The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune

Every five years, a very strange phenomenon occurs. Educated men and women, considerably righteous men and women, and even those usually not prone to much gaff descend into a primal circle of rhetoric, propaganda, smear tactics, and outright falsehoods all in the name of politics.

Folks, the silly season has begun, and as we navigate the next few months it will be imperative for all Bahamians to identify the facts versus the uninspired imagination of those that would seek to derail truth.

As we watch in horror our current government hops from debacle to debacle laced with corruption, all the while reassuring the growing disgruntled masses that everything is not only ok, but there is no need to question their actions as they are apparently above such basic protocols.

On the sidelines, and I mean seated, legs crossed is the ever silent opposition under the leader of the mute Doc throwing the occasional hissy fit over meeting schedules, purchase of fish, and the ever present misstep or misguided comment. If there ever was a ray of hope in the once touted government in the sunshine it would be in the person of Loretta Butler-Turner.

So it was with great amusement that I read the aspersions that the print media is showing favouritism to the leading lady. One cannot help but to notice the great vacuum that has been left in the absence of the former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham, and the feeble attempts to fill those shoes by Minnis. The FNM has never looked more disconnected, disorganised and lacklustre than they do today, and whenever the leader of that once great party does ever get around to addressing national concerns, ie Baha Mar, or the most recent hurricane it is usually too little too late.

To accuse print media for showing favouritism to a woman that has spoken out with distinction and eloquence about the guiles of the government in dealing with Baha Mar, or to hit the ground running following a national tragedy is a sad and most ridiculous waste of paper. Instead of trying to tear down the last reason many voters have for standing by the FNM one would hope that the leader and those around him would present solutions to the problems we are facing as a country, and show us once and for all whether he is fit to lead his organisation much less the country we desperately need to save.

SON OF YUMA

Nassau,

April 24, 2016