FNM leader Hubert Minnis
By KHRISNA VIRGIL
Tribune Staff Reporter
kvirgil@tribunemedia.net
FREE National Movement leader Dr Hubert Minnis says he will not apologise for recent comments in which he likened the Christie administration to the missing Malaysian Airlines flight.
His words sparked a flood of criticisms including a tongue lashing from Prime Minister Perry Christie on Monday, who branded the remarks as “silly” while insisting that Dr Minnis should be condemned for making the statement.
Mr Christie said: “You could joke about politics, you could even seriously argue about your side of politics, but when you use as an analogy or illustration in public about the loss of human life that has gripped the attention of the world, you are not speaking properly, you are not speaking wisely, you are not speaking humanely.”
Last week, Dr Minnis remarked to The Tribune that: “This government is more lost than the Malaysian Airline the world is looking for.”
However, yesterday Dr Minnis said that Mr Christie and his administration were simply attempting to deflect the country’s attention from their “mountain of failures and broken promises.”
He reiterated that he was saddened by the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 tragedy but was even more saddened that since May 2012 the people of the Bahamas have been lost as a result of Mr Christie’s leadership.
“The outrage he expressed, he should in turn take that and apologise to the Bahamian people who cannot pay their mortgages after he promised mortgage relief,” Dr Minnis said. “He should apologise to the people who remain jobless, when he campaigned that he would provide 10,000 jobs in the first year of his term in office.
“But yet the poor is increasing in this country and the middle class is decreasing. The Bahamian people have been misled and the Bahamian people are sick and tired of it. He is over his head with helping the Bahamas and the citizens of this country. This Christie government must be moved because they are taking us out into space and we are lost.
“They are trying to use my comments as a deflection from their lack of knowing how to stimulate this country’s economy, the issues of crime, jobs and foreclosure.”
Comments
birdiestrachan 9 years, 12 months ago
Who would really except Dr. Minnis to apologise. ? He is not the type to say "I made a mistake I am sorry" It takes a big person to do that.
Bahamianpride 9 years, 12 months ago
He made no mistake, he said nothing negative about those people. His analogy was about the lost nature of the incident. It was not said jokingly & the fact is it's true.. I am on neither side but people like to take the focus of the fact that under both political parties Bahamians are getting screwed.. Until there's some real statesmen in Bahamian politics both FNM & PLP are the same & both r responsible for destroying the country...
Cobalt 9 years, 12 months ago
That's true.... but don't forget about "us" the citizens of the Bahamas. We too are responsible for the destruction of our country.
sheeprunner12 9 years, 12 months ago
Poor choice of words............. it shows his lack of political intuition. BUT.......... this government is LOST, LOST, LOST, LOST, LOST
sheeprunner12 9 years, 11 months ago
Then General, you are just another emasculated, hot-aired dumbass looking for kicks out of your own self-righteous slurp.................. we have too many of you in this country. Take a stand and be a real man and stop sitting on the fence......... smoking weed??????????
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