Bahamas Blog

Former Attorney General Tennyson Wells is the latest to join the chorus of voices lambasting the corruption that has destroyed the Bahamas legal-judicial system.

After years of being ignored, claims of massive corruption by the Bahamas' leading website, BahamasB2B.com, have recently been echoed by several prominent Bahamians, with some calling for investigations and immediate changes in the dysfunctional Bahamas legal system.

Incompetent, possibly crooked judges such as Stanley Moore and several of his peers have perverted justice with decisions based on favouritism, cronyism and plain old bribery and alleged corruption.

Numerous ethically-challenged local attorneys, like Damien Gomez, Michael Barnett, Brave Davis and Michael Patton have acted in ways that should land them in jail, but instead they have prospered in the Bahamas' criminally-minded society. Some of these wicked attorneys feel they are untouchable due to their crony connections in what can only be described as a legal mafia.

From crooked law enforcement officers and court clerks, to compromised judges, scoundrels in the Attorney General's office and even a possibly corrupt Supreme Court Registry, the Bahamas legal system has been turned topsy-turvey with corruption, to the point where justice is virtually impossible to attain.

I suggest the Governor General appoint a foreign-born Attorney General with unlimited prosecuting powers. Someone who has no cousins and no connections to any of the prominent twenty Bahamian mafia families. Someone who is not afraid to arrest top Police and Defence Force officers, court clerks, prominent attorneys and even judges and magistrates, if and when necessary.

Read these articles and let us know what you think needs to be done.

Former AG Slams Judges

MP Attacks Judges, Judicial System

The Perversion of Justice in The Bahamas