What I find utterly amazing is the fact that the official opposition, Progressive Liberal Party (PLP), along with its supporters would now seek to take the words of truth spoken by a member of the Minnis administration and spin them for political gain; when in all actuality they are nothing more than a symbol of freedom of speech, a cornerstone of true democracy – apparently something not known or frowned upon in the halls of the PLP, both as a government and a political entity.

“Govt. losing creditability’ – McAlpine hits out over Oban deal” – The Nassau Guardian – 04.06.2018
“Charging that the Minnis administration appears to be in a desperate state for investment, Pineridge MP Fredrick McAlpine said yesterday that the government is losing credibility with voters over its performance, particularly its handling of the Oban Energies deal.
McAlpine urged Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis to listen to the people before it is too late.
‘The reality is we are losing creditability with voters based on our performance thus far,’ he said when called for comment.
‘That’s rough and maybe I shouldn’t have said that, but that’s the God’s honest truth.’
‘We are losing creditability with our supporters and the Bahamian people based on our performance. However we have an opportunity to fix it.”
Indeed, with free speech comes consequences and responsibilities and I am sure that the Free National Movement (FNM) member of parliament for Pineridge is fully willing to accept these consequences and responsibilities for these words and action in this instant as he seeks to represent the people who elected him to office.
With this being said, I would strongly caution the opposition for picking up this issue in the manner in which they did because it would be best for them to first be very mindful of the lack of democracy and freedom of speech within their very own political organization when a certain member of parliament thought it in the best interest of keeping his job to not represent the best interest of the persons who had trusted him enough to elect him as their member of parliament.
It is utterly amazing that they would attempt to have done this while also attempting to persuade their supporters and others that they offered an open and transparent political organization but would not allow one of their own to speak up in the best interest of the people that elected him to power and now seek to criticize one on side opposite for doing exactly this.
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