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Controversy Over $7,500 Personal Cheque to Deputy Prime Minister Santia Bradshaw: Should Prime Minister Mia Mottley Have Initiated an Independent Probe?
Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley is urged to initiate an independent investigation into the controversy surrounding a personal cheque for $7,500 made payable to Deputy Prime Minister Santia Bradshaw.
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Originally published by nationnews.com (opens in new tab)
Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley should have set up an independent probe into the controversy over a personal cheque for $7 500 payable to Deputy Prime Minister Santia Bradshaw, rather than declaring the matter was closed.
The suggestion has come from third vice-president of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) Felicia Dujon.
In her address to the nation on Saturday, Mottley, in response to the row which surfaced late last month, said that after having spoken to Bradshaw, it was a matter of “case closed”.
The cheque was made out to Bradshaw, who is Minister of Transport, Works and Water Resources and Member of Parliament for St Michael South East, by order of Errol Clarke Associates Ltd. It was subsequently stolen from her constituency office and is now the subject of a court case.
Bradshaw shortly after issued a statement saying the cheque was a charitable contribution to her annual Christmas hamper and food voucher programme, while Errol Clarke, of Errol Clarke Associates, explained that the donation to Bradshaw was just another way of giving back to the country’s less fortunate. (JRN)
