Prime Minister’s Budget Full of Deception and Evidence of Contempt for Bahamians; PM Offers No Plan to Manage Debt or Grow the Economy
In the real world, our country faces a very serious crisis, one that urgently requires a major response, including a plan to take on $10 billion in debt and a plan to kickstart our recovery, create jobs, and make our economy more dynamic and more inclusive. But the Prime Minister can neither produce nor execute […]
Minnis Fails to Erase His Legacy of Neglect in Grand Bahama
Ginger MoxeyProgressive Liberal PartyCandidate for Pineridge Grand Bahamians were treated today to another display of contempt from the Minnis government. The Prime Minister tried to pretend he cared about the fate of Grand Bahama today. But believing that he cares would require us to ignore the evidence of the last four years; Minnis leaves behind […]
Ready to Serve: PLP Ratifies John H. W. Pinder II for South Abaco, The PLP Slate is Ready; The Country is Ready for Change
The Progressive Liberal Party has ratified John H.W. Pinder II as candidate for South Abaco. With his ratification, the PLP’s slate of candidates is officially ready to compete in the upcoming general election. Pinder, an Abaco native and a direct descendant of Hope Town’s first settlers, joins a diverse and exciting group of candidates, who […]
THE PRIME MINISTER IS ONLY CAUSING FURTHER MISERY BY STUBBORNLY REFUSING TO TAKE ADVICE AND LEARN FROM HIS MISTAKES
The extensions of the lockdowns in Central & North Andros and Cat Island are unnecessary. The Prime Minister, the Competent Authority, is only causing further misery by stubbornly refusing to take advice and learn from his mistakes.
STATEMENT ON 2021 BUDGET COMMUNICATION
The budget communication presented by the prime minister today demonstrates that the Minnis administration is living in an alternate reality. This administration is clearly not equipped to provide the country with a path out of our crisis. After our consistent advice, we had hoped that this budget communication would have begun the conversation on the […]
Statement by Leonardo Lightbourne, PLP Candidate for North Andros and The Berry Islands On Lockdowns in The Berry Islands and Andros
Due to increased cases of COVID-19 on Andros and in the Berry Islands, the government of The Bahamas placed Bullocks Harbour and Great Harbour Cay on a two-week lockdown on Saturday May 22nd, 2021 and North and Central Andros on a two-week lockdown effective Monday May 24th, 2021 at 8 p.m. These new measures add […]
CHESTER COOPER MP, PLP DEPUTY LEADER, SHADOW FINANCE MINISTER
We note the Minnis administration’s release of the estimates on the performance of the economy in 2020. The release of such important data heading into a holiday weekend is telling. But there is no getting around how serious this situation is. A GDP contraction by 25 percent in nominal terms, and nearly 15 percent in […]
Minnis’s Repeated Failures Lead to More COVID Cases and More Lockdowns, Hurting Bahamian Families and Hurting Our Economy | Davis Sponsors Free COVID Testing
This evening, the Prime Minister announced that Cat Island and North and Central Andros will be placed under a 14-day lockdown. These restrictions, which prohibit all in-person activities, including burials, will cause great hardship to the Bahamians living on these islands. The lockdowns are a response to outbreaks that began earlier this month – outbreaks […]
The Competent Authority is Not Competent
Another Sunday, another 5pm National Address by a Competent Authority who has lost the trust of the Bahamian people. Seventeen months into COVID, the Prime Minister and Competent Authority of One keeps making the same mistakes, including: The government is failing to test enough to keep pace with COVID outbreaks, relying too heavily instead on […]
On the Extension of the Emergency Orders
The Bahamian public learned today that the Prime Minister has decided to grant himself a new extension of his emergency powers, to the 28th of May, allowing him time to secure approval from his yes-men in Parliament to prolong his current emergency authority for another six months.
