Tabor analyzes the implications of tying reappointed Senator George to the Labour Party’s economic and financial failures

Having lost the St. Mary’s South by-election, Dwayne George has
been re-appointed to the Senate and appointed a minister of State in
the Ministry of Finance and Corporate Governance.
 
George received his instruments of appointment from Governor-
General Sir Rodney Williams on Thursday, October 26.
 
But many residents – including Damani Tabor, the United
Progressive Party (UPP) public relations officer – believe he is being
set up to fail.

Tabor observes that Prime Minister Gaston Browne, perhaps
inadvertently, has placed a “humungous target” on George’s back by
giving him such a position in the Finance Ministry.
 
He says that George will not be able to fill the shoes of the former
post-holder, Lennox Weston, who was regarded as the de facto
minister of finance while in office. (Weston lost his seat to Sherfield
Bowen during the January 18 General Election.)
 
According to Tabor, George will also have to answer for all the
failures in the finance sector. The junior minister will have to
defend the decisions that have caused, and continue to cause, the
people of this country to suffer, he says.
 
Going further, Tabor says that George will have to demonstrate that
he is not in agreement with some of the decisions of his government
– such as breaking promises to pensioners and the pending increase
in taxes.

The people will hold George responsible, Tabor says, and this will
not be very good for his track record.

Additionally, the UPP officer says, Senator George will have to
account for the many failed and fairytale projects of the Browne
Administration.

He adds to that the high unemployment and under-employment
rates in a struggling economy; the water crisis; the payments owed
to contractors and service providers; and the Administration’s
failure to support small businesses while big investors receive all
the concessions.
 
Tabor believes the prime minister’s decision to attach George to the
fiscal future of the country has only weakened his future political
prospects.
 
Meanwhile, the leadership of the Labour Party says it is confident
that George’s work in the St. Mary’s South constituency “is only just
starting and that it will bear much fruit.”