This past week has seen the Progressive Liberal Party’s (PLP) propaganda ‘machine’ go from the absolutely obscure, illogical and desperate to the outright cruel and morbid.
This all began with; Cabinet reshuffled – Minnis moves for ministers “– The Nassau Guardian, July 3rd 2018
Excerpt from this article; “Four Cabinet ministers of the Minnis administration will have their portfolios reassigned this week in a Cabinet reshuffle just a year after the Free National Movement was returned to power.
The Cabinet Office confirmed in a statement yesterday that, ‘The prime minister advised Her Excellency, the Governor General, to reallocate the portfolios of ministers Renward Ricardo Wells, Frankie Alfred Campbell, Michael Clifton Pintard and Lanisha Tamar Rolle.” This would have been and should have a simple exercise, one which has been seen before but what made it amusing was the instant response to it by the Leader of the Opposition; Philip ‘Brave’ Davis and others within this party; responses that amounted to nothing more than speculation and supposition; “In response to the Cabinet changes, Mr. Davis said: ‘The changes in portfolio allocations announced by the prime minster amount to nothing more than political musical chairs. It accomplishes nothing of substance and is merely shuffling the deck of bad cards.
‘One year into the government, the prime minister’s move condemns his own government for incompetence and ineffectiveness…. The PLP is not impressed by any of it.”

There are several reasons, in my opinion, as to why a prime minister may shuffle his cabinet; to give ministers a better overview of government, to move more effective Cabinet ministers or just to keep Cabinet ministers “on their toes”; whatever the reason it was in this case I will say that if the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) had done it once or twice during their last administration then maybe they would have been a more effective government and not been perceived of as being the epitome of corruption entering the 2017 general elections and is Mr. Davis suggesting that Perry Christie never shuffled his Cabinet due to their competence? Such a suggestion within itself it laughable but also gives one leave for serious concern.
In this statement, the Leader of the Opposition seems to have taken leave of all common sense and rationality by suggesting that the governing Free National Movement (FNM) is actually attempting to impress him and the few that actually believe that he [the Hon. Philip ‘Brave’ Davis] can actually lead that party to an election victory.
Then we enter in the realms of the morbid, cruel and usual, wherein it was suggested in a rumor that Phenton Neymour, former Free National Movement Member of Parliament for South Beach, had died. This rumor was nothing more than a shameless and cowardly attach by ‘certain persons’ which should be condemned to the fullest; as to even begin such a rumor indicates that one has no moral compass and has borderline sociopathic propensities.
Now we end the week with the announcement by ‘sources’ that the Junkanoo groups have been given a choice of whether to have a Boxing Day Parade and a News Day Parade because, according to ‘sources’ the government has informed the Junkanoo groups that the government does not have money for both. I feel while this lie has been thrown out in an attempt to not only discredit the Minnis administration but in a shameless attack on a particular minster; again a shameless and cowardly attack, unknown sources and without the requisite evidence to support it but then speculation and supposition does not require proof, right?
So, there we have it, the PLP’s propaganda machine in all of it glory and hard at work spewing out the ‘necessary; lies no matter the consequence, and as they sit back and watch their handy work I wonder if they realize that “NO LIE LASTS FOREVER”.
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