“Fitzgerald suprised at Baha Mar concerns” – The Tribune

Excerpt from this article: “Education Minister Jerome Fitzgerald said yesterday he is surprised by the ‘level of unhappiness’ some Bahamians have expressed at news that the government has struck a deal with the Export-Import Bank of China (CEXIM) to pay creditors and employees of Baha Mar and restart work on the resort.

In wake of Prime Minister Perry Christie’s announcement of the deal last week, reactions have been mixed.

Some have expressed relief and gratitude while others have knocked the Christie administration for not disclosing key details about the agreement.”

I know that it is part of a politician’s job to spin facts in the favor but when you spin them with nonsensical statements, when they become implausible then this is a totally different case and sadly this is point which the Member of Parliament for Marathon has reached with this statement; it is so far beyond the asinine that even if you were to squint and look at it sideways it still does not look credible, much like the person making the statement in this case.

Minister Fitzgerald claims to be ’surprised by the level of unhappiness’ that some have shown over the deal struck between the Bahamian government and the Chinese over the completion of Baha Mar; I have not seen anyone express ‘unhappiness’ but I have heard a lot of people have expressed great concern and have become very leery over the fact that the minister and his government have attempted to convince the people of the Bahamas that CEXIM is willing to complete the Baha Mar resort and put it up for sale out of the ‘goodness of their hearts’; that is without any expectation of some sort of reciprocation.

I also find it surprising that the minister and his government can spend so much time on this exercise of attempting to convince people of what ‘great works’ that they have done in striking this ‘secret deal’; while only correcting a disaster of their very own making through the mishandling of this situation in light of the recent downgrade of our credit rating right about ‘junk’ status; the third credit rating since this progressive Liberal Party came to power in May of 2012.

So as the minister expresses ‘surprise by the level of unhappiness some Bahamians have expressed over the news of the ‘secret deal’ that he and this government has struck over Baha Mar; which is really grave concern, he may actually be surprised at the level of ‘unhappiness’ being expressed by many Bahamians in the performance of the Progressive Liberal Party as a government.  As former Cabinet minister Loftus Roker has come out and characterized the county’s leaders as a ‘tainted bag of apples’.

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

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