(iWitness News) – Government Senator Lavern King has raised questions about why Opposition Leader Ralph Gonsalves hosts meetings with diplomats at his private home in Gorse, although the government gives him EC$153,000 annually to run an office.
“Do you know that the Leader of the Opposition receives a subvention of $153,000 per annum that goes towards … office space and so forth?” King said on the ruling New Democratic Party (NDP) “New Times” programme on NICE Radio.
“And I’ve been making a very keen observation by the current leader of the opposition. It appears to me that he’s having his meeting with dignitaries and so forth at his home,” said King, who is also minister of state in the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Innovation, Digital Transformation, and Information
“And when you receive money from the state to fund an office, I would want to believe that these meetings of diplomats and so forth should be happening at that office space,” she said.
The senator said some of the “times news” have resorted to being “propagandists” of the opposition Unity Labour Party (ULP).
