Not so nice
BAHAMIANS expected a nice little campaign for their March 14th election, with talk of the economy, the new social reforms and the old corruption. Instead, they got a murder. After the rally at which the prime minister, Hubert Ingraham, opened the campaign of his Free National Movement, his campaign manager, Charles Virgill, suddenly disappeared. His body was soon discovered, and three young men have been charged. Nobody is suggesting that this was a political assassination. But crime is now an election issue.
This article appeared in the International section of the print edition under the headline “Not so nice”
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