“Christie pledges to meet promises” – The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article; “Prime Minister Perry Christie pledges to keep all promises he made in respect to Parliament, including the full reporting on value-added tax (VAT) revenue, and suggested this would be done before Parliament dissolves.

On the floor of the House of Assembly, Christie said the government has promised to indicate where the economy stands fiscally, and ‘I will meet all the promises that I made with respect to Parliament.”

Prime Minister Perry Christie, this all sound fine and well but I have two questions;

1. Does these new promises to fulfill old promises cover those made on the 2012 campaign trail and that were laid out in the Progressive Liberal Party’s ‘A Charter for Governance’ and;
2. If you plan to make good on all of these promises, will Parliament ever be dissolved?!

With only months before the next general election, the Prime Minister is now promising to fulfill the following promises along with quite a few others;

1. To give clarification on matters related to value-added tax and the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC), which I assume is appoint a select committee to probe the ‘controversial’ 2011 sale of BTC to CWC under the Ingraham administration.
2. To provide a report on Resolve Bahamas, wholly government owned special vehicle created in 2014 to take $100 million of the books of Bank of The Bahamas.
3. Provide an accounting on monies spent on various trips that were questioned by the public; a trip to Sri Lanka and one to the Vatican to meet the Pope.
4. Give answers on questions raised by Richard Lightbourne; MP for Montagu, concerning the government’s issuance of contracts for works so close to a general election.

Looking at these new list of promises a few are quite laughable; such as three and four but how long as the government been promising to form this select committee to probe the BTC sale and what has promoted him to finally want to offer a report on Resolve Bahamas?

As it concerns the particulars concerning the BTC sale; I ask is the Prime Minister promising to begin this ‘witch hunt’ and no matter who wins the government, if it is called before the conclusion of this farce; as it should be or is he hoping that if he calls it now and knowing that it will not conclude before next general election, it would then convince the people to keep him in office so that he can finish to build the ‘house of straw’ that he began?

Then there is the promise of a report on Resolve Bahamas, which was formed n 2014; why is it that only now some three years later we are being promised a report on the performance of this ‘wholly owned special vehicle’, which by my understanding was set up to collect the $100 million of debt from the Bank of The Bahamas, which by the way is still hemorrhaging money; will he be explaining this also?

Prime Minister Perry Christie still continues in the ways of the old politician, ‘promise a lot, deliver a little and ask for more time to deliver on what you failed to deliver on, even after you have had the opportunity to have delivered on them; just sad, out dated and a reason as to why we need a person of action and not a ‘sweet talker’.

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

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