Mr Roberts, your memory is either short or confused. The previous government that you support wasted money like never seen before, incurring a huge debt that this and the next generation will have to pay, notwithstanding a repackaged PLP getting re-elected and continuing to waste money. Poor people and the fast disappearing middle class struggled to feed their families with even staples costing a fortune by adding VAT to everything and what do we have to show for this sacrifice -nothing. Projects were mismanaged, not put out to tender, jobs given to supporters even when there was no actual work to do, and the countries financial status being downgraded. Carnival failed, BAMSI is a costly joke, Bahamasair a financial money pit along with BOB. Nothing to apologise for?

Great effort especially when you consider the small population from which to choose athletes compared to the big countries.

What about one person hired as a head janitoress but never worked a day on one of the family islands.

What you did Mr Davies and your Prime Minister was saddle this administration and the Bahamian public with a huge almost impossible debt even after record VAT revenues. As for caring for the people your own leader said that the PLP takes care of its supporters and by association Damn the rest. All your mad hair brained schemes such as Bamsi and long since forgotten failed projects are still being paid for.

Unfortunately this is the reality of the last government out of control spending. As a nativet of Eleuthera why is a small fortune being spent on levelling the ground before construction can even start of the so called "mini hospital". When clinics do not even have basic supplies surely this is the time to review costly expenditure programmes like these. Figures of 30 million have been bandied around for this construction .Can we as a country afford such luxuries when we can't maintain what we already have ?

This failure of Davies to accept reality and Mr Coopers summation of the PLP election defeat is just what we expect. Mr Davies, your party was riddles with corruption and it would take a book to mention them all.Minnis spoke the truth about getting the financial house in order and this will be distorted by Davies and his followers. The message needs to be clearly conveyed in simple language to the average Bahamian how financially ill this country is. Some points you might want to ponder Mr Davies re "being painted in a corrupt light"
1.First class travel to China several times, first class hotels
2.Fweddy travelling all over the globe, first class and for what ?
3.Our hypocritical minister of education (Fitzgerald) telling students to work hard to getr employment whilst trying to get all the lucrative contracts at BaiMar.
4.Maynard Gibson,(family) having the shops in BahiMar.
5 A geriatric 80+ year old being paid over $450,000 as advisor.
6.Minister in charge of BEC not paying his own electricity bills.
7. Contracts given out to PLP supporters (CHristies own words).No bidding.
8. Private land being purchased for the Government when Crown land is available nearby.
9. Hiring unqualified persons with no meaningful function to simply make the party look good.

The amazing stupidity of some PLP supporters is astounding. There is one hell of a difference in a cost overrun (look at the new American carrier) and having money paid into a US account, or soliciting for all the generous contracts at Bahi mar, or the garbage collection racket or the allocation of most of the stores in Bahamar to a PLP family or lecturing people on how high the cost of electricity is when you don't pay your own bills, or loosing /wasting the countries money on bribes, unnecessary jobs (Baltron Bethel) and finally wasting all the VAT money and creating several generations of young Bahamians to foot the bill.

Painful but commonsense. Drastic cuts have to be made, unfortunately many Bahamians are totally unaware/uneducated or simply cannot understand that government is in effect like running a household budget and you cannot continually spend what you don't have. The effects of not getting fiscal matters under control now will make todays hard times seem like luxury compared to what could and would happen,

Funny you should be so concerned Birdie, I know of cases where government jobs were never advertised and simply passed down from Mother to daughter. PLP family of course. What about the FNM daughters and or families, did they matter ???

So its the "peoples time" ???????? I have to go to A & E, be surrounded by thugs, mentally unstable, aged, sick, dying people and wait for hours waiting to maybe attended by an overworked staff but a wealthy politician who probably had but could well afford private care is given special treatment. ????????????? IStupid Stupid Mr Minnis when every dollar counts or is austerity only for the unwashed masses.