The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune

The Progressive Liberal Party came into power on the 7th of May 2012 on “Golden” dreams and promises. In a conversation the week before the election with a voter that was “on the fence”, he had told me that the PLP candidate for the area I had campaigned for had already been to him and “sold him a dream” and if we wanted his vote that I had to come back to him at this place of business and sell him our dream. Since I was not the candidate running for the seat, I sent the FNM candidate whom this young man asked to leave his place of business because he wanted me to sell him a dream. There are a few things wrong here:

1. I do not sell dreams. I offer real world solutions to real world problems as does the Free National Movement and

2. I was not the candidate running for the seat.

The PLP sold a lot of dreams to the people of the Bahamas to win the May 7th election and slowly but surely their deception is being revealed. The PLP has promised free health care, cheaper electrical bills, greater investments in education, the creation of jobs to the people of the Bahamas. They have promised each union that protested leading up to the election that if they (the PLP) were elected to office that they would make it all right by them because the FNM did not believe in the Bahamian people and the PLP did, to date they have seemed to side step or just back tracked on each and every one of these promises that they made to the people that they have great compassion for.

The PLP has labelled the 52-week programme launched by the former administration as a scheme to pay people that did not show up for work, but have yet to come up with a viable solution to replace it.

The PLP has back tracked on their own National Health Insurance plan, a plan passed into law under their pervious administration. It only took the action of signing it into law to make it reality but now for some reason the numbers have to be re-worked because it is not economically feasible to implement.

This PLP government has said that they know that they promised to double the investment in education but right now they do not see where the money will come from to do so but was able to find funds to increase cabinet and increase positions for political appointees.

This PLP government said that they would lower the cost of electricity but has increased the cost for re-connections if you pay late. This they say was due to the initiatives of the FNM that waived the reconnection fee the Corporation has lost tens of thousands of dollars but fail to tell the people that their initiatives of lowering rates when they were last in power put the very future of the Corporation on “life support” and put it on the verge of bankruptcy.

They, the PLP, had promised to put people to work but it only seems that you were put to work under this administration if you were a die-hard supporter of a family member of one of the candidates. We still ask where were the 22,000 jobs that you claimed you created during your last administration and we would really like to see you do this again for the sake of the people that need these job that you promised these jobs to, that voted for your party because you said that you could produce said jobs. Job creation is a bit difficult in a recession but then there was no recession under the FNM and they were just using it as an excuse; so now I ask, what is your excuse?

Then we have the people that you have recently thrown under the bus, really Mr. Minister? Either go back to work or be fired? Is this what you would tell workers that you promised to “take care of” if you won but now it is exactly what the FNM was saying about overtime. Were you lying then to these people or were you too blinded by wanting power to even care about what was really going on here?

Before I leave, let me say one last thing, I find it interesting that the PLP campaigned on the over budgeted road works, especially the conflict of interest as it pertained to the Hon. Brent Symonnette but then you would come right along and appoint a person to the board of BEC as chairman when it is alleged that this person owes this very same cooperation a sum of money.

As a party you all have no shame but yet each and every day they seem to ask the Bahamian people to take them seriously or seem to be in the papers having to justify why they are doing what they are doing.

I DON’T SELL DREAMS

Nassau,

September 24, 2012