These men and women routinely accept bribes, look the other way and otherwise betray the oaths they swore that called upon them to uphold the laws of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas.
Some of these crooks and traitors in uniform serve as Customs Officers, some as Police, others as Immigration Officers.
It is said and believed that some of these men and women supplement their pay packets with bribes and other artful extortions. While we do not know the extent of the rackets involved, we are smart enough to believe that some of these stories are quite true.
And it is thoroughly unfortunate that the political directorate is -to all appearances- quite unable to penetrate some of the criminal networks that are said to exist throughout the public service.
Take for example, the recent situation at the Carmichael Road Detention Centre, from which more detainees have ‘escaped’. That they did so and the way they purportedly did so, suggests that it was an inside job. No one can tell us or persuade us that these people did not have inside help. And no one would be able to convince us that big money was not involved.
People tell us things all the time. And as is to be expected, this information runs the gamut from the ridiculous to the sublime.
Some of it is libelous. Some of it is useful and some of it is absolutely garbage.
This is not so today with information concerning the fate of three Cubans who allegedly escaped from the Carmichael Road Detention Center.
The men were identified as Jose Alvarez Garcia, 38; Victor Brito Senea, 35; and Lazaro Acosta Ortiz, 33. The Cubans, we are told, had reportedly been detained for several months.
Of note is the fact that “officials made no public announcements regarding the incident and were quiet on the details, although the Journal was able to get the names of the escaped men from a contact.
We are told the legend that “the three Cubans reportedly escaped by cutting their way through three fences at the facility and making a clean break under the shadow of Defense Force officers who were on guard.
Our view then was that this was simply incredible.
Today we sing another song.
This time around that tune is all about the power of money and the extent to which certain treacherous Bahamians are prepared to go as they sell out their national patrimony.
We believe this to be the case today as regards information received concerning the fate of the three Cubans who recently ‘escaped’ from their place of detention on Carmichael Road.
We can today report that the three Cuban ‘escapees’ who purportedly ‘escaped’ from the Carmichael Road Detention Center are safe and sound in Florida. Jose Alvarez Garcia, 38; Victor Brito Senea, 35; and Lazaro Acosta Ortiz, 33 are all doing well wherever they are in Florida.
This case of the men who were once detained; who were able to escape and who are now in Florida proves the truth in the adage that money talks in The Bahamas and that big money talks even bigger in the same place.
While we will never know who paid what to whom, we can reasonably conjecture and surmise that the pay-off sum was not in the form of bags of peanuts. This would suggest a truth which is that when cold cash changes hands, things get done in The Bahamas.
We have it from an impeccable source that these people were tracked down in Miami and that they are currently well on their way to living happily ever after in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Thanks to forty years of embargo and thanks to the wet-foot, dry foot policies of the United States of America, the three Cubans who managed to get to Florida are now free to pick up the pieces of their lives. We suspect that like so many others, they will soon enough become citizens of the United States of America.
In time, other Cubans will be washed up on our shores in The Bahamas. This guarantees that there will be other occasions for certain crooks in uniform to supplement their salaries, thus allowing them an opportunity to live at the standard to which they have become accustomed.
In the meanwhile, these crooks and traitors in uniform flout the law and demonstrate the truth in the adage that money talks. This is cause for a sadness that goes beyond what words can say.
Editorial from The Bahama Journal
