NASSAU, Bahamas – Government on Wednesday night used its majority in the Parliament to successfully amend a motion of no confidence against Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis that had earlier being tabled by Opposition Leader Phillip “Brave” Davis.
Davis had earlier told legislators that he took no pleasure in the moving the motion “but what is at stake is bigger than me or any individual in this the tenets, the laws, the conventions, processes, procedures and practices that undergird them.”
Davis had filed the motion amid concerns that Prime Minister Minnis may have misled Parliament during debate last year on a resolution to enter a five year agreement for the Town Centre Mall to house the General Post Office.
The opposition further claimed that the resolution was brought because the mall is partly owned by government legislator Brent Symonette, who was the minister of immigration and financial services at the time.”
He told Parliament that in 2017 Prime Minister Minnis had promised Bahamians “it would be the people’s time, but it turned out that the people the prime minister intended to help were mostly limited to his inner political circle”
When the motion was put to the vote, the four opposition legislators voted against the measure. (CMC)