Businessman and Barbados Labour Party (BLP) candidate Indar Weir wants to know what is the true picture with housing in this country.
Weir accused the present Minister of Housing and Lands Michael Lashley of not giving specifics on housing.
The candidate for St Philip North, the seat currently held by Lashley, was speaking at meeting on last night in College Savannah, St John. Weir was supporting his BLP colleague Hudson Griffith who is running in the January 20 by-election for the St John seat left vacant by former Prime Minister David Thompson who died in October.
“You have a Minister of Housing that speaks to you in generic terms … You do not get full and frank disclosure on any single thing; we build houses at Coverley, never how many, we build houses at Constant, never how many, never the price, never how many were sold, never to which income group,” Weir said.
He said that while Lashley pretended to be a champion of the poor not a single poor person can buy a house that has been made or delivered by the National Housing Corporation.
He said that if he had his way candidate would have to provide a vision for the constituency in order to be chosen to run.
The ruling Democratic Labour Party members lacked vision, he said and there has never been a vision for St John.
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