The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune.

I laughed my heart out reading the detail of the recent combined Defence Force - US Military exercise and the location and the scenario.

Probably 30 plus years late... might be finally someone heeded the late Hon Norman Solomon’s constant warning that Norman’s Cay was being used for drug smuggling.

One thing is for sure, if The Bahamas was ever to be used by terrorists they would not give the Defence Force - the Police - Immigration or the Northern Command and Special Forces of the US any pre-notice of an attack.

Very reassuring that the “enemy” in this case were all killed.

Probably the most vulnerable asset for a terrorist act are the enormous cruise ships that sit in Nassau Harbour. It is useless, I suggest, to have patrol craft sailing up and down the harbour when the vulnerability is underwater.

God forbid such would occur but if the US are willing to spend $3m, was that the figure I heard, maybe they should shorten up the planning - in future do not give everyone public notice of the exercise and be certainly more focused on the obvious target, cruise ships... at one given time there are some 30,000, mostly America citizens in the harbour on those ships.

Anyway, we all know about 80 plus per cent of drugs get through to the lucrative consumptive market of the US. The Dominican fishing people are vacuuming our waters and selling the product through an American Co in DR to their parent in Miami.

Couldn’t we do a lot with $3m to stop the guns coming in from the United States? Hmm... the US could do a lot for sure, but will they?

ABRAHAM MOSS

Nassau,

May 14, 2016.