July 4, 2022
OFFICERS at the scene of one of the country’s latest murders this weekend.
Photo: Austin Fernander
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ALICIA WALLACE: Same old, same old - the bodies pile up with no solutions ever offered
IN RECENT days, there has been hand-wringing about the number of murders counted in just one week. This is not an unfamiliar place for us. As the number of murders steadily moves toward 100, people start talking. They decry the state of the nation and worry aloud about its direction and destination.
INSIGHT: No excuses, just look at the numbers - and they keep on rising
THE highest murder count The Bahamas has ever recorded was 146 in 2015 – as of Friday, with the first six months of the year having passed, the total stood at 74. If we keep on that rate, the country will be setting an unwanted new record.
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