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Bahamas: Straw Saga

Written byJanine Mendes-Franco
Posted 28 September 2010 18:33 GMT

Jerome Pinder at Weblog Bahamas says that the straw vendors who have been charged in the United States for the purchase and export of knock off luxury goods “have become the symbol of a lawless society.”

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