Sometimes you should stop and face up to reality; this often takes a re-evaluation of the way is which you have been doing things and should bring you to a point where you can then go ahead and formulate a new plan and thereby chart a new course; it is painfully obvious that some in the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) party are totally unable or just unwilling to do this.

“Hanna-Martian defends PLP’s record” – The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article; “Defending the Christie administration against claims of mismanagement, Engerston MP Glenys Hanna-Martian insisted yesterday that the former government was good for the country.

‘We worked hard, but we were saddled with an opposition that sought to undermine our efforts every step along the way,’ said Hanna-Martian as she contributed to the budget debate in the House of Assembly.”

“…….Engerston MP Glenys Hanna-Martian insisted yesterday that the former government was good for the country”, she makes this claim after the former government increased the national debt and deficit which resulted in four economic downgrades in five years, in my humble opinion she should be ashamed to utter such words but clearly she is not.

There is an amusing contradiction in minister Hanna-Martian’s claim against the Free National Movement (FNM) while in opposition, “….but we were saddled with an opposition that sought to undermine our efforts every step along the way.”, I would like to question the minister if this is the very same opposition that she and her party constantly ridiculed and that her party Chairman labeled a ‘scrap gang’?

So, how do you allow a ‘scrap-gang’ derail your government’s plans?

Were they more powerful that you gave them credit for or was your government just that weak, incompetent, inept and lazy?

Ms. Hanna-Martian backs up her claims of the great works which the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) government achievements that go back to the establishment of the National Insurance Board (NIB) to the ‘difficult task of tax reform through the imposition of value-added tax (VAT), it is indeed funny that she would bring up the subject of VAT and imply that it was one of the things that was good for the country while many are still attempting to figure out why if VAT was such a success and exceeded all expectations, why did he country experience the four downgrades and the government seemed unable to slow the growth of the deficit?

“Hanna-Martian added that the budget communication delivered by Finance Minister Peter Turnquest was ‘drenched in politically biased rhetoric in a way I do not ever recall.’

“I say that very seriously and in a way that has been calculated to skew the truth,’ she said’

‘She further described the communication as ‘venomous and vitriolic.”

In other words, containing too much truth, as it began to expose the gross mismanagement of the people’s money by the former Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) government.

Minister Glenys Hanna-Martin should be ashamed of herself but I am sure that she is not.

The Progressive Liberal Party continues to fail for one reason, it is their nature.

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