L.O.O. Criticizes G.O.B. on Coastal Road Breakage  

The Leader of the Opposition also spoke about the recent breakage in some sections of the Coastal Plain Highway. Last week, portions of the road washed away under heavy rains. Notably, the Coastal Plain Highway was opened less than a year ago. Today, Barrow said the Opposition was shocked at the

deterioration, but blamed it on the government for compromising quality for savings.

 

Moses “Shyne” Barrow, Leader of the Opposition

“What was so appalling about it, the P.U.P. immediately put out an ad saying climate resilience and just completely dishonest. But what this highlights is all smoke and mirrors. They said that they were cutting costs, what they were doing was cutting quality, just to try to say that they were doing something special and they were implementing cost saving measures, but you don’t cut costs at the risk of what we’re having now, which is that the infrastructure is washing away.  And so this is shameful P.U.P. tactics. which is it was more important for them and then you know, you hear about all types of corruption in infrastructure.  Even the current minister of infrastructure, when he was in opposition and he and his prime minister, they claim that so much corruption was happening in the infrastructure ministry. With the lack of transparency, the lack of opening the pay stream, the lack of transparency, procurement measures tendering that is happening at infrastructure that they get like 200 million dollars every budget. We don’t know where that money is going, how it’s being spent, and whether we’re getting quality. I know we see that we have a quality issue, where the coastal road is concerned, and I would not blame it on the contractor. I would blame it on the government that forced the contractor to deliver.  Outside of the agreed upon quantum that it would have taken to get it done where it would be climate resilient.”