Minister Hughes expects the nation to believe that she had nothing to do with this contract award

Apr 14, 2019 Letters

Dear Editor,

Several letter writers have voiced their concerns on the government’s overreaching expenditure and contract awards. From Minister Jordan’s unilateral decision to increase the no-tender contract limit to $20 million to the current supplementary budget preparations by entities within the Ministry of Business, all raise questions about the motive of the gov’t.
It is difficult to fathom how a group of politicians, who used corruption of the previous government as their central theme and platform in the 2015 Elections, can now so unashamedly indulge in those very acts. First, if we go back to the medical supplies’ warehouse/bond contract entered into by Minister Norton, we see a building with hardly any real storage capacity, and worth a few hundred thousand dollars at most, procured for several million dollars.
Further, Mr. Bulkan’s Ministry, which has not been able to utilize its annual budget for several years in a row, is now suddenly seeking a supplementary budget for each of its entities. What are those urgent additional needs that were not contemplated when the current budget was tabled and passed? Then there was the husband of the Housing Minister who was awarded a huge contract to build houses. No one in the gov’t saw the conflict of interests in that deal, either. Who would believe that a Minister living in the same house with her spouse didn’t know about that contract?
Now they are again attempting to throw dust in our eyes. Minister Hughes expects the nation to believe that she had nothing to do with the contract awarded to Videomega, a business she owned. The Minister/owner concept stinks of undue influence. How should the public view such contract? Hypocrisy at its best!

They seem to have forgotten their ‘good/better life’ promises or perhaps we missed the true intent of that promise, i.e., the good life/better life was meant for those in control of the economy, and not the masses.

Yours sincerely,
Ronald Singh

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