Barbados Labour Party Chairman, George Payne, last night vowed that the government led by his party will be "relentless" in pursuit of those who he said "raped the Treasury" among wrongdoings.
Addressing the opening session of the BLP’s 80th annual conference at Lodge School, Payne accused the past Democratic Labour Party government of leaving “this country on the 24th of May 2018 is a tale of sadness that has left us all in tears”.
Using strong terms such as "plundered" and "pillaged" in describing what he contends the Barbados economy and society have suffered, the party’s second highest office bearer said, “the premature renewal of contracts; appointment of incompetent functionaries; the mysterious invoicing, and exorbitant payments to professional associates; the free allocation of housing to lackeys; the illegal award of contracts to underlings; the victimisation of Opposition supporters and relatives; the shredding and disappearance of documents and equipment; the rape of the Treasury, all on the eve of a general election speak for itself”.
He said that boosted by the "resounding mandate to rescue the country" his party received when it won all 30 parliamentary seats in the elections, “we will be relentless in our efforts to gather all evidence to assist in the prosecution of those persons who have put us in this position”.
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