“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.’

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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