Dear Prime Minister,

First of all, my heartfelt congratulations to you on your party's victory. But I must remind you that you in fact did very little to earn the victory while Hubert Ingraham did everything imaginable to lose it.
No one should envy the mammoth task that you are now faced with in trying to get this country back on track. You must first convince the electorate that you can be a decisive leader, not by bullying, intimidating or threatening, but by tact and a firm resolve in dealing with indiscipline and/or inappropriate conduct by your members. Remember this was one of many factors that led to your 2007 defeat. Let it not be said about you that "if you show me a man that never made a mistake, I will show you a man that never made a decision".
You always say that every man deserves a second chance. You now have yours. Put it to good use in creating a legacy for yourself that would make your family, friends and supporters proud.
A commission of inquiry needs to be appointed to look into the following: The sale of the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC); the Cable Bahamas fiasco; the sale of the British Colonial hotel; the road improvement disaster; the Arawak Cay port project; the extravagant straw market contract; the illegal contract appointment of the commissioner of police which was, until Hubert Ingraham unceremoniously changed it to suit his own purposes, a constitutional appointment; the unconstitutional, immoral and dishonorable manner in which he dealt with contracts left in place by the outgoing administration in 2007; repealing the 2002 PM parliamentary pension act; and enacting a law that would bar an ex-PM from sitting in Parliament and drawing a pension.
It is not only incumbent upon you, but imperative that you deal with these issues in a decisive and timely manner so that in future a leader of his ilk would not be tempted to go that route.
I know that the task ahead of you is an awesome one; but the electorate is crying out for justice. Word on the street is that your administration would only be more of what we had. I am reserving my judgment and adopting a wait and see attitude.
In closing let me say to you that the last five years have played havoc with the middle class in this country. Many of them that you left as up and coming entrepreneurs are now bankrupt and their children are being denied a college education; homes and transportation have been lost and so has their status. These people need help now and they will be looking to you for help. Remember the saying, "Heavy is the head that wears the crown."

- Errington W. I. Watkins

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