BUS CONTRACTS PULLED

Well, the stop review and cancel crew of the Free National Movement are at it again.  This time in the middle of the school term they have identified all the PLPs and complainers for non-payment of the bus money for busing children to school and with 60 days notice have had the contracts terminated. Havoc all around. The FNM is mad. They continue to attack even some of the people who support them by declaring and executing economic war on small people. In the mean time, the PLP has pointed out they are lining the pockets of Brent Symonette.  The PLP’s statement appears below:

From The Chairman of The PLP
On Notice Of Loss Of Contracts For Buses

For Immediate Release

18 October 2018

In an act of official savagery, contractors for school busing in Abaco, Eleuthera, Bimini and Grand Bahama have reported that in the middle of the school term and in the middle of multi year contracts, the contracts have been terminated.

The letters we have seen give each contractor 60 days to wind up their jobs with the government. This on the face of it seems wrong and grossly unfair. It is ironic that this is being announced by the FNM government on the same day that they have announced that they will seek parliament’s authority to line the pockets of a minister of the FNM government with public funds amounting to tens of million of dollars.

Now small business people are to be stripped of their small livelihoods. Some of these people have just engaged in substantial investments to service these contracts and now are told they are out of work.
This is widely seen by some as an act of political victimization. Others think that the Government is acting in a fit of anger because the contractors have been complaining that they were not being paid on time or at all.

Now it looks like our children will suffer.

Does the FNM administration have no shame? Does the Minister for Education really care for our children? We denounce this savage, discriminatory and unfair act. It must be reversed forthwith.

End