No evidence to say crime decrease was the result of COVID restrictions, Dames says Marvin Dames.
While noting that COVID-19 restrictions may have had “some impact” on a decrease in crime in The Bahamas, Minister of National Security Marvin Dames said that there is no evidence to conclusively say that the downward trend is the result of those restrictions.
“You need research and we don’t have any empirical data to say either way,” Dames told
The Nassau Guardian.
“My guess is that there may have been some impact. We’re not totally locked down. I mean, there was a point sometime earlier in the year when we were locked down but now we’re not totally locked down. For the most part, we haven’t been totally locked down.
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THE sister of a man who was shot dead in Nassau Village on Tuesday says the family is struggling to come to grips with his death, insisting he was not a “gang-banger”.
According to initial police reports, Vincent Knowles Jr, 26, was fatally wounded during a drive-by shooting as he was walking on Forbes Street around 8.30pm.
The victim’s sister, Cassandra Knowles, said this is another blow for her family which is still grieving the death of their mother.
“I just (lost) my mummy two years ago,” she told this newspaper. “It feels like the bandage on me just ripped open and they just juck a knife in it and just drag it down.”