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Fate of embattled former ministers to be revealed Tuesday
The fate of former Government Ministers Phillip Paulwell and Kern Spencer will be known in a matter of hours.
RJR News has been informed that a statement is to be issued by the People's National Party (PNP) Tuesday on the outcome of a week of deliberations by a special team established by President Portia Simpson-Miller.
The committee met for several days last week to review reports submitted by the two former Ministers on the controversial issues surrounding the Cuban Light Bulb Programme.
According to a PNP insider the Party's executive met for several hours into late Monday night discussing the controversy surrounding the two men.
It was earlier reported that some members of the PNP are demanding that the leadership take a firm stand on the matter.
They suggest that the spokesperson responsibilities should be taken from the men, pending the outcome of independent investigations.
Mr. Paulwell was last month assigned Spokesman on the Energy Ministry and Mr. Spencer, a Deputy Spokesman.
Prior to Monday night's meeting Mr. Paulwell issued a statement claiming that the allegations made by the Government regarding the bulb distribution programme were reckless and deliberate lies.
In the meantime, the leadership of the PNP is being criticised by political analysts for its handling of the controversy surrounding the Cuban Light Bulb Project.
Sloppy and tardy is how Publisher of the Western Mirror, Lloyd B. Smith, described the Party's treatment of the allegations made by the Government.
"I am not sufficiently satisfied. I think given the gravity of the situation, the complexity as well as the national focus that has been placed on this particular so called scandal, I would have expected for the Opposition to have reacted with greater alacrity and speed," said Mr. Smith.
"Yes one can understand that the necessary and detailed investigation be done but given the fact that the country was most concerned about this issue I really think it was dealt with in a somewhat sloppy and tardy manner," he continued.
And trade unionist Helene Davis-White also gave the PNP a failing grade for its response.
She says it has taken the Party too long to carryout its investigations and to tell the country how it intends to handle the matter.
"Just having left office a couple of months ago, the information should have been current in the minds of the two ministers concerned and for one to wait for as long as one has as in this case for the reports to be provided and for the PNP to respond one gets the impression that they are really trying to circumnavigate the issue and hoping that it will die," she said.
Fate of embattled former ministers to be revealed Tuesday
The fate of former Government Ministers Phillip Paulwell and Kern Spencer will be known in a matter of hours.
RJR News has been informed that a statement is to be issued by the People's National Party (PNP) Tuesday on the outcome of a week of deliberations by a special team established by President Portia Simpson-Miller.
The committee met for several days last week to review reports submitted by the two former Ministers on the controversial issues surrounding the Cuban Light Bulb Programme.
According to a PNP insider the Party's executive met for several hours into late Monday night discussing the controversy surrounding the two men.
It was earlier reported that some members of the PNP are demanding that the leadership take a firm stand on the matter.
They suggest that the spokesperson responsibilities should be taken from the men, pending the outcome of independent investigations.
Mr. Paulwell was last month assigned Spokesman on the Energy Ministry and Mr. Spencer, a Deputy Spokesman.
Prior to Monday night's meeting Mr. Paulwell issued a statement claiming that the allegations made by the Government regarding the bulb distribution programme were reckless and deliberate lies.
In the meantime, the leadership of the PNP is being criticised by political analysts for its handling of the controversy surrounding the Cuban Light Bulb Project.
Sloppy and tardy is how Publisher of the Western Mirror, Lloyd B. Smith, described the Party's treatment of the allegations made by the Government.
"I am not sufficiently satisfied. I think given the gravity of the situation, the complexity as well as the national focus that has been placed on this particular so called scandal, I would have expected for the Opposition to have reacted with greater alacrity and speed," said Mr. Smith.
"Yes one can understand that the necessary and detailed investigation be done but given the fact that the country was most concerned about this issue I really think it was dealt with in a somewhat sloppy and tardy manner," he continued.
And trade unionist Helene Davis-White also gave the PNP a failing grade for its response.
She says it has taken the Party too long to carryout its investigations and to tell the country how it intends to handle the matter.
"Just having left office a couple of months ago, the information should have been current in the minds of the two ministers concerned and for one to wait for as long as one has as in this case for the reports to be provided and for the PNP to respond one gets the impression that they are really trying to circumnavigate the issue and hoping that it will die," she said.
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