FNM accuses PLP of seeking to 'score political brownie points'

Thu, Sep 23rd 2010, 09:37 PM

The FNM has accused the PLP of seeking to "score political brownie points" by opposing government plans to allow 200 Chinese workers come to New Providence to help build a new highway.

Carl Bethel, FNM chairman, suggested that in opposing in parliament a resolution seeking approval to get almost $60 million in funding from China for the "airport gateway project" and the 200 Chinese workers that would come with it, the PLP is engaged in "political pandering, with a clear eye to the next general election."

"The PLP are not worried about the high level of debt or the Chinese loan, they are worried about one thing alone: putting themselves in best position to fight the nex ...

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