One week ago in the House of Assembly Sidney Stubbs tendered his resignation as the executive chairman of the Bahamas Agricultural Industrial Corp., which immediately satisfied a lot of his detractors, who for months had been demanding he do so.
But is that the end of the matter? If it is, it shouldn’t be.
By the time Mr. Stubbs felt the need to resign, ethical codes were violated and laws appear to have been broken.
These things can’t be swept away and forgotten. There needs to be a formal inquiry or an investigation by the police with a view to prosecuting people involved if warranted.
In detailing the revocation of permits and licenses granted the Korean fishing concerns, Minister Alfred Gray categorically stated that a number of laws had been broken, that the ministry and the department of fisheries had been lied to and deceived.
The people involved are known. Some have stated unequivocally their right to do what they did while others have been silent. All should be made to talk, to find who the deceivers are and to make them pay for their misdeeds.
Editorial, The Nassau Guardian
