The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune.

Wow how sensitive the PM is these days?

Really, what was wrong in Hubert Minnis using the analogy of the unfortunate Malaysian jet to describe what ‘OOO’s Bahamians feel? This Government is lost.

Dr Minnis could have said... the PLP is like a plane flying through the Bermuda triangle, but goodness why are the PLP so touchy surely they don’t realise the reality?

The fuss over the opened Mayaguana runway – the project was not a government one, it was part of the I-Group development proposal – paid for by I-Group but where were the officials of the I-Group? Didn’t even see the I-Group alleged rep Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace.

You know what is so dangerous at these times is that government is now deliberately using ZNS to spin propaganda to try to spin our heads into believing that things are improving.

The PLP say they created 1,600 jobs... now laugh 600 of those was by Mr Roberts of Super Value opening the closed City Market outlets – then, yes, there was Memories in Freeport and Bimini but what else?

35,000 possibly permanently unemployed is unacceptable in any language.

Consumer debt is around $2.5 billion - real property tax owed $600m - BEC owed $155m, BEC owes $140m - credit card debt $265m - 1/3, of adults with bank accounts only have $1000 in them and this caring, people’s government wants to add VAT - probably have to increase NIB premiums - add National Health Insurance - accept that the NIB Pharmaceutical programme cost an additional $12m last year and the list goes on and on but does the Ministry of Finance understand the stream is dry, Mr Minister - dry, empty.

Successive governments have failed us and now we are going to have to pay and we simply can’t afford that.

How many MPs on March 31, 2014, had their required annual Financial Disclosures into the Disclosures Committee?

There is a fine of $10,000 per year for not disclosing... some of the old timers only disclose once every four-years at general election time – collect – collect, sir.

ABRAHAM MOSS

Nassau,

April 23, 2014.