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From thebahamasweekly.com - Bahamian Politics
News Statement Progressive Liberal Party 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. © Copyright 2010 by thebahamasweekly.com - |
