“PLP: The only party that can deliver” – The Bahama Journal
Excerpt from this article; “It’s been a trend since 2002. After every term, Bahamians change governments but the narrative from the current Progressive Liberal Party government is if you want real progress at least two terms will be required to truly meet the people’s needs.
PLP Chairman Fred Mitchell has said that the Davis Administration will need at least two terms to accomplish all that it has promised in its manifesto ‘The Blueprint for Change’.
Now Prime Minister Philip ‘Brave’ Davis speaking at the Carmicheal Constituency branch meeting on Wednesday night is also making the call for voters to give them a second term.
PLP members and supporters in attendance let the prime minister know that they are ready to go to work on the campaign trail. However, he told them ‘there is still a way to go’ before they need to hit the ground.
Prime Minister Davis spoke on a number of topics including housing again reminding how his administration has built more affordable homes in their two and a half years compared to the Minnis administration.”

Indeed, the Davis administration has a way to go before they can hit the road; they first have to accomplish something worth note worthy and not just simply “riding the wave” by completing the initiatives of the Minnis administration before it and shamelessly taking credit for it, but I guess the argument that governments are continuous will be applied by their best pundits, so leave that there and move on.

Chairman Fred Mitchell speaks to their narrative being that they will need two terms to bring about any meaningful change as they campaign for a second term, something that has been their goal from winning the last election. Their goal has been to have Davis be the first prime minister to have back to back terms since Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham; so what if they have mislead the public to make this happen?

So, they do not and cannot speak to their narrative littered with political propaganda, lies and hatred; all aimed at creating separation within the public and to deflect away from their current course of failure.

Now whenever anyone from the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) from its leader down to any one of its supporters makes such a bold pronouncement as; “PLP: The only party that can deliver”, I find it very funny. 

So what does one use to back up such a bold pronouncement?

“The Prime Minister not only boasted about his administration accomplishments in home building but the recent removal from the European Union (EU) blacklist for countries considered tax havens; an increase in salary for nurses, teachers and public servants; and the raising of the national minimum wage.”

To this I asked and have been asking for quite some time now; how has the Davis administration proven that the reduction in value-Added tax (VAT) but the addition of VAT to breadbasket items and medications helped the average working man or woman?

We are still mindful of the mess made at Bahamas Power and Light (BPL), that the prime minister and the former minister that oversaw that corporation both denied making, that has resulted in the highest power bills that most of us have seen in our life time,

So the question  to  the bold pronouncement of , “PLP: The only party that can deliver”, is deliver what  and exactly what has been delivered to date?

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

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The New Day Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Government seems to want to move the more serious and concerning news from the front page and replace them with more upbeat news; more like the travels of the prime minister I can only imagine.

“PM: KEEP MURDERS OFF THE FRONT PAGE – Davis says local press coverage of killings harming tourism” – The Tribune

Excerpt from this article; “PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis criticized local press coverage of the crime rate yesterday, saying prominent reporting of murders has a ricochet effect that is harming the tourism sector.

His comments quickly drew attention to the Progressive Liberal Party’s infamous decision to erect billboards around New Providence highlighting the murder rate under the last Ingraham administration, a move Mr. Davis defended, despite fear that it would deter tourists.

The PLP erected billboards around New Providence highlighting the murder rate under the last Ingraham administration.

The country’s murder rate has repeatedly grabbed headlines this year and sparked travel advisories from the United States and Canada. Mr. Davis said concern is growing about the nature of media coverage of the incidents and the potential tourism fallout.

“Right now, the hotels are seeing some fall off, but more importantly, those who are in the hotels today, they’re not coming out into the community,” he said yesterday during a meeting with religious leaders.

“They’re not going to the restaurants, for example. They’re not going sightseeing as they used to.”

Mr. Davis urged the press to understand their role in maintaining the country’s reputation. He said other countries give less prominence to certain crimes than the local media does.

“I want to call upon the press to be sensitive,” he said.”

“The country’s murder rate has repeatedly grabbed headlines this year” and only to think that we are only in February, if we do not get a serious hold on this matter then we may end up with a very situation.

Now Prime Minister Davis comes out and must admit that the serious crime rate is affecting the ‘Golden Egg”, a fact that most of us knew would be the consequences just through simple logical deduction.

To be totally honest, Prime Minister Philip E. Davis K.C. really concerns some persons with some of the statements that he has made, like asking us to accept as fact that he did not appreciate, at the time, the ramifications or even possible ramifications of the now infamous “Murder Boards” on the tourism product;

“Yesterday, Mr. Davis said: ‘That the past: I am looking forward.’

“What I am saying now is, I now have evidence that this is impacting how it’s accepted in the international community.  I didn’t have evidence then on how it is accepted, and now that I know how it is accepted, I will say to the press, just be responsible in how you report to ensure that you don’t harm your country.”

Is he for one moment intimating that for a moment that he was too ignorant to be able to make the logical link between the rise in crime and the fallout in tourism?

If he had not become prime minister and had not been out in this situation, would he never have had someone make the logical link for him?

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

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They say that if you elect a clown, then expect a circus; well it would appear that the people elected a squad of clowns and not seem shocked and dismayed that we now a full blown Carnival.

“Munroe hopeful crime ‘spurt’ soon behind us” – The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article; “Minister of National Security Wayne Munroe yesterday expressed confidence that the Royal Bahamas Police Force will soon be able to get a grip on the crime wave impacting New Providence, and pointed out that there have been similar periods in the past where such “spurts” have happened.

“What people overlook is every year you have spurts, you know, and if you sit with police, they show you how one thing is inter-related to the other, and it’s like a fire that burns intensely, and then you have lulls, and so last year, I believe March, April was the period, and it happens that it’s the beginning of the year, and it may be as the police adapt then that quells it,” said Munroe, after police reported a series of shootings on the weekend.

Two men were shot dead in separate incidents, and there were four other shootings since Friday that resulted in individuals being taken to hospital.

Since the start of the year, 22 murders have been recorded in The Bahamas – 21 in New Providence and one in Abaco.

After 22 murders were recorded in March 2022, Clayton Fernander (the now commissioner of police) called it “one of the highest months ever in history”.

Munroe said yesterday law enforcement authorities and the government are constantly looking at ways to strengthen the fight against crime.

“Right now, they’ve come to me. We’ve come up with some ideas that we’re going to be moving forward with,” he said, referring to the police.

“Some of it involves getting more technology.”

Most of the killings have been retaliatory or gang involved murders, he said, noting that in one recent case where three men shot dead another man, at least 80 rounds of ammunition were fired.

Munroe pointed to a statement he made in 2013 that there is no silver bullet to stop a “generation of killers’’.

“Unfortunately, if you don’t stem the recruitment for the gangs, then you can continue to have a surge so we can get anxious, but if we concentrate to stop recruitment, that’s the medium, short and long-term solution because as this violence continues people get arrested, people get remanded and all of that,” he said yesterday.

“When you continue to have new recruits and there are people to get involved in it, if you cut off the recruitment there’s a limited pool, and eventually you will get a grip on it because as people glorify it, as the new people come in, it continues to spawn recruits and as you get the recruits, then the recruits, their parents, their families, and then it becomes a culture.”

“Hope for the best but plan for the worst”, remember being on Fort Campbell Army Base in Kentucky, and hearing this but I am sure that I that I heard it before spending time at that U.S. Army Base. 

As we listen to the Minister of national Security address the escalating violent “spurt” that has rocked the country seemingly from the beginning of this year; you get the sense that he is suggesting that if we were to leave things long enough; let them run their course, then they will eventually go away – I guess he is taking the same stance to this that he took to COVID-19, but of course a responsible government should not and could not take such a reckless and dangerous stance.

While he seems to be suggesting this. It appears that the prime minister is now telling the people that crime is social problems and is everyone’s problems to solve; while this is indeed true; a truth that Munroe and the Davis seems to remember as their convenience – dey like play forget ya see. I would just like to remind them that it was the very case when he was erecting the now infamous “Murder Boards”, probably during one of these very same periods of a “surge” as the Hon. Wayne Munroe would have it, but then blaming it on the FNM government at the time and justifying it by suggesting that the government was unable to control the “surge” of violent crime and as the leader of the opposition at the time, he was duty bound to let the truth be known.

Now the show is on the other foot and probably one size to small and the Minister of National Security is now asking us to hold hands and pray that it simply goes away because to date him nor anyone under his charge has presented a viable solution to the mitigation of the surge of violent crime.

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

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