PLP condemns
insensitive comments about Elizabeth
by Dr. Sands
29th January 2010
The Progressive Liberal Party is today
demanding a full apology from Dr. Duane Sands, the FNM’s Bye-Election Candidate
in Elizabeth
for a flurry of insensitive, acrimonious and elitist statements made by him in
The Tribune.
The Progressive Liberal Party finds Dr.
Sands’s statements that “he has been put off by greedy voters” and that “he is
surprised at how many Bahamians are barely making ends meet ” in Elizabeth to
be ungracious, inflammatory, and
demonstrates that Dr. Sands is clearly out of touch with the reality of the
Elizabeth Constituency.
The PLP and the constituents of Elizabeth who have brought
this to our attention are demanding that Dr. Sands withdraw the following
statements:-
“ He (Dr. Sands) has also been put off by a
small number of greedy voters who demand money and goods in return for their
support.” And :-
“ On the campaign trail Dr. Sands said he
has been very surprised by how many
Bahamians are barely making ends meet.”
The PLP has been preaching for over one
year how Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham’s stop review and cancel policy of the
multi billion dollar investments for our country when they took office in 2007
coupled with the global recession have left the Bahamas at a more delinquent
disadvantage because of missed and failed opportunities by the Ingraham
Government.
The PLP reminds Dr. Sands who is a lettered
man that maybe if he had gotten to know the people of Elizabeth and could
identify with the demographics that make up this colourful and distinct
constituency before he allowed himself to be foisted on the people through the
machine of his party, he would have known the seriousness of the hardships being
experienced by the people there.
Concerned voters in Elizabeth want to know what planet Dr. Sands
has been living on in the last few months where the unemployment is at an all
time high, banks are foreclosing daily on people’s homes, private school fees
cannot be met and simple basic necessities are denied many families.
We call on Dr. Sands to come down from his
ivory tower and condemn the FNM for the hardship they have placed the Bahamian
people.
The PLP wonders if Dr. Sands is aware of
internationally acclaimed economic appraisers Standard and Poors Report which placed the full brunt of
the blame on The Bahamas’ dismal economic performance on the FNM Government’s
stop, review and cancel policy.
