Comments on: Minister Weeks: Addressing Violence In Bermuda

By: saud

saud — Mon, 23 May 2022 12:31:41 +0000

“That’s raysis”

By: Toodle-oo

Toodle-oo — Sun, 22 May 2022 22:14:41 +0000

Because they’d rather keep people angry by making them believe that all of their problems in life are caused by people who they’ve never met and don’t like anyway .
Telling people to take personal accountability for their own poor personal life choices doesn’t get you voted back in .

By: Observer

Observer — Sun, 22 May 2022 15:11:08 +0000

So so true! The unaddressed problem that no government wants to talk about.

By: Ringmaster

Ringmaster — Sat, 21 May 2022 22:28:41 +0000

Start with the breakdown of families. Discipline and family values gone. Children having children “‘because I need to be loved” or “I need a child because I’m 20 and not married”. Seen it, it is part of a social problem. Baby mommas, no real fathers. Mum wants to party, kid goes out on the streets to get attention and love. Gets into the wrong hands.
A community issue? Sure, but after years of “we don’t care what you think” and “our time now” the chickens have come home. Where are the role models who have made it and who should pay back? Seems they are partying in Tuckers Town or abroad, not Court Street.

By: Triangle Drifter

Triangle Drifter — Sat, 21 May 2022 13:52:01 +0000

Blah, blah, blah. More talk from another politician. Blah, blah, blah.

No action that means anything. The Pasta is running the gravy train. Like the train at Disney, it goes around & around but only has stops at the taxpayer’s pockets & then at the bank.

When the police actually get a conviction the courts give a tap on the wrist & then reduce that to a handshake shortly after with a reduced sentence. Behind it all we have a soft on crime Government with an electorate that is very pleased with the situation as evidenced with 30-6.

You get what you voted for.

By: Enough!

Enough! — Sat, 21 May 2022 13:44:26 +0000

Reality is we had two guys driving around Hamilton on a Thursday night at 10:15pm randomly shooting 20 bullets and there is no outrage! They could have killed anyone, regardless of race, age, gender….. solutions please, not speeches. Try something different. Bring in an overseas law enforcement team who shows no mercy for these thugs. Change the laws, make the penalties harder. Life without parole for anyone handling a gun. But all this church and family talk, while guess what on their shooting drive around town, they passed a lot of churches with the lights off and all locked up. Churches aren’t about saving gangsters from themselves or saving us from the gangsters, the folks running these churches are all home in bed with their nice little lives staying far away from this mess. So hire folks who will deal with the problem before innocent folks are shot! Act now and stop wasting time writing and deliver speeches.

By: Sage

Sage — Sat, 21 May 2022 12:34:39 +0000

Give me 200 G a year, I can fix it. You won’t be able to quantify my results, but don’t worry just have faith.

By: Hey

Hey — Sat, 21 May 2022 12:32:43 +0000

So Weeks is saying the PLP current approach is not working.

By: Joe Bloggs

Joe Bloggs — Sat, 21 May 2022 11:58:53 +0000

“Since 2001 we have had 71 murders in Bermuda where a weapon has been used, during this period we have had 294 confirmed firearm incidents, and this year we have already seen the lives of 4 men lost to violence, Minister of National Security Michael Weeks said”

And who has been in power, setting the police budget, for 75% of that time?

By: comfortably numb

comfortably numb — Sat, 21 May 2022 10:54:55 +0000

When was Pastor Bean elevated to Bishop Bean? Good thing for him that his salary is not based on positive results.

By: puzzled

puzzled — Fri, 20 May 2022 23:15:12 +0000

Weeks?
Irony.
A weeks speaks a thousand words.
Reflect folks.