The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune.

The PLP administration reneged on its promise to abide by the results of the 2013 referendum on gaming by passing legislation to legalise web shop gaming.

In pandering to several wealthy web shop moguls, this administration blatantly ignored the voice of the masses - the very people the PLP claims incessantly to stand for. The PLP seems to have forgotten its mantra of being the party for the masses. With an election on the horizon, reports are circulating in the press that Island Luck CEO Sebas Bastian will receive the PLP nomination to run in North Eleuthera – an area currently held by the FNM’s Theo Neilly.

It is also being rumoured that Bastian is already canvassing North Eleuthera, and was allegedly seen fraternizing with Prime Minister Perry Christie in the area.

Whether the latter claim is true or not, it is the general consensus among thousands of keen observing Bahamians that the Gold Rush campaign was bankrolled by the numbers bosses.

The Gold Rush campaign was a stunning success in propagandizing the many pledges the PLP has downright failed to fulfil.

It wouldn’t be a stretch to suggest that the numbers bosses, who are obviously now beholden to this administration, would seek to liberally fund another Gold Rush campaign.

The late Dr Myles Munroe’s ominous prediction about the numbers bosses forming a quasi-government in the event that their business establishments are legalised is coming to pass before our very eyes with startling accuracy.

The mere fact that Sebas Bastian’s name is even being bandied about in the press as a possible PLP candidate underscores the degree of arrogance which pervades the Christie government.

It also bespeaks the inordinate level of confidence this government has in winning the election in 2017, despite its many glaring gaffes. These people are evidently governing with a false sense of impunity.

If it is true that the PLP is remotely contemplating on fielding Sebas Bastian in 2017, it would be a direct slap in the face of the Christian community. It would also be Christie’s unwitting way of adding injury to insult; and of pouring salt into the wound of the masses who opposed legalising web shop gaming in the referendum.

KEVIN EVANS

Freeport, Grand Bahama

December 8, 2015.