Protecting our Smugglers. I have received a report. I am going to investigate it. Even before I do so, I must tell you what I heard. It is too funny to keep it to myself.
A few weeks ago, I posted a story about drug smugglers landing small packages of undeclared cargo at Sandy Hill Bay. They were accustomed to arrive at the beach by fast boat on the darkest nights of the month between 10:00 pm and midnight. It was common gossip among the whole community. I witnessed one landing myself. I was told it had been going on monthly for over 30 years. I wrote that I could not understand why the police had not arrested anyone after all that time. I even asked the Commissioner of Police about it. He told me that I did not know how many uncounted hours his men had lain in wait at beaches all over the island looking out for smugglers.
Well, the problem at Sandy Hill 
Bay is now solved. There will be no more cargo landed any more. At least, on that beach. Apparently, every evening at about the same time, 7:00-8:00 pm, for a month or so now, someone has been assigned to go down onto the beach at Sandy Hill Bay with a portable searchlight. They switch it on and wave it about. They keep it up for about 15 minutes, and then they go home, to bed presumably. They do not lay in wait, and when the boat arrives at midnight, shine the light on them while making an arrest. They do not lie in wait. They go on the beach in full view of any lookout and shine the light about. God alone knows what the purpose of this useless exercise is.
It is almost as if the authorities are intent on alerting the smugglers, “Don’t come here any more. Go to another beach. This one is not safe for you to use.” Am I alone in wondering if it is only someone in league with the traffickers who could have thought up such a pointless procedure?
Anyway, it is only a report I have. I am going to see for myself. I am taking my camera. I shall lay in wait for the man with the searchlight. Look out for photos.
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Without order there is chaos.
The Governor made it clear on 8th June "that he has no intention of interfering in local policing issues. He does not claim to be an expert in police tactics and strategy. He has confidence in the police force. He will leave it to them to do what they have been trained to do until someone comes up with dramatic and convincing evidence why he should stop having confidence in them. He is far from that situation today."
It seems that it will require a massive pile of stupidness and embarrassments to awaken His Excellency. Let us arise to his challenge and provide it for him.
The police force of St Lucia is notoriously corrupt. It is one of the most corrupt in the West Indies. They are reputed to handle all cocaine imports, organized prostitution, and the protection rackets. The police force of St Lucia is that country’s greatest threat to law and order. It was a great relief to learn today that the new government is facing up to it. Most of the senior officers have been sent on indefinite leave. They have brought in 8 senior foreign police officers to lead force while investigations continue. Read Rick Wayne’s article about it at http://tinyurl.com/yu6fqs
Now, we need the governments of Antigua, Grenada, and St Kitts to grow the balls to allow them do the same thing.
Speaking of St. Lucia, their Prime Minister, Kenny Anthony, said he and Chief Minister Fleming had discussed the recruitment of a number of St. Lucians to Anguilla. Mr. Fleming responded, "I think before we go anywhere outside the region we should look around us and get some help and if St. Lucia has the workers we need, then we will have them."
The Anguillian reported that Labour Commissioner Evalie Bradley had already been in contact with her St. Lucian counterpart about the recruitment of workers for both the hospitality sector and the construction industry.
Mrs. Bradley got a promotion, Mr. Fleming got a used kidney and we got Indians, Chinese and Mexicans.
A radar on the tower in Corito and you could watch every boat going from islands South of here to Anguilla. Put in on one of the cable channels and we could see where the rain clouds were and where they were going for the next couple hours.
No need to wait in the bush. The police could watch from the comfort of their offices.
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