by Christopher D. Lowe

Larry Smith AKA Tough Call, over at BahamaPundit had a great rant yesterday (read it by clicking here…) and it appears he might be getting as incensed as we all should be?

Here's my two cents..

On the courts:

…If this spreads to the out islands we will be unable to control it."

Believe me, we have tripe for a court system in Grand Bahama also, have for years, courts which are supposed to serve the Northern Bahamas. What the penultimate joke.

I hope my future, my life or my family are never subject to the sort of "justice" that emanates from these hovels, and I feel for those who find themselves before them through no personal fault.

They are nothing short of organized crime in my opinion.

I act in accordance with the written laws of the commonwealth of the Bahamas precisely to avoid having anything to do with them.

The solution?

Re-allocate the Ministry of Tourisms budget of $96 Million for a few years to:

1) Build a great big Prison. (capacity, 10 thousand to start) perhaps a second in Grand Bahama to support the courts of the Northern Bahamas. (We have this unused hotel actually….)

2) Seriously equip the court system with premises, staff of caliber and qualifications, equipment and

3) Get some real judges and pay them properly, not just judges who come here for our judicial pension plan.

If the court systems are not fixed, the Ministry of tourisms budget money will become a total waste, instead of the 70-80% waste it currently is.

Haitian problem?

Short lived as we are becoming a country more like theirs every day because of our own lawlessness, and our own phobias of them don't help. We don’t have a Haitian problem, we have a Bahamian problem!

Our Police Commissioners, those brave enough to address reality publicly that is, have spoken realistically at times because they have been exposed to Int'l police conferences in which they and we were warned repeatedly that, the crime levels experienced by Jamaica or Trinidad in the 70’s &80’s for instance would spread to us here, and nothing was done.

Commissioners sat on their hands because Prime Ministers sat on their heads.

Montague:

The poster child for how not to plan a suburb.

Bay St. is the poster child for how not to plan or run a city.

Parliament: the poster child for how not to run a country.

The Judiciary: another poster child.

Anyone see a trend here?

Cable Bahamas:

Phil Keeping, the Canadian entrepreneur….

I have no grudge against him, Cable Bahamas, or any other foreign individual or company who have come to our country, seen the tremendous opportunities that exist, get concessions and preferential treatment from our peanut brained politicians, succeed and profit. This is what they come here to do, if there is a benefit to Bahamians or to the Bahamas it is incidental, no matter what any Prime Minister says.

Wonderful.

Will this ever become possible for the average Bahamian who gets shot at and missed, shat on and hit by his own countrymen?

Until we stop crapping on Haitians (and each other for that matter) and stop sucking up to other foreigners indiscriminately, we will never solve any problems.

I swear, I believe I will have to leave, return in ten years as Lowenstein, investor from (insert foreign land here), to get casinos, golf courses crown land and direct Ministerial access and investment capital in order to fulfill a potential in my own country.

And we wonder where all the frustration and violence comes from.

It is homegrown.

A Bahamian walks into any approvals process or office and the Control Freak Virus has an outbreak.

Don't take it from a foreigner to give it to a Bahamian, let the Bahamian in the same door that they use.

Clico:

"Was exchange control approval given for this siphoning of funds? Was the foreign exchange premium paid? Is anybody there?"

Nuff said.

Apparently the law doesn’t apply to all. Perhaps individual shareholding should be looked into to rule out possible Cabinet collusion by way of personal shareholding.

Mind you, same could be said for Cable Bahamas.

Just asking.

Other than all that, things are fine thanks Larry.