Bridgetown.
Leader of the Opposition, Mia Mottley, has accused the Government of not paying its debuts.
Speaking in the House of Assembly yesterday on a resolution by Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs Chris Sinckler to increase the amount of Treasury Bills and Tax Certificates the Government can issued from $1.75 billion to $2.75 billion. Mottley said the Government owed money to several sectors.
: “The $160 million owed by the Ministry of Education to the UWI, having brought it down from $200 million to $160 million two and a half months ago. The $49 million the private sector came out at the end of January and said is only a sample of 25 businesses and what is in fact owed to the private sector for goods and services for refunds is far in excess of that", Mottley said.
“And stories abound, of at least one major player in the private sector owed $32 million and another being owed $20 million. I do not know what the facts are, and the Government needs to tell us. What I do know is that Government is the biggest organisation owing money", the Opposition Leader said.
“Therefore, if there is to be confidence in the economy, and if people are to pay other people they owe, then Government must pay its bills. Then if we are talking about arrears in the region of $250 million, and we have not touched CLICO, then we are talking about a very serious situation,” she added.
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