Bigmo
02-20-03, - 05:07 PM
Hi all:
I just heard about this site and thought I'd sign up. My family and I reside in the UK presently, but I'm happy to say we're all Bahamians who miss home very much!
We've been here for the past 4 years, and we have really come to appreciate the slogan "Its better in the Bahamas." We know why all those UK expats never want to leave when they come to the Bahamas.
I've become worried about what I've been reading in the various online newspapers lately - the seemingly increasing incidence of sensless & brutal murders throughout the islands of the Bahamas. It seems that no one is now safe; not children, not the young people or old people or black or white Bahamians.
I'm in my mid-thirties, but I can remember growing up in Grand Bahama and leaving our doors open at day or night, and even when we stepped out somewhere. It seems that the innocence that our country was blessed with has gone so quickly.
I don't know the cause for our social demise, nor do I have the solution, but I do know that I regret the fact that my kids and all the other chidren in the Bahamas have been deprived of growing up as care free and innocent as my generation did.
My family and I are sheduled to return home next year. I can't wait for the date of our return, but I must admit that I will have the same security concerns for my wife and kids there, as I have had here in the UK. I never thought that would be the case. I hope and pray that there's a drastic reversal to what I perceive as the decaying of the social and moral fiber of my country before our return.
I just heard about this site and thought I'd sign up. My family and I reside in the UK presently, but I'm happy to say we're all Bahamians who miss home very much!
We've been here for the past 4 years, and we have really come to appreciate the slogan "Its better in the Bahamas." We know why all those UK expats never want to leave when they come to the Bahamas.
I've become worried about what I've been reading in the various online newspapers lately - the seemingly increasing incidence of sensless & brutal murders throughout the islands of the Bahamas. It seems that no one is now safe; not children, not the young people or old people or black or white Bahamians.
I'm in my mid-thirties, but I can remember growing up in Grand Bahama and leaving our doors open at day or night, and even when we stepped out somewhere. It seems that the innocence that our country was blessed with has gone so quickly.
I don't know the cause for our social demise, nor do I have the solution, but I do know that I regret the fact that my kids and all the other chidren in the Bahamas have been deprived of growing up as care free and innocent as my generation did.
My family and I are sheduled to return home next year. I can't wait for the date of our return, but I must admit that I will have the same security concerns for my wife and kids there, as I have had here in the UK. I never thought that would be the case. I hope and pray that there's a drastic reversal to what I perceive as the decaying of the social and moral fiber of my country before our return.