My Morning Paper – April 29, 2016 – The Attorney General, the Justice and the Law

It is my most humble opinion that the Attorney General has used just enough self interpreted law to challenge the injunction produced by Justice Indra Charles, that seeks to prohibit respondents, including Marathon MP Jerome Fitzgerald, Fox Hill MP Fred Mitchell and the attorney general, herself, from appropriating, publishing or disclosing emails, even in Parliament belonging to Save The Bays members ; the rest of her challenge has been totally reliant on the ignorance of the people and intimidation by her office toward those that have spoken up and shown that they are more intelligent then she realizes that they actually were, as her interpretation of the laws leaves many to wonder what she is actually referring to and what laws she is using?!

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“AG challenges injunction – Hearing set for tomorrow” – The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article; “Attorney General Allyson Maynard-Gibson confirmed yesterday that her office has filed to set aside a Supreme Court injunction, which seeks to prohibit respondents, including Marathon MP Jerome Fitzgerald and Fox Hill MP Fred Mitchell and the attorney general from appropriating, publishing or disclosing, even in Parliament, emails belonging to Save The Bays (STB) members.”

In my opinion the Attorney General, along with her parliamentary colleagues Mitchell and Fitzgerald has taken the concept of ‘parliamentary privilege’ and twisted it just enough making it lose its true intention and meaning in order to have it support their ‘right’ to violate the rights and privilege of right to privacy  of others.  The Attorney General has, in all of her wisdom has chosen to challenge the ruling of the Supreme Court in the name of democracy but does it in order to violate a persons democratic rights; is this woman serious?

“As you know, the attorney general’s office has applied to set the injunction aside, and that hearing should take place [tomorrow], but what I would like to say that in a thriving democracy and a growing democracy, these are the kinds of issues that will be dealt with in our courts and in our Parliament,

“And I believe that we, in our country, have leaders of our institutions who have tremendous intellect and integrity – the same things that apply equally to the House of Assembly and the Senate, and the courts.” The Attorney General, with all due respect, has either gone mad or has simply lost her moral compass, if she ever had one.

How democratic is it to attempt to silence the courts through latent threats and intimidation in order to thrust your opinion upon them as you now seek to move a resolution to have Supreme Court Justice Charles, Fred Smith QC, and lawyer Ferron Bethell brought before the House of Assembly’s Committee of Privilege, then say that ‘these are the kinds of issues that will be dealt with in our courts..”, how hypocritical is this?  The mere thought of this action reeks of dictatorship and this is where the Progressive Liberal Party has the country headed but yet seek to attempt to convince me and other right thinking Bahamians that the injunction issued by Justice Charles is “an assault on democracy”

The Progressive Liberal Party has erred in this matter, as they have yet to prove that parliamentary privilege, as outlined by the Constitution affords then the absolute privilege that they would have us believe that is does and as usual the Attorney General, the top lawyer in the country, leads the charge is eroding the integrity of this branch of government.

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

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My Morning Paper – April 28, 2016 – Those whom the Gods will destroy……….

The case of the mysterious emails has taken on a life of its won and has gone from the utter and blatant disrespect by the governing Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) for the citizens of the country, to a total disrespect of the Judiciary and rule of law, which was all in an attempt to protect same said citizens

The Judiciary, in an attempt to protect the citizenry from clear violations of constitutionally protected rights, one being the against the invasion of privacy, has been totally disrespected by the Executive; a government that now seeks to hide like cowards behind parliamentary privilege, which in my opinion they have applied incorrectly.

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“Johnson suggests judiciary being undermined” – The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article: “Bahamas Bar Association president Elsworth Johnson said last night the association stands ready to defend the judiciary and encouraged senior members of the Bar who sit in Parliament to ‘take serious our oath’ when it comes to the judiciary being undermined.

Johnson was responding to questions surrounding Marathon MP Jerome Fitzgerald’s motion in Parliament on Monday to have Supreme Court Justice Indra Charles, Save the Bays director of legal affairs Fred Smith and lawyer Ferron Bethell called before the House of Assembly’s Committee of Privilege to determine if they should held in contempt of Parliament over a court injunction Charles granted last Thursday.

Deputy Prime Minister Philip Brave Davis, a queens counsel, seconded the motion.

The move came after House Speaker Dr. Kendal Major strongly condemned the injunction, which seeks to prohibit respondents, including Fitzgerald, Fox Hill MP Fred Mitchell and the attorney general from appropriating, publishing or disclosing emails, even in Parliament, belonging to Save The Bays (STB) members.”

It would seem that this government has gone ‘mad’ with power, as they seek to intimidate anyone that stands up against them to the point where they now are threatening  Supreme Court Justice Indra Charles, Save the Bays director of legal affairs Fred Smith and lawyer Ferron Bethell with being called before the House of Assembly’s Committee of Privilege to determine if they should held in contempt of Parliament all due to the fact they sought to prevent members of the House of Assembly from tabling private correspondence; emails and financial documents of members of Save The Bays, which the government has yet to offer any reasonable and/or viable explanation as to how these private documents/ correspondence were obtained; this is pure and utter madness.

Elsworth Johnson has taken an optimistic approach to the situation as he ‘expressed confidence that the prime minister, attorney general and chief justice will resolve the matter’ and I applaud him for this in light of the dictatorial fashion that this government has carried out the people’s business, I will have to wait and see but I do not have the confidence that he has in his government that they will correct a wrong especially when it is clear that they are wrong, as the main point made by Elsworth clearly points out; “It is an unfortunate situation when the whole question of the independence of [an[ impartial…….judiciary is being, what may appear to be, undermined, and then the question of parliamentary privilege, which may or may not be absolute privilege.” Johnson told The Nassau Guardian.

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

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My Morning Paper – April 27, 2016 – Heads will roll!!

“Griffin: Action being taken to clean up fraud in social services dept.” – The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article: “Following the release of an auditor general’s report that revealed that some staff members at the Department of Social Services participated in a fraudulent food coupon scheme, Minister of Social Services said yesterday that disciplinary action has been taken in this matter.

‘Disciplinary actions have already been taken and I am certain there may be further actions,’ Griffin said.  Again I don’t want to pre-empt what is happening.  So I think that is all I should say at this time.”

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While I find it commendable  that the Minister is informing the public that pursuant to the Auditor General’s report disciplinary actions are being taken against staff members that took part in this despicable action I have two points that I would like to raise.

It is interesting to see the way in which this government now takes the recommendations of the auditor general, Terrance Bastian and launches a full investigation into this matter with the promise of ‘heads will roll’; isn’t this the very same Auditor general that found ‘irregularities’ in the accounts of the Urban Renewal program but was considered so inept and incompetent that his report could not be trusted and a ‘private’ audit had to be carried out?

And, was there not a promise of ‘heads will roll’ after it was revealed that the dorm at BAMSI did not have the required Contractors All Risk Insurance at the time that it was set on fire, yet we still await accountability in that matter.

Indeed, it is refreshing to see ‘someone’ being held accountable for the misuse of public funds but it seems that it only happens when a government official is not to close to the fire.

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

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My Morning Paper – April 26, 2016 – An Abuse of Privilege – the Life of Cowards

“Speaker shocked at injunction – Major vows to defend freedom of Parliament”- The Tribune

Excerpt from this article; “House Speaker Dr. Kendall Major said that he was both ‘astonished’ and ‘offended’ by the recent granting of an injunction which bars members of Parliament from disclosing Save The bay’s confidential information during proceedings, calling it a ‘pre-emptive’ onslaught against the independence of the lower chamber.

Mr. Major said the move attempts to usurp the Authority of the Speaker and is contemptuous to the House of Assembly, he stood ready to have persons brought before the bar of the House if necessary in defense of Parliament and its freedoms.”

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It would seem that Dr. Major seeks to defend Article 53(1) of the Constitution which states, “Without prejudice to the generality of Article 52 (1) of the Constitution subject to provisions of paragraph (2) of this Article, Parliament may by law determine the privileges immunities ad power of the Senate and the House of Assembly and the members thereof.”

So Parliament, by law, will determine these privileges but by whose law if the matters cannot be reviewed by the Judiciary?  This leaves this to the discretion of the Speaker of the House as to just how far he would allow ‘parliamentary privilege’ to extend before it loses its true intention and meaning, at the very moment he has allowed for it to stretch outside the walls of the House of Assembly and slip into the private lives of ordinary citizens of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, this surely could not have been the intent when this Article was drafted.

If the Speaker of the House takes this position, then who is left to protect the ordinary citizen, as the Speaker and the rest of his colleagues have seen a ruling by the Judiciary protecting the ordinary citizen as “offensive.” 

While persons such a Damien Gomez also voice their opinion against the Supreme Court Justice’s ruling saying “Don’t play politics with our constitution”, really?  Is this what was done? He then goes on to explain that “we have to take the separation of power doctrine seriously” and I ask him did he explain this to the hon. V Alfred Grey when he made the two phone calls to the Island Administrator. 

This back and forth would be comical if it did not impact on such serious matters, this one being the total lack of concern and/or respect for the basic right to privacy of others by a government that has interpreted the constitution to make it all seem right and then turned around and warned others to “not play politics” with it.

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

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My Morning Paper – April 25, 2016 – With Criminal Intent

“Ministers: Will not be silenced” – The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article; “Minister of Foreign Affairs Fred Mitchell and Minister of Education Jerome Fitzgerald said they will continue to speak freely and will not be deterred by a court injunction, which prohibits appropriating, publishing or disclosing emails, even in Parliament, belonging to Save The Bays (STB) members.

Justice Indra Charles granted the injunction on Thursday.

Though the court has no jurisdiction over speech in the houses of Parliament the injunction prohibits the respondents, who include two MP’s and the attorney general from ‘appropriation, and/or perusal and/or use and/or publication and/or communication and/or disclosure in Parliament or in any other place or though any medium or to any person or entity whatsoever of any correspondence (including emails and other attachments) belonging to the applicants.’

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Mitchell and Fitzgerald said ‘We have read in the press a report of an injunction to restrain the freedom of speech of parliamentarians’

‘We want to ensure our constituents that we will not be deterred.”

Again, the honorable ministers have made it clear that they are quite willing to break the law to get their point across but what exactly is this point that they need to get across wherein they are willing to openly and freely violate the constitutional right to privacy of others and break the law?

The only point that these men are attempting to make is one to convince the people of the Bahamas that the Save The Bays organization, one which this government at point applauded for its works within the country as it pertains to its natural environment, is now nothing more than a political organization intent on destabilizing a Christie led government, this is indeed asinine but yet this is their case.  So in an attempt to prove the asinine they have told the people of the country that no law with stop them. 

They will not allow the Data Protections laws to stop them.

They will not allow a court issued injunction to stop them.

While the ministers go on this quest against justice, I find it amazing that Fitzgerald and Mitchell, to a lesser extent, did not seem to have the same zeal and sense of responsibility about them when it came to informing the people of the Marathon constituency of the findings of the Black and Veatch Rubis report in a timely manner.

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

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My Morning Paper – April 22, 2016 – The Fred Ramsey Case – Getting to the Root OF Corruption

“A threat to justice anywhere is s threat to justice everywhere” – Martin Luther King Jr.

It now appears that in order to expose corruption in a government by a particular party, you must first win the government and then look back at whom you wish to prosecute but the key is timing.

You do not come into power and let the ‘chips fall where they may’ as you carry out your campaign against corruption or any other wrongdoing, no this act must be carried out at the most opportune time; say for instance when you yourself have been accused of corrupt practice and must now deflect and distract from your malfeasance, this is when you pull your ace from up your sleeve.

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“BEC bribe scandal firm, wrote to the PM – Court hears of letters to Watson and Ingraham” – The Tribune

Excerpt from this article; “A jury heard yesterday that a French company was determined enough to outbid its Korean rival in obtaining a multi-million dollar project from the Bahamas Electricity Cooperation that it attempted to make contact with then Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham and then Deputy Prime Minister Frank Watson.

The company wanted officials to reconsider the bid it knew was going to be rejected.

American Mark Smith was continuing his testimony that began on Tuesday concerning his role in an Alston SA/BEC bribery scheme to win the New Providence Expansion Phase Three contract with BEC.

Smith testified that Alstom wrote to BEC executives, querying about the integrity of the evaluation process and a reconsideration of their proposal.

A response had been given by Patrick Hanna BEC’s assistant general manager in December 2000, that the company’s communications were not only inappropriate but were also on breach of the terms of the bidding process where they risked their bid being rejected outright.

Smith has received immunity from the prosecution notwithstanding this admission that he accepted a cut of hundreds of thousands of dollars to relay to Alstom SA information gathered by an insider to the tendering process that would bolster the French firm’s chances at winning he contract bid over is Korean rival, Hanjung.”

So the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) has ‘dropped the bomb’ on the Free National Movement (FNM), exposing corruption within its ranks as they themselves have been criticized internationally for being corrupt; great plan if you were a government preaching to a set of people that would ‘fall on their swords’ to protect certain political figures, those days have passed with the new electorate following the mantra “let the chips fall where they may.”

The current electorate is wondering, are we really looking to move forward as a nation and one day be able to root out corruption and hold public officials accountable as has been done in the Flint, Michigan or will we continue to pay lip service to the people about rooting out corruption while doing nothing and only using it when it becomes convenient against our political allies?  Will we ever mature to the point where we would allow for the removal of members of parliament who for instances have hidden critical information from their constituents and the country at large in order to save their jobs?  Will we ever reach the point where in this sword we are willing to fall on is double sided and swings both ways in protection of people of the country, who seem to be the ones to lose out in these cases of corrupt practices by elected officials?

While there is room for differences of opinion over the root-causes of corruption and the prevalence of corrupt practices from country to country—and perhaps from region to region—there is, I would submit, virtually universal agreement that corruption in its various forms poses a formidable challenge to governments everywhere, and that international, regional and national anti-corruption initiatives need to be strengthened to combat this scourge.

Although corruption is a menace for developed and developing countries alike, it is particularly relevant for small island developing states where corruption is not infrequently linked with national development. However that may be, there is no denying that systemic corruption—whether it be high-level political corruption, lack of financial transparency, or petty bribery among public officials and law enforcement personnel—undermines good governance and the rule of law; accelerates moral decay; fosters negative international perceptions of the country; stymies foreign investment; impedes the delivery of public services; exacerbates poverty; and, in the final analysis, retards social and economic development.

Remarks by the Rt. Hon. Perry G. Christie at UCCI Anti-Corruption Conference in Cayman Islands

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

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My Morning Paper – April 20, 2016 – Cheap Glass Houses and Stone Throwing

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 re-structuring 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 a 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?”

“Roberts tells Collie explore the facts of Minnis’ role in Nygard-Bacon matter” – The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article; “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”

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“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 Progressive Liberal Party attempting to justify invoking one privilege; parliamentary privilege, to violate another privilege; ones 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, the Hon. Philip ‘Brave’ Davis DPM, 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.

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My Morning Paper – April 18, 2016 – Acquiescing to Corruption

“Miller: We learned corruption from the US – Contracts for supporters will never stop.” – The Tribune

Excerpt from his article; “Tall Pins MP Leslie Miller yesterday insisted that the granting of government contracts to political supporters will never stop ‘because politicians must do what they have to do’ to win elections.

His statements came despite the US State Department’s scathing report pinpointing the government’s feeble implementation of anti-corruption laws buttressed by a vulnerable contract procurement process.

In an interview with The Tribune yesterday, the senior Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) MP, added that if Bahamians ‘are crooked’, it is because they were taught to be so by the damn Americans.”

Just when you thought you had heard it all from Mr. Miller; from his comments about woman beating, to the comments about not knowing where those light skin people came from at a recent Raising Awareness of the Bahamas Landfill (RABL) protest, we now seem to have him openly admitting to corrupt practices within the government and in the country at large because we have been taught these ‘habits’ by the United States.

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In no way will I stand before anyone and hold he United States of America as being a model to follow,  as they had their instances of blatant corruption, as any other country.  Examples of gross corruption would have been seen in the Iran-Contra affair, Dick Cheney’s ties to the company Halliburton that made billions of the war in Iraq while being Vice President, a war that he supported; to one of the latest instances in Flint, Michigan; no in no way are they a model to follow but at the very same time, as they highlight corrupt practices in the Bahamas are we to simply excuse it by saying that the U.S. is no one to talk or accept it as being a part of our ‘culture’?

It is indeed an embarrassment, when the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Perry Christie stands before our regional counter parts and delivers remarks under the theme, “The Ethical Anti-Corruption Framework of the Bahamas : Lessons for the Caribbean” and one of his very own members of Parliament concedes that the country is corrupt, implies that ‘it is what it is’ and goes on to say we learned it from the United States; are we not a sovereign nation?  Should we not be striving to do and be better?  Is this a reason why Damian Gomez, Minister of State for Legal Affairs Damian Gomez tendered his resignation from his Cabinet post, as he had waged a ‘war’ against corrupt governmental practices?

The unspoken ‘sin’ about the awarding of government contracts, under both administrations, is that they always, for the most part, were awarded as a form of ‘pay back’ for political loyalty; under this government the practice has been highlighted due to the persons inability to carry out the task assigned to them which ended up putting strained on the public purse to have their mistakes corrected; otherwise persons turned a blind to the practice, so Mr. Miller just may be correct in saying that the practice will never stop but the question now becomes will we continue to do so at the detriment to our country and sovereignty?

In a amusing comment, Mr. Miller is quoted as saying; I don’t put too much weight on the US and what they say,”  The MP said when contacted by The Tribune. I pay no attention to them.  The report is baseless because they sure as hell didn’t provide any proof.” And I sit back and laugh as I think about the tenuous link that Mr. Miller and his colleagues have attempted to make between Save the Bays and a plot to destabilize the government.  From these recent statements it seems that they are already not stable.

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

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My Morning Paper – April 15, 2016 -Inside the mind of a Semi-Delusional Autocrat

“Mitchell: Pigs will fly before speaker needs FNM help” – The Tribune

Except from this article; “Fox Hill MP Fred Mitchell yesterday hit back at the FNM criticizing his decision to petition House Speaker Dr. Kendal Major over persons he felt were in breach of parliamentary privilege.

He accused the party of cancelling ‘itself out of useful criticism when it cannot come to defend the privilege which members of parliament enjoy.

Mr. Mitchell, in a statement, accused the FNM of ‘standing with those that defame their country’ rather than defend he privilege which members of parliament enjoy of free speech and the right to access they are enshrined in our constitution.

Mr. Mitchell said the FNM prefers to ‘wrap their arms around Fred Smith QC and Saver the Bays’ who stand accused of (allegedly) working together with the FNM to destabilize the country.”

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Of course Mr. Mitchell is standing yet again to protect the parliamentary privilege that he so enjoys and cowardly hides behind as he seeks to table and reveal private emails of another person; sources of which still unknown; an act that he could  never  or would never do outside the halls of the House of Assembly without legal repercussions, under the fear of being sued and/or imprisoned. 

He has decided to take this dark and dangerous road and has decided to encourage the Speaker of the House along for the ride as he has yet to prove his assertions against the persons whom privileges and constitutional rights he now seeks to violate and he has yet to prove his allegation of ‘contempt of parliament’, which he has also threatened others with that seek to block him from using private emails and financial information in his parliamentary contributions.

“This week, the FNM charged that Mr. Mitchell’s letter to Dr. Major was a ‘direct attempt’ to ‘undermine weaken and diminish the authority and integrity of the Speaker’.  The FNM also said Mr. Mitchell’s letter creates an impression that he is attempting to ‘being public pressure on the Speaker to influence his decision on the matter advanced by (Mr. Mitchell)’.

Further, the FNM said Mr. Mitchell seems to be of a view that the Speaker is a ‘puppet of both the executive branch and the PLP’ and is subsequently ‘compelled to accept the executive’s blanket contempt for authority’ or face the possibility that he may not receive a nomination in the next general election.”, in short the FNM is contending that the PLP Mr. Mitchell and the executives are attempting to intimidate the Speaker of the House into following ‘bad company’.

Mitchell continues to encourage the Speaker of the House to allow him to table emails and other correspondence of others that the Data Commissioner has already cautioned him about but he has not heeded her warning and would seek to encourage Kendall Major to follow suit.

This had become Minister Mitchell style now, to use his authority and powers to defame, question, undermine and intimidate others while hiding behind his privilege; he has show his propensity for this wrong doing already as he has challenged a court’s ruling on a immigration matter which still stands unresolved to date because of the dictatorial and autocratic actions of Mr. Mitchell.

As a matter of fact, this ‘my word is the final word, end of story has become common of the totalitarian mindset of this government that seeks to rule rather than govern; maybe they have come to realize that they are just unfit to govern.

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

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My Morning Paper – April 14, 2016 -Long Held Constitutional Rights

While the international community continues to voices concerns over corrupt practices in the Bahamas, the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) government and its agents refuse to heed the warnings and continue to march the country down a dark road as they [the PLP] continue in practices that are seen to many as corrupt, to protect the party’s reputation but to the country’s detriment.  These would be the very same men and women that  label themselves as being ‘nationalists’, claiming to put country before party, while attempting to brand those that stand against them as ‘unpatriotic’.

“US warning over govt. corruption – Reports highlight failings in contracts.  Frequest concerns.” – The Tribune.

Excerpt from this article; “The US State Department indentified the governments ineffectiveness at implementing corruption laws as the reason officials engage in illegal practices without consequences, citing a vulnerable contract procument process in a newly released report.”  While there are many of us that will indeed look at this report and ask ourselves, ‘Who is the United States to talk?’, we must realize that we have long since entered a global community of sorts and the world is indeed watching as has become evident by the released of the ‘Wiki leaks cables’ and the more recent ‘Panama Papers’.

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As this report is released, I have this feeling of déjà vu, as I feel that this concern that been raised before about two to three years ago and has been ignored.

Following in the spirit of not adhering to advice against corrupt and illegal and practices that represent a blatant misuse of power and authority, Foreign Affairs minister, Fred Mitchell continues on his defense of his right and privilege to violate the basic constitutional, hard fought for rights of other Bahamian citizens; one being their right to privacy in a lengthy press release issued on the 13 April 2016; entitle ‘In response to the FNM letter to the Speaker on Parliamentary Privilege – Long held Constitutional rights must be protected against use of unfettered wealth” and my question still stand for Minister Mitchell to answer as he argues for his constitutional rights; who is protecting the constitutional rights of the persons whose privacy you wish to invade?

I am quite aware that many will not draw the parallel between the these two cases, either through ignorance or denial or both, so I will not belabor the obvious and I now leave these poor lost souls alone to figure it all out.

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

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