I am becoming more worried by the leader of the opposition, Progressive Liberal Party (PLP), the Hon. Philip ‘Brave’ Davis’ thinking/thought process, as he attempts to do his endeavor best and keep the current Free National Movement (FNM) government’s ‘feet to the fire’ but with each attempts he only exposes even more how poorly the former PLP government, of which he was Deputy Prime Minister, governed the country.

“Davis blasts 2,500 job cuts in public sector as ‘shameful’” – The Tribune

Excerpt from this article; “PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party Leader Philip ‘Brave’ Davis said he is not surprised by the latest unemployment figures, which highlights a ‘shameful’ public sector shrinkage of more than 2,500 jobs, adding he believes the number will double once the complete picture is revealed.

On Friday, Department of Statistics said the country’s unemployment numbers slightly increased from 9.9 percent to 10.1 percent.  This snapshot into the jobs situation included he government sector decreasing by 2,555 people from 40,990 to 38,435, or by 6.3 percent.

Despite an increase in the number of employed people in the Bahamas – by some 3,575 moving the labour force from 200,155 to 203, 730 – the 1.8 percent growth was not enough to significantly impact the unemployment situation as the number of high school graduates outweighed the net increase in available labour.”

First Mr. Davis, let me point out to you as you seek to chastise the current government for the increase in unemployment numbers, Mr. Peter Turnquest has already pointed this out and explained it in the papers at least two days ago, now the question that you, Mr. Davis, should ask yourself is how did we get to this point?

Mr. Davis, I am worried about you now because it would seem that you did not realize the horrendous situation that your government created in the country by continuously using the public sector as a job agency, to pay back your political favors that you made on the campaign trail; as did other governments before you, but yet you now wish to demonize a government that finally seems to have the intestinal fortitude to correct this practice which the government can no longer sustain.

Mr. Davis, you seem to have no problem with suggesting that if your government had won, then you would have gone about business as usual, bringing the economy; already on life support, to a most certain death as your government was not successful in job creation as you would now criticize the current government of, claiming that they do not have a plan. This point is interesting within itself, because even as your government claimed to have had all of the plans the only plan that you seem to have, as far as job creation, was to over staff an already over burdened public sector. 

As you ‘blast’ the current government, will you state for the record that you are proud of the accomplishment of your party in terms of job creation and if you are then you may want to point them out to the rest of the country.

You and your government created a horrible situation within the public sector that has resonated throughout or economy and as it is being corrected, as it should have been years ago, you cry shame on a government willing to take the necessary steps to clean up your mess, you sir, have no shame about you.

END