‘The people are bawling, hurting more than before’- Julio S. Henry
Using his chance behind the microphone on the programme ‘Things to Talk’ on ZBVI 780 AM on Wednesday September 21, 2016, Henry said before the last election he saw representatives from the now ruling government very much alert, everywhere in the community having meetings, campaign rallies, “telling you how great the country is, how much money they had in the treasury, everything is good.”
He said he recalls the Premier Dr The Hon D. Orlando Smith saying that they had been doing so good in government that he was asking the people to give them a chance to continue the work they started.
People “bawling”
He pointed out that up to this day the people have not received a report from the ruling party and the people are “bawling”.
“I ain't calling the NDP liars…what I am calling the NDP is a sleeping government or they don’t care because they haven’t given us any report. People out here hurting more than they were before, we are struggling more than we were before, we have more taxes than we had before, we have the high prices in the country that we have seen in recent years, we seeing major business people in the community coming out and telling us that they have tried for years to meet with the premier to give him ideas…legitimate, logical ideas to help small businesses grow and in turn help the consumer and the country,” Mr Henry said.
According to him, one particular person that he knows has been trying for over three years to put forward their ideas for the small businesses such as to ease the taxes on the import duties on certain products coming in and then, put some mechanism in place so that the businesses that are benefitting from that low taxes will pass it on to the consumer. But instead he lamented, what was done a few years ago was, they dropped the income tax for some of the major players in the industry for a while just before the snap election in June 2015.
He said everything went up after the election including work permits and rent, the National Health Insurance came on stream and everything that a poor man has to pay went up except salaries.
Henry mentioned that he recalls the NDP promising “better days”, however, “How better are your days? Are you better off now than you were five years ago? Tell me if I am wrong, is the premier sleeping? Or is he fully alert and aware of what’s happening? Is he aware of your struggles out there in the community? When was the last time you see the premier walk inside Purcell to see if the grasses cut? When was the last time you had a real community meeting was talking with you and not talking at you?”
Mr Henry added that former Premier Ralph T. O’Neal OBE would appear to be sleeping but he was always fully alert, unlike Dr Smith who is wide awake but apparently sleeping.
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