The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune.

While many of us believed that The Divine Right of Kings and Potentates ended with the Magna Carta in 1215AD. I don’t think that the memo reached The Bahamas. Certainly not those in our police force assigned to taking dignitaries along the streets of Nassau, at speeds that the average potcake Bahamian would be jailed for.

For the many of us waiting patiently at the Shirley and Mackey Streets traffic light, at two thirty today, Friday, 18th May, suddenly we were alarmed at the siren in the east and the heavy booomp boooomg of the police car horns as they tried to navigate the double lane of dense traffic. As the north and southbound Mackey Street traffic is unable to hear the sirens, or the horns, they quite naturally kept going with the green light in their favour.

In a few moments, one of the outriders pushed his way to the front of the line and with great annoyance on his face, at those of us too scared to move into the line of fire, he moved to the middle of the intersection, which is exactly and precisely what he should have done in the first place. Running his siren from 100 yards back would have been very cold comfort for anyone causing a crash in the intersection and possibly ending their life or someone else’s. These people really must think that they are endowed by Almighty God to do whatever they feel is important, and to hell with the rest of us. I would love to be able to share the name of the Potentate who was being escorted by these maniacs, but suffice it to say, and I hope they read this account, they should feel absolutely ashamed of themselves for condoning such vulgarity.

MONKEEDOO

Nassau,

May 18, 2018.