PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party chairman Fred Mitchell and Englerston MP Glenys Hanna Martin paid tribute to Felix Bethel, a former professor at the University of The Bahamas and a public servant, who died last week. In an interview with The Tribune, Mr Mitchell said Mr Bethel was a brilliant man who he thought had never reached his full potential. “He was an incisive intellectual and a man with a very sharp wit. My association, of course, dates back to the year 1974 when we were both juniors of the public service. I was at Bahamas Information Services and he worked at the Ministry of Transport,” Mr Mitchell said.“It’s very unfortunate that he didn’t get - as a result of some missteps by the administration at that time - he didn’t get the opportunity to be promoted into the upper ranks of the public service. “The loss to the public service was the benefit of the academy and I think he did an excellent job in training generations of Bahamians in the thousands…about the Bahamas, about his political life and public policy. I think we lost a good citizen of the Bahamas.”

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