“Mitchell: Public service verification exercise farcical” – The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article; “Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Senator Fred Mitchell yesterday called on the government to rethink its ‘farcical’ employee verification exercise.

Mitchell said it is ‘ridiculous and laughable’ to expect Governor General Dame Marguerite Pindling, among others, to identify herself to the treasurer of The Bahamas or have their pay interrupted.

He said it is an ‘indignity’ to require ordinary Bahamians to stand in line to ‘prove who they are.”

I would just like to take the time to make a note of the fact that a  process intended to make an attempt to clean up the system and make it more effective and cost efficient is seen as ‘farcical’ by the Progressive Liberal Party’s (PLP) senator.

As it pertains to the Governor General Dame Marguerite Pindling, among others, to identify herself/themselves  to the treasurer of The Bahamas or have their pay interrupted my question is if she is being paid by the government i.e. from the public purse, why so it be an ‘indignity’ for her to verify but of course Senator Mitchell would like to paint the picture of Governor General Dame Marguerite Pindling, standing on a line in the hot sun at C. R. Walker in order to comply with this new requirement of government employees but only Mr. Mitchell can paint such a picture of ‘gloom and doom’ which would be so far from the truth.

Also, the senator claims it in order for these persons to prove who they are but I dare to say that this process is about so much more than just this, but more of a process to verify that these persons who have checks going out every week and every month are actually still employed by the government and are still alive.

What is really ‘ridiculous, laughable and farcical’  is that Senator Mitchell actually took the time to come up with an argument against this process to clean up the public service pay roll, which sees money paid out, which the country can no longer afford, to persons that do not deserve it.

It is obvious that the senator seems to no longer have anything of worth to contribute to the national discourse and the forward progress of the national and should just simply walk away from it all.

Who is Senator Mitchell speaking for?

Whose concerns is he actually addressing?

Who does he represent?

One last point and yes I can get ‘dead’ petty with persons that seek to be ignorant and petty, with that being said I would just like to say I wish that I was the person to personally have to sign off on Senators Mitchell not being paid if he wishes to defy the verification requirement.

“Fred who?”

Maybe then he would really get the true appreciation of the concept of “tit-for-tat”.

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