The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune.

What ought to have been a service of praise and thanksgiving to mark the first anniversary of the PLP’s election to Government was instead a “service of excuses”. The PLP which lied its way into office last year marked the first anniversary of that election lying to try and stay in office.

Attendance at the service was poor by all accounts. Party leader and Prime Minister Perry Christie said that more people would have been there if they had gotten what they expected following a PLP victory at the polls. The Deputy Prime Minister left the service early, reportedly to attend a funeral. He was not a programmed speaker for the anniversary service; perhaps he was scheduled to speak at another funeral.

Party chairman Bradley Roberts did not disappoint, blaming any shortcoming by the PLP Government on the FNM.

According to Roberts’ Book of buffoonery, the FNM left the country in such a state as to prevent the PLP from implementing the ridiculously exaggerated Gold Rush Plan which they promised to implement notwithstanding the dire global economic and financial crisis enveloping our country since early 2008.

The grateful PLP pastor asked those in attendance to adopt his “Old School” philosophy of seeing the glass as half full and not half empty.

The pastor, appointed by the new Christie Government as Chairman of the Broadcasting Corporation of The Bahamas, implied that with patience all PLPs could expect similar generosity from the hands of their party.

For his part, PLP party officer Micky Isaacs chastised MPs for avoiding their constituencies. He told them that while he knew that they were being besieged by constituents seeking one of the 10,000 new jobs promised by the PLP in its first year in office during the campaign, it was important for MPs to go into the constituencies now.

Later, he said, when the harvest comes, they could both provide jobs but also remind constituents that they were with them when times were tough.

Perhaps he was taking a line from Grand Bahamian MP Greg Moss, who was fired from his cushy job as chairman of the NIB. Moss’s Facebook page contains a word of encouragement sent to all. It says words to the effect: “Don’t lose heart; you are not alone.”

Finally, the Prime Minister counselled the small gathering of supporters at Sunday’s church service that they should take comfort from knowing that the Lord would not have brought them this far only to abandon them.

Apparently, the lesson that God plays no favourites in temporal things, as demonstrated by the will of the people in 1992, 1997, and 2007 continues to elude the Prime Minister who continues to suggest in public remarks that he knows the mind of God!

May God have mercy on his soul and may He bless and protect The Bahamas from this bumbling, lying PLP Government.

KIRKLAND TURNER

Nassau,

May 6, 2013.