Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis continues his crusade to convince the good, right-thinking citizens of Golden Isles that they should elect Darron—wait, who?—Pickstock. Yes, that’s the typical reaction you’ll get when his name is mentioned in conversation: “Who is that again?”

According to The Nassau Guardian, the Prime Minister told PLPs, “We need this seat.” Apparently, that’s now a sufficient qualification for leadership—being needed by the party, not known by the people.

Let’s recall the scene: Davis, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with his ever-faithful Deputy Prime Minister Chester Cooper and the Senator Darron Pickstock, declared that this election is “a test of whether we still believe in progress, steady hands, and sound judgment.”

A fair statement, Mr. Prime Minister—except your choice of candidate suggests that your definition of “sound judgment” has gone missing somewhere between Western Grand Bahama and Golden Isles.

Because really—who is this man you’re asking Bahamians to trust with their future? This isn’t the first time Davis has rolled out an unknown and called him a visionary. Remember Kingsley Smith of Western Grand Bahama and Bimini fame—or rather, infamy? The people there sure do, and not fondly. The man has been so invisible that locals now joke that “ghost” is the most fitting word to describe their MP.

The whispers from PLP headquarters are that Smith won’t be re-nominated in the next election, which would be a mercy for his constituents. But here we are again, watching history attempt to repeat itself—this time with Pickstock as the sequel nobody asked for.

Davis insists that not electing Pickstock would somehow “send the country backward” and “halt the progress” of his administration. Oh yes, that mystical progress—the same one that’s been as hard to find as these candidates’ track records.

If this is what “steady hands” and “sound judgment” look like, then perhaps the brakes should be applied before the nation’s so-called “progress” runs completely off the road.

The people of The Bahamas deserve better than being told to trust a Prime Minister who keeps endorsing strangers and calling them saviours. Because right now, it looks less like “building a fairer, stronger Bahamas” and more like playing political roulette—with the country’s future as the bet.

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