Click the circle above to begin the audio of this podcast. Looking for the video version? [CLICK HERE FOR THE VIDEO VERSION] It’s Thursday 16th May and the attempt to reverse all of the good that the PLP has done continues. The press of The Bahamas is reporting that the Urban Renewal programme established by the Progressive Liberal Party is to be cancelled and abandoned. The new administration under Hubert Ingraham has decided that they will not support Urban Renewal or its goals. They have called all the police officers back to headquarters and they are to be placed on other duties. This is reprehensible. Urban Renewal was one of the most successful programmes of the government under Perry Christie. It was designed to try to tackle the housing and other social problems of areas infected by poverty and to see if in the process it could lessen crime. It worked because it saw the police officers as heroes of the neighborhoods, organizing both young and old people. Amongst the noted successes were the marching band organized in various constituencies. Another success was the senior citizens associations. But Mr. Ingraham now says all of that is to go. The PLP should condemn this and should continue to fight for its legacy. What is clear is that Mr. Ingraham is doing what he always does. He did it in 1992 when he organized a whole Commission of Inquiry to demonize the late Sir Lynden Pindling. Now he is seeking to do it to Perry Christie. What is especially laughable though is the appointment of his 20 person Cabinet with two Parliamentary Secretaries. If this isn’t a gussimae Cabinet I don’t know what is. Twenty members of the Cabinet and two Parliamentary Secretaries and he claims that this going to cost less by 27,000 dollars than the PLP cabinet of 17. This is a man living in cloud cuckoo land. The fact is a Minister of State gets the same pay as a substantive Minister. Calling someone a Minister of State does not change the cost to the Public Treasury. So what we have now is Mr. Ingraham fought an election to provide jobs for the boys and girls of the FNM. Each of the 23 is now in the Cabinet save Alvin Smith whom we gather is to become the Speaker of the Assembly. Mr. Ingraham has announced his team of Senators as well. One of them is the preacher who used the scurrilous and scandalous language on Clifford Park during the election to denigrate the PLP Members of Parliament in the most nasty way. Having sung for his supper he now gets his reward of a senate seat. Another FNM senator appointed is the losing candidate in Fox Hill who will no doubt now be making herself a perfect nuisance in Fox Hill. So what we have to say is this, the political deceiver is at it again. Having fooled the Bahamian public that he is a changed man, he is now setting about on a spending spree in the government the likes of which we have never seen. He has insulted the Bahamian public by making Brent Symonette the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs. Setting the clock back 40 years. The saying is he who pays the piper calls the tune. Just a word again to all PLPs to hold their heads up high. This too shall pass but we must fight and fight until this wicked man is gone. End Footnote: I would like to talk about National Health Insurance next time that too as you know has been cancelled. The public is getting increasingly concerned about the police force and how political it has become. It is said that Tommy Turnquest the new Minister of National Security was given a heroes welcome by the top brass of the Force. If the reports are correct about promises on insurances for the police. That was decided by the PLP and ordered before it left office. But the police must be a neutral force to an FNM force. Less