Kevon Felmine

Works and In­fra­struc­ture Min­is­ter Jack Warn­er says he is not con­cerned about pro­mo­tion or de­mo­tion but is just fix­at­ed on get­ting his job done. Warn­er spoke to the me­dia yes­ter­day at a cer­e­mo­ny to be­gin work on a di­lap­i­dat­ed por­tion of the Point-a-Pierre Road, Vista­bel­la. He said: "I am not both­ered about de­mo­tion or pro­mo­tion. My con­cern is about de­liv­ery. When I go to peo­ple's con­stituen­cy and see bad roads and bad drains, I wish I had the mon­ey, or time or en­er­gy to fix it for them right away. I am not con­cerned about the glam­our and so on."

Warn­er al­so said the re­moval of his trans­port port­fo­lio had now left him with two state boards to over­see.

"I had 16 boards and now I have two, so what is the big dif­fer­ence. It doesn't make a dif­fer­ence to me," Warn­er said. What af­fect­ed him, he said, was when he was un­able to help peo­ple when their homes were un­der­mined by land­slips and poor drainage. Warn­er said he came in­to Gov­ern­ment with noth­ing and he would leave with noth­ing. When asked whether he be­lieved he would re­ceive enough fund­ing for his min­istry in the next bud­get, Warn­er said: "It is left to be seen whether I get the mon­ey to do the things I want to do. "If I don't get the mon­ey, the peo­ple will be able to judge on what I can do or what I have failed to do. I will do it to the best of my abil­i­ty as nev­er be­fore. "Whether it is Min­istry of Works or Works and In­fra­struc­ture, I shall be the best one you shall ever see."