Superwash outlets robbed five times in 10 days

Tue, Nov 23rd 2010, 10:00 PM

By NEIL HARTNELL

Tribune Business Editor

THE Superwash laundromat chain suffered five armed robberies in a 10-day period, prompting its president yesterday to describe the Bahamas as a "Wild, Wild West" society where "everybody is in fear", with the crime situation likely to get worse - not better - in coming months.

Dionisio D'Aguilar, a former Bahamas Chamber of Commerce president, while praising the police and civic-minded Bahamians for helping to catch the suspects alleged to be behind one of the armed robberies afflicting his business, blasted the two main political parties for lacking "vision and ideas" to combat this nation's crime crisis.

He again called f ...

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