By August 22 last year, there had been 28 murders; this year, there have been 35 already.<\/p>\n
Commenting on the issue, Assistant Commissioner of Police Reginald Ferguson said: “It is a horrible thing to see that people have no concern of others or the way they feel until it comes to a point where they take away the life of others, and all we as police can do in the end is try to solve who did it and why.”<\/p>\n
The rise in the murder rate is part of a long term trend. From 1999 to the present the Bahamas murder rate has risen and fallen each year.<\/p>\n
The year 2000 is known as the year the most murders were recorded. In 1999 about 66 murders were recorded.<\/p>\n
Eighty-three murders were recorded in 2000, 17 more than in 1999. It became so bad that on May 2nd the Bahamas recorded its second murder in nine hours.<\/p>\n
In 2001 the murder rate declined by 61 per cent bringing much relief to many.<\/p>\n
In 2002 the murder rate also declined by 40 per cent showing that the Bahamas is trying its best to reduce the murder rate.<\/p>\n
On June 25, 2002, now Christian Council president the Rev William Thompson expressed his concern at the “new trend” by saying: “What is happening in our country now, especially with the last spat of murders, is a new trend for the Bahamas with this hacking to death of people.<\/p>\n
“Usually Bahamians may shoot you, or they may stabbed you with a knife; or throw a rock at you, but we are not that kind of vicious people to dismember someone’s body like what is happening now.”<\/p>\n
[Apparently, we are.]<\/p>\n
By: DESTINEY ARMBRISTER, The Tribune<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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