EDITOR, The Tribune
Let’s look back to the earliest times of when The Bahamas was discovered by Columbus…on behalf of the Spanish many of the original tribes of the Bahamas were taken as slaves to Mexico and other parts.
Come forward….Ship wrecking…certainly on the islands covering the navigational lights and then plundering the ships was not legal.
Bootlegging … Bahamian vessels with hidden compartments smuggled liquor to the US certainly illegal from the eyes of the US.
Gun running during the US Civil War…not legal.
Drugs through the ‘80’s to the US…not legal.
Commission of Enquiry on drugs in the ‘80’s…little found except a lot of very bad memories and the coining of “I can’t remember!” or “I don’t recall.”
Editor, you see illegal acts – Corruption has been very much the face of the Bahamas…true history does not tell an untruth.
AJ KNOWLES
Nassau
February 18, 2020
Comments
hrysippus 4 years, 2 months ago
Bootlegging in the Bahamas, as I understand it, consisted of buying liquor in Nassau and then taking it up to "Rum Row" outside the 12 mile territorial waters of the US where it was sold to American citizens like Kennedy, who then broke US laws by smuggling that liquor into their country. . There was nothing illegal in what the Bahamian rum runners did.
africa 4 years, 2 months ago
Very interesting article about Columbus and his Spanish gangster buddies who slaughtered millions of Indians as well as millions of newly arrived African slaves to the shores of Haiti and Jamaica for the sugar cane industry.As afro Bahamians we must learn the truth as to who our ancestors are and where we come from before we landed in the Atlantic (Bahamas) I appreciate your article and would like to see a more indept discussion about our bloodline going back to the sugar cane plantations before we got to Nassau.
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