Prime Minister Shares Condolences For Omar Davis Jr.

NASSAU, BAHAMAS – I know your hearts are as heavy as mine after yesterday’s terrible news about Omar Davis. It is always agonising to lose a young Bahamian.

Here we have a young man whose resolve to escape violence had fueled his outstanding achievements in our public schools and in further education. His determination and his success reached and inspired so many. To lose him this way, when he was about to embark on the next stage of his life, feels truly unbearable.

We pray for God to wrap his arms around the family and hold them tight, just as we pray this for all our families, and there are far too many who lose loved ones to violence. You are not alone.

The nation grieves with you.

We add to our prayers our shared determination to come together, as policymakers, as community leaders, and clergy, and families, and friends, and neighbours —to do ever more to fight the scourge of violence even when our hearts are this heavy.

We must be relentless.

One way to honour the memory of those whom we lost is to work harder and harder to turn the tide, to create hope and healing to prevent future tragedies.