INSIGHT: How the black market profits from our blue and green economies

INSIGHT: How the black market profits from our blue and green economies

FROM the unpermitted cutting of trees and unauthorised mining of limestone to illegal charcoal kilns burning in remote coppice, and reef fish—undersized, spawning, and unrecorded — smuggled in coolers bound for foreign restaurants - a silent economy thrives in the shadows of The Bahamas’ blue and green wealth. This is the black market for natural resources — unregulated, untaxed, and frequently unchecked.