The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune.

I assume Bishop Nei Ellis has a thorough knowledge of the 10 commandments specifically for this letter the 8th Thou Shalt Not Steal.

If a young man from his congregation held up a local bank, got caught and the young man’s mother came to the good bishop for help she would get I suspect little sympathy. You can almost hear the sermon he broke the sacred 8th commandment, he brought it upon himself, etc.

The likelihood of the boy being defended by an overseas QC charging up to $1000 per hour are non-existent. The boy would be shackled, taken to court and defended by a lawyer way down the chain from a QC.

The lawyer would not use in the boy’s defence that he is being victimsed or there is a witch hunt perpetrated by the bank upon his client. Yes absurd no defence at all. The boy would spend 20 years plus at Fox Hill and we society at large would be pleased as justice was done.

A cabinet minister in The Bahamas earns $88,000 per year or $1615 per week. This whilst being a large sum for the average Bahamian its certainly not enough to own multi-million dollar homes in gated communities either here or overseas. It’s not enough to fly in QC’s should you require defending in a corruption case. A good defence by a team of four QCs would run anywhere from $500,000 to a million.

The maths for a cabinet minister do not add up. Yet we all pretty much know some PLP ministers from the woefully corrupt previous administration appeared to live outside their legitimate salaries and those ministers charged with corruption will have the best legal help money can buy.

My questions for some of these Ministers are where does all this money come? How can you live like a King on $1,615 per week?

For the good Bishop can he please explain to us mere mortals if the 8th commandment applies to all members of our society or is it a selective commandment?

THE REALIST

Nassau,

August 8, 2017.