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NATIONAL NOTES
Family Island Crimes:
A spate of crimes took place in late February in the normally bucolic Family Islands
of The Bahamas. In George Town, Exuma, a 22 year old man was stabbed to death in
a nightclub. Two other young men aged 21 and 24 turned themselves in to the police
in Williams Town, Little Exuma. On Long Island, Chief Inspector William Moss, 46, was seriously
injured by a shotgun during a foiled bank robbery. He died over a week later. Three
men were apprehended in connection with the incident.
New Faces on Bahamian Currency:
New $50 and $10 notes were issued in March, the $50 bearing the profile of Sir Roland
Symonette, first premier of The Bahamas, and the $10 that of Sir Stafford Sands,
father of Bahamian tourism. The issue of the $10 caused some controversy as Sir Stafford, a white man, was perceived to be a racist. When the black PLP government came to
power in 1967, Mr Sands went into self-imposed exile in Spain. It was Sir Stafford
who introduced casino gambling into the country.
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