Nassau, Bahamas - The Progressive Liberal Party takes issue with the Prime Minister with regard to his conduct of public policy for the Elizabeth bye-election and on Haiti.  His press conference of Sunday 17th January was a tour de force of the complete and utter disregard that Mr. Ingraham has for the Bahamian people, his own Cabinet colleagues and the Parliamentary opposition. 

Mr. Ingraham does not have any regard for the P LP.  He said what they say is “like water off a duck’s back”.

Mr. Ingraham does not have any regard for his own Cabinet Ministers.  The Guardian reports that in the face of the embarrassing reversal of his previously announced decision, the Minister of State for Immigration was at a loss to explain the release of the Haitian detainees.  The Minister told the country that the reversal of his decision “came from the top”.

Most importantly, Mr. Ingraham does not have any regard for the Bahamian people.  In fact he said that he is deeply disappointed in the Bahamian people because they are expressing their democratic right to disagree with his policies. In 2002, he was also ashamed of the Bahamian people when they voted against him in the Referendum. Yesterday, he questioned the Christian values of Bahamians and called Bahamians “hypocrites”.

Mr. Ingraham's bombast is all a device to distract the voters of Elizabeth from the real issues. These issues include: unemployment, foreclosure due to the inability to make the mortgage payments and the car payments; children moved from private schools; electricity off; phones off; and the lack of health care. 

Interestingly, Mr. Ingraham in saying that Mr. Malcolm Adderley “cashed in” on the Elizabeth seat, Mr., Ingraham is admitting to the charges made against the FNM by our Leader and our Chairman that the FNM engaged in back room deals and played games with our judicial system. He is admitting that the FNM engineered a bye-election. This is a game that his party alone hatched, plotted and executed.   It is the FNM who cashed in on the people of Elizabeth and are now plotting to buy them back lock stock and barrel.

The people of Elizabeth are not playing games. Elizabeth is not for sale.

Enough is enough.