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Ultimately, controversies such as this, where there is much ado about nothing, only cause harm to the international reputation of the Bahamas. Earlier controversies such as the furor over the Harry Potter movie and gay cruise ships showed the Bahamas as a nation of closed minded hypocrites. Bahamian society's acceptance of their soaring murder, incest and child abuse rates and the unusually high employee "tiefin" ratios are in direct contradiction with the Christian values so often proclaimed to be the country's basis. And these severe social problems make a mockery out of all the fuss about other people's lifestyles and works of art.
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Although the area may have been populated previously, the seafaring Taino people moved into the southern Bahamas around the 7th century from Hispaniola and Cuba. These people came to be known as the Lucayans. There were an estimated 40,000+ Lucayans at the time of Columbus' arrival in 1492.
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Jason Mellor died Aug. 29 in a boating accident while his family vacationed in the Bahamas, said officials at the Huber-Moore Funeral Home. Approximately 400 people came to the viewing at the funeral home on Friday and mass at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church on Saturday, said funeral home owner John Moore.
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