politics and culture

Ja Rule’s attempt at a luxury festival: Fyre Festival, in the Bahamas recently turned into total chaos as struggling locals turned on the partiers. The festival goers, who paid between 7 to 17k for a ticket to the festival, were mugged at gun point, sometimes by security guards at the festival. The inequalities of the Bahamas have reached the point where public safety is at risk. Only last year there was coverage highlighting the dangerous levels of inequality in the Bahamas and how poverty rates had increased in all age categories.