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Caribbean & Central America - January 2014 (ISSN 1741-4458)
BAHAMAS: Christie declares a war on crime, again
In 2011, when still leader of the opposition, Bahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie warned about a “tsunami of violence sweeping our nation”, and he blamed the surge in crime on “poor governance”, adding that the Free National Movement (FNM) government led by then prime minister Hubert Ingraham was “paralysed, unable to lead on this crucial issues”. It was a line of attack that no doubt contributed to Christie’s Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) decisively winning the May 2012 general election. The trouble is that 2012 was a bad year for murders, with 111, and 2013 turned out even worse with 118.
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