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EDITOR, The Tribune.

Allow me to comment on the Second Chance 2.0 ceremony on Grand Bahama last week.

This week on Grand Bahama, we had a career politician continuously speaking of the second chance in his life and himself being the second chance king. This second chance king has showed that he is unwilling to give the new or next generation he campaigned on the first chance that he promised. The proof is all the retirees and washed-up politicians being appointed left and right for a second chance at the political pie.

This career politician spoke of second chances in his life, but has yet shown that he has accomplished anything with it. I continuously hear of the dirt poor individual that rose to be Prime Minister. Well, Mr Prime Minister, ask 90 per cent of the population from your era and they have the same story of being dirt poor and have excelled in spite of it. I will name two for you, Errol Bodie and Basil Neymour.

This week, you were on Grand Bahama where we on the island lost two of such. They never rose to the political level position that you did, but they touched more lives unconditionally. They were never given the mandate and authority by the masses to make a change, but they did. They will go down in the annals of Bahamian history for the lives they have affected with the little they had.

Mr Prime Minister, you have three years left on your Second Chance mandate before the campaign begins. What will your legacy be? I, your political party supporter, along with three of my next generation children (all under 40 with Ph.D’s) will be watching.

“Many men are meant to be famous, but few are destined to be great.”

RABBI COMMON ZENSE

Nassau,

September 19, 2013.