“Bradley Roberts: Airspace agreement will bring millions” – The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article; “Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Chairman Bradley Roberts yesterday congratulated the party for having a successful negotiation of a landmark and historic airspace agreement which Prime Minister Perry Christie claims will pump millions into the Bahamian economy.

In a statement issued on Thursday night, Roberts said, ‘It is fitting that such an agreement would be concluded so near to Majority Rule celebrations as the implications of this agreement with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) strike at the very foundational principle of self-determination, sovereignty and the identity of the Bahamian people.

These are principles that the PLP holds near and dear and have fought tirelessly for as we continue to build a more perfect Commonwealth.”

Two things I have to give the PLP and the Chairman of the PLP credit for here are the one the bringing about of this agreement and the wonderful things that this will now afford the Bahamas, I must make special mention of “Perry Christies claims [that the new agreement] will pump millions into the Bahamian economy’, I am thinking much how tax reform through the introduction of Value-Added Tax (VAT) has pumped  millions into the Bahamas economy, improving the Bahamas credit rating and improving the economic outlook of the Bahamas on the whole, creating a “more perfect Bahamas”.  I also find it fitting that this comes on the heel of our Majority Rule celebrations when another group would have the audacity to demand transparency and accountability from the Progressive Liberal Party government that has committed itself to the principles of “self-determination, sovereignty and the identity of the national identity of the Bahamian people.”

Indeed, the agreement, in principle, has the potential of providing huge benefits for the aviation industry and also to add money to the governments ‘coffers’ but we have seen far too often that this government can put the most wonderful plans into motion and the country as a whole just fails to benefit from them; a lot of us will wait and see where this road leads us.

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

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