New Providence under lockdown – photos and video

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LOCKDOWN: New Providence

Empty streets on New Providence during the Easter weekend lockdown. Photos: Terrel W Carey Sr/Tribune staff

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All quiet on Shirley Street

The Bahamas is under a complete lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic with the streets of New Providence eerily quiet.

These photos and this video give an indication of what it’s like outside on an Easter weekend like no other.

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Clamshell 4 years, 6 months ago

Wow. Just ... wow.

ThisIsOurs 4 years, 6 months ago

try driving 2am in the morning on a Tuesday ..it's "almost" the same. try it this coming Tuesday! :)

TalRussell 4 years, 6 months ago

Peaceful early 1960's look but still - should and shouldn't common sense economics must prevail, not have been deathly tied tightly behind backs colony's comrade merchants and business operators. Nod once for yeah, twice for no?

Clamshell 4 years, 6 months ago

“ ... should and shouldn't common sense economics must prevail, not have been deathly tied tightly behind backs colony's comrade merchants ...”

Nod 3 times if you can figure out what the #&$@ that’s supposed to mean.

ThisIsOurs 4 years, 6 months ago

3 nods: shouldnt commonsene economics prevail? why constrain business comrades so?

Clamshell 4 years, 6 months ago

🤣🤣🤣 ... we PoupoulumacesOrdinairies done agree ... 😎

joeblow 4 years, 6 months ago

@ Clamshell…. I nodded 4 times does that mean I am still confused?

Clamshell 4 years, 6 months ago

... yeah ... but brother, you ain’t alone.

ThisIsOurs 4 years, 6 months ago

why we coup up like chickens den.:)

Clamshell 4 years, 6 months ago

... ‘cause a virus does not pay much attention to economics ... 😎

TalRussell 4 years, 6 months ago

All's couped up...excepting the colony's first among equals...who asks the chief comrade medical sister doctor, if she's okay have his motorcade's side riders be's scooting him over to the court play game tennis?
I swear this first among man's equals, only recollection of ever wearing a face mask was one painted on face rushin during Junkanoo...not exactly of hospital medical criteria?
Has wonder if tis same grandson who also so enjoy's rushing with the Saxons?
Nod once for yeah, twice for no.. if you thinks I just make this ridiculous shi# up..Just, can't.**

stillwaters 4 years, 6 months ago

All yall just bored as hell.......me too!!!

ThisIsOurs 4 years, 6 months ago

lol. working if you can believe it

mandela 4 years, 6 months ago

It would be historic if someone was able to do a video or take photos flying above the island looking down during this historic time.

xtreme2x 4 years, 6 months ago

go to front page here: A BIRD’S EYE VIEW: Deserted streets during Easter weekend (Photos and video)

Giordano 4 years, 6 months ago

Based on factual situations that we are facing,as a Nation,visible flash lighting Police Presence should be exhibited all the time or 24/7 in every neighborhood in order to add confidence and dignity to the Law abiding citizens keeping the Curfew religiously by staying behind doors and in many occasions observing from their windows those mentally ill people violating the curfew and trespassing into private properties and knocking on doors and asking for money or something to eat causing stress to dogs in the yard and panic to the people inside their house. Law enforcement officers should be equipped,in this time of Pandemic,with Short time test kit & Scanner to test ,randomly,those people still gathering in public corners clearly violating the curfew dictated by the government.

John 4 years, 6 months ago

After watching what was going on in Chins for weeks, the US was still caught unprepared. And so their number of Corona cases and related deaths skyrocketed and is surpassing every country in the world. The media show pictures in China where persons suspected of Corona were forcefully removed from their homes (super spreaders they are called) and quarantined. They said the treatment was in humane. Then pictures started surfacing in the US where police were using tear gas and rubber bullets to force teens of beaches and other open species. Just yesterday a video went viral where police lifted a man off the bus and physically threw him to the ground because he was not wearing a mask. Some stores have turned their aisles into one way lanes to make social distancing easier and some cities are also turning sidewalks into one way to avoid pedestrians from coming in close contact with each other. And after all that if done to fight this dreaded )some say man made) virus, the world and most countries will have to struggle to get their economies going and to pay off the astronomical, hugely staggering bill left by the Covid-19 virus.

Well_mudda_take_sic 4 years, 6 months ago

You can't believe anything reported by Red China. The US found that out the hard way. And in case you haven't heard, Wahun, Red China is now undergoing a second wave with the number of cases exponentially rising each day.

DDK 4 years, 6 months ago

So much for the Land of the Free, John, the country we so dearly love to emulate....

Clamshell 4 years, 6 months ago

There was no use of rubber bullets or tear gas to clear teens or anybody else from any beaches in the US at spring break. Simply never happened.

In the bus incident, the passenger got roughed up because he refused to follow police directives, repeatedly, to get off the bus because he wasn’t wearing a mask.

This is all bad enough, it would be helpful if we all stuck to what’s true. Respectfully, thanx.

John 4 years, 6 months ago

Then you should check your facts before you check mines. There were more than one confrontation between police and beach goers that became confrontational. And police had to use pepper spray and yes, rubber bullets. Where you get off calling me a liar. There were seven videos that went viral with these incidents . As for the man that got roughed up and was thrown of the bus that matter wis under review due to the circumstances he entered the bus without a mask. He was an essential worker that got got cautious in a situation without a mask.

Clamshell 4 years, 6 months ago

Respectfully, John, I did not call you a liar. I simply said the situations you described did not happen. There’s a difference between disputing a fact and calling somebody a liar.

I’m in the U.S. right now, have been following this closely. And before I posted, I searched for news stories of rubber bullets and tear gas used to clear the beaches at spring break. I found none. I challenge you to post a link to them, right here. Should be easy if you say they’re out there.

As for the guy on the bus, again: If he had simply followed the police officers’ orders, he would not have encountered any further problems.

I’ll be eagerly looking for those links to the attacks you’re claiming. The only one I found occurred in South Africa, not the United States.

Your turn ...

stillwaters 4 years, 6 months ago

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph......don't let this boredom get the best of you.......stand down.

Well_mudda_take_sic 4 years, 6 months ago

Jeeezz. You don't seem to like anything anyone has to say unless they're heaping lots of praise on the one you seem to idolize and worship so much.

avidreader 4 years, 6 months ago

Frightening images indeed. Where there is no economic activity problems follow. Today in Spain the people are returning to work with police handing out masks in the subway stations. The problem has been to balance some semblance of control of the disease with the need for economic activity to proceed.

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