A year and a half ago \u2014 a month after the PLP were elected to govern the Bahamas \u2014 we wrote the following in this column.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have always maintained that if one follows the trail, today\u2019s crime is a natural progression from the drug-economy nurtured under Pindling\u2019s PLP government in the seventies and eighties.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know that the new PLP government has to be given a chance to implement all the magic potions it claimed during the campaign that it had to put a lid on the escalating curse. But what has happened on the crime scene in the past three weeks, since the new government\u2019s election on May 7th, must be questioned. It is just not natural. Yes, we have crime, which has been rising, but this sudden leap in a matter of a few weeks is unnatural \u2013 even frightening.<\/p>\n
\u201cEighteen murders \u2013 including two policemen, one a reservist, and a third critically injured \u2013 in the past three weeks is just unprecedented \u2013 something has gone radically wrong within our community.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s as though the lid of Pandora\u2019s box has been snapped open and all the evil contained therein has escaped and spread throughout New Providence.<\/p>\n