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Last Updated: Feb 13, 2017 - 1:45:37 AM |
Nassau Bahamas - (Elcott Coleby) Late last year
Prime Minister Christie told the nation of some new anti-crime measures
the government will implement in early 2016. After a celebratory
luncheon for the work of the Salvation Army on Thursday, Prime Minister
Christie spoke about the government’s latest crime plan.
Among
them were the meetings Minister Nottage and US Charge Lisa Johnson held
at the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) headquarters in Washington
DC on Wednesday and Thursday of this week on the crime challenges
facing the country.
“Dr. Nottage and the Charge d’affaires (met)
yesterday and today (Thursday) at the FBI headquarters in Washington
where they are reviewing certain matters that will be important to what
we do here in The Bahamas” said Christie.
Not wanting to pre-empt
the commissioner of police in unveiling the new anti-crime plans for
2016, Prime Minister Christie revealed that he held “very strong
meetings” with commissioner Greenslade over two days this week and that
he expects “the commissioner of police in his annual report to speak to
what is going to happen.”
There has been a steady increase in the
serious crime of murder as far back as 1997 when the country recorded
46 murders. The number of murders had jumped to 62 by 2006 and topped
100 for the first time in 2011 when the country recorded 127 homicides.
There were 149 homicides recorded in 2015.
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