I have found it amazing and odd that while thousands of American citizens have taken to the streets to protest the election of Donald Trump as President of the Untied States of America, they would issue an advisory over a protest planned in the Bahamas against the manner in which the country has been governed over the years, especially over the past four years.

“US alert over protest march – ‘Be mindful of your actions, ‘warns tourism minister” – The Tribune

Excerpt from this article; “Tourism Minister Obie Wilchcombe yesterday warned protesters to be mindful of their actions during the Black Friday march and occupation of downtown Bay Street as the American Embassy and US cruise ships have expressed security fears over the rapidly-growing demonstration set for the busy Thanksgiving weekend.

Tourism Minister Obie Wilchcombe yesterday confirmed that the Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association (FCCA) contacted the ministry to express concerns given the thousands of cruise ship passengers expected to be in port Friday.”

The Tourism Minister amazes me as in his language he is attempting to suggest that the protest to be more that he would have people believe that it really is; this is sad actually given this government past and the damage they have done to the tourism brand, but let us give the minister some credit and see how he responds to the advisory.

“So we told them after we spoke to the Commissioner of Police that we are advising that we believe we will be able to conduct business as usual,” he said, ‘and we certainly hope that’s understood by those involved in the protest.

‘The democracy we do have in place has to be respected. The Royal Bahamas Police force will be managing the protest and we’ve assured the cruise lines that visitors can arrive and all will be well.”

So the minister did what I did when I had guest in town when his party had the infamous ‘murder boards’ up and I was asked if that was how many murders that the country had in one year and I had to explain that it was really over a five year period; basically calm their fears from the reckless actions of a reckless political organization, but just how reckless is this protest?

From my understanding, this protest is simply to put any and all persons in government on both sides of the floor and those wishing to become a part political system, that the electorate has grown tired of the same system and style of governance that been failing us; as we demand accountability and transparency from those that govern us and seek to govern us; to imply that this protest is anything more is extremely disingenuous and minister Wilchcombe knows this fact.

But if he needs a parallel drawn; I will flash back to the BTC demonstrations; there was on concern of cruise visitors then and when Bernard Evans ‘owed that their protest against the sale of the Bahamas Telecommunications would transform the country into a ‘small Egypt’, I wonder where was his concern then.

As US officials have told their staff that the Sand Trap is off limits after the shooting death of a woman their last week, I have begin to wonder if this US alert over the march is actually entirely truthful.

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

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