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Linton speaking at UWP news conference last week<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Opposition Leader Lennox Linton has said the United Workers Party (UWP) will review no-bid contracts financed by Dominican money.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis business of Dominicans not having any opportunity to enter a bid for construction work in Dominica financed by monies from the sale of our passports is unacceptable and will be discontinued,\u201d Linton said at a UWP news conference last week. “They say we want to stop projects; no, we don\u2019t want to stop projects, we will review without an apology, every single no-bid contract financed by Dominican money.\u201d<\/p>\n

Especially those awarded on behalf of the government by a private company, Montreal Management Company Limited, Linton stated.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of these will be reviewed and we make absolutely no apologies for that,\u201d the UWP leader said. \u201cIt\u2019s in the best public interest to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meantime, Linton made it clear that his party will not dismantle the National Employment Programme (NEP) and the focus will be on creating employment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis talk about the NEP, the National Employment Program we are being clear that our focus is going to be on creating employment,\u201d he stressed. \u201cWe will create by 2025, 12,000 new jobs in this economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cWe will do it in our Nature Island agriculture; we will do it in our Nature Island tourism; we will do it in the construction sector, in manufacturing. We will do it in the renewable energy sector\u2026a total revamp of all the engines of growth to allow them to function like they have never functioned before, will open up the employment potential of the economy of Dominica.\u201d<\/p>\n

Linton reiterated that the UWP focus will be on real jobs in the economy, \u201cbut not to walk into government and dismantle the National Employment Program that is not the intention at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the NEP will continue to serve a different purpose.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be a training ground for entrepreneurship and so on as we prepare people for the world of work which will grow by leaps and bounds by our stewardship,\u201d Linton noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opposition Leader Lennox Linton has said the United Workers Party (UWP) will review no-bid contracts financed by Dominican money. \u201cThis business of Dominicans not having any opportunity to enter a bid for construction work in Dominica financed by monies from…","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":239751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,11,235,9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy-development","category-general","category-homepage-carousel","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nLinton says a UWP administration will review government no-bid contracts - 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