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Last Updated: Feb 13, 2017 - 1:45:37 AM |
Nassau, Bahamas -
 Bradley B. Roberts
Progressive Liberal Party National Chairman in his address to Golden Isles Branch of the PLP on August 25th said the following:
“If Dr. Minnis gave a damn about the details of the Baha Mar deal, he would send his chief legal advisor, speech writer and the worse Attorney General and Education Minister this country has ever seen Senator Carl Bethel to petition the Supreme Court to have the documents immediately unsealed and to argue his reasons for having the same done.”
I note in this morning’s issue of the Tribune that Senator Carl Bethel finally woke up from his Rip Van Wrinklesque Cryogenic slumber, ostensibly after Dr. Minnis and Sidney Collie launched a signature petition to have the documents unsealed by the Supreme Court, to set the record straight that the Free National Movement has NO LEGAL BASIS for such a court challenge.
There is deep division in the FNM on this important and straightforward issue of national import when there should be national unity on the way forward for Baha Mar and our national economy.
Also, thinking and discerning Bahamians are wondering who is serving as Legal Advisor to Leader of the Opposition Dr. Hubert Minnis as his National Chairman a few days earlier urged Bahamians to endorse the petition reiterating his Party stance that Prime Minister Perry Christie was duty-bound to make the Baha Mar agreement public which was sealed by the Supreme Court at the request of the China EXIM Bank.
This is just the latest clear example of the woefully deficient decision making process and overall judgment of Dr. Hubert Minnis as opposition leader; it is a sad culture of confusion and directionless. Minnis never denies himself an opportunity to fumble, bumble and trip over himself on issue after issue. He is one big ball of confusion.
In stark contrast, the Christie administration has maintained its policy commitment to getting this project completed, opened, having the displaced employees re-engaged and compensated in addition to payments to unsecured Bahamian creditors. This was the position on 29th June 2015 and that is the government’s position today. The Prime Minister Christie has demonstrated strong and focused leadership, great command of the substantive issues, tenacity, optimism and the requisite confidence befitting the leader of a nation.
Minnis will do well to abandon his futile fool's errand and political posturing and just publicly admit that Prime Minister Christie designed and executed the right policy on Baha Mar in the interest of all Bahamians as there is finally a silver lining in this ongoing saga.
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