While interim leader of the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) states that they ‘heard the message that was delivered to us [the PLP] on May 10 and we are responding”, I would dare ask him, exactly what was the message as he understood it?

Excerpt from this article; “Reflecting on the Progressive Liberal Party’s PLP May 10 loss, Interim Leader Philip Brave Davis yesterday insisted that the PLP’s convention this week will show that the party has changed.

‘I hope that the convention will demonstrate to the Bahamian people that we have heard the message that was delivered to us on May 10 and we are responding,’ Davis told reporters after a prayer breakfast at Melia, Nassau Beach resort, which opened the convention.

‘So what they see at the convention, during the convention and post convention, will be a response to the message sent on May 10^th.

‘I expect us to reflect on where we are, understand the times and season that we are in and craft a new imaging of our party going forward.’

‘I think we need to be able to demonstrate to the Bahamian people that we are reworking our vision to reflect what the Bahamian people would like to see.”

As Mr. Davis states, they have listened to the message sent on May 10^th and as I have asked, exactly what was it that they got from this ‘message’? 

Mr. Davis and the Progressive Liberal Party would now have the Bahamian people believe that after six months as opposition, they have had a revelation and now have ‘changed’ and understand exactly what the Bahamian people need?

Would it not seem logical to Mr. Davis that if HE really heard ‘the message’ and really understood it, then he would/should realize that HE was/is a part of the problem and therefore cannot be a part of the solution going forward?

It is my opinion, that the Bahamian people rejected the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) to such a resounding degree because they had lost all confidence in them and saw them as being ‘corrupt’ or less than honest with them; doesn’t Mr. Davis see that if he wins he will also have to change his very own image in order to bring about a positive change within that party in the eyes of the people, because he to carries the stigma of the PLP being a ‘corrupt party’?

Mr. Davis speaks to crafting ‘’ a new imaging of our party going forward” but can he be a ‘bridge to the future,  as Perry Christie once purported to be when he [Mr. Davis] represents the image of the ‘old guard’, the persons that brought about  the deep mistrust of the PLP with the Bahamian people; this we will have to see as he promises “to demonstrate to the people that we [the PLP] are reworking our vision to reflect more of what the Bahamian people would like to see.”  But I have serious doubts that barring an act of God himself, that he will be able to convince the masses that the party’s image has changed along with its ideals, which it openly displayed over their last five years in government, over the past six months.

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