This past week had Philip ‘Brave’ Davis, Leader of the Opposition Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) ‘advise’ Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis that on his path to revenge that he should dig two graves; the irony of this statement is not only is the prime minister not on a path of revenge but the statement was made while Mr. Davis issued a subtle threat of vengeance to the prime minister of what his government would do when if they were to win the next general election. One would only assume that Mr. Davis was busy ‘digging graves’ at the time that he penned this letter to the prime minister.
He really must have, because it seems as if Senator Fred Mitchell, unaware of the ‘graves being dug’ – as usual, fell into one. In response to Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis’ address to the nation this past Wednesday, Senator Mitchell comments, “What concerned me about the speech is why do they keep talking down the economy?, Mitchell asked.
This is a rich country. This is not a poor country.
But everything that comes out of their mouth is woe is me…..doom and gloom.”
The irony of is that as the senator calls the country a rich country, he fails to address the economic path that the country has been on during the past administration with high unemployment, a growing national debt, a rising fiscal deficit and four economic downgrades with the possibility on the horizon of another, but I will agree that the country is a rich one but as I admit this I would also need the senator to concede that his government mismanaged the finances of the country and put it in a very precarious position.
When Senator Mitchell says; “So every investor who is looking at will say ‘Oh, my God, we can’t go to The Bahamas, things are terrible there. It’s falling apart.
The government said it is not going to happen and so on and so forth.”
Of course, when Senator Mitchell says that investors will say; “The government said it is not going to happen”, he is being very liberal in his interpretation of what is really being said, where he borders on deception but what is more worrisome about the senator’s comments is the assumptions that he makes of others. Senator Mitchell seems to make the assumption that any investor is too inept, lazy and incompetent to do the necessary research to find out the true economic state of The Bahamas; which would be in my opinion akin to the government of Greece deciding to not tell the international community the moment they went bankrupt and carry on as business as usual hoping no one notice; this approach is not only dangerous and reckless , it is plain stupid.

What Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis has actually done is lay out how things really are, openness and transparency, and begin to lay out a play to fix the problem, with the first step being a 10 percent cut in ALL government expenditure.

My Morning Paper had found that Senator Mitchell has the propensity to act as if he is the smartest person in the room, which may be the case in the Progressive Liberal Party headquarters but not nationally, and therefore treat all others as if they are beneath him intellectually, when in all actuality his ‘intelligence’ has proven to not be that much above ‘normal’; my advice to the the senator; re-evaluate the light in which you tend to see others and therefore treat others; especially those that oppose you as your day of reckoning cometh quickly.

Now while all this is going on Attorney Wayne Munroe has promised to compile a list of alleged questionable conduct by members if the Free National Movement which he promises to present to the new Anti-Corruption Unit of the Royal Bahamas Police Force (RBPF) to ‘see what happens’ and now we have the announcement of a national address by the Leader of the Opposition Progressive Party (PLP)  this Monday.  It will be interested to hear what he has to say because it seems that he and his party had little to nothing to say to the public during their 2012-2017 period of governance, now it seems that every time that they see a microphone and camera they get like a kid in a candy store with advise and criticism.

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