As health officials continue to issue warnings about the risks associated with holding political events amid the worst surge in COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, Bahamas Christian Council (BCC) President Bishop Delton Fernander, in a message to the government, said yesterday, “we have to make it make sense”.

Fernander, the latest in a growing group of observers to call for caution as the election season intensifies, said there cannot be one set of rules for political parties and another set for everyone else. 

While political leaders have insisted that they will campaign safely, so far, there have been multiple events that made it possible to individuals to gather.

The BCC president said it seems that political organizations are throwing the health protocols “out of the window”. 

“We ought to be careful and mindful that we are still in a pandemic and the large numbers that are on trucks and vans is unacceptable,” Fernander told The Nassau Guardian.

“We are doing more harm to ourselves and the…democracy we want to sustain in The Bahamas.” 

The Bahamas continues to record a surge in COVID cases, hospitalizations and deaths.

More COVID cases (3,540) and COVID deaths were recorded in August than in any other month so far and health officials have warned that there is no expectation that the situation will improve in the immediate future, unless more restrictions are imposed.

However, despite the worsening situation that The Bahamas finds itself in, political parties continue to host public events in the run up to the September 16 election.

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