Walwyn: Gov’t blaming all their shortcomings on poor Andrew

Sixth District Representative Myron Walwyn has accused Premier Dr. Natalio Wheatley’s administration of strategically blaming former Premier Andrew Fahie for the government’s shortcomings.

Walwyn made this observation on Tuesday, September 2, during a press conference with members of the parliamentary Opposition, where they discussed the motion of no confidence they plan to bring against Premier Wheatley. According to Walwyn, the Wheatley administration has been using Fahie—who is currently serving an 11-year prison sentence in the U.S. for drug trafficking and money laundering—as a scapegoat for errors that reflect poorly on the government. “Everything that leaves a stain on them, they throw it on poor Andrew. Everything is Andrew—Andrew this, Andrew that,” Walwyn said, pointing out the Auditor General’s reports showing that government grants were questionably awarded to relatives of elected leaders during the COVID pandemic.

“We just laid down a bunch of [those] reports with the names of all their cronies who got money three and four times. We had a set of reports before then where we saw a bunch of money given. Cabinet approves one amount, they go back and give who they want. For instance, there was one church where the Cabinet approved $20,000, but when you go back, you see the church got $260,000. And so when you bring those issues, they say, ‘Oh, that’s Andrew,’ as if the rest of them were there doing nothing. But whenever anything is good, it’s them. That has been their behaviour,” Walwyn stated.