This may help you avoid some very boring conversations with police and customs people.
A copy was mailed to the American publishers and in due course reached the Customs people here.
"The Customs people, you know, they didn't care," Ovenden said, sounding incredulous, as he glanced at the rare and celebrated object — a framed parchment — to his right.
He wanted to carry it around with him as a decoy to fool the customs people who always used to stop and search him for drugs".
The American customs people looked into his marketing methods but could find nothing to pin on him.Bang, bang, you're deadWhat do you want to be when you grow up, sonny?
Policemen and customs people are far more bent than they are in the West.The new middle class is still too small, too frenetic, too worried, too acquisitive to involve itself in charities, in school meetings, in churches, even in politics.
The Duchess of Windsor had some work done there during her recent visit and also sends her cleaning from Nassau, which involves all sorts of red tape, including posting a bond with the customs people.
But the strategy bordered on counterproductive, St. Pierre told me later: "The customs people told me that if you keep the U.S. government involved you may never see your son again".
Without electricity to power the pumps, water frequently runs out too.Moreover, despite Mr Meta's pledges to crack down on bribe-taking by tax and customs people, and to make public-procurement contracts more open and the judiciary more effective, corruption is still rife.
