John 10 years, 5 months ago on UPDATED: Police shut down junkanoo parade after three men shot
UPDATED: Police shut down junkanoo parade after three men shot
So what happens when Carnival comes in May? If these is a serious crime incident are they going to shut it down after persons have spent hundreds of dollars, maybe thousands to come here? Carnivals are known to be freak shows. They attract pimps, prostitutes, perverts and pickpockets. Is the Bahamas ready for that? What about our young females? Teenage pregnancy is on a decline for the first time in a long time. Will Carnival reverse that trend?
banker 9 years, 9 months ago on A LIFE OF CRIME: Why do we kill?
A LIFE OF CRIME: Why do we kill?
We have marginalised the young, Bahamian male. We have disenfranchised him and separated him from the realisation of aspirations and dreams. He is functionally illiterate. He is jobless. He is the product of a single mother. He has never had a father figure. He lives in a society that has no moral compass. The corruption of the government is visible to anyone with half a brain. He knows that the rules can be breached with "grease" everywhere in Bahamian society, the civil service and the world that he lives in.
The first victim of such an environment is truth. The second is the human goodness within us. The third is respect for the law.
Putting a gun or a knife in the hands of a person describes above empowers him. It gives him ultimate power -- the power to remove someone from the Earth.
Why do we have this erosion of the veneer of civilisation, enlightenment and altruism? It is because there is dissonance in the messages of value programming and the everyday life experience. The message is "respect the law" and the living example is "people who bend the rules get ahead in life".
The ultimate reason, as iterated before has its roots in the economy. Bahamian people are shackled economically. They have a monolithic economy consisting entirely of low-skilled manual labour. There are virtual no knowledge or information age jobs. They have a dollar that is useless everywhere in the civilised world. You cannot spend it anywhere but the Bahamas and trading for a convertible concurrency costs too much.
There is no upward mobility. Mass media touts the "American Dream" of work hard and you can make something of your life. This is not true in the Bahamas. The education system is inferior. 75% of the households in the Bahamas at last census were of single mothers with children from more than one man. The fabric of the family has been rent asunder.
There is no power dynamic in the Bahamas where one can cause a shift in ones life, by triumphing economically. Or is there? Drugs. Selling drugs. Selling guns. Gangs. Copper thefts. Robberies.
It doesn't take a large study to figure this out. Like the deeply embedded tap root of a wart, the stagnant, backward economy of this archipelago, is the root cause of disenfranchisement and the human ills and misery of the people. And that is true where ever you see the erosion of altruistic human values.
haitianboy 11 years, 8 months ago on Prince Hepburn hacked girlfriend to death with a cutlass
Prince Hepburn hacked girlfriend to death with a cutlass
Hebrews 10
26Dear friends, if we deliberately continue sinning after we have received knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice that will cover these sins. 27There is only the terrible expectation of God’s judgment and the raging fire that will consume his enemies. 28For anyone who refused to obey the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29Just think how much worse the punishment will be for those who have trampled on the Son of God, and have treated the blood of the covenant, which made us holy, as if it were common and unholy, and have insulted and disdained the Holy Spirit who brings God’s mercy to us. 30For we know the one who said,
He also said,
31It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32Think back on those early days when you first learned about Christ.£ Remember how you remained faithful even though it meant terrible suffering. 33Sometimes you were exposed to public ridicule and were beaten, and sometimes you helped others who were suffering the same things. 34You suffered along with those who were thrown into jail, and when all you owned was taken from you, you accepted it with joy. You knew there were better things waiting for you that will last forever.
35So do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord. Remember the great reward it brings you! 36Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God’s will. Then you will receive all that he has promised.
37 “For in just a little while,
38 And my righteous ones will live by faith.£
39But we are not like those who turn away from God to their own destruction. We are the faithful ones, whose souls will be saved.