PLP planning Majority Rule Day march

Wed, Dec 7th 2016, 10:12 AM

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of majority rule, Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Chairman Bradley Roberts said the party is planning a march on

January 9.
The march is planned for the same day as the We March Bahamas protest downtown, though it is unclear exactly where the PLP's march will take place.
"The PLP will be marching on the ninth in large numbers," Roberts said at a press conference on Monday.
"It will be marking the 50th anniversary that is significant for PLPs in particular, if you want to go back into history.
"We will be out there in big numbers."
On January 10, 1967, both the PLP, led by Lynden Pindling, and the United Bahamian Party (UBP), led by Sir Roland Symonette, won 18 seats in the House of Assembly in the general election.
The labor candidate, Randol Fawkes, was also successful in the election.
Both he and independent candidate Alvin Braynen threw their support behind the PLP, with Braynen accepting the position of speaker of the House of Assembly.
Their support resulted in the PLP forming the government, ushering in black majority rule for the first time in the country's history.
Roberts said marchers will be dressed in PLP paraphernalia and the march will likely take place in the Over The Hill area.
The PLP chairman said the final details of the march have yet to be decided, but the date is certain.
Our Carmichael founder and We March Bahamas organizer Ranard Henfield announced two weeks ago that the movement will march along Bay Street once again on January 9.
On Black Friday, Henfield led hundreds of Bahamians on a march through Downtown Nassau, demanding greater accountability and transparency from the government.
At the march, Henfield refused an invitation to meet privately with the prime minister.
He said Christie should publicly speak to the people.
Last Thursday, organizers of the march outlined 40 demands for Prime Minister Perry Christie to "immediately effect" for and on behalf of the Bahamian people and demanded the prime minister make a national address before Thursday to advise the public on what he has done to advance these issues since the Black Friday march and occupation or face consequences.
Roberts said on Monday, "I believe the prime minister has responded to all the questions they asked initially in detail and they come back again with some other demands again.
"When will it end, I ask.
"They didn't show the courtesy of being receptive of meeting with him (Christie), so you wonder how serious they are.
"But I notice that their leader has decided that he is going to step back now, so maybe he has had his bit of fame and so he has decided to go and crawl back from wherever he came from."
Roberts said he believes it was "distasteful" for march organizers to demand the PM make a national address on those matters and likened it to "putting a gun" to someone's head.
He added that it was a mistake on Henfield's part not to meet with the prime minister.

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