AS TO be expected the PLP are trying to make hay from the plight of the arrested straw vendors while the sun still shines.

They are looking to the Bahamas government to somehow bargain with the US government to have the charges against the nine Bahamian vendors - recently arrested in New York and charged with possession of counterfeit goods for resale at their market stalls in Nassau - dropped.

Some of the vendors held in New York have been quoted as admitting that they knew the goods purchased in New York for resale in Nassau were counterfeit, and, therefore, illegal. However, once they passed through Nassau Customs they believed they were absolved of all illegality on the paying of Customs dut ...

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