“PLP will boycott Parliament until ‘point is made” – The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article; “Days after Attorney General Carl Bethel called the Progressive Liberal Party’s (PLP) boycott of Parliament unacceptable’, PLP Chairman Fred Mitchell said Bethel has no say in what the party does and that it will continue with its boycott of Parliament until the ‘point is made’.

Mitchell said the PLP is boycotting Parliament over the ‘judicial condemnation’ of two Cabinet ministers in the Frank Smith extortion and bribery trail.

Minister of Health Dr. Duane Sands and Minister of National Security Marvin Dames were called to testify during the trail.  In her ruling, Chief Magistrate Joyann Ferguson-Pratt was critical of Sands’ and Dames’ conduct in relation to the case.  The PLP called on the men to either resign or be fired.

In a statement yesterday, Mitchell said, ‘The PLP makes this gesture of defiance to say that there cannot be business as usual.

‘The attorney general has no say in what the PLP does or does not do.’

He added, ‘When it is judged in the best interests of the country and the point is sufficiently made, our leader will lead his colleagues back into Parliament and not before.’

PLP senators withdrew from the Senate last Thursday after the PLP Leader Philip Brave Davis announced that the party will boycott the House of Assembly.

At the time, Mitchell said the boycott was in protest on the ‘prosecution’ of PLP supporters by the government.”

So the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) has put the pursuit of democracy on hold for either until two FNM members of parliament are fired or in support of “PLP supporters” accused of “several fraud-related offenses.”

Let me first make the observation that the opposition Progressive Liberal party (PLP) ‘conveniently’ became enraged with the entire system and walked out to ‘support PLP supporters’ being taken before for the courts on fraud charges, this after the night before a message was sent out requesting PLP supporters to meet with their leader at the house courts in support of the former Urban Renewal workers, it is funny how that just worked out.

Chairman Fred Mitchell suggests first that because PLP supporters were being charged and brought before the courts is why they are staging a boycott but it can also be for the reason of two members of parliament not either resigning or being fired; maybe it is both?

The leader of the Opposition Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) recently stood before a group of supporters and told them, as he defended the former Urban Renewal workers, who Chairman Fred Mitchell labels as “PLP supporters”; “Accusation is not the same  as proof” but yet the chairman of the Progressive Liberal Party has rallied the troops and boycotted Parliament for the firing of two ministers based on accusations, as nothing in the magistrates ruling(condemnation) points to any illegal act by any of the ministers.

Then there is the leader of the oppositions utterance that he does not support corruption and that there must be evidence, but even in the absence of any evidence he and his party sees fit to boycott parliament in support of ‘PLP supporters’ presently before the courts on fraud charges; exactly what message is the leader of the opposition sending here?  If they are found guilty how will he account for his present actions?

Indeed, this is nothing but political posturing at the expense of the people and most likely to their detriment, because while they have convinced their supporters to come and ‘dance with them’ in this reckless act, these very same supporters have NO voice in parliament.

The Progressive Liberal Party fails for one reason, it is within their nature.

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