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'HYPOCRITES!' - Vaz says JDIP not a tit for tat
Vaz presents documents showing PNP bias in 2001 road repair programme
BY LUKE DOUGLAS Senior Staff reporter douglasl@jamaicaobserver.com
Thursday, September 22, 2011
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INFORMATION Minister Daryl Vaz yesterday labelled the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) hypocrites for its criticism of the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP), and said that most of the projects under a similar road repair programme launched in 2001 when the PNP formed the Government were carried out in constituencies with PNP members of Parliament.
Reading from what he said were government documents, Vaz said the National Road Improvement Plan (NARIP) launched a year before the 2002 general election had 94 per cent of the work taking place in PNP-held constituencies with a mere six per cent taking place in constituencies represented by the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) which, at the time, formed the Opposition.
VAZ ... If you live in glass house, you must not throw stones.
VAZ ... If you live in glass house, you must not throw stones.
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However, Vaz insisted that the JDIP was not a tit for tat, stating that the roads to be rehabilitated were chosen because they were in urgent need of repair.
"I stand by my word that there is great justification in the roads (and bridges) being done now," he said at the weekly post-Cabinet press conference at the Office of the Prime Minister.
"If you live in glass house, you must not throw stones," Vaz stated, describing former ministers Bobby Pickersgill, Dr Peter Phillips and Dr Omar Davies as "three hypocrites running all over Jamaica criticising JDIP".
The NARIP, Vaz said, started with 94 road projects at $3.2 billion but ballooned to 176 roads at $6 billion. He said 156 projects were in PNP-held constituencies compared with only 20 in constituencies held by the JLP.
Only six JLP parliamentarians benefited under the programme, compared with 36 on the PNP side, he said.
"You can clearly see that this was designed along partisan lines where these 36 seats were targeted seats for the 2002 election," Vaz said.
The minister later distributed to journalists copies of expenditure under NARIP which showed overwhelming bias in favour of PNP-held constituencies.
The programme also started without contractors having the necessary equipment and quality control measures in place, he asserted.
The information minister said unlike the NARIP, which was financed by "off the books" deferred financing, the financing and contractors for the JDIP were available to the public on the Contractor General's website.
He was responding to criticisms from the Opposition that the roads under the JDIP, a US$400-million programme funded by the Chinese government, had been selected along partisan lines to favour the JLP.
Speaking at the PNP annual conference last Sunday, Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller said JDIP lacked transparency and accountability, and that the Government was deliberately defying acceptable procurement standards in implementing the programme.
Yesterday, Vaz also renewed his call on the Opposition for a national debate.
"Any subject, any topic, we are prepared to debate, minister to opposition member, one on one, and that includes Sister P (Simpson Miller)," he said.
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Vaz presents documents showing PNP bias in 2001 road repair programme
BY LUKE DOUGLAS Senior Staff reporter douglasl@jamaicaobserver.com
Thursday, September 22, 2011
<A href="mailto:?subject="" HYPOCRITES!? Vaz says JDIP not a tit for tat?&body="Link:" http: www.jamaicaobserver.com news -HYPOCRITES--_9763570 | Jamaican News Online - JamaicaObserver.com?>INFORMATION Minister Daryl Vaz yesterday labelled the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) hypocrites for its criticism of the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP), and said that most of the projects under a similar road repair programme launched in 2001 when the PNP formed the Government were carried out in constituencies with PNP members of Parliament.
Reading from what he said were government documents, Vaz said the National Road Improvement Plan (NARIP) launched a year before the 2002 general election had 94 per cent of the work taking place in PNP-held constituencies with a mere six per cent taking place in constituencies represented by the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) which, at the time, formed the Opposition.
VAZ ... If you live in glass house, you must not throw stones.
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"I stand by my word that there is great justification in the roads (and bridges) being done now," he said at the weekly post-Cabinet press conference at the Office of the Prime Minister.
"If you live in glass house, you must not throw stones," Vaz stated, describing former ministers Bobby Pickersgill, Dr Peter Phillips and Dr Omar Davies as "three hypocrites running all over Jamaica criticising JDIP".
The NARIP, Vaz said, started with 94 road projects at $3.2 billion but ballooned to 176 roads at $6 billion. He said 156 projects were in PNP-held constituencies compared with only 20 in constituencies held by the JLP.
Only six JLP parliamentarians benefited under the programme, compared with 36 on the PNP side, he said.
"You can clearly see that this was designed along partisan lines where these 36 seats were targeted seats for the 2002 election," Vaz said.
The minister later distributed to journalists copies of expenditure under NARIP which showed overwhelming bias in favour of PNP-held constituencies.
The programme also started without contractors having the necessary equipment and quality control measures in place, he asserted.
The information minister said unlike the NARIP, which was financed by "off the books" deferred financing, the financing and contractors for the JDIP were available to the public on the Contractor General's website.
He was responding to criticisms from the Opposition that the roads under the JDIP, a US$400-million programme funded by the Chinese government, had been selected along partisan lines to favour the JLP.
Speaking at the PNP annual conference last Sunday, Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller said JDIP lacked transparency and accountability, and that the Government was deliberately defying acceptable procurement standards in implementing the programme.
Yesterday, Vaz also renewed his call on the Opposition for a national debate.
"Any subject, any topic, we are prepared to debate, minister to opposition member, one on one, and that includes Sister P (Simpson Miller)," he said.
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