC''s Pot cake Chairman and the Deputy Leader of the Red Shirts, both does possess the ability to sneak up and snatch the award away from the APM.
nationbuilder 10 years, 4 months ago
this is stupid statement by a dubious minister carried by a wutless media that is not reporting the facts and truth of this story
digimagination 10 years, 4 months ago
Probably peed in his pants and kept quiet about it...
Bahamianpride 10 years, 4 months ago
That's that weed talking...LOL he tripping...
John 10 years, 4 months ago
Speaking of dogs and robbers: I took my dog to the vet on Marathon Road for his first check up. I got the dog fairly big so I wasn't use to him and neither was he use to the vets office. He was trembling with fear and I was nervous handling him. But the vet who has now passed, may his soul rest in peace, put experience to work and in less than few minute the dog had settled down and as lapping the vets hand. The vet went on t talk about all the young boys walking around with all the pitt bulls and forcing them to fight. "You see, that is no way to make a good guard dog. For a dog to be a good proctector of you and the home, you have to make him feel a part of the family. Make him feel as if he belongs there and show him love and affection and whenever a stranger enters his territory, he will defend it. I took that advice and that dog turned out to be one of the best I ever had. He was never aggressive and was always gentle with children, but whenever a stranger got too close or acted aggressive, he went to work and defended us. I kinda feel the same way about young Bahamians. Haven't we isolated them and made it a 'them vs us" situation rather them making them a part of us? a part of the Bahamas? And so rather than feeling a part of the Bahamian community, they feel like outcasts. instead as going to work as part of the Bahamas, they go to war with us. Just overhearing two young men talking the other day, one was saying how he only left school with a primary school certificate. He said trouble 'kept finding him, with other students, with teachers and administrators and so he go suspended so many times until he was told to leave and never return. But trouble continued to follow him until he eventually spent some time in Fox Hill prison. when he got out this was enough to set him straight and he went to BTVI and took up a trade and now he is successfully employed at a leading company in Nassau. The other guy said he took dice and condoms to school because nothing else there interested him except girls and sex. So he would find empty bathrooms or classrooms and conducted his own classes on gambling or his sex sessions while regular classes were going on. One of his reports showed that he had missed a class 32 times, which his mother could not believe because she watched him get ready for school every morning and walk around the corner to where it was located. What saved this young man after he too left school unable to graduate or without and BJC"S or GCE's was that he worked with his father on the weekends while he was "in school" and was able to learn a trade.
John 10 years, 4 months ago
So does that explain and national "D" average? at least for some people? They are not interested in what is being taught in schools and so they don't put forward any effort. One time ago, when Ms. Juanita Butler was the headmistress at R.M.Bailey school, she had a program whereby, if you did not demonstrate you were G.C.E (now BGCSE) material by the end of the 9th grade, you were placed in a section that taught you a trade, woodworking, dressmaking, cosmetology and the likes. Students in these classes also went on work training at local businesses to get hands on experience. What Ms. Butler ensured was that no student of hers came out of school with nothing. Maybe there is a need to get more male teachers in the school to compensate for the many absentee fathers, how about recruiting some retired policemen and civil servants who and not ready to fully retire? How about adding some more masculinity to programs wheer student feels they have had enough or reading, riting and rithmatic? how about drivers education in the 12 grades? even making it mandatory for students to graduate. Try a different approach. try empowering our 'at risk' young males as just opposed to investing in police cars and prisions, expecting them to go astray...Dog is still man's best friend.
Honeybun 10 years, 4 months ago
???
Honestman 10 years, 4 months ago
What a ridiculous ego driven quote from the DPM. No wonder the country is in such a state with politicians like this who have no idea how to respond to public concerns.
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