Dear Editor,
What is happening to this country? Twenty-five years ago there was a completely different atmosphere. People laughed and loved.
Today you have young men killing each other. They live in a country with no enemies. No other country wants to invade you (except Haiti). No other country is sending its soldiers to patrol your streets. Yet these boys/men want to kill each other. Young soldiers all over the world are being killed in the line of duty in order to make the planet safe so we can live in paradise. Maybe we need a form of military service for all 17-year-old boys and girls. Somebody has to make them see how lucky they are and what a fabulous advantage they have in life. Too many of them think they are owed something. But owed what?
Unless we grab this problem and deal out tough love, the killings will go on and on and the beautiful country of The Bahamas will be blacklisted like other Caribbean islands. Nobody wants to go on holiday to a violent country.
What is happening? Police riding two, three and four abreast while one or two are on cell phones - totally oblivious to the traffic behind them. They are the servants of the people on and off the road. Why are they causing a nuisance to the motorists? Is it because they are the law and they can?
You may see one of them outside the Wendy's pick-up window while the rest are cycling round and round in the Cable Beach car park. If it is their lunch break then they should go inside Wendy's, sit down and act accordingly. But shouting at each other and acting the fool is not the way to go.
There is another group always to be found on a corner in Bay Street, chatting away. Maybe it is about business, but surely it does not take all of them to answer a phone call - not while un-plated lorries are allowed to continue on the road, or lorries with dangerously smooth tires are not stopped.
Or what about the women who pester the tourists in Market Street as if they are in Jamaica? This should not be happening in The Bahamas. When did a Bahamian have to go up to a tourist, put a necklace round his neck and then ask for $10. These policemen should be watching and stopping this nonsense.
What is happening? You have discrimination against men in the court house. A woman can walk in with her shirt out and short pants, yet a man cannot. What kind of mixed message are you sending? All officers must be singing off the same song sheet if you are to establish continuity.
What is happening? There is monument to an American placed on a roundabout at West Bay St. and Blake Road. Why there when it could have been place opposite the Caves so tourist could stop and view it in safety? Why on a roundabout? Whose bad idea was that? Who paid for it?
What is happening?
- Concerned witness
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