Bahamas: Colonial baggage · Global Voices
Georgia Popplewell

Andrew Allen defends his belief that “colonial baggage” inhibits development in the Bahamas, arguing that while quaint colonial vestiges such as the image of the British monarch on the country's currency may appear harmless, “far more pernicious is our tendency to suppress the growth of genuine local institutions and our related tendency to stigmatise the appearance of local ideas and value systems that could support such institutions. “