EDITOR, The Tribune.
No matter how hard they try, the PLP can’t shake Peter Nygard’s dubious legacy. Always bragging about how much money he contributed to their campaigns, Nygard has become inextricably connected with the party in the mind of most Bahamians.
And just when they thought the coast was finally clear, he came back, like the Ghost of Christmas Past, to haunt them once again!
Back in February, when Nygard’s offices in New York were raided by the FBI, the PLP chairman Fred Mitchell told Bahamians to take it all with a large grain of salt. Nothing to see here! It was all a setup, a fraud designed by the PLP’s enemies.
rrolle@tribunemedia.net
PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party leader Philip “Brave” Davis said allegations against Peter Nygard in a new indictment “are extremely serious and disturbing and should be pursued to the full extent of the law”.
“We hope the women involved receive justice,” he said in a Twitter post yesterday afternoon.
The comment came after the Free National Movement released press statements accusing the PLP of being silent on the matter. Mr Nygard was a benefactor of the PLP for years.
“For too long Philip ‘Brave’ Davis, Fred Mitchell and the PLP’s senior leadership sat quietly saying nothing as troubling allegations swirled around Peter Nygard,” the FNM said.