Bradley Roberts.
By RASHAD ROLLE
Tribune Staff Reporter
rrolle@tribunemedia.net
PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party (PLP) Chairman Bradley Roberts pledged to drop "bombshells" this weekend about the Free National Movement's (FNM) Dionisio D'Aguilar and Rickey Mackey, candidates for Freetown and North Eleuthera.
"Tell them 'stay tuned it's coming'," he said, describing the planned attacks as "two bombshells".
These will come, he said, following The Tribune's report Thursday that Education Minister Jerome Fitzgerald solicited contracts from Baha Mar's original developer Sarkiz Izmirlian.
So far, the PLP has interpreted Thursday's story as a leak by the FNM to damage the PLP's re-election bid.
In a short statement on Thursday, Mr Fitzgerald said he solicited business on behalf of his then sick father from Mr Izmirlian but never received a contract.
"I think the minister answered properly," Mr Roberts said about the minister's response. "I happen to know the minister's father and I happen to know the business that he was in and I understand that he was merely following up for his father. Nothing materialised, he got no contract so, so far as I am concerned, that is a non issue."
The revelation about Mr Fitzgerald does not damage the party, he added.
He also took a hit at FNM Leader Dr Hubert Minnis, who did not attend Friday's opening.
"Dr Minnis said it would be a fake opening but I see all the people here, all the VIPs locally and internationally, and ain’t nothing fake about this. This is real. Baha Mar has opened and it will be to the benefit of thousands of Bahamians who are seeking employment and who are here employed already."
Comments
ohdrap4 6 years, 12 months ago
That is not necessary, take the high road like the Freetown PLP candidate:
SP 6 years, 12 months ago
.... Gargoyle Roberts Can Drop Any Number of Bomb Shells On His Corrupt PLP Party ....
NOBODY cares what this peg-leg, one eyed, pirate has to say. The PLP is the party in power TODAY, found wanting and ass-deep in corruption.
How come the gargoyle can tell us everything about other people, but can't ever tell us anything about the sleazy, under the table corruption deals Jerome, Witch Maynard, Shane, Christie, Bethel, Wilchcomb and the rest of the PLP pirates are involved with?
STFU gargoyle!!!
banker 6 years, 12 months ago
I know what he did and how much he paid to make the rape charges go away.
ThisIsOurs 6 years, 12 months ago
Where dey get dat picture from lol
croberts6969 6 years, 12 months ago
Big bad Brad. Ask him about his old boss Sir Stafford Sands.
paul_vincent_zecchino 6 years, 12 months ago
Ahhh, way back, the good ol' days!
The Bay Street Boys. Mary Carter Paints. Howard Hughes holed-up on 'Hog Island'.
Forward Scatter lurking in the background behind Sullivan House on Rock Point, in the scenes from Thunderball.
The hush-hush military receiving station out by Sandilands 'Mental Hospital', its companion transmitter site on Lake Killarney. The massive arrow-shaped non-planar log periodic antenna dominating the eastern sky as the towering Collins 237-A vertical transmitting antenna loomed large over the Fire Trail Road and Windsor Field.
Strange numbers broadcasts in the night; CHARLIE SIX NOVEMBER speaking via radio with ship captains of all nations; intrigues abundant, never a dull moment indeed!
What fun!
banker 6 years, 12 months ago
Synchronicity. I had a client who quit the Navy and started his own electronics company. While in the Navy, he was assigned to radio telemetry from antennae in the Bahamas and Bermuda.
What was actually going on was based in Barbados, a project called HARP or High Altitude Research Project. It was anchored by a rogue Canadian called Dr. Gerry Bull. The whole concept was to put a satellite into space using ballistics -- ie shooting it into orbit with a gun instead of a rocket. It would be incredibly cheap way to launch a satellite at the height of the cold war. The telemetry listening stations were scattered around the Caribbean including the Bahamas.
The whole project went to hell in a handcart during the Vietnam War. Relations between Canada and the US soured when the Canadians insisted that the Vietnam war was a losing proposition for the Americans. This went over like a lead balloon in the US who were feeding their citizens propaganda about fighting against Communism and winning by carpet bombing. Meanwhile the KIAs (Killed In Action) were stacking up like cordwood the US president did not want to hear the truth from what he considered as Commie sympathisers in Canada.
So the HARP project was discontinued. Dr. Gerry Bull went on to create Project Babylon which was the super gun. He sold one to South Africa and went to jail for selling to the South Africans when there was an embargo. After his release, he moved to Brussels and offered Project Babylon to the Iraqis and Saddam Hussein. Israeli saw this as a threat to their sovereignty and sent a Mossad assassination squad to Belgium to 'fix' the problem. Dr. Gerry Bull answered a ring to his apartment door, and promptly received the complete loads of 9 Uzi submachine guns right in the face. They had to do reconstruction just to get enough tooth parts to make a positive ID through dental records. There were no suspects or no arrests.
The HARP antennas in the Bahamas were actually re-purposed from their original intent as Cuban listening posts. James Bond fer real in the Bahamas.
Honestman 6 years, 12 months ago
Roberts is one huge slime ball. If he had something on these candidates he would have been quick to release it. Why is the Tribune running with this non-story?
Socrates 6 years, 12 months ago
i hope everybody has good IT security on their computers coz i figure the secretive NIA will be very busy leading up to 10 May....
banker 6 years, 12 months ago
I use a foreign proxy. Plausible deniability.
John 6 years, 12 months ago
Why is the PLP imploding..they killing dey own sef.. mass panick jed
Sickened 6 years, 12 months ago
It's fun to watch the PLP sweat when they should be enjoying their last days of freedom! LOL!!!
sheeprunner12 6 years, 12 months ago
Come on Bradley ........ spill the beans ....... for every bomb you drop, the FNM has ten on the sitting PLP Cabinet ........ and don't go back to Rickey & the duty, Pintard,Toogie & Bobo, HAM & the fish, Tommy and the a/c, and Vargo and the water and Brent and the road .............. Because the FNM can talk about Brave & BAMSI, Brave & Bahamasair, Brave & UR2.0, Brave & BPL, Perry & BTC2%, Perry & OPM contracts, Perry & Bahamar sealed deal, AMG & Bahamar kickbacks, Glenys & the PO, Glenys & Road Traffic, Lil Mikey & BOB, Shame & NIB, Shame & Hurricane Matthew, Shame & the rental spaces, Ducking Darville & GB for Sale, The Cook & UR2.0, Ken & the dump, Gray & local government, BJ & the COP, Lil Mikey & VAT money, White Boy & the banking sector, Fitzie & Rubis, Fitzie & Bahamar, Fitzie & gang contracts, Fweddy & FoxHill community centre, Damien, Nygard & his criminal gang deals, Snake's Lackey & PHA, etc, etc, etc................ The PLP corruption and malfeasance is endless ........................Sooooo, Bradley Roberts, let's get it on!!!!!!!!!
Well_mudda_take_sic 6 years, 12 months ago
You forgot the gaming web shop referendum and the many deals cut with the numbers' bosses. Do you work for Sebas Bastian or Craig Flowers?
sheeprunner12 6 years, 12 months ago
The Nomination Day "assets & liabilities" information submitted by Jerome Fitzgerald and Shane Gibson should be used as the foundation on which to conduct a comprehensive forensic audit of their TRUE monetary worth as part of the upcoming FNM Royal Commission of Inquiry .......... and use those election submissions to send their teefin asses to JAIL .......... They have been the worst examples of the PLP Cabinet (along with Brave, BJ, Gray, Glenys & DocDarville) ........... The two Perrys are in a separate category under the title - WUTLESS
Seaman 6 years, 12 months ago
Sheeprunner............ More things then them are going to come out. It's corrupt things that went on in the PLP that Mr Roberts has no idea went on........so let him start talking and name calling. In the next two weeks the FNM and others will bring to light plenty more corruption on the PLP. Mr Roberts is a old dead horse, he should just go away and enjoy his time he has left. Take Edison Key with you to.
DDK 6 years, 12 months ago
Roberts not a very nice person, is he? Just look at him!
Alex_Charles 6 years, 12 months ago
drop bombshells?
Like those dropped rape charges Roberts?
sheeprunner12 6 years, 12 months ago
Why did the government have Facebook block or suspend the Bahamas New Ma Bey website from ordinary Bahamians getting access to "bombshells"????????? .......... Did BBB use his influence and position to have the AG Office and the NIA close down a website??????? ............ Has anyone recently see how ZNS TV has become a 100% PLP station for rallies, news and advertisements??????????
That tells you how desperate and scared the PLP Old Guard is right now ......... They will do anything not to have Doc (Minnis) lock them up!!!!!!!!!
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