Currently Bahamians are banned from gambling inside the beach resort casinos, meant for tourists only.

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But to many Bahamians the government now looks arrogant and out of touch.

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He enrolled his older two children, with whom he has breakfast every morning, in a public school of 60 kids, a mix of Haitians and native Bahamians, where during recess the most popular toys are sticks and rocks.

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