{"id":20815,"date":"2012-04-23T09:22:04","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T13:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=20815"},"modified":"2012-04-23T09:22:04","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T13:22:04","slug":"plp-denies-event-cancelled-due-to-poor-attendance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/04\/plp-denies-event-cancelled-due-to-poor-attendance","title":{"rendered":"PLP Denies Event Cancelled Due To Poor Attendance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bradley Roberts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Chairman Bradley Roberts refuted comments made by Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham that a PLP event was canceled because of poor attendance.<\/p>\n

The PLP planned to hold a live town hall event at the Wyndham Nassau Resort on Wednesday night, but canceled it.<\/p>\n

\u201cRemember how I told you that the PLP is the party of \u2018delivery failed\u2019,\u201d said Ingraham at a mass rally on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast night (Wednesday), they failed to deliver big time. They booked two ballrooms at the Wyndham hotel in Cable Beach. They booked ZNS for a live town hall meeting to broadcast from the ballrooms.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a spectacular failure and \u2018buss-up\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe lights were there, the cameras were there. [PLP Leader] Perry Christie was there, [PLP Deputy Leader Philip] Brave Davis was there, Bradley [Roberts] was there, Jerome Fitzgerald and Paulette Zonicle were there and so was Julian Reid making up a total audience and cast of [fewer] than 20.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was all about profiling for the cameras, but there was no action.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey had to scrap the event. Truth is there is never any action from the PLP.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hear Christie was vex and \u2018cussing\u2019 up a storm. He was all geared up to talk to the nation on crime and the economy. They booked ZNS for two hours, you know. They were going to have a big panel discussion on securing our borders \u2013 town hall style.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe asked what happened. I could tell him what happened. Everything was \u2018buss-up\u2019 because nobody\u2019s in charge in the PLP. Too many cooks stirring the pot, no head cook.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Roberts said the prime minister\u2019s information was incorrect.<\/p>\n

According to Roberts, the party canceled because it felt its event would generate too much noise, disturbing an event next door.<\/p>\n

He told The Nassau Guardian that the meeting was supposed to be a private function broadcast on ZNS. \u201cThe event was intended to be a call-in forum,\u201d Roberts said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe parties concerned were there, waiting to get rolling with the event. Only we discovered that next door a concert was going on. The noise would have made it impossible for such a show to continue.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also pointed out that the guests who were invited showed up to the forum.<\/p>\n

Travis Cartwright-Carroll
\nThe Nassau Guardian<\/p>\n

Published April 21, 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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