Both have claim their self accolades and neither are qualified to fix the problem, independent or together.

Therein lies part of the problem.

Don’t you dare roll up on my front porch when my son has been murdered! You’ve got some balls offering me “comfort” AFTER it has happened. You, my Pastor friend, are THE LAST person I want coming onto my porch when I am mourning the loss of a son! You are being paid to stop this! You accepted this job thinking you could do it, so GO DO IT!!

Every time a murder happens, you outta be thinking “oopsie, I am FAILING at my job” NOT “oh, I better go do some comforting” BTW: comforting is done by friends, family and unpaid clergy. Got it?

Why is it that he can’t use the same thought process when it comes to the LGBT community. It appears that he cares more about the gang bangers that love to kill, hurt and hate each other then he does about people that just want to live and love in peace.

1.) Thoughts
2.) Prayers

Keep up the good…. Oh wait, nevermind.

Whilst most of us are at home comfortable and asleep Minister Caines, Pastor Bean and the team are hard at work helping and supporting people who are intimately affected by such anti-social behavior. I believe it’s only so much that they and the helping agencies can do.

For those of you who are caught up in anti-social behaviour for whatever reason, start believing that you can change the situation you find yourself in. Remember change comes from transforming your mind. Believe that you can change your outlook. Ultimately your beliefs control your behaviors. The manner in which you think determines the way you feel and when those feelings become very strong it determines how you ultimately will act.

Please know that all of your lives matter. One more life lost to gun violence is too much in a small community as ours. When you wake up each day decide I want to live not just for myself, not for a particular turf and territory but for my son, daughter, family and community. Let’s put violence aside and really talk about what’s on your heart because hurting, killing, maiming another brother is all too much. You have the power within to change. Being unable to travel 21 square miles on this island is not living its imprisonment.

Dr Gina Spence the government nor the police can stump out this issue on their own. The community must by in. Should you have a real tangible plan kindly share it.

For those who can give a young man a chance by giving him a job please do so. These young men need someone to just believe in them.

Here’s an idea! Take away the gang’s most profitable business….the sale of weed. Make it legal and tax the cr@p out of it. It will still be significantly cheaper than its current street value. Make it a completely Bermudian business. This will help locals in many ways, including a huge influx of tourists.

This pastor will not help things.

What a waste.

Without disclosing my entire thought pattern, I will say that many are ready to criticize those who come forward to offer solutions, but these same cowards don’t do a darn thing to help the situation themselves and I am talking directly to those who would reply to this posting negatively, and don’t have a clue, because they have never walked were others have trod.

I have an entire family history of nightmares, and I have said it time without number, you have to get those who once were involved with the street life, and have turned their life around to be your mediators.

The most crucial lesson to learn for the National Security Minister and the new Police Commissioner, is something that Mr. Bean should already be aware of and many others among us are very certain of, the drug trade in Bermuda is all about supply and demand, and this created a serious conflict with the old guard, but among the young crowd of today, you are dealing with a much more dangerous crew.

The most dangerous part of the equation, is the fact that we continually look at the gangs out among us, and think they are the real issue and as ruthless as we may portray them, we have a more dangerous crowd, “The Untouchables”.

Is this a fairy tale or just my trying to hype up a situation, well I suggest that this Government take the Gag order off of Mr. Colin Coxall, one of our former Police Commissioners, and remind Bermuda, that it was after Mr. Coxall went public and stated he was after “Mr. Big”, that it was not long after that his contract was cut short, and he was given a hefty package to up and leave Bermuda, by the then United Bermuda Party Government.

So let’s start to loo there and see what good old Colin stumbled onto, and why is that, because he we never let it get out of hand, back then, maybe it would not be as serious of an issue now, because you can do a clean sweep any day of the week, and rid Bermuda of every gang Member,but each and everyone of them are replaceable before night fall, and that is a fact.

Without calling names, many retired officers of the Police force, not the so called Police service, would agree, that the statistics into what we face in this country are very alarming, but the greatest challenge, is not what and who is out in our streets, but it is those who run the drug trade from behind close doors, and their offices and the comfort of their luxury homes, while all the while being personalities among us, and yes the majority are not black as you suppose.

In closing, many can say I am talking rubbish, but you tell that to a business man who invest on Wall Street, and takes losses, but tries his hands at the drug trade, with mature black males and Females as his middle man, and the young black males and females, as their street sheep, they know Wall Street is a gamble, but the drug industry is very lucrative and a definite return with higher profit.

Yes I believe that Mr. Coxall was the only Police Commissioner that would ever be bold to say the things he did, and tackle the issue from the top, you want to slow down the issues on the ground and the streets, start at the Penthouse.

Food for thought, young blacks in the trade, take the risk, of bringing in ounces of drugs at a time, but the other communities bring it in by the Kilo’s and by the boat load, but how many times do you hear of any vessels’ being seized because of drug trafficking, once in a blue moon and it has been a damn long time since the moon turned blue.

Were there is smoke there is fire, so gang activity, is connected to drug activity, and is connected to gun importation, and thus, you have supply and demand, and unfortunately, this is nothing new and has been going on since the 70′s, but has only become more serious, as supply and demand has made it so.

Bermuda won’t tackle this one to the core, to many families are surviving because of it and to many are now living a form of comfort because of what it had done for them back in the day, but it is the same game, just different players, more ruthless then before.

Minister Bean, Minster Caines, and the police Commissioner have a serious task on their hands, and no, I do not think the Government run the Country, because if they really had the power, we can bring legislative changes in no time, that will shake up the money changers.

Don’t bother yourself with what I have said, you should be more concern of what I have not said, and the bottom line is we need prevented measures to reach our school age children, to hopefully avoid them from going down the slippery slope of corruption.

The Police Commissioner along with others want answers, I say look closer to home in your own camp, and try talking to some of your long retired officers, and some that are still there in top brass, and they will agree that I am not talking just to talk, and those among you who disagree, I would watch them even closer.

The streets are just the fall out of corruption in higher ranking places.

This is a really important issue – we have a mountain of a debt that continues to grow and suck money out of the country ($500,000 a day).
That means there is less to spend on social issues, so the less we spend, the less we can counteract the gangs and provide the best solution: meaningful employment.
That debt is a major millstone and one that we won’t be rid of for generations (if at all). It is a viscous, possibly downward, spiral and fintech won’t rescue us.