Prime Minister Perry Christie announced Sunday that in the coming days he will implement new programmes to address crime.
“In the coming days, I shall be addressing specifically, with new and expanding programmes, those persons who have begun to terrorize our country and our community. I call them brutish beasts,” he said.
Mr. Christie was the guest speaker at the ground-breaking ceremony for the Woodes Alley Big Harvest Community Sunday School Rally in the Alley and Awards Presentation.
The event’s theme was “Passion for People”.
“Why ought your life be so different from their’s, but the reality was that in those times they had so little and did so much?” he asked.
Young Bahamian men and women have no excuse for a criminal way of life when there are examples of persons who had less and made so much more, Mr. Christie said.
He said they had relatives who believed in them and in their futures, and parents transferred their dreams to their children.
Mr. Christie recalled that as a child being taught the unpleasant consequences of doing bad things.
He said he realized that his elders where trying to teach him the difference between good and bad.
“But, my Lord, some of the young people today don’t mind living in hell and going to hell. You know why? It’s because too many in our society, glorify that kind of living,” he said.
Mr. Christie said many condone their young daughters and sons getting easy money. He said that is disheartening to those children who work in a hotel and make $300 a week, while their neighbour, who does not work, makes $300 a day.
“We cannot allow in this country, those bad examples to prosper,” said Mr. Christie.
He said he and Commissioner of Police Paul Farquharson have agreed not to let it happen.
Mr. Christie said parents ought to be informed about what their children and his children are exposed to.
He said some time in the coming week he will resume urban activity and mobilize services to people, to give them good reasons to be positively productive.
Mr. Christie commended and congratulated Superintendent John Ferguson for his vision of the Big Harvest Community Sunday School.
He said there are numerous positive examples the nation’s youth ought to be made aware of and examine what they did to achieve their goals.
Honoured were Bishop Simeon Hall, Senator Traver Whylly, banker Nathaniel Beneby Jr., realtor Frank Carey, and evangelist Betty Cleare.
The honourees were awarded for “succeeding against all odds, and having the boldness of a conquering lion.”
Mr Christie was also presented with a wooden sculpture depicting a lion and lioness hunting for a gazelle.
The event was highlighted by area children who recited the Ten Commandments and the 66 books of the Bible.
By Sean Inniss, The Nassau Guardian
