“No progress in investigation of Toggie and Bobo claims” – The Tribune

Excerpt from this article; “The Royal Bahamas Police Force’s investigation into allegations that Lyford Cay resident Peter Nygard orchestrated a murderous plot against his billionaire neighbor Louis Bacon and lawyer Fred Smith QC, ‘is not going anywhere,’ Police Commissioner Ellison Greenslade said yesterday.

Although the allegations were contained in the hundreds of pages of affidavits filed by directors of Save the Bays last March, those making the claims never made an official complaint with the RBDF, the police chief said.

Well Toggie and Bobo are back in the news and the case is right where I excepted it to be for whatever reason or the other, that is not what has made the reappearance of this case interesting, well at least not to me.

As Majority Rule Day has recently passed, along with the highly anticipated ‘We March Bahamas’ protest; the issue has again arisen of the ‘evil’, anti-Progressive Liberal Party; anti Bahamian; and unpatriotic forces that are against the current Progressive Liberal Party government but why is it that each and every time someone questions this government they are labeled as such or just plain ‘agents of the Free National Movement’?

It has become quite disturbing to see that one is unable to disagree with the policies or decisions of this PLP government and not be labeled as ‘anti-Progressive Liberal Party; anti Bahamian and unpatriotic’.  When the developers of Baha Mar first began having problems with the government, one of the things that the government first attacked was the theme that Baha Mar had developed for its employees, many of whom were Bahamian and this was the theme of inclusion of “Baha Mar Nation”.  This was attacked by the Progressive Liberal Party government who went on to say that the only nation that exists here is the Bahamas.  The odd thing about this attack was that as they attacked “Baha Mar nation” and a lot of their very own citizens, this PLP government began to involve itself in a dispute between the developer, Sarkis Izmirlian and his Chinese partners, with the government seemingly siding with the Chinese to the determent of their very own citizens.

In the Louis Bacon/Peter Nygard issue, the Progressive Liberal Party government again took issue with their very own Bahamian citizens as these citizens spoke out against the development at Nygard’s Cay.  It is indeed odd that in this dispute the Bahamas government would tend to intercede on behalf of Mr. Nygard; who has been known to be a major financial contributor to their last campaign, and branded anyone that was against Mr. Nygard and his development ‘anti-Progressive Liberal Party; anti Bahamian and unpatriotic’.

Now, we have an case wherein a group has taken a stand against the government; asking for transparency and accountability and instead of sitting back and addressing the issues of many concerned citizens, the government has taken an adversarial stance to them and labeled them as ‘anti-Progressive Liberal Party; anti Bahamian and unpatriotic.  The amusing thing about it all is that the group would have marched on any government be it PLP, FNM, DNA or other that was it saw as lacking in proper governance in the way that the present Progressive Liberal Party is thereby contributing  to the social and economic decline of the county.

Transparency and accountability; are these too much to ask for and by asking for these from any government how does it make anyone or group ‘anti Bahamian and unpatriotic”? 

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

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