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Bahamas vote deemed free and peaceful

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana, May 14, CMC  — A nine-member Caribbean Community Election Observation Mission (CEOM) has concluded that voters in The Bahamas were able to cast their ballots peacefully and orderly during the country’s General Elections held earlier this week.

The mission was mounted at the invitation of Dame Cynthia A. Pratt, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, and included electoral experts from Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Suriname.

(Details in Politics section)

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