Opposition Spokesman on Housing Dr Horace Chang
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Opposition Spokesman on Housing Dr Horace Chang says Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller must show NHT Contributors that she has their interests at heart by removing the remaining members of the board and insisting on an immediate independent investigation of the Outameni issue.
“If the Prime Minister does not act against this irresponsible board, and in particular against its chairman, it will be one more reason for us to question her leadership,” the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) general secretary insisted.
Chang said the institution of the National Housing Trust (NHT) “transcends politics”. Citing that “it is working Jamaicans who contribute to the NHT, and by all the conflicting accounts, the current NHT board, or what’s left of it, is proving that the interest of the PNP (People’s National Party) government is more focused on bailing out its connected parties than protecting the interests of NHT contributors”.
“The prime minister’s recent statements in Parliament and her inaction to date have damaged the confidence Jamaicans have in the Trust. Unless she changes course, she will have shown the country that when the choice is to be made between special PNP interests and Jamaica’s interests, she will go for partisan politics every time,” he argued.
