The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune.

So the four PLP parliamentarians have walked out of the House claiming that government is harassing their supporters and marching them into the hands of the law. Apparently, they have no intention of returning to parliament until the so-called witch hunt ends!

If this is the way they think they can get a vacation at the expense of Bahamian taxpayers, I suggest we cut their parliamentary salaries and let them take as long a vacation as they like – no one will miss them. Their walkout should be an affront to the courts, if that is in fact what their walkout is all about. Our courts should be independent – walkouts should have no influence on the judiciary.

However, if they are walking out over the recent Frank Smith case and the way that was handled, I would suggest that their walk out should instead be a demand that a commission of inquiry to investigate the conditions at the Princess Margaret Hospital inherited by the Minnis government be immediately appointed– and then let the full ugly truth be revealed. It is then and only then that fingers will start pointing in the right directions, and the public will quickly learn the impossible medical collapse inherited by the FNM from the PLP administration – yes, an administration of which Mr Brave Davis was deputy prime minister. In my humble opinion, the situation is almost impossible of remedy. The recent court case did nothing, but scratch a very thin surface. In my opinion no one was found innocent.

There are two options for solution – either appoint a Commission of Inquiry to discover the truth and seek out those who are to blame, or scrap the whole thing and start building all over again.

Either way whichever course is taken it will be expensive and time consuming, especially under a Commission of Inquiry, which will take time, and interfere with patient care. It will also be expensive to forget the past and start all over again with a completely new brush of expertise. However, in my opinion, patients will suffer less if the new administration started afresh and built a new hospital with strict administrative rules.

In the meantime we suggest that Mr Davis, and his gallant three quietly resume their seats in the House and pray that the past forgets the ugly past.

DISGUSTED

Nassau,

February 23, 2019