The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune.

YOU got to love it when seasoned PLP politicians make sound bites about issues such as the recent protest. “We are the democratically elected government of the Bahamas these people are rabble rousers/stooges of the FNM, etc, etc”. You know what wake up, do you the PLP government of the Bahamas think you have done well since you were put into power?

The answer is a resounding no, this, in my opinion, is by far the most ineffective and corrupt government since independence.

There is a litany of broken promises/endless waste of our money, blatant cronyism/out and out corruption and incompetence.

Let’s look at the list:

1) Disaster #1 BAMSI, complete fiasco and waste of our hard earned tax dollars. No one knows how much money has been squandered there! What’s it achieved? From what I can see a few hundred bananas.

2) Disaster #2 Vat, we were warned by the world’s credit agencies that our economy was in serious trouble and we could, if we continued our ways, have junk status. This has many far reaching repercussions which everyone of us would suffer for. Christie brought in VAT to bring down the national debt. Guess what the national debt has gone up and nobody knows where the PLP have managed to spend, or make disappear, the $800m raised by VAT.

3) Disaster #3 Baha Mar, poorly handled by the affable but clearly incompetent Perry Christie. His negotiations with the Chinese have been “sealed”. There is only one possible reason for that the terms are appalling for the Bahamas. Huge tax breaks and concessions no doubt. Meanwhile, other than an offer from a Hong Kong conglomerate with questionable connections, nothing seems to be going on at Baha Mar and it’s stalled yet again.

4) Disaster #4 V Alfred Grey this MP in a pretty sorry bunch is clearly either stupid or incompetent or possibly both. To even consider signing away fishing rights to the Chinese beggars belief. Why the hell is he not joining the ever growing class of the unemployed? Christie show some backbone!

5) Disaster #5 The Dump. The PLP have thrown huge money at the dump and brought in a specialist management company to get the immense problems sorted out. Well that company has gone and we are right back where we started.

6) Disaster #6 BEC or Bahamas Power whatever you want to call them. Again money thrown at this inefficient labour heavy company. Is it any better? After the painfully slow response to Hurricane Matthew clearly not.

7) Disaster #7 Urban Renewal or what it really should be called “dispersion of funds to PLP cronies for doing nothing”? No accountability again, no idea where the funds have gone.

8) Disaster #8, this is peering into the future, the PLP borrowed $150,000,000 for hurricane Matthew clean up and repairs. Of all the MP’s to put in charge of this vast sum Christie chose Shane Gibson. Enough said but I suspect in years to come there will be inquests as to what happened to this $150m.

The PLP promised 10,000 new jobs within 100 days in office, no sorry, unemployment up, they promised they had new ideas and solutions to fight crime, no, sorry failed again.

This is why people protested and joined the march we know when “we being swung” we know when “we being lied to” we know honesty when we see it.

That is why Bahamians of every persuasion and of every political party protested. It’s called democracy in action.

THE REALIST

Nassau,

November 28, 2016.