By means of **illegal** activity. Lest we forget. ~"*As long as we making money does it really matter how we do it*"? Comrade George Smith aka *honourable* Govt minister meeting Ledher at Normans Cay airport

I hear the new talking point is, "*everybody corrupt*". Boy these people have no shame. The answer to corruption everywhere are policies to detect it, discourage it and punish it severely. Like amazingly "*Financial Disclosure*" (all the man ask for is an *adding machine*) and "*Beneficial Ownership Registries*". These people want their acolytes to believe we're powerless against corruption. I wait to see what powerless committees, non transparent recommendations and absolute overrides allowable by a potentially corrupt Minister or cabinet, the new legislation proposes. Because that's what we do we engineer loopholes, as Fred Mitchell himself said derisively, ~"*Minnis cant do anything if someone doesnt declare, Theres no punishment in law*"

Actually "politician". There are a few titles that might wield the power, but I cant think of any position realistically with this kind of power but *a* Prime Minister, because eventually someone will start asking questions, and *investors* want assurances that noone will get in the way, but that's just guessing.

I do wonder if they'll reveal the name, might prove more useful to show the individual the evidence against them and get them to cooperate with various strategies. We've already seen it done in the Gentile case. This is why the lunch money corruption that we've normalized is so damaging, it opens the door to manipulation not only by good forces but bad as well. And when an individual with great power is open to manipulation, imagine what the Colombians could request and threaten to get their way.

This 2.5million dollar plane that they tried to hide in the OPM...

This is why I said:

"*Now we just need some people to not only deny making the promise, but to deny having "any involvement", any secondary role, in a scheme to move narco assets through the Bahamas*"

Because I'm not sold on word parsing. The minute the PM made a distinction between unnamed politician *planning* this massive crime and actually committing the crime, I said that's just a *George Smith flying to Norman's Cay to greet Ledher, what's wrong with how you make your money* step too far

I wonder if US Customs will demand to be involved in airport freight inspections going forward? No, they cant tell us what to do, but they can certainly threaten to eliminate preclearance for example.

"*Several Cabinet ministers, including Deputy Prime Minister Chester Cooper, Labour Minister Pia Glover Rolle, and National Security Minister Wayne Munroe, have said they are not the politician allegedly involved.*"

So two denials so far of *"making a promise" for use of govt planes and assurance that millions in cash and cocaine could consistently pass through the airport undetected by JDL who handles all airfreight inspection before anybody else*

Deputy PM and Minister of Aviation denies making a promise and Minister of National Security denies making a promise. I'm not sure why Pia Glover Rolle felt she had to declare her innocence, she has no power to order members of the police force to act in a given capacity or authority to commit govt planes.

**Who would have the power?** Certainly the two ministers who've denied making a promise, the PM, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Economic Affairs, the Commissioner but he is not a "high ranking politician". Possibly the PMs Chief Advisor. Maybe the FS but he's also not a politician, the language was very specific, they could have said "official" and raked in more people but they said "politician".

**Not implying any of these are the unnamed politician just that their "role" provides the type of power you'd need to make such a promise and be believed. Foreign investors are fully aware of how things operate here and who can do what**. That's why for regular financial investments they associate themselves with people and accounting and legal firms who can give them direct access to the PM. I cant for example see the Minister of Environment making the promise, he doesn't even have power over Environment. Did he even go to COP26?

Did the PM go to the US Embassy meeting alone?

Now we just need some people to not only deny making the promise, but to deny having "***any** involvement*", *any* secondary role, in a scheme to move narco assets through the Bahamas.

This gentleman managers a private airline(?) The guy investigated for his murder is caught up in a scandal to smuggle cocaine on airplanes. Two degrees of separation, maybe they never meet, but it wouldnt seem ridiculous if they did.

Who would have thought a head of CDU could be investigated for manipulating criminal cases. This town appears to have a seedy underbelly that likely most of us could never fathom.

There are many countries that operate an orderly non-Christian society. God separated man's rule and his rule from Moses' time.