Just as the leader of the opposition the Hon. Philip Davis made the declaration that he does not support corruption in any form, in furtherance to his appeal to have Prime Minister, the Hon. Hubert Minnis ‘do the right thing’ and have National Security Minister, Marvin Dames and Health Minister Dr. Duane Sands resign or be fired, it would appear that maybe he [Mr. Davis] may need to step down himself.

At the very least a case can be made to have him step down.

“How STB’s emails were given to PLP” – The Tribune

Excerpt from this article; “A FORMER Nygard employee is claiming he knows Save The Bays emails and financial records ended up in a former MP’s ‘political garbage can’ in 2016.

Vivian Whylly, reportedly a former public relations consultant for the Canadian fashion mogul, alleges the emails and financial information were given to then Progressive Liberal Party deputy leader Philip Davis, who in turn passed them on to-then Marathon MP Jerome Fitzgerald.

He further claimed a former employee at Mr. Davis’ law firm kept the information on a red USB drive and shopped the STB emails to Nygard asking for $10m.

Based on his claims, a former STB employee and her husband – former Davis and Co. attorney – are also facing legal action.”

This case began with Jerome Fitzgerald, then PLP MP for Marathon and PLP Chairman Fred Mitchell, then PLP MP for Fox Hill; attempting to invoke parliamentary to read the private emails of Save The Bays and several of its consultants in the House of Assembly, the problem being they could not adequately explain how they came into the possession of these emails with Jerome Fitzgerald claiming that he had found them in his “political trash can.”

Save The Bays, subsequently was able to file an injunction to have the emails remain private and won a court case against the former PLP member of parliament for Marathon against the further sale and publication of documents relating to STB’s and those that were in support of the organization.

Supreme Court Justice Indra Charles declared Jerome Fitzgerald was not legally justified when he tabled in the private emails of the environment group in Parliament and therefore could not be protected by parliamentary privilege.

Fitzgerald was ordered to pay $150,000 in damages for the breach.

Now it is being alleged that it is was Philip Davis, then Deputy Prime Minister, who was the ‘political garbage can’ that Jerome Fitzgerald referred to, it is no concern of mine how the members in this party refer to one another but rather the fact that it would seem that the deputy leader of the party, now leader of the Progressive Liberal Party was complicate in this act to violate the privacy of other citizens of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas and if these allegations are indeed true then is just as guilty or even more so than Jerome Fitzgerald.

I write this not to plead anyone’s case or to point fingers.  I do not write this to suggest that one wrong is not greater than another or to suggest that ‘they did it’ but rather to see if there will be a call for equal treatment.  It is my view just as Dames and Sands are being asked to resign or be fired for behavior labeled as inappropriate, then the leader of the opposition along with his chairman Senator Fred Mitchell also should be called on to resign and be labeled unfit for service, all to stem the evil that is attacking our democracy.

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