WE’RE TO BLAME.
That was the admission of embattled Minister of Agriculture Dr David Estwick to Prime Minister Freundel Stuart when he addressed his boss and fellow Cabinet colleagues at Government Headquarters yesterday.
It was the opportunity he had insisted on having and he took his time to detail the mistakes made by the present Government.
Estwick observed that the pet Democratic Labour Party (DLP)?social projects – free bus rides for schoolchildren, summer camps and the creation of Constituency Councils – “should not be introduced when your revenue is declining and you have no way of knowing the duration of the recession”.
He rejected the lay-off of civil servants as a method of saving the economy, saying: “Prime Minister, retrenchment is not a policy! It is an action of last resort because of failed policies.”
