And while the PM is talking tourism, the opposition leader is pushing for a review of the voter rolls. There hasn't been a re registration exercise since 1996, and according to the law, it's now 11 years overdue. For a while, it was something both parties could agree on since they both have the lists stacked with phantom voters. To get them re-registered would be costly and difficult. But the PUP - which hasn't won a major election in 11 years - seems to have figured that they're losing at this game, and so they have now started to push for re-registration. Briceno underscored it in his address:
Hon. John Briceno, PUP Leader
"We will also continue to insist on an effective and functioning public accounts committee. We will continue to insist on electoral reform and we say to this UDP Administration that there must be re-registration before re-districting and the year for this to occur is 2017."
The Barrow Administration has said it would favour a registration after the next municipal election in 2018.
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