EDITOR, The Tribune.
I believe that Prime Minister Perry Christie has finally accomplished a life-long goal of achieving something unique in the history of the Bahamas Government. Under his administration, the rules of the House of Assembly have been so distorted as to cause the Leader of Her Majesty’s loyal Opposition to be named and suspended from sittings in the House of Assembly.
There have been many Leaders of the Opposition in The Bahamas House of Assembly since the achievement of internal self-government in 1963: Sir Lynden Pindling, Sir Roland Symonette, Sir Geoffrey Johnstone, Sir Kendal Isaacs, Mr Norman Solomon, Mr John Henry Bostwick, Mr Cyril Tynes, Sir Cecil Wallace-Whitfield, Mr Hubert Ingraham, Mr Perry Christie and Mr Alvin Smith. Never in the darkest moments of our history, including the historic times which led to the Speaker’s Mace and the House’s Hour Glass being tossed out the window of the House of Assembly has any Bahamian Government sought so determinedly to silence the voice of the Leader of the Opposition.
Mr Christie and his minority Government have now done this. This is a sad day in the history of our democracy. It is the proud legacy of Perry Gladstone Christie and the Progressive Liberal Party – a group which have proved many times over that they are neither progressive nor liberal but rather regressive and intolerant.
GEOFFREY COOPER
Nassau,
7 August, 2013
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