I applaud his courage. There is so much that the Prime Minister needs to answer to this nation for that ninety minutes does not seem enough time.
I am hoping that Mr. Christie’s press people did not hand pick his questioners nor did they issue a list of questions that the Prime Minister wishes to answer. I’m pretty certain that didn’t happen.
I am not one of Mr. Christie’s questioners in that format. However, that does not stop me from questioning him from this format.
Since Mr. Christie is in the mood to answer questions, I have a list of my own that I will put to him.
Question 1
Mr. Christie, in the name of all that is fair and decent and kind and true, do you honestly believe that you have had an effect on this nation in a positive way since you have been Prime Minister?
Question 2
Mr. Christie, why in God’s name would you have something as important and critical to the future of this nation as FTAA in the hands of a man who has been inhaling oil based paints for most of his adult life?
Question 3
Mr. Christie, you created a Ministry called Financial Services and gave Allyson Maynard-Gibson a cushy job as Minister. What, if anything, Mr. Christie, has Mrs. Maynard-Gibson and her Ministry produced, created or executed in nineteen months?
Question 4
Mr. Christie both you and Mrs. Gibson-Maynard have mentioned one billion dollars worth of investment proposals that are before your government. Can you, Mr. Christie, get at least one investor to spend one hundred dollars out of that billion dollars of proposals, so that you can have one start-up project to your credit?
Question 5
I did not vote for you Mr. Christie, if I had, I would be kicking myself in the arse all over the schoolyard grounds – but tell me Mr. Christie, why haven’t you made a decent and competent man like Malcolm Adderley a Minister?
Question 6
About that little Junkanoo shuffle that you do Mr. Christie, do you see any resemblance between your junkanoo shuffle and what rooster do to hens, and is that all you have left, Mr. Christie?
Question 7
Mr. Christie, do you break out in cold sweat Sir, when you think of what Mr. Pindling was able to do, what Mr. Ingraham did, and what you have yet to do Sir?
Question 8
Mr. Christie, of the million and a half committees that you have set up, have any of them reported back to you as yet Sir, and are you duty bound to accept their reports and act on them, and if you don’t Sir, won’t their efforts be construed by your critics as just more waste of time?
Question 9
Mr. Christie, the Americans are on the move putting the bite on small island states. Do you see this county Sir, as an eventual outpost of America?
Question 10
If you plan to shuffle your cabinet Mr. Christie, isn’t that about the same as changing seats on the Titanic?
I expect that these are among the easiest questions that Mr. Christie will have to face. I expect that young journalists will really put some difficult questions to him.
Rupert Missick, The Bahama Journal
