Chief Superintendent Raymond Gibson with responsibility for the Drug Enforcement Unit said officers received a tip around 2 p.m. Tuesday that led them to conduct a search of the plane at Sir Lynden Pindling International Airport. Their search turned up a bag with two kilos of cocaine.
Mr Gibson said no one was arrested in connection with the cocaine find, which is typical in this criminally-minded society. The drugs have a street value of $50,000. Investigations continue into the matter.
The drug find is particularily appropriate as the airport was recently renamed to honor the biggest criminal in Bahamian history, former Prime Minister Lyden Pindling. ï¾ Pindling was actively engaged in drug dealing and money laundering as partner to the notorious Columbian drug lord, Carlos Lehder.
Mr. Pindling openly suppressed poor black Bahamians and kept them uneducated while he tremendously enriched himself and his cronies througn a variety of illegal, unethical and immoral schemes.
A Commission of Inquiry in the early 90s discovered Mr. Pindling had deposited over $50 million into secret bank accounts, while earning a little over $100,000 a year as Prime Minister.
Much of the ill-gotten money is allegedly still stashed away in foreign bank accounts managed by Pindling's corrupt widow Maggie.
