They say that if you elect a clown, then expect a circus; well it would appear that the people elected a squad of clowns and not seem shocked and dismayed that we now a full blown Carnival.

“Munroe hopeful crime ‘spurt’ soon behind us” – The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article; “Minister of National Security Wayne Munroe yesterday expressed confidence that the Royal Bahamas Police Force will soon be able to get a grip on the crime wave impacting New Providence, and pointed out that there have been similar periods in the past where such “spurts” have happened.

“What people overlook is every year you have spurts, you know, and if you sit with police, they show you how one thing is inter-related to the other, and it’s like a fire that burns intensely, and then you have lulls, and so last year, I believe March, April was the period, and it happens that it’s the beginning of the year, and it may be as the police adapt then that quells it,” said Munroe, after police reported a series of shootings on the weekend.

Two men were shot dead in separate incidents, and there were four other shootings since Friday that resulted in individuals being taken to hospital.

Since the start of the year, 22 murders have been recorded in The Bahamas – 21 in New Providence and one in Abaco.

After 22 murders were recorded in March 2022, Clayton Fernander (the now commissioner of police) called it “one of the highest months ever in history”.

Munroe said yesterday law enforcement authorities and the government are constantly looking at ways to strengthen the fight against crime.

“Right now, they’ve come to me. We’ve come up with some ideas that we’re going to be moving forward with,” he said, referring to the police.

“Some of it involves getting more technology.”

Most of the killings have been retaliatory or gang involved murders, he said, noting that in one recent case where three men shot dead another man, at least 80 rounds of ammunition were fired.

Munroe pointed to a statement he made in 2013 that there is no silver bullet to stop a “generation of killers’’.

“Unfortunately, if you don’t stem the recruitment for the gangs, then you can continue to have a surge so we can get anxious, but if we concentrate to stop recruitment, that’s the medium, short and long-term solution because as this violence continues people get arrested, people get remanded and all of that,” he said yesterday.

“When you continue to have new recruits and there are people to get involved in it, if you cut off the recruitment there’s a limited pool, and eventually you will get a grip on it because as people glorify it, as the new people come in, it continues to spawn recruits and as you get the recruits, then the recruits, their parents, their families, and then it becomes a culture.”

“Hope for the best but plan for the worst”, remember being on Fort Campbell Army Base in Kentucky, and hearing this but I am sure that I that I heard it before spending time at that U.S. Army Base. 

As we listen to the Minister of national Security address the escalating violent “spurt” that has rocked the country seemingly from the beginning of this year; you get the sense that he is suggesting that if we were to leave things long enough; let them run their course, then they will eventually go away – I guess he is taking the same stance to this that he took to COVID-19, but of course a responsible government should not and could not take such a reckless and dangerous stance.

While he seems to be suggesting this. It appears that the prime minister is now telling the people that crime is social problems and is everyone’s problems to solve; while this is indeed true; a truth that Munroe and the Davis seems to remember as their convenience – dey like play forget ya see. I would just like to remind them that it was the very case when he was erecting the now infamous “Murder Boards”, probably during one of these very same periods of a “surge” as the Hon. Wayne Munroe would have it, but then blaming it on the FNM government at the time and justifying it by suggesting that the government was unable to control the “surge” of violent crime and as the leader of the opposition at the time, he was duty bound to let the truth be known.

Now the show is on the other foot and probably one size to small and the Minister of National Security is now asking us to hold hands and pray that it simply goes away because to date him nor anyone under his charge has presented a viable solution to the mitigation of the surge of violent crime.

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

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