As Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Perry Christie presented his Budget Communication for the year 2016 to the people of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, a budget communication short on achievements but long on promises, a budget communication that could have only been scotch taped together; with so many parts missing i.e. the audits from various ministries and the progress of the newly formed government agency ‘Resolve Bahamas’, we would have expected those with the requisite skill set to refute it with fact, but sadly this was not to come because it would seem that some of these persons had ‘different agendas’.

“Cash: it is time for new leadership” – The Tribune 05.26.2016

Excerpt from this article; “Former Free National Movement (FNM) Chairman Darron Cash yesterday blamed FNM leader Dr. Hubert Minnis for the ‘dismal state’ of the Official Opposition and said it is now time for the party to seek ‘fresh, new leadership.

In a statement, Mr. Cash said Dr. Minnis and his entire leadership team must give a full accounting of his stewardship of the FNM.  He also said a full convention with all the accountability factors built in is the right way for it to happen and called for it to be held in the next 90 days.

Mr. Cash also lamented that the FNM has become ‘a shadow of its former self’ and risks being ‘sink by an anchor of leadership that has been found wanting’.

‘There are many people who share responsibility for this unfortunate position, but there is no escaping the harsh reality – the current dismal state of the FNM goes to leadership.’

‘More specifically, it goes to the leader Hubert A Minnis,’ Cash said.”

First of all, I will not sit here and say that I have applauded each and every decision that Dr. Minnis has made as Leader of the Free National Movement, nor would I say that he has been a stellar success as the leader but I will say that I have seen an improvement since he has been elected leader of the party.   I feel for anyone to claim that either Perry Christie or Hubert Ingraham were exemplary leaders when the first became leaders of their respective parties would either be looking to mislead the public and is probably delusional themselves; as Hubert Ingraham was a work in progress and Perry Christie, in my opinion, will never achieve the necessary skill set to ever be called a leader; lying to the Bahamian public constantly does not make one a great leader but I have the propensity to digress.

There is fundamental difference between the Free National Movement and the Progressive Liberal Party, in the way that we handle our ‘leaders’.  As poorly as Perry Christie has performed over the years, his party members seek to prop him up and pick up the slack even to the point of threatening those that would dear criticize him; as for the Free National Movement, we have the tendency to choose a leader and tell them ‘do it’ and if he falls we back away lending little to no support only to look at them with distain and then seek to share our distain to any and everyone that would listen, this I find very disappointing.

Now we have a former Chairman saying that “It is time for new leadership” as he says that Minnis and his entire leadership team must account for the party’s failure but wasn’t he a part of this party’s leadership as we began our decline, as he and other would put it?

We as a party have become our own worst enemy. 

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