The People’s National Movement Government has spent seven months reviewing, auditing and consulting without doing any real work to manage the country’s affairs.
This was the view of Oropouche East MP Roodal Moonilal, as he contributed to a debate on the mid-term budget review presented by Finance Minister Colm Imbert in Parliament on Friday.
“After seven months they have not built a house, a townhouse, an apartment, an outhouse, but they giving out all the houses we built,” Moonilal said.
Moonilal was the former housing minister under the People’s Partnership government.
“They are taking too long to manage the affairs of the country. They are watching back and going forward. And two of them talking about threatening jail. After seven months, they have taken no employee to court or prosecute or fine. They are ghostbusters.
“Continue to threaten jail and audit, you will end up doing nothing. You have squandered the time.”
According to Moonilal, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley “came to house tonight to frighten T&T.”
He said according to the PNM, the country had two choices, either citizens accepted the Government’s proposed measures to increase revenue, including decreases to the fuel subsidy and more taxes, or the country would go to the International Monetary Fund (IMF.)
“He is telling people the IMF would be worse and there are no alternatives. When we were in government we were addressing the issues.
“There are five government ministers that already bought Mercedes Benz. They come today to tell us they suffering while they took their Mercedes Benz and they gone, five of them.”
He said, “Small minds were trying to run big government.
“The country collapse, 10,000 people lost their work but they are concerned with the little things and not the big things.
“While they telling us save money, $3 million gone to buy painting. What is the cost of consultations? Everybody knows there are several reports on prison reform already? How much spending on consultation?” Moonilal asked. (Kalifa Clyne)