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Wednesday, July 30, 2025

PEP protests outside the Red House

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CARISA LEE
2014 days ago
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PEP gathered outside the Red House to deliver a letter to the Prime Minister concerning several recent UDECOTT projects

PEP gathered outside the Red House to deliver a letter to the Prime Minister concerning several recent UDECOTT projects

GUARDIAN

On the first day of the re­open­ing of Par­lia­ment at the Red House, mem­bers of the Pro­gres­sive Em­pow­er­ment Par­ty (PEP) gath­ered out­side the Red House to de­liv­er a let­ter to the Prime Min­is­ter.

In the let­ter, the po­lit­i­cal par­ty re­quest­ed an en­quiry in­to the ac­tiv­i­ties of UDE­COTT and an au­dit of the terms of the con­tracts award­ed to the Cor­po­ra­tion for the ren­o­va­tion of the Pres­i­dent’s House, the Pres­i­dent’s Cot­tage, the Red House and White Hall.

Dressed in or­ange the mem­bers start­ed by singing the Na­tion­al An­them. They al­so con­duct­ed their walk gagged and silent.

In a press re­lease is­sued pri­or to to­day’s protest, PEP said that was “to sym­bol­ize the heavy hand of a state agency that tried to si­lence pub­lic en­quiries rather than re­spond re­spect­ful­ly to them”.

Speak­ing with the me­dia to­day, PEP rep­re­sen­ta­tives stat­ed:

“We are call­ing for UDE­COTT to be shut down! We want an au­dit on this project, on the $17 mil­lion spent on a cot­tage!”

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Sto­ry by CARISA LEE


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