I really do like Mr. Cooper. It is a good to look one's self in the mirror and acknowledge
ones mistakes. As you are a member of the PLP you make me very proud. and it enforces
my belief that the PLP is a great Party. God speed

hey birdie, you rented your home yet? i saw the ad in the classified.

Chester Cooper may have good intentions ......... but the PLP brand is irreparable ...... His only chance of becoming a viable national leader is to run on this "reform platform" at the PLP convention and challenge the Old Guard ...... Then if he loses, he can break away and create a new party because it would mean an obvious end to the Pingdomite PLP ......... Cooper wants to restore credibility ......... but the entrenched PLP elite may be beyond institutional reform

Words of a sensible man---He could go far!

“The truth is that––despite our shortcomings, history will judge us fairly…we helped many, we tackled issues, we left the Bahamas as a whole better than it was in 2012,” . He was doing okay until this sentence. "0" economic growth,four downgrades,$2billon added to the debt,double digit unemployment,all in the past five years,but the plp left the country better than they met it in 2012. He just lost whatever credibility he had.

Talk of re branding the PLP is pointless. The PLP brand merely reflects the attitude of its supporters. They are inextricably linked. Chester Cooper has some good intentions no doubt but he would be better off getting together with like minds and forming a new party with a new support base. PLP supporters have tolerated and perhaps even encouraged corrupt practices for so long now that they are incapable of changing their mindset. The PLP will forever be associated with corruption - it is too late to re brand.

Sooooooo, Is Cooper saying that his THREE senior HOA and TWO Senate colleagues come to Rawson Square in sackcloth and ashes and publicly beg forgiveness of The People?????

Fat chance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No matter his rhetoric, Mr. Cooper ran, and won his seat, under the PLP's banner. He cannot now disassociate himself from the brand upon which he staked his political future.

So true. Chester is a smart man. He knew of the malfeasance of the PLP and chose to wear its stinking coat, fleas in all, and to roll in the same dirt of corruption as the rest of them.

Chester disappointed me deeply. Respect is won in inches and lost in yards. I no longer have a high opinion of Chester. He is an opportunist without a moral and ethical compass.

What was he saying before Election Day?

he did say, on a talk show, that fitzgerald 'appeared' to have breached cabinet rules , once the rules were read to him.

he seems to me to be a hybrid of chippie chipman and alfred sears.

he cannot handle the ruffians at the plp.

An apology, though a good start, may not be sufficient here. It seem to me that it is time for the government to appoint a special body with a specific scope to organize these investigations and consolidate these findings with a duty to recommend further criminal/civil action to be taken and also recommend the structural, institutional and legal reforms necessary and required to be implemented to ensure that such blatant self-interest pandering and corruption never happens again in our country without dire consequences. People often wonder why our GDP growth is so anemic, and in fairness there are a number of reasons, but I am convinced that one of the primary reason is that for too long political actors have pursued economic policy decisions and laws based on their personal incentives for self gain, self-interest and corrupt practices. This is a self-inflicted wound and is just not sustainable.

sensible talk from the PLP side for a change.. he needs to tread carefully though.. i dont think the 'old guard' will appreciate a 'political babe' giving them advice.. but then again, he's in and most of them are not....

You lost because you're a bunch of lying tiefin crooks - saying anything other then that is more lys to cover up your pile (that's bigger then the nassau dump) of BULL SHITT!TTT!!!!!

You are joking aren't you"mistakes"??????????? how about outright corruption. As for your waiting for the FNM to "screw up" they have to clean up the mess that the PLP left before moving forward. The electorate are well informed and getting back the trust of the people will require a huge effort and sacking of any ex minister associated with the old PLP guard.

I started to listen to Mr. Cooper until he got to his "Brave lite" part. . .they left the country better than they met it in 2012? Then he went on to say that they made some mistakes? THIS MAN IS AS PLP AS BRAVE OR MITCHELL. . .SNAKES. . .ALL SNAKES THEY ARE. . .HE SOUNDED WORSE THAN DAVIS. . .AT LEAST DAVIS STILL DEFENDING THEY CRAP. . .BUT COOPER SAYING :"WEEN DO TOO BAD. . .BUT YA MUS SAY WE DID AN OUTSTANDING JOB FROM 2012 TO NAH". The PLP is hopelessly corrupted and incapable of any meaningful change to do the people's work and leave their own best personal interests out of government!! Mr Sear seem to be their best hope. . .but I would suggest that he starts a new party. . .possible taking his political skills and lead the DNA. . .get them ready for the next opposition come next election. Brand and that Mortimer man don't seem to have what it take to move that party forward with their same ole style of finding faults with everybody and don't see their own silliness. For example, Brand telling doc Minnis to do the right thing and resign as leader when LBT them jook him up in the HOA. . .BOTH LAME LEADERS SAID THE RIGHT THING TO DO WAS RESIGN. . .NOW THEY ARE SILENT ON THEIR OWN NEED TO FOLLOW THAT WESTMINSTER TRADITION THEY WERE ALL OVER THE PLACE RECOMMENDING THAT OTHERS FOLLOW!! Child please. . .them two jokers and now this lame duke dude talking foolishness!

the core value of the uBP was a paternalistic racism commonly acceptable in the world of the 1950's that the white races were somehow endowed with an inherent ability to govern people that was superior to that possessed by other races.This mind-set has of course now been discredited completely. However the core value of the PLP has always been to uplift the Afro-Bahamians and if this was to be at the expense of the Caucasian-Bahamians, then so be it because" it is our turn now.".The result is that the government finances are seen as a resource to be redistributed to PLP supporters as the Government finances were once controlled almost exclusively by the Caucasian-Bahamians.
.Giving million dollar contracts to Afro-Bahamians is not seen as wrong by the likes of Perry Christie and his supporters but rather the righting of an historic wrong.. Decades after Black Majority rule, Coming up to two centuries after the British abolished slavery, it is time for the PLP to progress beyond it's original and outdated mandate.
The tenure of Perry Christie was a disaster not only because of his own personal weaknesses but also because of the weakness of the political foundation on which he stood. Philip Davis might be making the same mistake of building his political career on a shaky foundation.

Would Chester Cooper be saying the same words if Perry, DrD, Shame, Gray, Kendred, Fitzie and Obie would have won re-election??????? ....................... I think not .................. Rebrand my foot!!!!!!!!! ............... LMAO