Recently, Progressive Liberal Party MP Leslie Miller went on talk radio to complain bitterly that this column [Bahama Pundit] had “lambasted” his appointment as BEC chairman.
Indeed. I wrote that Miller’s appointment had “turned back the clock” on one of our key economic sectors (Miller had been BEC chairman for three years from 1987 under the Pindling government).
But Miller went on to say that I was part of a racist “conspiracy to enslave the minds of Bahamians”. The object of this conspiracy (involving environmentalists and journalists) was to prevent the use of liquified natural gas (LNG) to generate electricity in the Bahamas.
Miller claimed, “The minute you say LNG, instead of looking at the subject they kill the messenger, and I happen to be the messenger…People like Smith and (that) little group of conspirators try to hold the majority of the Bahamian people back and keep them in their place. They want to dictate the course of our country to the detriment of the many.”
For those who may not recall, in the last Christie cabinet Miller was an ardent proponent of foreign proposals to build LNG regasification terminals in the Bahamas to send natural gas imported from Trinidad to Florida via an undersea pipeline from Bimini or Grand Bahama. These proposals were never approved.
Excerpt from the Bahama Pundit by Larry Smith
