This government seems to have an inherent difficulty with transparency and accountability; with many of the members of the governing Progressive Liberal Party seeming to have no idea of very basic principle of these concepts; today I will discuss one such member.

As Prime Minister, Perry Christie, makes a call for his government to be more transparent, this call coming four years too late, one of his Cabinet Minister seems to not be in agreement with the Prime Minister, as this minister still insists that he has no need to be open, transparent or accountable, and that no one can make him be accountable or transparent, even If it had the potential to save his own political career.

“Gray won’t reveal ‘secret FNM deal’ – Minister: Minnis can’t tell me what to do.” – The Nassau Guardian.

Excerpt from this article; “Minister of Agriculture and Marine Resources V. Alfred gray yesterday dismissed a call made by Free National Movement (FNM) Leader dr. Hubert Minnis for him to table in the House of Assembly a ‘secret deal’ Gray claimed the FNM administration entered into in 2009 with China Shandong Expressway Investment Company Limited for an agriculture development involving 10,000 acres of land in Abaco free of charge.”

It seems that Mr. Gray has become unhinged in an attempt to defend himself against the blatant accusations of wrongdoing and in defending himself has now threatened to expose a ‘secret deal’ that the previous Free National Movement administration made with the Chinese; my dear God, how ever would the FNM leader respond to such a claim of wrongdoing done on behalf the administration that he was a part of?

“Minnis told The Tribune he knew nothing of the 2009 deal and challenged Gray to table it in Parliament.”

Ball in your court, Minister Gray, “when asked whether he will release the information, Gray said he will not.

‘No. Minnis can’t tell me what to do,’ he said”

Hon. V. Alfred gray, did you just ‘punk out’?

I wonder if Minister Gray is referring to the talks that the former administration held with the People’s Republic of China and private Chinese companies, that was documented through and by the Bahamas Investment administration Bureau, if so then this was hardily ‘secret’, unless Mr. gray believes other to be as ignorant as he is making himself look right now.

In my opinion, it is time for the Rt. Hon. Perry Christie to call Mr. Gray into the Prime Minister’s office and have a stern talk with him because he is not only contradicting the message that the Prime Minister would like to project at this time, that he realizes that his government needs to me transparent but also he is continuously embarrassing him [The Prime Minister] and the Progressive Liberal Party as a ‘serious’ political entity.

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

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