Opposition MP Michael Weeks just could not wait to have his regular rip at the OBA government on Monday.

Although the Minister of Community, Culture and Sport on Friday corrected government information provided by the department about the number of young Bermudians who had been treated under a now defunct counselling programme — 32 not 447! — Mr Weeks used the incorrect information to say the OBA government did not care about Bermudians.

Why did Mr Weeks use false information? Perhaps he was absent from the House of Assembly and did not hear it. More likely, he was following former Premier Ewart Brown’s strategy for the PLP of a “sustained programme of ... disinformation and criticism ...” to remove the OBA from government.

When you consider the PLP’s commitment to disinformation and its hypercriticism of all things OBA, it is clear that its first concern is party, not people, not communities, not Bermuda.

Add in the PLP’s failure to apologise for the PLP government’s role in the loss of jobs and quality of life for thousands of Bermudians, plus their incessant efforts to shift the blame for everything on to the OBA, and you are left with a party that is shameless in its politics. The hypocrisy is monumental.

So, does the OBA government not care about Bermudians, as Mr Weeks would have people think?

Consider this: the OBA was elected to get Bermudians back to work. It inherited an economy in a death spiral, with investors leaving for other jurisdictions because they were soured by PLP government attitudes and policies.

The OBA government has spent the first half of its term in office rebuilding connections, opening channels to lure back job-making investments, restoring confidence in the Island as a place to do business and fixing government finances ruined by the PLP’s massive debt burden.

The goal is to get Bermudian families back on their feet. There is no mission more worthy. We are now starting to see signs of recovery. The process is slow and painstaking, but progress is being made. The future is looking a lot better than it was two years ago. We’re not there yet, but we’re on our way.

So, do we care? Damn right we care, and we’re going to prove it through jobs and career opportunities, through tourism revival, through responsible management of the public purse and through social spending that continues to support Bermudian families. Throughout the Government’s turnaround efforts, the PLP — the party of disinformation! — has been working to make sure the OBA government does not succeed. Getting back into power is its only objective.

The real question is whether it cares about Bermudians? Its leadership shows its does not.

• Lynne Woolridge, a government senator, is the chairwoman of the One Bermuda Alliance