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Opposition Leader says Misuse of Coast Guard Vessels Very Bad For Barrow Admin.
posted (June 1, 2017)
But, while the Prime Minister says that there will not be a repeat of the use of the Coast Guard boats as a sports ferry, the Opposition Leader says that this should not have happened in the first place.

By his interpretation, this is just another fatal strike against the Barrow Government:

Hon. John Briceno, Leader of the Opposition
"Here we have now no other than the minister of defense using these boats that have been donated for a specific purpose, for our security and for the fight against drugs and the Minister of Defense is using those vessels for his own personal use, for his basketball or football team or whatever team that he has. It is wrong and what he is doing, he is putting this country at risk, because the donors I am told are very upset and they donors could very well decide that you know what, if this is what you are going to do, if this is the abuse you're going to have, we are going to stop assisting our country."

Daniel Ortiz
"It appears that you disagree with the commandant's explanation, his justification that this sort of thing is under a wider heading of helping the community."

Hon. John Briceno, Leader of the Opposition
"I am not picking a fight with Commander Borland. I think he is a good man, but quite like he is acting under orders. You can see at least from the body language that he was very uncomfortable with his answers."

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