ULP trying to bamboozle the public with new hospital-Dr Friday

Over the last 23 years, the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital (MCMH) has been going downhill, but with election in the air, leader of the Opposition Dr. Godwin Friday,said the government is scrambling to build a new hospital.

Work on the Acute Referral Hospital at Arnos Vale has started following the signing on Friday, July 26, 2024, of an agreement between this country’s government and the Taiwan firm, Overseas Engineering and Construction Company (OECC), the contracting firm.

OPPOSITION LEADER, Dr Godwin Friday (Right) and the representative for Central Kingstown Major St Clair Leacock (Left) Photo Credit: New Democratic Party Facebook page

“You can’t get medicine, you can’t get bandages, you can’t get sheet to go on the bed, the place is rundown. I mean they’re doing a little bit of work say they tidying up certain wards and so forth but all of a sudden, they scrambling, they’re digging, they’re fencing round.

“They’re getting money from Taiwan, six and a half percent interest. All of these things to try and show they are doing something,” Fridays said on radio.

He charged that the Unity Labour Party (ULP) is trying to “bamboozle” people in an effort to secure votes for the next general elections.

“…but no more. People all over the country they tell me ‘Friday we with you’ especially the young people. They say ‘we with you, we want to bring this change and we are with you’. More and more people are saying so but it ain’t going be easy…” the Opposition Leader said on New Democratic Party’s (NDP) New Times programme on Nice Radio.

Friday also said the ULP administration has not put many of the facilities under their control to good use and have allowed many of them to deteriorate, including the Ottley Hall Marina, and the fisheries complex at Owia.