PLP Shadowboxing While the Clock Is Running

There is something tragically ironic about watching the PLP waste political ammunition arguing with FNM supporters over who hates ordinary Bahamians more. It’s like watching a champion boxer swing wildly at shadows while the referee keeps checking the clock. Entertaining? Maybe. Strategic? Absolutely not.

The FNM’s record is what it is—mismanagement, broken promises, and hardship policies that Bahamians didn’t imagine, didn’t exaggerate, and didn’t forget. That story has already been told, retold, and confirmed by lived experience. Rowing with die-hard supporters online doesn’t change minds, doesn’t improve lives, and certainly doesn’t win elections. It only wastes time.

The fundamental mistake, however, is not that the PLP responds—it’s what they respond with.
Instead of endlessly repeating how cruel the last administration was, the governing party should be unapologetically loud about what it has actually done. Because, unlike political slogans, facts have a stubborn way of standing upright.

No honest person can say VAT was not reduced. No honest person can deny that BPL bills came down. No honest observer can ignore the settling of long-standing union agreements, the salary increases, and the promotions given to people who had not seen upward mobility in years, sometimes decades.

And then there are the programs—many of them. Real ones. Tangible ones.
Youth programs like the National Youth Guard. Workforce preparation through the National Training Agency. Free digital skills training. Free entrepreneurship training through UB Ignite and the Small Business Development Centre. Free upskilling and international certifications through Upskill Bahamas. Free tertiary training in creative and performing arts. Free preschool education. Free primary and secondary education. Free tertiary education at the University of The Bahamas. Free training in agriculture and marine science at BAMSI—right up to the tertiary level.

That list alone dismantles the lazy claim that “nothing has been done.”

What has happened, though, is that some people have chosen to sit down, scroll endlessly, complain loudly, and do nothing—while opportunities pass them by in real time. That is not government failure; that is personal paralysis disguised as political outrage.

At some point, accountability has to be shared. A country cannot move forward if its loudest critics refuse to move at all.

Bahamians are not fools. They can compare. They can remember. They can measure outcomes against excuses. And when they do, the contrast is pronounced. One team governs; the other complains about governing. One implements; the other revises history.

With Philip Davis at the helm, the comparison is not even a debate—it’s a conclusion. And pretending otherwise doesn’t make it persuasive; it only makes it desperate.

The PLP doesn’t need to argue with ghosts. It needs to keep pointing to receipts.