Prime Minister Gaston Browne says local contractors have credited the Ministry of Public Works with major improvements in fairness, payment timelines, and distribution of work, praising the system as more transparent under Minister Maria Browne.
Speaking on the Browne and Browne Show, the prime minister said it was the first time Cabinet held a structured meeting with the country’s top contractors. “I believe it’s the first time that… cabinet would have met with our top local contractors,” he said.
Browne said the contractors were clear in their assessment of the ministry’s performance. “They indicated that the system within Public Works is far more equitable under the current minister. They’re getting more work. They’re getting paid more often.”
He added that Cabinet members were struck by the strength of the feedback. “We sat there in awe as a cabinet, hearing them giving testimony to what is happening today compared to many years ago.”
The prime minister said he would provide additional details later in the programme, noting that the contractors also raised operational issues and broader sector concerns.
The remarks follow growing public focus on the Ministry of Public Works, with officials and contractors highlighting changes in management, workflow, and accountability systems.
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For once Gaston is digging in and defending someone.
However his defence of Maria is just to save her guilty soul from public wrath for her involvement in the corruption which has rocked Antigua under her watch.
His defense though is just pushing her closer to jail and to the reach of the outraged public.
His defence is just to cover up broad daylight theft which took place under her watch and pen.
Gaston’s defence is also to save himself.
According to him 15 million dollars walked out of the treasury under his eye.
Was the power couple wilfully negligent in there duty to secure our taxes?
We’re they deliberately deceptive to have allowed this massive fraud to persist for so long?
Did they behave criminally negligent and culpable in the rape of the state?
So when one sees Gaston Browne so vehemently defending his pillow talk partner and professing her innocence it raises more questions than meets the naked eye.
DEEEEEFLECTION #10
Doesn’t this just beggars belief when Browne mentions that “local contractors have credited the Ministry of Works … in fairness, payment timelines and distribution of works…”
Shouldn’t we hear this from an actual contractors and not on a myopic and one-sided radio programme?
Just hurry up and implement an independent investigation into the vehicle acquisitions procurement scandal, and stop with your dalliance.
We want to see our taxpaying treasury receipts now
Lennox Weston often said that he speaks truth to power so when he said that Bronco Maria was burning money aimlessly at the Ministry of Works, he knew exactly what he was talking about. The contractors would be quick to give those opinions because they seem to have free play to divert materials from the building locations to places that have no connections to the government housing program. The Minister is at the pinnacle of incompetence that benefits them, hence their strong support for the weakling. If we are to believe Bronco Gassy, then his incompetence is what makes her, in his estimation, appear to be the best ever, when he announced before her entry into that portfolio, that he was able to build $300000 houses for for $600000 is an admission of real incompetence.
What did the contractors said about the vehicle gate? You really think all antiguans drink the kool-aid. Corruption is in the DNA of the ABLP.
Hip, hip, hip, huray, for the next Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Maria Browne. Gaston bwoy you not easy tarl and I do not blame you one bit because the others are matchstick men and jellyfish. Those that truly surprise me are Chet Greene and Daryl Matthew. Molwyn time is gone and Cutie Benjamin have departed lang, lang time. The Judases that slid over from UPP are really non entities
You mean more people can thief. The only thing that has increased under ALP is crime and thiefing!