Bartlett questions Massy buyout

In a telephone interview yesterday, Bartlett also noted that her expectations for the mid-year budget review, which is due to be presented today in the House of Representatives by Finance Minister Colm Imbert, was non-existent as nothing new could be expected from the Ministry of Finance.

“I have no expectations for budget review,” Bartlett said adding, “We already know what was spent. What can the Minister of Finance say to us… that he is holding off property tax as he should until everything is streamlined better.” “While I would want to pay my property tax, I have to say the government is making a hue and cry about property tax, what is the income generated from property tax…$460 million dollars but you have taken 255 million and wasted it as far as we are concerned,” she said.

“We cannot afford that kind of expenditure at this time,” she said.

Bartlett said the country had come to a virtual standstill as there were no incentives to stimulate the business sector and cited a large High Street San Fernando shopping Mall which was on the verge of becoming desolate due to tenants leaving the Mall. “The country is at a standstill right now I can tell you that we are looking as though the country is going to shut down at any minute now because after one o’clock on High Street, San Fernando we hardly have any shoppers. It’s like a ghost town,” she said.