The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune.

I have been surveying globally the way politicians and its leadership have been behaving and as I begin to move things around, lumping together the similarities – surprisingly, I have found a common thread - pointing generally deceitful posturing, more or less? The promises made during the campaign trails, connoting the initiatives, programmes intended to pursue on behalf of constituents, but in actuality what have we seen?

For one, the humility disappeared, people that were usually associated with the now political, were nowhere to be found during the previous party government ship, why? What we suspect the reason to be, they have resurfaced looking for contracts and God knows what else?

Well, and many have asked, don’t they know that the people, in the case of The Bahamas, we the locals are able to see through this deception and never enough of the handouts, why?

Another point of contention is the numbers of consultants hired to provide technical assistance, but haven’t they said that the previous government was incompetent, but they have all of the answers.

To provide that they had the answers, a slate of candidates were compiled with the necessary skills they said, but if so, how come all of these other hirings with expertise to help them undertake their mandate?... Now, what is wrong with this kind of posturing?

Fundamentally, and by its very nature, amounts, as my grandmother used to say... was all a lie in the beginning and if it was a lie then, it will be more of a lie later, quote/end quote?

But who suffers for the incompetence of the powers-that-be? Obviously, we the people, the Citizens of this Commonwealth Of The Bahamas, and all of the following does have a place in the whole scheme of things... why, how, what, who, when, must be responded to, otherwise?

Also, coming out of this disrespectful contemptuous underpinning is a callousness, total lack of compassion especially for the poor Bahamian people, needs relief, from yesterday, will we see the change, or what is the answer? How do you bring order to disorder and an already lawless group of global leaders?

If I had had superintendence over a group, a political party, the bottom line of how I would marshal my people, goes thus?

We are here to serve the people, anything that is not yours, you will leave alone, corruption is taboo, there is to be no money exchanges under the table for services owned by the people, there is no place for stealing in this party, the constituents comes first, all about the people to whom you scorn to serve, time must be found to answer questions that reporters have, because they were instead of the citizens who could not attend, there is no place for haughty minded mortals, after all, the power belong to the people, you serve at the behest of the people, the people pays the salaries of politicians, the day you feel too big and important for the people is the day that I will require your resignation.

And as for the country’s finances, you will give frequent accounting and anytime there is a large or important undertaking requiring large sums... we must and will seek clearance from the people... editor, these things are common all across the global political landscapes, which I find very interesting... accordingly, it is a human failing at the heart of the problems, no matter where in the world we look... of mention what has happened in the United Kingdom where in a very short time, they have cancelled three Prime Ministers simply because there were ideological differences, systemic contrapolations that were at odds to theirs, but don’t they know that no two humans were alike and no humans were perfect, so since they are looking for perfect, we will continue to see replacements after replacements, I surmised? I think?

Finally, editor, politicians must retool, must refocus, and fashion their behaviors after the Ten Commandments, that way they would have arrived on the highroad, otherwise? And when history is written what will it say about their performances, will it be exhilarating, or poor?

Thank you editor for the space and notice that I have called no names, not have I pointed the finger... remarks were general and decent proposition, if followed, I think?

Submitted with love and for what it is worth.

FRANK GILBERT

Nassau,

October 25, 2022.