The tail no longer wagging the dog

Fri, Apr 1st 2011, 02:24 AM

It was already all over bar the shouting. From the moment the Government signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the sale of a 51 per cent stake in the Bahamas Telecommunications Company to Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC), it was a done deal. 'Much ado about nothing' was probably an apt way to describe the House of Assembly debate, from which many Bahamians will have learnt little and only got more confused.

Both FNM and PLP MPs appeared to very much be 'on message', to coin the phrase employed by one well-known UK political 'spin doctor', spewing out the partisan positions largely articulated by both sides in the run-up to the House debate. The most astut ...

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