Reflections on 49 Years of Bahamas Independence

Bahamian Independence: Where is the Strategical Empowerment of the Average Bahamian?

BAHAMIANS - TO BE INDEPENDENT OR NOT INDEPENDENT, THAT IS THE QUESTION?

By Dr Kevin Joseph Turnquest Alcena

LLB (Hon-1st Cl.), LLM (Hon-1st cl.) Ph.D. in Economics/Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology/Ph.D. in Public Health/Ph.D. in Herbal and Holistic Medicine/Ph.D. in Biogenetics/M.D. Titular Professor, Lawyer July 9 9 2022

As we here in The Bahamas stand on the precipice of celebrating forty-nine (49) years as an “independent” nation, I ponder on the idea of whether we have indeed attained real freedom. What then does it mean to be independent? What have we really achieved in pursuit of liberty? What have we gained in our ambitious attempt to climb the ladder to sovereignty?

Well, according to Maria Montessori, “Independence is not a static condition; it is a continuous conquest, and in order to reach not only freedom, but also strength, and the perfecting on one’s powers, it is necessary to follow this path of unremitting toil.”

Have we understood the conditions necessary to thrive as an independent nation? Or have we deceived ourselves into thinking that we have prospered in this capacity?

If we were to be honest with ourselves, have we carried out the mandate that was left behind by our forefathers to ensure that we are ‘one people united in love and service?’ Can we look through the dispensations of time and say that we have done all that we can as Bahamians to ensure that we are leaving this nation as an inheritance for our future generations?

Proverbs 13:22 says, “A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children…”

Have we done justice to that which was left behind by those that went before us, or have we carelessly squandered the resources and ignored their pleas of guaranteeing the next generation is taken care of?

Let us review what has been done over the past forty-nine (49) years.

Firstly, can we call a ten-billion debt advancement? Over the years to free ourselves from the bars of being dependent on other countries we have accumulated an astounding amount of debt that has left us I daresay, more bound than ever!

We see no improvement in terms of debt management. We have regressed as we have made ourselves slaves in our own country to China, the United States, Europe, even our neighboring Caribbean countries.

John Adams said it best, “There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.”

How can we say we are truly free when we depend on everyone to feed us, keep our economy running, keep our cars on the road, our environment secured, even our borders safe? How are we uninhibited when we do not see a need to break free from the chains of our self-created bondage?

We have become so complacent in being slaves that we fight to stay enshrouded in the safety net of captivity rather than war for true liberty. We have simply traded on task master for another.

We have trained each other, like the Pavlovian Model of Consumer Behavior to answer the call of the slave masters of our nation. This conditioning has matriculated down through the ages to the detriment of our children and their children’s children.

As a result, we have constructed a society of entitled, unmotivated and unproductive people who do not even comprehend the fact that they are in subjugation to a society that they will never be released from.

Most people are only living from pay cheque to pay cheque. Therefore, so many struggle to survive when it is time to retire because of the debt that has been accumulated over time. We have been conditioned by our leaders to borrow and borrow to the inconveniency of eternal servitude that our generational line must suffer through.

So instead of inheriting lands and wealth, we inherit debt upon debt. As Proverbs 22:7 declares, “The borrower is slave to the lender.” Can we in fact say that we have succeeded in our goal of being free?

Secondly, do you think it was the objective of our predecessors on their march to freedom to create a government that spends more time warring, rather than working with each other? “Party disputes are now carried to such a length, and truth is so enveloped in mist and false representation, that is extremely difficult to know through what channel to seek it out” (George Washington).

Successive governments - one after the other, continue the trend of the very thing our progenitors tried to escape that being partisanship in our political ideology.

How can an overcrowded Civil Service be called evolvement? The Bahamas is so far behind in terms of growth and development as opposed to our counterparts in the U.S., Canada, Africa, and the Caribbean. Why?

For one thing we cannot seem to grasp the concept of promotion based on training and skill rather than seniority.

Where then, is the strategical empowerment of the average Bahamian?

There is a consistent cry that the government has no money to hire. Yet we see the same people that have recently retired back in the public eye, paid thousands of dollars to ‘work’ on contract, while everyone beneath them carries out the labor. How can we say we are independent when even in the workplace, we do not believe in succession planning or giving others the chance to excel?

There is a persistent complaint by the powers that be, about the lack of trained young people, but when they become qualified, they are told there are no opportunities for them! But we wonder why when they go off to school, they have no desire to come back home.

The solution here is simple, let those that are retired, stay home and open doors for more opportunities for those that are qualified through incentivized programs so that they can come back home.

Moreover, when persons make the bold move to try and elevate themselves, they are met with all kinds of hinderances. The idea that they would have the audacity to step out of line and out of their place, reemphasizes the oppression we have been born into.

Galatians 5:13 states, “For brethren you have been called unto liberty: only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.” According to our constitution, we consider ourselves to be a Christian nation. If that be the case, why do we despise our own and not as the word says, serve one another?

Why do we instead continue to choose others over our own and exploit one other to please the slave masters we have inherited? Why do not help one another excel and elevate, rather than tear each other down? Why do we continue to keep the masses down and impoverished, rather than empowered? I ask you my brothers and sisters, is this what independence really means?

Ervin Welsh said, “It is important to know we can celebrate independence, but more so to ensure we are not living in-dependence.” How powerful is it when we comprehend the fact that to be free doesn’t automatically mean freedom has been gained?

When one looks at the fact, that we are set free on paper, yet we depend on everyone for survival. This has bled into our educational system that has for years been failing our children.

Why are still using the forms of standardized testing implemented by the British to test our children? Why do we still need to get accreditation from other countries before our children’s test results are placed on par with other countries so that they can go to school abroad?

After forty-nine years of independence why is the national average still a “D”? It’s a crying shame that this is where we are presently standing.

According to a survey done by the World Bank, the Caribbean countries has an 89% literacy rate which is surprisingly higher than the U.S.! Furthermore, The Bahamas ranks 7th in The Caribbean with a literacy rate of 95.6%. This tells me then than we as a people are just as capable of doing anything as any other country around the world.

If that is so, why are we still utilizing programs and systems from other countries to steer our educational system? Would not the people most suited to write programs for our schools, be other Bahamians that are well versed in Computer Technology?

This level of dependence will continue to stunt our students’ growth and progress. This was clearly seen, three weeks ago with the disastrous crashing of the LMS System utilized by the Ministry of Education that resulted in production of school report cards being delayed by two weeks!

Consequently, when report cards were picked up this past week, parents were not able to have their queries answered as teachers had already left for summer vacation. This is a prime example of why their needs to be an overhaul of the educational system and redesigned for optimal success of our children.

Finally, if we are to genuinely be independent, we must change the modus operandi of how we do business. We can no longer depend on Tourism to merely support us.

There must be a clear partisan, paradigm shift of our economy because income taxes are not going to do it!

While we were smart enough to rectify many of our impending problems, we must be strategic in our resolve moving forward collectively as a nation.

We need land reform. Sir Lynden Oscar Pindling institutionalized this country and I have not seen any other Prime Minister after him do so. Rather they have uplifted all their friends making them richer.

We have inherited over the last forty-nine years a tribal form of government, from both sides. The latest trend is maculating themselves in ego and positioning with the aim of personal gain first, as opposed to servanthood.

The wealth of this nation no longer trickles down, the status quo is ‘you get into politics, you take care of your friends.’

There is an Attaliah Spirt that has spread throughout the various ministries in this country, from education to government.

The continual assassination of those that try to bring change has always been overtaken by the misogyny imposed upon them and their voices hushed by the powers that be.

We must find another way to eliminate this Attaliah construct. As Nelson Mandela said, “For to be free is not merely to cast of one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”

After forty-nine years, are we living in true freedom or are we living a perception of what we think is liberty? Think on these things!

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Paul Rolle Falls on His Sword in the Execution of His Moral Duties and Responsibilities as Commissioner of the Royal Bahamas Police Force - RBPF

An open to Mr. Paul Rolle, former Commissioner of the Royal Bahamas Police – RBPF

Paul Rolle Fell on His Sword

Dear Mr. Paul Rolle:

You made me feel totally liberated today – when I read your cowardly words about how you were thinking about leaving the Force once again, but this time – you said that it was all about being forced to do something against your will in the execution of your duties – by senior politicians at the time.

I feel so liberated because I have been fired from a number of jobs in my life, simply because I respectfully spoke my mind and held my position; even if it means starving to death -bro.

I’ll live with principles.

You chose to be a coward, just to keep your job! That’s not a quality of a real man, in my opinion.

Carry on smartly.

Regards,

Dennis Dames

The Cannabis Industry in The Bahamas is On The Bahamas Government 2022-2023 Legislative Agenda

The Bahamas Cannabis Industry is in The Making

Cannabis Industry in The Bahamas is On The Agenda...

Attorney General, Senator Ryan Pinder Outlines The Bahamas Government’s 2022/2023 Legislative Agenda in the Senate

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“We will advance a comprehensive suite of legislation on the regulation of Cannabis, creating a new agri-business industry in The Bahamas. 

This legislation is internationally benchmarked against the countries around the world in the industry. The framework will be for the regulation of the medical Cannabis industry from the farm to the border, and will also provide a separate regulatory framework for industrial hemp, for wellness products and for pure industrial uses such as clothing, rope and building materials made from hemp. 

We will also provide a framework for the de-criminalization of possession of small amounts of Cannabis products,” he said.

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Michael Pintard Commits Political Suicide in Support of Adrian Gibson

Michael Pintard Drinks From Adrian Gibson Poisoned Chalice

The FNM Burns Out in Support of Adrian Gibson

By Dennis Dames

Ms. Loretta Butler-Turner, who is a press liaison officer for the Water and Sewerage Corporation board, said the following publicly as it relates to outstanding audits of the corporation – under the watch of The incompetent FNM administration of 2017-2021 - and Mr. Adrian Gibson, Long Island MP, Board Chairman:

“Actually, when this board came into being, there were two outstanding audits,” she said.

“It was 2018 and 2019 that the previous board never even signed off on. We have just recently gone through those to ensure that that is done. As a corporation, there should be an official audit done each year and tabled in the House of Assembly. So, you see, now, it would be going on four years that such an audit has not been tabled in the House Assembly.

“The job of the board now is to ensure that those two that were just waiting for the board’s decision to agree to, which we have now done, and the two that are outstanding, that they are completed.”

If this is indeed the case, then it’s a poor reflection of the FNM administration of 2017-2021 – under the inept leadership of Prime Minister, Dr Hubert Alexander Minnis – MP for the Killarney constituency. To make matters worse, the FNM party in opposition today are fully unified in their support of the incompetent Long Island MP, Mr. Gibson; whose board did no even sign-off on the 2018 and 2019 audits!

Mr. Michael Pintard, the now leader of the Official Opposition, hapless FNM party, and the Member of Parliament for the Marco City constituency - has unwittingly signed his political death warrant on this matter – in my humble opinion. His unwavering public support for the outright wrong on the part of ‘No-tabled-audits’ Mr. Adrian Gibson - as Chairman of a vital national entity – is political suicide, no doubt.

No Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas for you, Mr Pintard. You have shown that you are simply a political puppet of the sweetheart movement – in my view.

How Could ObamaCare Help The Bahamas?

The Importance of National Health in The Bahamas

Moving Forward With A National Health Care System For The Bahamas

By Dr Kevin Alcena

“The... patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don't take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop.” (Quentin Regestein)

This article will attempt to show the readers in an objective systematic way, an analysis of the importance of national health in The Bahamas in the form of a parisology.

“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.” (Buddha)

“The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.” (Colin Powell)

A National Health System coupled with good system planning would benefit the Bahamian society in a very diamantiferous way. We have to have a saxicoulus acephalous mandate for our health system for a generation that precedes us.

We must be smarter than the Americans and more diligent and transparent than the British. A comparative study of the two health care systems – The USA and The UK - conducted by some researchers a few years ago revealed that:

“According to a 2006 OECD comparative data study, the total health expenditure in 2004 by the United Kingdome was 8.3% of their gross domestic product (GDP), and the United States was 15.3% of their GDP - whereas the mean of 30 countries was 8.9%. This same study reports health expenditure in the United Kingdom as US $2,546 per capita, and US$6,102 per capita in the United States, - whereas the 30 country mean was US $2,550.

Not surprisingly, public spending differs quite significantly between the United States and the United Kingdom as well. Of their respective 2004 total health expenditure public spending - in the United States was 44.7% - whereas the 30 country mean was 73%.” (The Health Care Manager, Volume 26 Number 3).

The Bahamas can also learn a lot from the Swiss and Rwandans Health system. For example, “Rwanda’s health sector has undergone a fundamental transition in the last century; in the time before colonial era, health care consisted of traditional African healing methods. The German and later Belgian colonial period saw the emergence of faith-based health care, and with it - the introduction of modern treatment methods.” (Rwanda National Health Sector Policy, 2005).

We have to be very innovative and creative. The most important element in implementing a health system in the Bahamas is a health information system.

“A national health information system (HIS) plays an important role in ensuring that reliable and timely health information is available for operational and strategic decision making that saves lives, and enhances health. Despite its importance for evidence-based decisions, health information systems in many developing countries are weak, fragmented and often focused exclusively on disease-specific program areas.” (http://www.who.int/.../1HMN_Architecture_for_National_HIS...).

“Health care in Canada is delivered through a publicly funded health care system, which is mostly free at the point of use, and has most services provided by private entities. It is guided by the provisions of the Canada Health Act of 1984.

The government assures the quality of care through federal standards. The government does not participate in day-to-day care - or collect any information about an individual's health, which remains confidential between a person and his or her physician.

Canada's provincially based “Medicare systems are cost-effective - partly because of their administrative simplicity. In each province each doctor handles the insurance claim against the provincial insurer. There is no need for the person who accesses health care to be involved in billing and reclaim. Private insurance is only a minimal part of the overall health care system.” (Wikepedia)

Hippocrates, the Greek Father of Medicine once said, “A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.”

Health care is not a new phenomenon. Imhotep the Father of Medicine, was not just an imaginative architect; he was also a doctor and philosopher of the human body and mind and he contributed to medicine in a number of ways:

• “Imhotep's concepts included specializations in many methods of medicine, compared to today's physicians who primarily master one area of expertise. He introduced a blend of new methods including astronomy, philosophy, religion and protective amulets to achieve new breakthroughs.

He was a pioneer in helping to develop tracheotomy to resolve respiratory obstructions, cauterization to circumvent excessive bleeding while operating, and blood drainage to cure diseased collections.

• Imhotep diagnosed and treated hundreds of diseases including diseases of the abdomen, the bladder, the rectum, the eyes, and many of the skin, hair, nails and tongue. He treated tuberculosis, gallstones, appendicitis, gout and arthritis.

• A very significant resource of today's modern medical practices is irrespective of Imhotep's medical school; medical tools such as forceps, scissors and surgical blades were all imitative of ancient Egyptian medical apparatus. And certain remedies for elementary disorders that were introduced from ancient Egypt medicine are still practiced today; castor oil for laxatives, honey as an antimicrobial and Acacia as a cough remedy all are in retrospect of Imhotep's teachings and forward-thinking medical protocols.”

Imhotep’s most famous quote was "Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we shall die." Of course this is quite ambiguous today as we know diabetes, and hypertension is affecting the global health system like it is nobody’s business, and the general population of our global family is suffering as a result of their eating and drinking habits. Redd Foxx was also sardonic when he said, “ Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.”

According to the statistics posted by the World Health Organization for 2011:

• 346 million people worldwide have diabetes.

• In 2004, an estimated 3.4 million people died from consequences of high blood sugar.

• More than 80% of diabetes deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries.

• WHO projects that diabetes deaths will double between 2005 and 2030.

The inexplicable global health system in regards to obesity and hypertension has impacted all governments in the world in a negative way. Obesity is a resipiscence because it is one of the biggest health problems in the world due to our lifestyle of food choices.

There is a global war on obesity and health experts are stentorophonically crying out to the world’s citizens to stop this trilemma because it is killing us and putting a great strain on the health system. Some statistics taken from the World Health Organization points out that:

• Worldwide obesity has more than doubled since 1980.

• In 2008, more than 1.4 billion adults, 20 and older, were overweight. Of these over 200 million men and nearly 300 million women were obese.

• 65% of the world's population live in countries where overweight and obesity kills more people than underweight.

• More than 40 million children under the age of five were overweight in 2010.

• Obesity is preventable.

“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” (World Health Organization, 1948).

How would ObamaCare help The Bahamas?

It is quite simple. America leads and the world follows.

It is all indication that there is a new pedagogy in the global health system. ObamaCare will ignite the consciousness of leaders to implement a comprehensive national health service in their respective countries in a bombastic way.

Take a look at Cuba for example. “The Cuban health care system is respected around the world, and is literally decades more advanced than any system found in Latin America. For this reason, the Cuban system serves as a model for Third World developing nations.” (http://library.thinkquest.org/18355/health_care_in_cuba.html)

In conclusion, we in The Bahamas have an opportunity to model our health system with the best management team in our country. National health should be run by a quasi government corporation that compliments strategical business sense in the protocol of them delivering quality health service in a circumambagious way.

“The greatest wealth is health.” (Virgil)

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Crypto Will Never Replace Fiat!

Crypto will always be a transactional adjunct to both reserve and non-reserve fiat

 

- FTX boss Sam Bankman-Fried believes bitcoin has no future as a payments network, because its 'proof of work' system means it can't scale up By Zahra Tayeb - BusinessInsider -

THIS YOUNG FELLOW IS PRECISELY RIGHT FOR CURRENT AND ANCIENT ECONOMIC REASONS!

By: Professor Gilbert Morris:

This should serve as a cold shower for crypto-evangelists who have deluded themselves into thinking that crypto-money can defy the laws of supply and demand, volatility versus stability or even raise the dead…if you listen to their ignorant blatherings!

The fiat of fiats is not because it’s fiat, but because it’s legal tender and stable.

You may ascertain at type of person who sits at the back of the class without listening: because they’re the ones who compare possibilities at the margins to events at the centre-scale. Such persons respond by saying ‘well, the US dollar fluctuates…’, as if they can’t grasp the difference of a legal tender currency, that fluctuates within a band in a system that is global, compared to narrowly distributed crypto-money, fluctuating wildly in value…driven by a few “crypto-whales”, in a niche transactional vortex.

When one explains these basic, obvious points, crypto-dolts launch into incessant crypto-barking about how people - even Warren Buffett - just doesn’t understand what they understand!

Today, I found just how delusional they are, because even as this young fellow - from FTX - expressed views held by Mark Cuban, Elon Musk and Vitalik Buterin (cofounder of Ethereum) and Warren Buffet, crypto-Talibans can be heard dismissing him; suggesting that he needs to read some article they know of to gain perspective on a product he dominates!

This is their generalised reaction to statements from a person who is a market-maker for crypto, and sits at one of the world’s largest transactional nexus between crypto and fiat and transacts nearly 100 times their country’s GDP!

To the thinking person, the least interesting thing about crypto is it’s price, which is driven by a “beggar-thy-neighbour” model. The most interesting thing is the technology substrata, blockchain, where the true transactional revolution will emerge.

Distributed ledgers running as blockchain ir holochains actually reflect the ancient jurisprudence of Solon (630-560BCE), the great law giver: in that, at last - also reflecting the notion of the commonwealth of humankind advanced by Nicolas of Cusa 1401-1464).

Blockchain in its basic formulation can remake human civilisation.

This is the reason young techs in The Bahamas must grow out of the fat delusion that The Bahamas will be a “crypto-centre”: rather it’s future - if we have the resolve to innovate at scale at the pace of the market - will be in digital asset custody; built on the substrate of distributed ledgers. That means all digital assets, including NFTs, Tokens of every sort, NK contracts - and the holy grail - interactive and interoperable smart contracts will be the trillion-dollar opportunity for The Bahamas now and in the foreseeable near-future.

Crypto will always be a transactional adjunct to both reserve and non-reserve fiat and any first year economics student or statistician can witness that crypto has lost its oppositional trajectory and basically “aligned” with conventional currencies/money and does not now move opposite to it as an alternative should.

Crypto is also not like Gold; as gold is a commodity and possesses inherent or intrinsic value as a conductor of electricity for instance; necessary for advanced electronics such as both this mobile I’m using and this airplane in which I am traversing the heavens.

It has a use function and value inherent to what it is. Crypto does not.

That does not mean crypto is useless: it provides a niche payments channel and more importantly - something which most economists miss - a “savings enclave”, which has been missing outside high savings economies such as Japan. That is, crypto - as a proxy for fiat - operates like a zero interest, ‘proxy savings bond’, with the widest range of yield possibilities for cash-outs because of its volatility; driven by its frenetic value model.

It will play this double proxy role indefinitely, but will never replace fiat; although, it’s flexibility will instigate the rise of CBDC with hybrid Stable Coin features, which will lead the the true and necessary revolution: the destruction of conventional banks!

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Hubert Minnis, The Political Pariah of The Bahamas

Rejected Hubert Minnis, The Bahamas Most Notorious Political Outcast 

Dr. Hubert Minnis:  "A Politically Persona non grata".

Minnis Falls Far Short of Other Major Parties’ Official Leaders

By Fred Sturrup | GB News Editor | sturrup1504@gmail.com

Dr. Hubert Minnis is considered to be a political pariah.  He certainly fits the description of an outcast, much more so than any other leader in Bahamian political history, I submit.  This man has been rejected by the national voters in great numbers, and within the party he hangs on to, the Free National Movement (FNM), it is understood that the great majority wish he would just go away, resign, and get totally out of the picture.  Killarney could very well do with another representative.

 

The fall from political grace that, in my view, is the largest aspect of his legacy, puts Dr. Minnis in the ignominious category of one.  Given what happened under his watch; the questionable contracts, the inflated budgets, the attitude etc., I know of no other major party leader who bore as much or more public disgrace or shame.

  

Let’s go through the list of political leaders in the modern Bahamas.  For the now-governing Progressive Liberal Party (PLP), the leaders include Henry Milton Taylor, Sir Lynden Oscar Pindling, Perry Gladstone Christie and Phillip “Brave” Davis.   The first government of the country, the United Bahamian Party (UBP), had Sir Roland Symonette and Godfrey Johnstone.  The Free PLP/FNM’s list is longer, inclusive of short-term leaders.  The prominent chiefs were, of course, founding-leader Sir Cecil Wallace-Whitfield, Sir Kendal Isaacs and Hubert Ingraham.  Then, there were Cyril Fountain, Cyril Tynes, Henry Bostwick, Tommy Turnquest and Michael Pintard (currently in charge).  All of them, their faults noted, were thought to be honourable men.

What about Dr. Hubert Minnis?  The truth be told, there is the view that he sours the FNM.  And, he won’t go away.

In an earlier commentary in GB News, it was predicted that Dr. Minnis would be a great obstacle to Pintard’s leadership.  He seems determined to undermine the younger politician who has been widely accepted by FNMs across the length and breadth of this nation.  Pintard is certainly more dignified.  The antics of Dr. Minnis are disgusting.  He lost the election of 2021 and the FNM opted to change him and go with another at the helm.  That was the logical conclusion.  His decisions in leadership, for the most part, were not sound ones at all.  

Think about it for a moment.  Dr. Minnis could still be the executive leader of this country.  His Cabinet Ministers could still be moving about in the political style befitting their portfolios.  In particular, they could still be earning their salaries.  Cabinet Ministers each lost more than $60,000 because of the decision made by Dr. Minnis to call an early election, September 16, of last year.  He dealt serious blows to his party and the pockets of ministers, other parliamentarians and supporters with lucrative contracts.

Yet he sticks around, seemingly making every effort to upstage the sitting FNM Leader Pintard.  In that earlier commentary, I warned Pintard about what he was likely to face in Dr. Minnis. It is not a pretty scene for the FNM.  On the one hand there is Leader Pintard, trying valiantly to make his party relevant with the voters once again.  On the other hand, Dr. Minnis appears to be disdainful of Pintard and his status in the country as Her Majesty’s Loyal Official Opposition Leader.

 

The time has come for those who care deeply for the FNM to take a strong stand alongside Pintard, and insist that Dr. Minnis moves on.  If not, a fractured party will be the result and the FNM will not be able to go to the people for voting support as a unified body.

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