Former Minister of National Security to government: ‘You can’t spin the truth’

Following the indictment of two senior law enforcement officers plotting to transport tons of cocaine into the United States, Former Minister of National Security Marvin Dames is concerned that the Bahamas government is in ‘spin mode’ instead of addressing the serious allegation head-on.

“As the nation’s reputation is under scrutiny, the government is in spin mode,” he told Host of Beyond the Headlines Shenique Miller. “You can’t spin the truth when the truth rests in the hands of another nation.

“Sooner or later the truth will reveal itself.”

His comments came on the heels of Commissioner of Police Clayton Fernander’s national address when he said he would speak to Dames, Former Prime Minister Hubert Minnis, and Former Commissioner Anthony Ferguson about the investigation that was started in May 2021, (before Fernander was in office) in regards to RBPF’s Chief Superintendent Elvis Curtis, RBDF’s Chief Petty Officer Darren Roker and another RBPF officer, Sergeant Prince Symonette’s scheme to transfer tons of cocaine to the United States from the Bahamas after it arrived from South America.

When Miller asked what he intends to say when contacted, Dames said, “Go directly to the source. That’s where the answer is.”

Fernander contended he was caught off-guard by the indictment because the US did not present him or anyone else in government, as far as he’s aware, with a report involving the eleven Bahamians.

But Dames said the US treated him differently when he was in government.

“When I served, the source came to me. So if the source is not coming to you, the government, or the police force, then we have to ask ourselves the question, ‘Why?’”