The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune

While the country’s national debt has increased to $6.6b, up $136m over the previous quarter, the Baha Mar resort is still stalled, with certain members of the government now intimating that the course of action taken by this government in preventing the developer from restructuring his finances may not have been the best course of action, crime and unemployment still being very concerning issues, the Chairman of the Progressive Liberal Party, Bradley Roberts seems hell bent on focusing on questions that for the most part have already been asked and answered of the Free National Movement.

It would seem that the PLP Chairman has taken exception to recent comments by the new Chairman of the FNM; “I wish to put the PLP on notice that as we continue our journey on the road to rescue our country and putting it on the path to prosperity and peace, we will demand accountability, transparency and integrity in government and in that respect ask the simple question, ‘why would you allow our country to be sold off to an eccentric, foreign billionaire?’.”

An excerpt from an article in The Nassau Guardian read: “Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Chairman Bradley Roberts said Free National Movement (FNM) Chairman Sidney Collie should explore the facts of the ‘relationship’ between FNM Leader Dr Hubert Minnis and the men at the heart of the recent controversy involving Lyford Cay residents Peter Nygard and Louis Bacon before he decides to throw stones at the PLP.”

“Collie is well advised to get to the bottom of why members of the FNM parliamentary caucus are fighting so vigorously to protect the information of members of Save The Bays and against the preservation of long-held and constitutionally guaranteed parliamentary privileges,” Roberts said in an address to the PLP Fox Hill monthly meeting on Monday.”

Yet again we have a member of the PLP attempting to justify invoking one privilege, parliamentary privilege, to violate another privilege, one’s constitutional right to privacy. So there is the answer to your question Mr Roberts: this vigorous fight is to protect the salient rights of each and every citizen of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas against unreasonable and unlawful invasions of privacy. Even yours Mr Roberts – it is a fight to uphold law and order, plain and simple.

Mr Roberts has become very adept at the manner in which he is able to distract and deflect from his party’s wrong doings while directing persons to look elsewhere while they clean up their mess or hope that it is forgotten but only if you allow them to.

While he wishes to advise the Chairman of the FNM, I would implore that he explores the ‘relationship’ between the PLP’s Deputy Leader, Philip ‘Brave’ Davis, the ‘men at the heart of the controversy’ and Peter Nygard and answer the questions, what is it that Mr Nygard is so furious about when he suggests he pissed away $5m and still not get what he was promised? What was he promised and by whom? And why are the two men heard at the heart of the controversy heard saying “that Davis had told them to watch Nygard’s back, ‘because you’s the sponsor and we’s the muscle.”

The Progressive Liberal Party fails for one reason, it is within their nature.

ADRIAN RAMSEY

April 20, 2016