This morning it was my intent to comment on Progressive Liberal Party’s (PLP) member of parliament’s Chester Copper’s demands for an answer on disaster insurance, wherein he claims that the Minnis administration wasted money when it renewed the Caribbean Catastrophic Risk Insurance (CCRIF) which was cancelled under the Christie administration due to its high premiums and low payouts; to me typical of insurance.  I was wondering that due to the cancellation of the policy under the Christie administration, which saw the country having to borrow large amounts of money for restoration efforts; was Mr. Cooper going to demand answers as to the whereabouts of funds that had gone basically unaccounted for but I have deiced to give him the time to think about he is trying to say, as another subject surfaced over the past weekend which I found much more troubling.

Fred Mitchell’s rant shortly after the general election, which he likened them [the general elections] to nothing more than a game of sorts resurfaced in another form as I conversed with a Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) stalwart who refused to see the failure of the of both referenda (Gaming and Gender) as an indictment on the Progressive Liberal Party but as he would rather believe it was more of a sign that the Bahamian people at large just being afraid of change. 

It is my opinion that this myopic view by the ‘old guard’ of the PLP will continue to be the downfall of that party, preventing its progression, even as Chester Copper attempts to change the narrative of the party’s focus in the eyes if the Bahamian electorate’s view, there will always be persons like Senator Fred Mitchell who will refuse to allow the party to move forward….progress.

My opinion, is that the old guard and those with the same said mentality fail to realize that the main reason that the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) lost the last election so resoundingly was not that person were afraid of change; as they did change governments, voting out persons in areas that persons never thought would change, two areas being the Fox Hill and Centerville and Farm Roads, areas where persons were confident that would never change but yet they did.

It is clear that the Bahamian electorate lost all confidence in the Progressive Liberal Party’s ability at the time to successfully run the country but yet Senator Fred Mitchell still wishes to continue to return the country to a Progressive Liberal Party that just does not seem to know why they lost the general election and thereby wish to carry on with business as usual.

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

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