MITCHELL TRASHES THE FNM ANNIVERSARY DATE

The following statement was issued by Fred Mitchell, Chairman of the PLP, on the anniversary of the FNM’s first election to office 19 August 1992

 The 19th of August, is a date that lives in infamy. That’s the day on which the FNM was first elected to office as a government. Notwithstanding the drubbing in the last general election, the Leader of the Opposition Michael Pintard and his colleagues, I see, were gathered like proud peacocks in a church to remember this date and are seeking to sear into the history of our country, the fiction that somehow their election on the 19th of August 1992, was a revolutionary moment.

While it is true that they defeated Lynden Pindling after 25 consecutive years in office, the record shows that their victory brought this to this country:

The dissolution of a land policy that is the direct cause of land price inflation today.

The scrapping of support for local agriculture that gutted the farming sector up to today.

The selling of our telephone company at a fire sale price so that we have the worst telecommunications system in the region today.

The giving of our national seaport of entry to a few families who control the entry of goods, especially food and they are suspects in monopoly pricing today.

Then there was the attack on our national self-esteem, the attack by the FNM on African history in The Bahamas was unforgivable. 

And the propensity to portray our own country as corrupt is another of their legacies. The Bahamian people in their wisdom elected these FNM folks to office 4 times.

Let us hope that we don’t have to go down that road again. Their mean-spirited policies designed to enrich the few not. 

The FNM should never again be part of the national public policy of this country. Rest in peace

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