$30m spent on SUVs for Cabinet ministers
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Wednesday | April 23, 2008
Prime Minister Bruce Golding's government has not changed course from the previous administration's apparent affinity for high-maintenance, gas-guzzling SUVs.
Documents gleaned under the Access to Information Act have shown that, since taking up the reins of the country some eight months ago, the Golding-led government has spent close to $30 million on SUVs alone for at least 10 of its Cabinet and junior ministers.
Add Clive Mullings' Mercedes-Benz to the list of new purchases and the bill jumps to just shy of $32 million. Mullings' C180K Benz is the only motor car among the pool of spanking new 2008 vehicles acquired for the recently installed ministers to carry out the nation's business.
