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Hon. Boots Blasts Former Mayor Bradley
posted (August 23, 2018)

And while there’s tension between Deputy Faber and Aspirant Barrow, there’s also intra-party beef between Minister Anthony Boots Martinez and former Mayor Darrell Bradley.

Two weeks ago when a PUP City Council audit on missing equipment pointed to Minister Martinez - Bradley backed them up.  He said when he was Mayor he also could not get his hands on the same equipment and thought that Minister Boots was responsible.  Here’s what Bradley had to say and the angry response we got from Martinez today:…

Darrell Bradley, Former Mayor (August 7th, 2018)
"We had a problem in getting the piece of equipment we believe that he was the person responsible for turning the equipment over to us. It was never transferred to the council and at the time it was our impression that the minister was responsible for that transfer."

Hon. Anthony Martinez - Minister of Human Development
"I don't care what Darrell Bradley say, I don't care you know. This hear say, this say - listen to me carefully, I'm the Minister of Human Development, never work at city council, have nothing to do with city council. So I don't care what he say, what he say you need to question the officials at city council, not me at all, was I an employee? Never yet."

Reporter
"But you were a part of acquiring the..."

Hon. Anthony Martinez
"I was never a part of acquiring, I sat in a meeting but I was never a a part of acquiring nothing!"

Jules Vasquez
"Then the equipment ended up on the compound."

Hon. Anthony Martinez
"Let me put it this way here..."

Reporter
"Which they mayor said they never used."

Hon. Anthony Martinez
"Man make I tell you something - they never used it!? Man..."

Reporter
"They never used because they never got it she says."

Hon. Anthony Martinez
"Never use the compound?"

Reporter
"The compound because you said they mi the borrow it."

Hon. Anthony Martinez
"Man the green building deh right - unno go talk to the mayor man, talk to the people that work at city council, talk to Joseph Lawrence, talk to all of them. It's up there they were housed."

Reporter
"Since your instrumental in locating both of the pieces of equipment the 3rd still hasn't been located - it's somewhere in Unitedville and they can't find it."

Hon. Anthony Martinez
"You no find the man who have it? Then that is a question for them and the man who have it, not a question for me."

Reporter
"Maybe they need your assistance."

Hon. Anthony Martinez
"They no need my assistance for nothing sir, you no need my assistance for nothing. What they need my assistance for? They found the man that the 3."

Reporter
"Which you helped to find."

Hon. Anthony Martinez
"Me no help to find nothing, I no help to find nothing, you always try play smart Ms. Amalya (laugh). You always try play - me no help find nothing."

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