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Opposition leader playing brand new- Hon Walwyn
Speaking in the House of Assembly during the 2017 Budget Debate on March 1, 2017 Hon Walwyn started off by saying there are critics who have their own agenda and sometimes when you hear people speak you have to look at who is speaking and to try to make some connections to understand sometimes why somebody might take a particular view on a particular matter.
He pointed out too that it has not been two years since the last general elections but the “behaviour” in the territory is almost like an election mode.
Noting that there is a saying that there is nothing so admirable in politics as a short memory, Hon Walwyn, who has come under severe criticism for the state of public schools while wasting money on a small wall around the Elmore Stoutt High School leading up to the 2015 snap elections, making everything he touches political, victimisation and bullyism, speculated that some of the persons “who are creating that level of confusion” are doing it for political purposes.
“They are many who are also genuine and you have to listen…but there are others, Madam Speaker, who you would think they are brand new the way they say certain things. And so you have to go back, Madam Speaker, in order to have gratefulness and be thankful to God how he has brought this country. Sometimes you have to examine the past because…nothing is so admirable in politics than a short memory, and politicians love for you to have a short memory. They enjoy it, but sometimes you have to revisit the past in order to appreciate, Madam Speaker, where we are.”
No paper work
One of the issues that Hon Fahie raised during his contribution to the debate on the Appropriation Act of 2017 on February 28, 2017 was that persons were being given jobs without any proper paper work and sometimes “by just a phone call.” Added to that, persons are not being paid on time and it is causing a problem because he gets the blame sometimes.
But, according to Hon Walwyn, when he ran for office in 2011 there were issues with the management of the finances of the territory. “Many issues…I recall, Madam Speaker, that the Government initially when we got into office in 2011, we were faced with a set of bills, Madam Speaker, that came in to the Government and I heard the Honourable Member for the Opposition speaking about financial prudence and how things should be done, but he was also a party to it Madam Speaker.”
The Minister claimed that in his first year in the Ministry of Education most of his money went to pay old bills. “A lot of the things were done the same way the member spoke about phone calls being made to give work. That is what they did because there was absolutely no paperwork, no paperwork for a lot of the things we had to deal with.”
“The day before elections people were getting contracts, phone calls, contracts, you can’t find nothing in the Ministry and not in my Ministry alone. The evidence is there and we have had to pay those bills because you had a contractual arrangements with the people….so the Member now is acting brand new when he knows that he has been culpable in many of these things.”
According to Hon Walwyn, he can bring the evidence to the House if he has to.
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