by Adrian Gibson
THERE are a startling number of murders happening in the Bahamas.
When I wrote this column, the official murder count for the year was 88. Who knows what happened overnight. This means that we have eclipsed every previous record in terms of the rate of the accrual of dead bodies by murder.
What’s alarming is that there has been no significant comment from the Minister of National Security, the Prime Minister or any other politician on this frightening trend.
They are hoping that we have either become numb or are not noticing the trend. Had we not been subjected to vociferous, loud and incessant promises to reduce crime during the 2012 campaign, this perhaps wouldn’t be so striking. But, we wonder whether they have capitulated in the war on crime and have decided it’s no longer worth talking about.
Murder, violent crime, gunshot wounds and stabbings remain the order of the day in the Bahamas. It is frightening. What’s more frightening is that it’s no longer a topic of major concern for our political leaders when it is a topic of greatest concern for everyday Bahamians.
The question is whether there is a threshold beyond which any specific attention will be given to crime and the approach to it, whether it will be a topic of consideration for an address by the PM, or whether he intends to shuffle the team charged with dealing with crime, or whether– as Bahamians – we will have to suck it up, standby and helplessly watch the murder count rise?
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First published in the The Tribune under the byline, Young Man's View, here…
