EDITOR, The Tribune.
IN 1982, a report entitled “The Bahamas: A Nation For Sale” by investigative television journalist Brian Ross was aired on NBC in the United States.
The report claimed Lynden Pindling and his government accepted bribes from Colombian drug smugglers, particularly the notorious Carlos Lehder, co-founder of the Medellín Cartel, in exchange for allowing the smugglers to use the Bahamas as a transshipment point to smuggle Colombian cocaine into the US.
Through murder and extortion, Lehder had gained complete control over Norman’s Cay in Exuma, which became the chief base for smuggling cocaine into the United States.
Now a serious drug and gun smuggling indictment charge has been revealed against Chief Superintendent Elvis Nathaniel Curtis, Sergeant Prince Albert Symonette, and 13 other names are accused in the matter with claims being that a high-ranking politician is also implicated.
Did anything change?
DR DONALD M McCARTNEY
Freeport, Grand Bahama
March 24, 2025.
Comments
lobsta 4 days, 16 hours ago
Check the name of your capital's airport for an answer.
birdiestrachan 4 days, 14 hours ago
NEVER mind the Donald with his disgruntled self if this is the same one he left the Bahamas. Unless the other Donald sent him back to the BAHAMAS. the Bahamas was never for sale it is only something that uncle Tom's repeat because people of a different hue says so
Porcupine 4 days, 6 hours ago
Yes, something has changed Dr. McCartney. The names. Rotten to the core, from the PM on down.
birdiestrachan 4 days, 5 hours ago
The stickey one who spent 45 years in the USA talks . Just another Uncle Tom. The Bahamas never was and never will be for sale. Just foolish talk from those who do wish our beautiful Bahamas well. If the Bahamas is so bad why are they here and not in the USA .??
birdiestrachan 4 days, 5 hours ago
They the stickey one and Donald do not wish the Bahamas well I Thought Donald had moved to the USA. Has he returned to the Bahamas. ??
bogart 3 days, 7 hours ago
For the population in a land mass defined by christian principles and the rule of law, it is never a a nation for sale. Its not the nation which ain't going no place, its the people.
What it is, is a countable number of individuals whose adverse actions or inactions to christian principles and rule of law are allowed to make it appear so, and for periods of time without corrective actions allowed.
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