Is the NDP Gov’t too broke for a 2017 Budget Day?
Many continue to claim that the country is broke also due to the NDP’s reckless spending, such as a $100 Million Ports Development Project that the public was told will only cost $50M, a small wall around a school costing $1M as well as a $7M bailout of a bankrupt airline with the promise of direct flights from Miami, Florida, USA to the Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport on Beef Island.
The taxpayers were promised that the flights will start at the end of October 2016, it did not happen, and then a new date was promised for the end of November 2016. It did not happen and now we are given a new date of the end of December 2016.
Governor Duncan confirmed reckless spending
To his credit, Governor John S. Duncan OBE has confirmed the reckless spending by Government in a series of letters to the Premier and Minister of Finance Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith and the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. These letters were obtained by the local news media.
The House of Assembly will convene its Third Sitting of the Second Session of the Third House of Assembly on Monday December 19, 2016; however, the Budget Address will not be on the Order Paper.
According to a senior NDP source, “we are struggling with putting the figures together but it will happen…” The senior source went on to say “no need to panic we will pass our normal provisional Budget to take us up to the first quarter deadline.”
The source also confirmed that today December 6, 2016 the Premier will address the Territory and will announce a “budget date.”
Spin vs reality
In Premier Smith’s address today he is expected to paint a rosy picture of the economy and spin the hardship felt by ordinary citizens with banks taking residents’ houses, cars and lands at an alarming rate and children going to bed hungry, a fact confirmed by one of his members, Hon Alvera Maduro-Caines (R6).
Gun crimes are up in the Virgin Island with almost a shooting every week as well as young people continuing to say they cannot find jobs or get scholarships for higher education while being fool by the controversial Minister responsible for Youth, Hon Myron V Walwyn (AL), about “all he is doing for the youth.”
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28 Responses to “Is the NDP Gov’t too broke for a 2017 Budget Day?”
No one is asking why these figures are not being released as they are available.
Come on VINO push for the latest stats from FSC!
These will provide many answers and indicate how broke the country going to be.
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