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DEA source held meeting Drug smuggler has about $30m drugs deal firm which ‘bid for with ‘Politician-1’ inside and won government Parliament Building construction contracts’
By DAVID LEIGH Tribune Editor-in-Chief. daleigh@tribunemedia.net A HIGH-RANKING Bahamian politician brazenly met with members of what they believed to be an international drug smuggling cartel to discuss a huge upcoming shipment of US-bound cocaine - inside the Bahamian Parliament Building, The Tribune can reveal today. The politician, identified only as ‘Politician-1,’ allegedly met in October 2024 with an undercover US Drugs Enforcement Agency (DEA) source posing as a drug trafficker, along with a drug mule pilot, to discuss the shipment said to be worth about $30m. This is the same politician referenced in an explosive November 2024 indictment that alleged widespread corruption in the government and police force related to drugs. See INSIGHT PAGE 10,11 & 12
Plane crash survivor Jonathan ‘Player’ Gardiner is alleged cocaine kingpin
FNM: BASTIAN AND MILLER-BRICE POSTS MAY BE TESTED IN COURT By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net THE Free National Movement says the new Cabinet appointments of Sebas Bastian and Leslia Miller-Brice should be tested before the courts if necessary, arguing that the government has not fully explained how two people with known links to
the gaming industry were cleared to serve as ministers under the Gaming Act. The opposition stopped short of confirming it will take legal action, but said judicial interpretation may be needed to determine whether the Davis administration properly applied the law before the two were sworn in. COURT - SEE PAGE THREE
LESLIA MILLER-BRICE
SEBASTIAN BASTIAN
PM DAVIS TO DELIVER KEYNOTE ADDRESS AT HISTORIC IPCC MEETING IN NASSAU
PRIME MINISTER PHILIP ‘BRAVE’ DAVIS
MORE than 200 of the world’s leading climate change scientists will descend on Nassau this week as The Bahamas and Bahamas Aviation Climate & Severe Weather Network (BACSWN) hosts this crucial international conference — the largest gathering of its kind ever held in the Caribbean. Fresh from his election
Nassau & Bahama Islands’ Leading Newspaper
victory, Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis is due to address the panel of experts on Monday. Staging the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) meeting underscores the country’s commitment to ensuring that frontline nations are not merely subjects of climate research, but active participants in shaping it.