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Last Updated: Feb 13, 2017 - 1:45:37 AM |
Nassau, Bahamas - Dr. Minnis, Leader of the Free National Movement (FNM), issued the following statement on the Prime Minister defending the secret deal he made with the Chinese regarding Baha Mar:
“The Prime Minister has been in Parliament so long that he must think that he can now define words so that they can benefit him. On Thursday, the Prime Minister claimed that there is no secrecy in the Baha Mar deal yet he had the courts seal the documents related to the deal so that Bahamians could not see them. That is right; he thinks that sealing documents does not make them secret. Let me remind him that the Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition of secret is ‘kept from knowledge or view’. That is exactly what he is doing with the Baha Mar deal – keeping it out of view from Bahamians.”
“The Prime Minister must be aware that the agreement that he signed was signed by him on behalf of the Bahamian people and so the Government has a duty to make the agreement public. Making these documents public does not mean that he just tells us what is in them but releases the actual copies of the deal that was signed. If the deal is already completed and signed off on by the courts there is no way for anyone to sabotage the deal, and thus his reason for keeping them sealed is void. It has been almost a week since he made his announcement of the secret deal and the people are demanding for the documents to be seen. Bahamians just want to know what the Government is hiding from them by sealing these documents.”
“The Prime Minister has lost all credibility with Bahamians over his many failures throughout his long tenure in Parliament. He questions those that are standing up for the Bahamian people yet he has failed the Bahamian people time and time again – deceived them regarding the gaming referendum, still operating the illegal National Intelligence Agency in spite of promising legislation, and failed to control the national debt after promising to reduce it.”
“Like all Bahamians we would be happy to see Baha Mar open and finally start providing jobs. But we also cannot forget that the PLP has handed out a lot of broken promises and empty rhetoric on Baha Mar in the past. Bahamians have lost faith in the Prime Minister no matter how much he does not believe it. Bahamians are only asking to see the deal that the Prime Minister claims is a good deal for all Bahamians. If the deal is good for The Bahamas and it has already been signed off on so it cannot be sabotaged there is no reason it should not be released. Unlike the Prime Minister, the FNM knows what secrecy means and in an FNM Government we will expose this secret deal for all Bahamians to judge.”
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