Progressive Liberal Party Statement on Straw Vendors

Wed, Sep 22nd 2010, 09:56 AM



Nassau, Bahamas - Enclosed is a Press Statement by Progressive Liberal Party.

The Deputy Prime Minister Brent Symonette's remarks about the
arrest of the vendors in New York is unhelpful. A Minister of Foreign
Affairs cannot come off as politically impotent in their situation.
When its citizens are in trouble, they expect that the government will
come to their assistance. Thankfully, the technocrats in Foreign
Affairs know what their job is: to intervene to ensure that there is
due process, that they are being properly treated and have the benefit
of all the rights to which they are entitled. Now is not the time to
lecture people about what they ought to be doing but rather to seek to
help in a bad situation...

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