“Ministers vow poll won’t alter agenda – No ‘instant fixes’ for position govt. inherited from PLP” – The Tribune 13^th April 2018

Excerpt from this article; “ACTING Prime Minister Peter Turnquest admitted yesterday the government’s communications with the public have sometimes missed the mark and says it plans to ramp up it public relations efforts soon.

His statement came after poll results by marketing and research firm Public Domain showed fewer than 50 per cent of Bahamians say they are generally satisfied with the performance of the government.

Mr. Turnquest said the results did not make him ‘feel badly’, nor would they disrupt or prompt it to change course.

In a few years, he said, hopefully Bahamians will look back at this period and characterize it as a rebuilding phase.”

First, at this time I would like to issues a challenge to anyone, and I do mean anyone, who wishes to contradict the government’s current position of ‘no quick fix’ to counter this statement’ position with a ‘quick fix’ which would stabilize the economy and turn it around; if this has not already been done.

The government’s real problem, as per their own admission, is one of the lack of communication to the people that have elected them to these positions and this is a very serious problem because even if you are doing ‘great works’ and ‘moving mountains’ on the peoples behalf, the people would like to know what are these ‘great works’ and exactly why did you move that mountain that has been there since “King Hatchet was a Hammer”.

It is well known that in the world of politics that you must always keep people informed as to what you are doing because most will not go out and seek the information and will then tend to accept the first explanation that they get, no matter from whom or how erroneous.

It should be seen as commendable and courageous for the government to not mind the noise in the market and to stick to their beliefs if they fervently believe that they are for the betterment of the country, even in times when others around them do not see the vision and therefore, this position has brought you nothing more than grief but the only way to bridge this gap between your vision and what the people are experiencing is for  the Free National Movement (FNM) government to inform the people of its ‘great works’ because if they don’t then it goes against the very basic principles of transparency and accountability and if they are a government that wishes not to adhere to these two axiomatic principles, then they will go the way of the governments before you that thought that they did not have to be accountable and transparent with the people of the country.

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