ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses certain individual and institutional alterations of major players prominently mentioned in the preceding chapters, reviews what remains of the continuing Castle saga, comments on The Bahamas’ vexing problem of drug trafficking, and adds a remark or two about the “serious crime community.” One cannot write about The Bahamas without noting in passing the government’s commitment to the international drug trade, which started in the mid-1970s when the traffic in cocaine and marijuana swept into The Bahamas. The C.I.A. station chief in The Bahamas, Andrew F. Antippas, knew enough about Lender’s activities by 1981 that he approached Prime Minister Pindling about the Lehder-cocaine problem. The International Narcotics Control Strategy Report states the Bahamian government “has demonstrated its willingness to cooperate with the United States on narcotics matters,” yet announces it is “estimated that 50 to 60 percent of all the cocaine and marijuana that enters the US either transits Bahamian territory or is transshipped in The Bahamas.”.
