{"id":39446,"date":"2013-09-18T23:02:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T03:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=39446"},"modified":"2013-09-18T23:03:34","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T03:03:34","slug":"thats-bain-town-for-ya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/09\/thats-bain-town-for-ya","title":{"rendered":"‘That’s Bain Town For Ya’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The body of a young man was lying face down in a dusty, garbage heaped alley, surrounded by barricade tape as police waited for the hearse.<\/p>\n

He had been shot several times in the head by another young man, barely in his 20s.<\/p>\n

All around, his neighbours stood watching the show with a look of indifference that seemed to approach boredom.<\/p>\n

Some treated the death of a boy they\u2019d known their whole life like it was a joke. They had seen this too many times for it to make an impression.<\/p>\n

A boy of about nine years old wheeled up on a rusty bike, older and taller than he was. He glanced at the body, gave a short laugh and said, \u201cThat\u2019s Bain Town for ya,\u201d before riding away.<\/p>\n

Covering this murder scene last year, the result of a petty dispute between street corners, was my introduction to the new form of violence that today haunts this most iconic of Nassau communities.<\/p>\n

Life has never been easy in Bain Town, and over the years tough social conditions and the stigma of being born in the ghetto have led many young men into a life of crime, driven young girls to prostitution and pushed both to hard drug use.<\/p>\n

But what is happening now is something different, something more dangerous, and even some of the established hard men are becoming afraid.<\/p>\n