MARQUIS: CARPET BAGGER AND RACIST:
By E. W. I. Watkins -
Nassau, Bahamas:

During the mid-1960s, one John Marquis, a Reporter with The Nassau Guardian, ran afoul of the then Government (UBP) and received his walking ticket out of this country. It was obvious at that early stage of his career that he was a racist with a Jim Crow mentality.

Some nine years ago, this Racist was hired by a local media as an Editor on a work permit. One of the conditions of that permit was that he should train a Bahamian to fill the capacity for which he was hired, at the end of his Contract. Nine years down the road, he has yet to fulfill that condition.

From the commencement of the Christie-led PLP Administration, this racist bombarded Christie and his Government unmercilessly. It is common knowledge that Eileen Carron has very close ties with the U. S. Government through a former U.S. Official, with whom a close relative was employed. It was only natural that the combination of a racist and a ‘flunky’ of the U.S. Government combined to do all in their power to bring down a legitimate elected Black Government of this country, that did not have the blessing of the U.S. Bush-led Administration. This ‘carpet bagger’ wasted no time, while increasing his coffers by publishing a concocted and misinformed version of the Oakes Murder Case, in ridiculing and denigrating the Government of this nation. When a group of citizens threatened to expose the true character of this individual, he wrote some tripe in The Tribune, saying that a lady friend once told him that he did not "look like a homo" or words to that effect. I do not recall anyone calling him a ‘homo.’ What I do remember is that Ricardo Smith promised to expose some pictures.

Marquis also wrote some garbage about his head being attached to the body of a homo or something to that effect. Those pictures, Mr. Carpet Bagger, do not look like fakes to me. What Smith should have done was made them public without saying anything about them. Word on the street is that the New Administration is about to give John Marquis Permanent Resident Status. If this happens, then the REAL reason for this Racist imported expat’s untiring efforts to bring down the Christie’s Administration would be revealed in its intricacies. He really worked hard, and with the procrastinated style of Perry Christie, was aided and abetted in achieving his perverted goal to add further INSULT and RIDICULE to Christie.

This perverted transplant, in his last assault on Perry compared him (Perry) with Bush and Blair. It would appear from his assault on Tony Blair, that he (Marquis) is blaming Blair for the large influx of Blacks in Great Britain. As I remember, after WWII, Britain opened her doors to Blacks from Africa and The Caribbean, and indeed all former colonies worldwide. At that time, Tony Blair was no where around – not even in a dream. In that same article, he – apparently trying to lick Brent Symonette’s boot – referred to Sir Roland Symonette, saying that Sir Roland instructed Sir Stafford Sands to get rid of certain individuals in the casinos at the port. For your information, Marquis, Sir Roland was only P.M. in public. Around that Cabinet Table, Sir Safford was THE MAN. When Pop and his crew started making noise, Stafford gave all – including Etienne Dupuch – CONSULTANT fees. When this fact was revealed, Dupuch wrote a series of Editorials explaining how he donated his ‘Consultancy fees’ to charity. There are many of us in John Q. Public that were around when you were kicked out of this country by Stafford Sands, and when the infamous ‘Consultancy fees’ were given to silence the objectors.

The majority of people in this country are fed-up with you and your degrading journalism of Blacks in this nation. One day Eileen Carron will awake from her slumber – I hope it won’t be too late – to see what the real motive in your journalistic mischief to gain Permanent Status, devious as it is, one has to be completely blind not to see that your diabolical goal, is to gain unfettered CONTROL of Etienne Dupuch’s beloved TRIBUNE. Carron, take note.

31 May 2007