Phillip Brave Davis
By AVA TURNQUEST
Tribune Chief Reporter
aturnquest@tribunemedia.net
DEPUTY Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis emerged yesterday as yet another hopeful successor to PLP leader, Prime Minister Perry Christie.
Mr Davis declared he was “ready for the job” if there was a vacancy; however, he noted that Mr Christie has not given any indication on whether he intended to step down as leader at the party’s convention later this year.
While he was reluctant to speak further on the matter, when asked what he would bring to the post of PLP leader and possibly prime minister, he replied: “Me.”
“My plans are dependent on what the prime minister does,” Mr Davis, minister of works, added. “It depends on what he does. If there is a vacancy, I’ll be there.”
“I don’t want to discuss that now because the vacancy is not there, and when the vacancy is there then I will talk about those things.”
While in opposition, Mr Christie indicated that he would consider stepping down as party leader mid-term and name a successor. However, he later said he intended to serve a full term if elected as prime minister in 2012.
In January, Mr Christie said it would take a “compelling, tangible” reason for him to lead the PLP into the next general election, revealing that he told his family during the lead-up to the last general election that the 2012 campaign would be his last.
“I told my family at the start of the campaign in 2012, this was the final campaign for me,” Mr Christie said on a ZNS TV broadcast of the show, State of Affairs, in January.
“I do know that people like Charles Carter would come to me and say ‘Stop from talking about you going; people will see you as a lame duck, say nothing about it.’ So I just stopped talking about it and as I stopped talking about it, then everybody became strident, ‘Oh he’s staying on, oh he’s doing that.”
“But something has to happen tangibly, politically, for there to be an understanding that I’m going to remain in public life,” he added. “I choose to focus on the fact that I have the opportunity to be a defining prime minister in this term, that I’ve had 40 consecutive years in public life, by the time I go to election I may have reached the stage almost of Sir Lynden Pindling, meaning that only Sir Roland Symonette is ahead of me. Now I have to be crazy if I were to be thinking of Sir Roland Symonette.”
Mr Davis entered Parliament as the member of Parliament for Cat Island in the January 1992 by-election, and was elected as the representative for Cat Island, Rum Cay and San Salvador in the 1992, 2002, 2007, and 2012 general elections.
He was elected as PLP deputy leader in 2009 at the party’s 51st National Party Convention.
On Sunday, Tourism Minister Obie Wilchcombe revealed he has interest in leading the PLP and if he had the chance to become prime minister he would take it.
The PLP’s next convention is set for the last week in October, according to party Chairman Bradley Roberts. All positions will be open for contest at that time.
Comments
Honestman 9 years, 5 months ago
Oh Dear, Oh Dear, Oh Dear.
TruthHurts 9 years, 5 months ago
I second and third your sentiments! This dred needs to have a seat! I don't know how this gangster got so far in the first place. Relax yourself and cherish your short lived moments in government. : (
Honestman 9 years, 5 months ago
When asked what he would bring to the post of PLP leader and possibly prime minister, he replied: “Me.”
Therein lies the crux of the problem!
Sickened 9 years, 5 months ago
That's the exact same thing Mr. Blatter from FIFA said just before he won his reelection... and then was forced to resign for scandal. History does repeat itself.
TruthHurts 9 years, 5 months ago
LMAO!!
asiseeit 9 years, 5 months ago
There is no hope!
Islandgirl 9 years, 5 months ago
Oh God, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! We are already in hell as it is. Who wants to go even lower than that?!?!?!???
duppyVAT 9 years, 5 months ago
THIS MUST BE A BAD DREAM ............... DID I JUST READ THAT HEADLINE?????????
B_I_D___ 9 years, 5 months ago
Birdie would support him!!
Publius 9 years, 5 months ago
LOL!!!
SP 9 years, 5 months ago
Even Birdie CAN'T be that flippin stupid!
Publius 9 years, 5 months ago
lmao
duppyVAT 9 years, 5 months ago
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TruthHurts 9 years, 5 months ago
@duppyVAT
Maaaan... I missed what you said here before it was removed! SMT
duppyVAT 9 years, 5 months ago
In PG-13 language....... I gave the five salient reasons why Brave should not be considered for Prime Minister ....... his wife, his lodge, his client list, his MP record and his diction .......... I apologize to Tribune or my XXX comments earlier ............. but Brave een PM material
duppyVAT 9 years, 5 months ago
In PG-13 language....... I gave the five salient reasons why Brave should not be considered for Prime Minister ....... his wife, his lodge, his client list, his MP record and his diction .......... I apologize to Tribune for my XXX comments earlier ............. but Brave een PM material
John 9 years, 5 months ago
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation.
Atifete Jahjaga
John 9 years, 5 months ago
Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.
Ray Davies
John 9 years, 5 months ago
Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
Karl Kraus
John 9 years, 5 months ago
In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
Tacitus
John 9 years, 5 months ago
The duy of youth in a nation is to challenge corruption.
ohdrap4 9 years, 5 months ago
john, did you just buy the latest edition of wikipedia? I am happy for you, i cannot afford it.
MonkeeDoo 9 years, 5 months ago
Does this man have papers to go to see Obama ? Will they let him come back ? A red passport wont be enough I think .
TruthHurts 9 years, 5 months ago
That's my question?? The audacity of some people is just believable??!! SMT
John 9 years, 5 months ago
O B A M A will not be prez in 2017
licks2 9 years, 4 months ago
They won't grab him as long as he have one of them red "get-out-of-jail-free" passports!!! Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
ThisIsOurs 9 years, 5 months ago
United States "ready" for blacklisting.
"Me". CTROFL (and that stands for, continuing to roll on floor laughing)
longlankylou 9 years, 5 months ago
Davis is not ready for the job of DPM let alone PM. What has Davis done over the past 3 years that demonstrates that he is capable of more responsibility? Almost everything within the portfolio of the Ministry of Works is mired in controversy. The list is exhaustive and is well documented. Let me remind everyone that Davis has questioned the veracity of the Department of Statistics report on Unemployment and has ordered an independent report on Urban Renewal 2.O Small Homes Repair to "discredit" the review of the Auditor General. It seems like Mr. Davis dismisses anything that he does not agree with, and his reasoning is nonsensical and asinine. Davis would be a dangerous man as PM and we would be the laughing stock of the international community.
Sickened 9 years, 5 months ago
I love this guy. He truly thinks that he is the center of the universe. If God were to die this guy really believes that he could take His place as well. Ah! To be so confident and WRONG!!!
Sickened 9 years, 5 months ago
Is that a booger in his nose?
jackflash 9 years, 5 months ago
I saw the bugger and thought to myself, gee a guy like that would normally be picking his nose and eating it..what happened - did he get spooked by the press and forgot to pick his nose???
jackflash 9 years, 5 months ago
Sorry I meant booger , but it could have been a bugger in this guys case....
Publius 9 years, 5 months ago
Darn, I thought I flushed the toilet on the way out...how did it end up here?
Sickened 9 years, 5 months ago
That's where nanny goes... to the PLP!
Hogfish 9 years, 5 months ago
God help us!
With sticky-finger runnin things it would truly be 'a jump from the frying pan into the fire!'
Oh Gold please Help us...
Bahamianpride 9 years, 5 months ago
The rules when smoking weed is puff puff pass. This guy not only did he not share he made brownies with the entire stash and consumed them all, this is perhaps what has contributed to his delusional state at this time. Cannot think off another logical reason why he would think he had even a slim chance of becoming PM. after what has taken place in this country under their leadership.
banker 9 years, 5 months ago
There are a few Jamaican hookers that used to ply their business over the Daily Grind (I thought that the name for a coffee shop was hilarious, since the upper floors were hooker squatters). But I digress, I heard some interesting stories about the sexual peccadilloes of a certain booger-infested DPM, as well as an ex-Central Bank governor.
I certainly hope that the day comes when people with a sordid past cannot run for public office. We haven't reached that stage yet. All of our politicians are rejects that even the sewerage plant wouldn't process. Yet with boughten votes, they call themselves honourable.
SP 9 years, 5 months ago
....Speechless, Dumbfounded, Mum, Mute, Muted, Silent, Uncommunicative, Wordless...
HELL NO!
http://tribune242.com/users/photos/2015…
Publius 9 years, 5 months ago
These comments though! hahaha
MaLambee 9 years, 4 months ago
Seems as though there is no one good in the running pool. The other side is just as bad with a butcher wanting to be PM. A greedy spiteful butcher who is full of hate
SP 9 years, 4 months ago
... Bahamas Eerily Mirrors Nigeria.....Read Link & Replace "Nigeria" With "Bahamas" ...
http://www.ibtimes.com/nigerian-preside…
Bahamas has an overabundance of Oil, Aragonite, Salt and only GOD and the politicians know what else and like Nigeria our country is $6B in debt, Treasury empty and our people suffering!
Time for some serious changes!
http://tribune242.com/users/photos/2015…
duppyVAT 9 years, 4 months ago
If you do a quick study of Nigeria's black political/economic elite class .......... it has very similar post independent characteristics to the Bahamas .......... drugs, corruption, civil service, public education, infrastructure, public corporations, and kickbacks for private/FDI investors ............. bad for our future
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