How sad that after abandoning its responsibility over five years:
• To refurbish and upgrade Accident and Emergency at PMH and build a new critical care block as well as a new child and geriatric ward at Sandilands;
• To improve and build new roads and decrease traffic congestion;
• To upgrade outdated utilities;
• To provide better access to clean water and better water pressure;
• To revitalize downtown Nassau;
• To remove the port from downtown and start construction of a new port;
• To build a new Straw Market;
• To dredge Nassau Harbour to accommodate the world’s largest cruise ships;
• To improve the quality of parks and recreational areas;
• To build a new Saunders Beach park;
• To beautify and keep clean New Providence;
• To begin construction on the new National Stadium;
• To commence the transformation of the Queen Elizabeth Sports Centre;
• To start construction on the new Lynden Pindling International Airport; and
• To complete the construction of or refurbish new courts, among many other projects, that the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) now begrudges the Bahamian people an improvement in their quality of life.
Not only will the government’s transformation and modernization program improve the lives of every Bahamian the opposition pretends to care about, it will also help to revitalize our economy and tourism sector.
The modernization program is also providing jobs for scores of Bahamians and opportunities for small businesses the PLP neglected during its last term.
It was the FNM that concluded an agreement to build Baha Mar including considerably more contracts for Bahamian small, medium-sized and larger contractors as well as skills training for Bahamian workers. With the improved and successfully completed agreement with Baha Mar, thousands of jobs will come on stream and the various infrastructural projects alone have employed approximately 850 Bahamians.
The opposition is so stunned at the amount of work that can be done in a single term that it is desperately trying to ignore what every Bahamian can see with their eyes: New Providence is being transformed into a world-class capital island. Instead of being happy for the Bahamian people, the opposition is angry and upset that what is good for the Bahamian people is bad for their political fortunes.
The Free National Movement
The Bahamas
April, 2011
