In Bahamas, House of Assembly mace is thrown out the window

After US prosecutors indicted senior Bahamian police officials for trafficking cocaine, opposition lawmakers in the Bahamas have been asking the ruling government questions. When an opposition leader wasn’t given time to pose questions to the government, he took the long mace that sits on the house speaker’s desk and threw it out the window. Zhivargo Laing explains how the US indictments have ruffled Bahamian politics.

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