The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune. There is the ordinary type of hypocrisy. Then there is the Perry Gladstone Christie brand of hypocrisy. The man who said he would swim through vomit to return to the PLP has, in my opinion, always been more interested in getting power than moving the country forward, always more interested in profiling than working. It is also my opinion that Mr Christie was useless as prime minister. But he is desperate to get back into office because he has no legacy. Even if Hubert Ingraham left office tomorrow he has a legacy of which he can be proud. But if Mr Christie does not win again he will go down in history as an utterly failed prime minister and leader. So, he will say all kinds of things to win. Since the onset of the 2008 world-wide economic recession, Mr. Christie has pretended that the impact of the downturn is the fault of Mr. Ingraham. Now all of a sudden Mr. Christie admits the impact of the downturn on The Bahamas. But apparently he has only done so to cover up his grand scale incompetence and perhaps his biggest blunder in office. We now know that Mr. Christie and his incompetent government allowed Kerzner International to leverage its Bahamas operations to build its mega resort in Dubai. This is something Prime Minister Ingraham says he would never have done. Now that Kerzner International is having debt problems, Perry Christie, Mr. Incompetence and Mr. Hypocrisy is blaming the Ingraham Government for what he and the PLP messed up on. As usual, Mr Ingraham will have to clean up the Perry Christie mess. Mr Christie should keep his mouth closed and say thank God for Hubert Ingraham. Because God knows if it was left to the PLP there would have been no Atlantis in the first place. Let's not forget that a number of senior PLPs bitterly opposed the Atlantis development. Not only can't Perry Christie get big projects like Baha Mar going in the first place. Whatever he gets his hands on it appears that he wrecks. But to hide his incompetence and failures he is happy to blame others for his mistakes. The buck never stops with Mr. Christie. It's always someone else's fault. This is not the stuff of which real leaders are made. Perry Christie says he would be happy to offer his help with international investors on the Kerzner matter. If Bahamians don't laugh at this, they'll have to weep. If Mr Ingraham sees Mr Christie coming to offer advice, he should run, not walk away from the most incompetent prime minister in Bahamian history. At least Mr Christie is good for a good laugh, if nothing else. AVS Nassau.