The results of an Open Current poll conducted in recent weeks in the Sea Breeze and St. Barnabas constituencies in New Providence that found the overwhelming number of those polled saying The Bahamas is going in the wrong direction are likely reflective of the wider country – and are also not surprising.

These are difficult times and these difficult times happen to coincide with weak and arrogant political leadership.

This is a toxic mix.

Open Current — a Bahamian company that provides research-based advice to governments, investors and organizations – said it conducted door-to-door surveys between July 9 and July 15, polling 409 residents in Sea Breeze and 391 in St. Barnabas.

It said the sample size of a single constituency is comparable to the sample size of some national polling.

Only 23 percent of Sea Breeze residents and 22 percent of St. Barnabas residents believed the country was going in the right direction.

“Overwhelmingly, it seems residents of both constituencies think the country is going in the wrong direction – 54 percent for Sea Breeze and a whopping 70 percent for St. Barnabas,” Open Current said.

Sea Breeze is currently represented by Lanisha Rolle, who won the seat with 58 percent of the votes in 2017.  Rolle was overlooked for renomination amid controversy surrounding her unexplained resignation from the Minnis Cabinet. 

The Free National Movement (FNM) has since nominated communications specialist Maxine Seymour for that constituency, but Seymour faces a tough time as the FNM is tremendously unpopular, unemployment remains troublingly high, and her campaign started months behind the highly organized and seemingly well-funded Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) candidate Leslia Brice. 

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