A COMMISSION OF INQUIRY IS NECESSARY

During the past week, the FNM was again the focus of a demand for a criminal investigation into malfeasance by the officials of the FNM when they were in Government.  This arose principally out of the revelations  coming from a law suit by Kay Forbes Smith, the former President of the Senate and former Managing Director of the   Disaster Relief Authority.  This was the superfluous body which was created by the former Prime Minister Hubert Minnis to oversee disaster relief in Abaco and Grand Bahama arising from Hurricane Dorian.

Kay Forbes Smith, who is the hardest of hardcore FNMs, to the point of being obnoxious,  took home the princely sum of 150,000 dollars per year with perks  and had a fixed term contract with no break clause or so she argues in her law suit which was filed by Fred Smith Q C.  Here we go again.

The usual suspects lined up to get all they can get from the public treasury. 

If she is correct, she will collect upwards of 500, 000 dollars, that’s a cool half a million for not doing a job  from which she was fired and she no longer has.  There is something wrong with that picture.

Alex Storr who is the Executive Chairman of the DRA responded immediately by pointing out the irony of that demand against the results on the ground of the management of Kay Forbes Smith.  People are still homeless and others living in damaged conditions and there is little evidence that anything was done by the disaster relief authority under the management of Kay Forbes Smith.

John Pinder who is the MP for South Abaco was incredulous given the evidence on the ground that very little if anything had been done and the suffering which still obtains as a result of Hurricane Dorian.  Yet Kay Forbes Smith is demanding from the Bahamas Government, taxpayers money, half a million dollars.

Then it was revealed that a contractor one Elvis Curling was collecting millions of dollars to  sift through and collect debris as a result of Hurricane Dorian. Again the evidence on the ground is that nothing has been done. Mr. Curling said that he thought that he performed a creditable job and Peter Turnquest who hasn’t told us where the missing 28 million dollars in his case is, defended Mr. Curling.

This is all FNM friends family and lovers stuff.  It screams out again for at least  a Commission of Inquiry, if not a criminal investigation into where the money went and how it was spent.