PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATIVE for St Joseph, Dale Marshall, is calling on the Minister of Transport and Works John Boyce to give the facts about the ABC Highway Expansion Project as it relates to the contract with 3S SRL.

"The election is over. The members of the Government can now say to the people of Barbados, yes, there was a contract, not one but two. Five months ago they could hide and say, well, you know we don't have the file. We happened to know they had documents too, the very thing that they complain of now.

"The time has come for the Member for Christ Church South to tell the people of Barbados the truth and to tell the people of this country that the widening of the ABC Highway was governed by contract as well as a MOU [memorandum of understanding], as well as by a supplementary agreement," Marshall said.

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On Monday, Prime Minister David Thompson announced during his presentation of the Financial Statement And Budgetary Proposals, there would be no flyovers and that the contract with the company executing the project had been terminated with immediate effect.

Marshall, the former attorney-general now deputy Opposition Leader, also told the Lower Chamber that MOUs had been used by the Barbados Labour Party Government "to a great success" while the present Government wanted "to poo poo and demonise" the concept of the MOU.

"I remind them that the liberalisation of the telecommunications sector in this country, a sector that is worth hundreds and hundreds of dollars, was proceeded with on the basis of only a memorandum of understanding between the Government of Barbados and Cable & Wireless," he said.

The construction of the Coast Guard headquarters on Spring Garden Highway, the Judicial Centre on Whitepark Road, the prison at Dodds, St Philip, the Tamarind Hall civic centre in Horse Hill, St Joseph, were all governed by MOUs, he added.

Marshall said each project was well run, within budget and employed Barbadians. (DS)