“Roberts: We all must be a part of the crime solution” – The Nassau Guardian 24^th January 2017

Excerpt from this article; “Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Chairman Bradley Roberts yesterday said that crime is a challenge to all administrations and suggested a national approach to the problem.

‘We all must be a part of the solution on crime’, said Roberts in a statement released after the Free National Movement (FNM) held a press conference highlighting what it views as the Christie administration’s failure to adequately address crime in the Bahamas.”

It is amazing that shortly after making this statement the leader of the Progressive Liberal Party, Perry Christie, and the Commissioner of Police, Ellison Greenslade seem to be at odds over the country’s crime situation.

“Top cop and PM divided on crime: Greenslade: Bahamas is not in crisis” – The Tribune

Excerpt from this article; “Despite the country recording 10 homicides in 13 days, Commissioner of Police Ellison Greenslade said the Bahamas is not in a state of ‘crisis’ and the average Bahamian can continue to ‘go about their day as normal’ day without the fear of being attacked.”

“Christie: It’s the Wild West” – The Tribune

Excerpt from this article; “Prime Minister Perry Christie yesterday likened the Bahamas’ crime situation to the ‘Wild West’, as he said the recent murders in the capital must solicit a ‘major’ and ‘continuous’ effort by his administration to ‘flood the streets’ with officers b a bid to do ‘all that is necessary to bring the madness to a halt.”

I actually believe that for once that the Prime Minister has gotten something right, yes; Commissioner Greenslade we are in crisis and it is not about the ramblings of Bradley Roberts who has seems to have forgotten the infamous ‘murder boards’ of the 2012 election campaign but it is really about the failure of the Progressive Liberal Party as a government to put in place the proper policies and effective crime fighting initiatives as promised, working along with the police force.

Now we have these two men, the Prime Minister and the Commissioner of Police (CoP), pointing fingers at one another without any action from the Minister of National Security along with the Minister of State for National Security, who both have been extremely silent on the matter.  The last time that Keith Bell, Minister of State for National Security, weighed in was some about April of 2016 when he made the wild claim that the governments crimes plan had not failed put suggested that they were not properly implemented by the CoP and his staff; all of this while people continued to die in the streets, literally.

The people trusted the Progressive Liberal Party when they said that they had a plan to make the country safer and under their watch the situation has become dire.  The people would like to know, where are the crime plans that they promised and when the Chairman of the PLP talks about us ‘all being a part of [the] crime solution’, isn’t this one of the main objectives of the Urban Renewal program?  Is he now conceding that the initiative failed the people that he once promised it should have ‘saved’?  Is the deafening silence from the Minister and Minister of State for National Security also a sign of them conceding to failure in this matter?

The Progressive Liberal Party promised a lot on this issues, along with many others, but have delivered very little and now they claim to be the best choice going into the 2017 election, asking for another years to fixed the problems that they promised to have once had the answers to but have only made so most worst.

The Progressive Liberal Party fails for one reason, it is their nature.

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