MASS unemployment is directly impacting the level of violent crime experienced in the country, according to local pastors, who claim that poor economic conditions are "tempting" Bahamians.

Outraged by the spate of "revenge" and "vigilante" killings occurring in New Providence, victim's rights organization Citizens for Justice (CFJ) appealed to both the public and private sectors to implement change.

Bishop Walter Hanchell, chairman of CFJ, said: "This crime situation with joblessness, unemployment and the crime, it's so closely connected to poverty. They are hurting, they don't h ...

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