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Barbuda Council threatens to take gov’t to court over unpaid subventions
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Another dispute between the Barbuda Council and the Central Government may have to be resolved in court, Barbuda Member of Parliament Trevor Walker has indicated.
This time around, that matter is related to the non-payment of outstanding subventions that are due to the council.
During an Observer AM interview, yesterday, Walker acknowledged that although the council received a total of $800,000 in two instalments since the start of the new year, that amount is “way short of what is required to take of our obligations”.
He added that, “we are going to try to push and do what we can do even if it means taking the government to court to get our money that is legally due to us”.
PM refutes allegations of gov’t raiding statutory corporations
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Prime Minister Gaston Browne has denied suggestions that the government has been taking money from statutory corporations to pay the salaries and wages for public sector workers.
The Member of Parliament for Barbuda, Trevor Walker, posed that question to Browne during Parliament yesterday.
“I am not aware that we had taken any funds from any statutory corporation. In fact, to the contrary, I can say definitively that the Central Government has been subsidizing a number of statutory corporations,” the prime minister explained in Parliament.
For example, Browne said, because the St John’s Development Corporation is unable to generate income, the government had to dish out about $400,000 to pay the staff.