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"Concerning decisions by the FNM government"
By Alexander Laroda
Mar 18, 2014 - 2:58:12 PM

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Dear Editor,

An apparent FNM apologist had a lot to say today in the Nassau Guardian about Mr. Ishmael Lightbourne not being hired by FNM government because his former firm would not recommend him.

His comments are not the first attempt to characterize the PLP government as somehow morally twisted or deficient and that the FNM by extension and inference is well above reproach – not in a million years – not in this life and certainly not in any life to come stoop to the questionable and concerning levels of the PLP. The FNM, its surrogates and its operatives have been trotting out this deceitful propaganda line for decades, but if the writer believes his own hype and the hype of the FNM, perhaps he can publicly answer a few questions just as he publicly assailed the comments and decisions of the current Prime Minister.

Did the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce recommend the employment of Algernon Cargill to the FNM government?

Did Security and General Insurance Brokers recommend the employment of Ehurd Cunningham to the FNM government?

Did the Commissioner of Police or SIB recommend the employment of Abner Pinder to the FNM government?

If the answer is no then certainly the pot cannot call the kettle black nor can those who live in glass houses throw stones and get away with it. The writer’s line of reasoning is intellectually dishonest and intentionally misleading.

If the answer is no then the decision by the FNM government to engage these persons in various capacities when the FNM government could not get a favourable recommendation from their former firms or the government’s own vetting arm, raises serious questions about the fitness of the FNM to hold the high office entrusted to them by the people of our country. People like this writer should know by now that given the facts on the FNM’s record in government, the surrogates of the FNM cannot paint any government, anywhere in the world much less the PLP, as morally deficient and inferior to the FNM. These people always seek to prey on the ignorance of the general population. And because I know the writer cannot answer any of the above questions in the affirmative, he and other like minded people should cease and desist already.

Yours etc.;

Alexander Laroda
Nassau, 18th March 2014



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