United States residents traveling to the Bahamas should exercise “extreme caution” in Nassau in the wake of 18 murders since Jan. 1, the State Department said in a new travel advisory. “Murders have occurred in all hours including in broad daylight on the streets,” according to a security alert that was posted on Jan. 24 by the U.S. Embassy in the Bahamas. [More]
Bahamas law does not permit the carrying of concealed weapons.
Neither does the cruise ship that gets you there.
And ’twas ever thus, it seems. From a 30-year-old posting in my archives, global crime rate figures from the 1984 Book of World Rankings show the Bahamas second in homicide (under only Lesotho), 6th in rape, and second in larceny.