$1M spent on QE II Park; $200k for Water Fountain
Senior Opposition Member Honourable Andrew A. Fahie (R1) warned at the February 4, 2016 Sitting of the House of Assembly that the NDP Administration is no longer in a position to lecture him or any one on financial management.
In response to a question to the Minister of Finance Dr Smith posed by Hon Fahie about outstanding Advance Warrants for 2015 that has not been brought to Parliament for Approval, it was unearthed that government spent $1 Million United States Dollars on the Queen Elizabeth II Park in Road Town on the main island of Tortola.
Of that $1M poured into the Park some $200,000.00 was for a Water Fountain. According to a source, the QE II Park is still not complete, and it remains unclear when it will be.
The project is being executed under the Office of the Premier.
Efforts to reach the Acting Permanent Secretary in the Office of the Premier, Mr Broderick Penn, on the QE II Park Project completion date and outstanding payments towards it, were not successful.
Irresponsible spending
In the last four years, the public, the media, talk show hosts and civil society have been outraged and shocked by the NDP’s Financial Stewardship of tax payers’ money. They cited a Cruise Development Project that was approved for $35M but now up to $82.9 Million and counting and still incomplete.
The controversial Minister for Education and Culture, Honourable Myron V. Walwyn, built a Fence/Wall around the Elmore Stoutt High School costing over One Million Dollars while most public schools do not even have basic supplies such as toilet paper.
It was also discovered that Premier Smith approved for himself a brand new 2016 Cadillac Escalade costing $92,500.00.
51M is being broke under VIP & $6M not broke under NDP?
In 2011 when the NDP took office, defeating the now Opposition Virgin Islands Party (VIP), there were $51M in the Consolidated Fund. The Premier announced that there is now only $6 Million as of December 2015. In 2012 with the $51 Million in the consolidated fund, Dr Smith told the residents of the overseas Territory that the VIP left the country broke. Interestedly, now with his administration leaving the Treasury with $6 Million, he is claiming with a straight face that the country is “not broke.”
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35 Responses to “$1M spent on QE II Park; $200k for Water Fountain”
Must be made of gold!!!!!!!!
What next. Cannot keep swopping over these two failiures.
Our kids should come first! And right now they need materials in school right down to toilet paper, and you morons are spending this much on a F* fountain?! Excuse my language, but after that Cadillac story, how can I remain calm?? Humble yourselves you pathetic Masons!!!!
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