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Former DPM: The Country Is In Free Fall

NASSAU, BAHAMAS – “The country is in free fall. We have lost over the several years the enforcement of law at every level,” said former Cabinet Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Brent Symonette.

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1 year ago

November 29, 2024

Berthony McDermott

NASSAU, BAHAMAS – “The country is in free for fall. We have lost over the several years the enforcement of law at every level,” said former Cabinet Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Brent Symonette, just days after a U.S. indictment implicated 11 Bahamians including law enforcement officers for drugs and gun trafficking.

The indictment names Chief Superintendent Elvis Curtis, officer-in-charge of the Airport Division, Royal Bahamas Police Force, Sergeant Prince Albert Symonette and Royal Bahamas Defence Force Chief Petty officer Darrin Roker as conspirators who helped facilitate the transshipment of tons of cocaine from South America through The Bahamas and into the United States.

Speaking after a Rotary Club of East Nassau meeting Friday, Symonette had this to say.

“I go home every evening by fish fry and that’s a third lane that comes down that road,” Symonette said.

“Outside lighthouse beach, I smell so much ganja the other day I almost got high in my truck and the police station in right there. So the indictment in the United States is just an extension of the free fall that we’ve been in for years.”

Prime Minister Philip Davis addressed the issue in Parliament Wednesday saying the betrayal will not go unanswered, adding that it strikes at the core of who we are as a nation.

He also ordered Foreign Affairs minister Fred Mitchell to send a diplomatic note to get more details on the investigation.

At the time, Davis said the tree will be shaken until every bad apple falls.