2018/19 Budget Communication 2018_2019 BUDGET COMMUNICATION | Página 9

have been bandied about in recent years as empty slogans
and without follow-through, to the point that they have
effectively become devoid of meaning. Our predecessors
perfected the art with flowery rhetoric, exaggerated
adornment and unrealistic optimism and promises. It is little
wonder that, in the end, their approach to governance was
doomed to failure and their administration to rebuke and
rejection.
The previous administration talked a good game but
then perennially proceeded to play by its own rules, which
meant that there was no responsibility for its actions and no
accountability to Bahamian citizens.
Our Government will not play by that rulebook.
Bahamians want to know, indeed they deserve to
know, the truth in respect of the state of, and prospects for,
the national economy and the public finances, as well as
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