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The illegal drug trade in The Bahamas involves trans-shipment of cocaine and marijuana through The Bahamas to the United States.. 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.
Prosecutors accuse officials of thwarting a program involving U.S. and Bahamian government authorities to combat drug trade in the region. Operation Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, or OPBAT, was ...
Norman's Cay is a small Bahamian island (a few hundred hectares) in the Exumas, a chain of islands south and east of Nassau, that served as the headquarters for Carlos Lehder's drug smuggling operation from 1978 until around 1982.
The Bahamas has not yet appointed a new police commissioner. On Monday, Fernander said he was interviewing officials to determine when the alleged drug trafficking began and said he supported a government proposal for independent civilian oversight of the police department.
Drug trafficking: The Bahamas happens to be an important route for the transport of cocaine to the United States and Europe, this is because the Bahamas has a US military base on its territory. [1] This transit dates back to the drug trafficker Carlos Lehder , who already had a great control of the island country by the 1990s, thanks to bribes ...
The lack of cocaine seizures, in particular in Haiti, a major transshipment point for U.S.-bound cocaine from Colombia, has long raised concerns and questions about the role drug trafficking has ...
Cocaine demand and supply are booming worldwide and methamphetamine trafficking is expanding beyond established markets, including in Afghanistan where the drug is now being produced, a United ...
The public outcry, however, led to the creation in 1983 of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Drug Trafficking and Government Corruption in the Bahamas. A review of Pindling's personal finances by the Commission found that he had spent eight times his reported earnings from 1977 to 1984.