Andre Rollins speaks in the House of Assembly.
FORT Charlotte MP Dr Andre Rollins yesterday accused Marathon MP Jerome Fitzgerald of pitifully trying to link the Free National Movement to an alleged attempt by an environmental group to “destabilise” the government.
“The member of Parliament for Marathon Jerome Fitzgerald is an actor,” Dr Rollins said in a statement. “Since being elected, he has played many acting roles for the PLP in an apparent effort to endear himself to their party and climb their political ladder. However, his acting has been extremely unconvincing and unbelievable to the Bahamian people. He is simply a very bad actor who appears willing to say or do anything to secure a starring role in the movie ‘A Nation for Sale Part 2’.
“ . . . Mr Fitzgerald was acting in his own self-interest when he remained silent for an entire year, while in possession of alarming information about the presence of a toxic leak that threatened the health and safety of the constituents on whose behalf he claims to act. He refused to speak in the best interest of his constituents because he did not want to lose his Cabinet post. Yet he quickly and excitedly joined his Cabinet colleagues to speak in defense of Peter Nygard, a man who said the prime minister needed to take his thumb out of his posterior and do his job.”
He added: “Mr Fitzgerald’s poor acting skills were again on display last week in the House of Assembly, when he pretended to have damning information about the FNM’s alleged participation in an attempt to destabilise the government. It was a pitiful performance. After all of the manufactured suspense and drama, the final act of his pathetic play fell flat, just like a bad movie with lots of hype that fails to deliver. There was absolutely no evidence linking the FNM to any illegal activity whatsoever. The reason for Mr Fitzgerald’s reluctance to table the documents was explained by the truth: what he claimed were explosive revelations, proved to be nothing more than wet firecrackers.”
This comes as a new purported recording of FNM Chairman Michael Pintard supposedly meeting with “gang members” Livingston “Toggie” Bullard and Wisler “Bobo” Davilma surfaced. In the audio, which was circulated last night, payment is allegedly being discussed for testimony.
In a 400-page affidavit filed in the Supreme Court by billionaire Louis Bacon and some members of Save the Bays on March 9, Mr Pintard is named as having a role in uncovering an alleged criminal plot orchestrated by Mr Nygard against certain members of the environmental group and others.
Bullard and Davilma were allegedly hired by Mr Nygard to carry out the acts, according to the court document.
In the affidavit, it is acknowledged that the men were paid for their testimony.
Comments
birdiestrachan 8 years, 9 months ago
The omitted affidavit does not say much, except those two men seemed to be playing both side, Mr: Davis has nothing to fear no money changed hands. But Pintard shoul be running scared. it appears he did receive money.
ThisIsOurs 8 years, 9 months ago
The affidavit says, he encouraged two men that persons on the govt side have described as "known criminals", to leave the country.
birdiestrachan 8 years, 9 months ago
Pintard has received money and he has paid money according to the press. Some people will say anything for money. and it seems they were paid well. Seems to me it is lots of money for so little work.
asiseeit 8 years, 9 months ago
I want to know how Fitzgerald got those e-mails? I want to know if he can get anyone's private information and under what authority? What about privacy laws, do Bahamians have a right to privacy? We know government is very secretive and they will sue if certain information becomes public. What about business, can government just steal private information and expose it in the HOA, willy nilly? I think investors may be a bit wary of this.
ThisIsOurs 8 years, 9 months ago
There's actually a caveat in the privacy laws that speaks about national security. It would be interesting to hear how the data commissioner verifies if national security is being threatened. I would hate to think that the freedom of speech Marathon protestors, fighting against the possibility of throat cancer could be casually described as national security threats and seditionists simply because they protested against Fitzgeraldand asked Fitzgerald to step down (as is their right), or because they were contacted by an ENVIRONMENTAL watchdog group. I wonder what the FBI psychologists think about the brain that rationalized that connection.
birdiestrachan 8 years, 9 months ago
A hospital records was stolen from their Webb site, one country lost millions until a word was miss spelled they were unaware. The internet is a good thing. but once you put your information out there it seems it becomes every ones business.
ThisIsOurs 8 years, 9 months ago
Those emails were not "put out" on the internet. They were safely secured on someone's server. Someone invaded someone else's privacy to get at them. Haven't you ever noticed that a court of law is always very interested in the method used to obtain information? Just because you have it doesn't make it righteous. And in this post Rubis case it makes it utterly despicable.
VS 8 years, 9 months ago
And what about record books? Information that is manually logged? If someone acquires a book that has your private information written by hand, should they use said information to their advantage? The issue is not the Internet. It is the individual(s) using it to their advantage (or disposal) that pose the threat. A computer cannot operate on its own unless it is programmed by a human being to do so.
MonkeeDoo 8 years, 9 months ago
BULLSHIT Birdiestrachan !!
John 8 years, 9 months ago
Did Louis Bacon and Fred Smith ever think that after spending some 21/2 years, spending millions of dollars and hiring the best and the brightest investigators from around the world their plot to "get Nygard" would implode and explode as it did exposing rotten apples as it did and rather than toppling the government as was the intention it shows the need to stand together to protect their own country, to strengthen democracy and to beware foreigners bearing gifts. The fallout from this will be long and far reaching and the intended victims may not be the victim after all. Some feel a certain QC should be disbarred and a certain resident no longer qualifies for that status in this Bahamas.
John 8 years, 9 months ago
Let Election 2017 determine who governs this country and not an ill conceived , dangerous plot to topple that the government that involves notorious criminals and the talk of murder. How many of those high profile investigators from Scotland Yard, the FBI or wherever will lose their hard earned creditably for their involvement in this plot?
John 8 years, 9 months ago
While innocent men sleep, wicked men lie awake plotting to take lives and do all manner of evil.
Voltaire 8 years, 9 months ago
John – nonsense and you know it. There was no 'plot'. Pure PLP spin to distract from those most embarrassing videos. No amount of shooting the messenger will work this time, the governing party will have to account for their relationship with one Peter Nygard.
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