In a style that only Bradley Roberts, Chairman of the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) can manage to pull off because no one really expects any better from him, he sets out to attack Opposition Leader, Dr. Hubert Minnis, based solely on deceptive assumptions and flawed conclusions to feed to the people of the Bahamas, further showing his desperate state of delusion and dare I say delirium?

“FNM wanted Baha Mar to fail – Roberts says Minnis unfit to serve” – The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article; “Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Chairman, Bradley Roberts said yesterday the Free National Movement (FNM) heavily criticized the government following the announcement that it had reached an agreement with the Export-Import Bank of China (CEXIM) to complete Baha Mar because the party was ‘hoping against all odds’ that the Christie administration would not come to a resolution.

‘To me, it [is] a distraction,’ Roberts said at a press conference at PLP headquarters.

‘The FNM was shocked beyond words that [Prime Minister Perry] Christie was able to reach an agreement.”

At this time, it is my understanding, that there is a ‘deal’ in place, the details of which are unknown and sealed.  The only details being released so far are that the Bahamian creditors are being paid some or maybe all of the monies owed to them after the Progressive Liberal Party needlessly forced the $3.5b resort into receivership, putting over 2,000 Bahamians out of work and having their livelihoods hang in the balance for over a year while they [the Progressive Liberal Party government] scrambled around desperately in attempts to correct a disaster purely of their making.

While Mr. Roberts talks about the Prime Minster sitting down all ‘parties concerned’ to reach this agreement, it is strange that the developer, Sarkis Izmirlian is no longer considered a ‘party of concern’ in this matter; the only parties being the Bahamas government, the Export-Import Bank of China (CEXIM), China Construction America (CCA) and an unknown buyer, who Prime Minister Perry Christie says is a decision to be made by the ‘bank’, so why would there be any surprise that an agreement has been reached?  It would appear as if the Christie administration is surprised and relieved that the Chinese has finally given in but at what cost?

There are questions about this ‘secret deal’ that the governing Progressive Liberal Party has been asked to answer by the Opposition and concerned citizens, and for the Chairman of the PLP to then intimate that the mere action of requesting accountability from this government is a sign that you would have wanted this project to fail is disingenuous, utter rubbish; nothing more than lies and deception by the Chairman to distract from their ineptitude and incompetence when handling this matter but it seems that the PLP Chairman’s job is to throw enough feces at the wall in hopes that some sticks and he has shown this just may be his greatest political talent.

It is my opinion that anyone that expresses shock or surprise that the Christie administration and CEXIM FINALLY came to an agreement to complete Baha Mar is not fit to serve but we the people would like to know what has been given up to have CEXIM come to this ‘agreement’ after over a year of the project sitting dormant, because we all know that the Chinese do not do anything ‘on air’, to borrow some street jargon.  So while the Chairman continues to shoot excrement, we the people will wait to see just how much this ‘deal’ is costing us.

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

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