I think I will take it upon myself to call the Hon. Dr. Hubert Minnis and ask him to apologize to the Rt. Hon. Perry Christie, Prime Minister because apparently Dr. Minnis hurt the feelings of the prime minister and he is at the point of picking up his marbles and crying his way home.

“PM say Minnis’ criticisms idiotic – Christie disappointed in opposition leader” – The Nassau Guardian.

Excerpt from this article; “Prime Minister Perry Christie said yesterday criticisms made by Opposition Leader Dr. Hubert Minnis about the government’s response to Hurricane Mathew were idiotic.

While touring Lowe Sound, Andros, with Dominican Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, Christie hit back at Minnis, who claimed the government dropped the ball on dealing with the storm.

I am absolutely amazed at that,” said Christie when asked about Minnis’ comments.

“……It is an idiotic thing for him to say because the context of him coming with us in the way I went with (former Prime Minister) Hubert Ingraham during hurricanes, was to put this above partisan politics for us to acknowledge that if he had a recommendation to make we were open to hear it and to determine whether or not it is something we would implement.”

So far I fail to see the politics but then I have been accused of being blind, so suffer it to be so, but then maybe we can take a look at what Dr. Minnis actually said and see how it made it political; let’s deal with it in its ‘context’.

Excerpt from same article; “I was not impressed,” Minnis said.

‘I thought the government dropped the ball in dealing with the storm.’

‘The precautionary methods were not taken.’

‘The government knew the storm was coming.’

‘How can you afterwards be asking for trucks and volunteers, etc?’

“All of that should have been done in advance.’

‘You know the storm was coming, you knew the potential damage, you knew what was going to happen to the South, and therefore they should have had already, trucks, chainsaws, garbage bins, dumpsters all lined up to deal with [the aftermath] appropriately.” 

All of what Dr. Minnis suggests seems reasonable and logical to me except for the simple fact that he just may have shown that the persons responsible for the readiness for the aftermath of Hurricane Mathew were ill-prepared, incompetent, inept and maybe even lazy but why is it political to criticize a government for being ill-prepared for something that they know will happen?  Is it that if you do not agree with the prime minister, then you had better keep it to yourself?

Mr. Christie wants to know what is it that Dr Minnis has to offer to the entire discourse; well it is basically the same criticism that almost each and every Bahamian has of Prime Minister Perry Christie, which is he [the prime minister] is not proactive and reactive and by the time he reacts it is already to late.  We have seen too many situations get totally out of control while the Prime Minister seems to gazes into the abyss of his mind, seemingly in hopes that all will just go away but the problem is that real life does not work this way.

So, now since the prime minister’s feeling’s have been hurt by it being suggested that he is yet ‘late again’; something that he really should be accustomed to by this point in his political career and his life in general, he reacts to these suggestions by lashing out and labeling others persons statements as ‘idiotic’ and expressing his ‘disappointment’ in these people; while the majority of the country expresses grave and utter disappointment in him as a prime minister.

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

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