Acklins residents are feeling a ripple effect from the series of high-profile thefts on the island earlier this year.
Stephen Wilson, Acklins Island Administrator, said the community has not fully recovered and everyone is feeling the pinch.
A “substantial sum of money” was stolen from a safe at the office of the administrator earlier this summer, during a holiday weekend.
Late last year, some $200,000 was stolen after former island administrator Gregory Knowles and his son were kidnapped.
In both instances, the stolen cash was public money sent by the central government to pay salaries and cover public expenses.
Now, with no bank and no secure method of storing cash, the “flow of money” to the island is being hampered by wary officials in Nassau.
