The considered main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has condemned what it termed the vulgar payment of over $4.2 million for telephone calls made by Call Centre Grenada INC.

Local news agency News Direct claims in a report here that the company is owned by relatives of Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell.

The news agency said that Accountant General Patricia Antoine who is also the chairperson of the board of directors of the call centre, instructed Cable and Wireless to deduct the money owed by call centre from the dividends payable to government as a 30-percent shareholder in the local telecom company.

"The NDC believes that the money resulting from government’s share holding in Cable and Wireless should have been paid to the consolidated fund rather than its reckless spending on a privately owned company of the relatives of the Prime Minister," the news agency reported

According to the report the NNP government of Prime Minister Mitchell guaranteed millions of dollars to the call centre of which nothing was paid back, then went on to guarantee a further $2 million overdraft.

The NDC says when the company was on the brink of collapse the government announced that it is now fully in charge since it had acquired all the shares and has taken over the company.


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