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We knew of him before and his constituents elected him and in the process, they elevated every one of his niggling faults into a snowball of a glowing attribute. And just when we thought some wisdom would disallow him from running off at the mouth again, Minister Shaw announced from a mountaintop the regressive news that St. Thomas, a parish hobbling along in its generational underdevelopment would not after all be the beneficiary of a part of the South Coast highway system.
To his way of assessing matters it would be a misallocation of spending on highway space. What Shaw is not telling us and previous ministers have not been telling us is that all the tolls being collected on our highway system assumes a certain GDP growth each passing year. It seems to me that the estimated level of GDP to make the toll roads viable has never been met and is still being wished for, hence highway construction is economically risky.
Enter Everald Warmington, the Junior Minister of Works stridently shouting from his own Everest that the Finance Minister was talking damn nonsense.
Warmington wanted us to know that in his neck of the woods, Works, any talk from any ministry that touched on road building had to coordinate with his office.
Shaw says no, Warmington says yes! A ball of confusion.
Seeing this stunning lack of coherence not just on the details of a specific policy but whether the plan was a stop or go needed the intervention of the PM to engineer a compromise.
http://markwignall.com/politics/was-...wilting-early/
To his way of assessing matters it would be a misallocation of spending on highway space. What Shaw is not telling us and previous ministers have not been telling us is that all the tolls being collected on our highway system assumes a certain GDP growth each passing year. It seems to me that the estimated level of GDP to make the toll roads viable has never been met and is still being wished for, hence highway construction is economically risky.
Enter Everald Warmington, the Junior Minister of Works stridently shouting from his own Everest that the Finance Minister was talking damn nonsense.
Warmington wanted us to know that in his neck of the woods, Works, any talk from any ministry that touched on road building had to coordinate with his office.
Shaw says no, Warmington says yes! A ball of confusion.
Seeing this stunning lack of coherence not just on the details of a specific policy but whether the plan was a stop or go needed the intervention of the PM to engineer a compromise.
http://markwignall.com/politics/was-...wilting-early/
