“Gray not sure why people are upset over carnival delay” – The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article; “Amid ongoing international and local outrage over the change of dates for Bahamas Junkanoo-Carnival, MICAL MP V Alfred Gray yesterday said the fallout from the delay will be a wait-and-see game ad insisted ‘reasonable people act reasonably’.

In a statement to the press, the Bahamas National Festival Commission advised that carnival dates have been changed from its previous dates May 4-6 to May 18-20.

‘The 2017 event will also be consolidated to one island on one weekend,’ the BNFC said. ‘The Music Masters Semi-final will take place in Nassau instead of Grand Bahamas.”

As usual the Christie administration in its implementation of a potentially major initiative, have failed and are now attempting to work backward to order to have the future of this particular initiative actually survive the light of day.  We have seen the Christie administration begin in grand fashion only to have to scale the event back each and every year because of the massive lost of revenue, instead of beginning on a smaller scale, growing a product that is actually marketable and able to be privatized in a more systematic manner.

What I find remarkable is just how out of touch Minister V Alfred Gray seems to be over the entire matter; I am shocked, I know I should not be but I am.

“Many local and international people have expressed outraged on social media over the late postponement.

The Bahamas Carnival Cruise, which was booked to bring over 150 visitors, has said the company is set to lose over $25,000 and its visitors may lose well over $150,000 in total.

When asked his thoughts on the outrage expressed on social media, Gray said. ‘I don’t know the basis upon which people are upset, but I think I indicated reasonable people act reasonably.”  Is Minister Gray actually intimating that those that had booked visits to the island or made other investments based on the previously announced dates for this event and are set to lose money based on these reservations and investment are being unreasonable? 

This reminds me of the attitude that the Christie administration took to the many delays of the opening of the Baha Mar project, with people losing money in anticipation of these openings and the government moving right along with business as usual.

I really should not be shocked at the attitude and cluelessness of Minister Gray, because he is the very same member of parliament that saw nothing wrong with him calling an island administrator on behalf of a constituent’s son who was locked up and suggesting to this local island administrator the ‘options’ that he had.

The seemingly abject cluelessness of Minister Gray in matters such as these; a veteran politician and purported attorney is absolutely amazing and only shows that he along with many of his parliamentary colleagues are totally unfit to continue to serve in elected office in any capacity.

I still wait for Minister Gray to break the tension that hangs over this situation by him telling us that he is only joking.

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

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