Morning in The Bahamas again

Dear Editor,

The long nightmare which Bahamians endured for a little over four years is, mercifully, at an end with the election of the Davis administration two months ago. The draconian responses to the arrival of the pandemic and reaction to the devastation of Dorian pushed the Minnis administration straight over the cliff.

Countless Bahamians have gone bankrupt even if not in the formal sense. Many more are out of their homes and apartments due to inability to pay mortgages or rent. Children had to be pulled out of private schools here at home and abroad due to lack of funds by parents and guardians.

I don’t believe that a single sensible Bahamian would dare to blame the Minnis administration for all that has gone wrong but he was the competent authority and the so-called “man with the plan”.

It follows, therefore, that if the plan did not work or it simply puttered out, the good and the bad go hand in hand with the ugly.

Have you ever had a nightmare and had difficulty in awakening yourself?

That is the feeling inflicted, intentionally or otherwise, by Minnis and his people.

The current prime minister and minister of finance is an enlightened individual in more ways than one. He has a feel for issues and people that reminds me of the late former Prime Minister Sir Lynden Oscar Pindling. Brave, I submit, is the real natural successor to Pindling.

The Rt. Honorable Hubert Alexander Ingraham has leadership traits akin to Pindling but he appeared to be consumed with the exercise of pure power and tolerated few who opposed him.

Of course, he accomplished much and his legacy is secured.

The Rt. Hon. Perry Gladstone Christie, God bless him, was a showboat, in my considered opinion. His sole legacy is that he entered politics; he saw opportunities but, alas, he squandered whatever goodwill that had accrued to him by dilly dallying. It appeared that his political words were written on water.

Dr. Hubert Minnis was in a class all to himself, apparently sitting on a tall stool in the classroom trying, in vain, to grasp that he was in fact, prime minister.

He had a basically competent and hardworking cabinet but he appeared to be intolerant of many of them and micro managed their assigned portfolios.

He had to remind himself often that he was the big honcho on the block and that it was his way or the high way. What sealed his defeat in September 2021 was that his personality and facial demeanor did not lend themselves to softening his public persona and reception.

Long before September, a vast majority of Bahamians had decided that he and his crew simply had to go if The Bahamas were to awaken from the Minnis inflicted nightmare.

Now, it is morning in The Bahamas again. The birds are now singing melody songs again; the sky is bluer than ever before; the fresh breeze is blowing again and for sure their is optimism in the air amongst our people. What a wonderful morning!

— Ortland H. Bodie, Jr.

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