Opposition blasts Dominica government over spending on naming of airport
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Opposition blasts Dominica government over spending on naming of airport


October 27, 2014 1:50 P.M



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The Melvile Hall airport renamed Douglas Charles airport.
Marigot, Dominica (TDN) The opposition United Workers Party (UWP) of Dominica has criticized government’s decision to spend over a quarter million dollars in an elaborate ceremony to rename the Melvile Hall Airport in Dominica after two former prime ministers.

At a press conference earlier today, UWP leader Lennox Linton called the action by government “absurd’ and “a clear indication of government using public funds to finance its campaign.”

Last week, prime minister Roosevelt Skerrit announced that he will renamed the Melville Hall airport the Douglas Charles airport after former prime ministers Roosevelt Douglas and Pierre Charles who both died while in office.

However, Linton revealed that the government had decided to bus in scores of loyal supporters for free to the event and also to pay for the catering and the putting up of billboards.

“Prime minister Roosevelt Skerrit’s plan to spend close to over a quarter million dollars on the renaming of an airport while the country continues to lack basic supplies at its hospitals and suffer under the burden of high taxes is clearly irresponsible,” Linton says.

He also warned public servants not to aid the government in using public funds for partisan politicking since this was against the public service laws of Dominica. He also said that there could very well be repercussions for public servants assisting government in this way.

The UWP which is looking to unseat the DLP government in elections constitutionally due for May 2015 also criticized the government for ignoring their former leaders and only naming the airport after them in a last ditched desperate effort to gain votes.

Meanwhile Tiyani Behanzi son of the former prime minister Douglas and his nephew Sean Douglas have both come out against the naming of the airport in Douglas’ name. They called the naming “a cynical ploy by this regime to sideline these two great leaders to a mere footnote in the annals of Dominican history.”

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