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Life and death of a Caribbean drugs baron

I KNEW Dole Chadee, who was hanged for murder in Port of Spain, Trinidad, on Friday. I knew his cruelty, his ruthlessness, his wickedness, his spite. He was generous, too, or at any rate he threw his money about.

I knew Chadee because he set up in business as a drug dealer in a village a couple of miles from where I was born 54 years ago. The lives of many people in the area were touched by his. My younger brother, Clyde "Southman" Howe, is serving a five-year prison term for being in possession of hundreds of thousands of dollars for which he could give no reasonable account. He was not in the business of laundering, he tells me, but was a simple bagman "for the boss". When he leaves prison, I expect he will be suitably rewarded with well-furnished accommodation. There may be hundreds of Trinidadians who are in Chadee's debt, who without his "generosity" would lead deprived lives. (With it, of course, many of them lead depraved lives.)

Two of Chadee's accomplices were also hanged on Friday and three more went to the gallows yesterday.

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Dole Chadee

Caribbean drug lord

Dole Chadee (born Nankissoon Boodram) (executed June 4, 1999) was an accused drug lord and convictedmurderer. His base of operation was in Piparo, Trinidad and Tobago.

Chadee was reputed to be one of the top drug lords in the Caribbean, but was never convicted of drug-related offenses. Together with eight members of his gang, he was convicted of the January 10, 1994 murders of Deo, Rookmin, Hamilton and Monica Baboolal of Piparo. All nine were executed over a four-day period in Port of Spain. Dole Chadee's last rites were performed by his priest, the late Pundit Karamchandra Dinanath Dubay of Sangre Grande.

After his arrest, Chadee's 46.5 hectare estate with a number of erected buildings in the rural village of Piparo, in south central Trinidad, was reclaimed by the authorities, under the amended Dangerous Drugs Act of 1991, after it was discovered that he was squatting on state land for more than 15 years. In February 1999, it was converted by the government into a drug rehabilitation centre.

Almost 20 years after he was sentenced to

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Nankissoon Boodram aka Dole Chadee was a Trinidadian drug trafficker and gangster.

Much of Boodram's early life is not known, including his date of birth however soources placed him somewhere between 45-50 years old at the time of his death in 1999, which would mean he was born in 1944 or 1950.

Born to a family of farmers, in Piparo South Trinidad, Boodram left school to become a mason and was recruited in his late teens to be a drug runner by one of the Siparia old bosses known only as "Jankie". According to reports, Boodram killed Janke sometime in the late 1960's and assumed control over his drug empire.

From the '70s Boodram supposedly created a silk road network from Colombia to Trinidad which gave him full control over drugs leaving South America to Europe, the United States and West Africa.

While Boodram maintained an immensely successful drug empire and a fearsome reputation, he also protrayed himself as a community leader and legitimate businessman to his neighbours in Piparo.