Andrew Marshalleck
“No. No. I have nothing to do with that and whoever cut it needs to explain why they cut it. Look, if the unions have a view to express, they are free to express it in any event. I have no trouble with them expressing their views as long as it was done in a responsible and mannerly way which it was. To be quite frank, when Mr Martinez started and averted to the sales by the government during the time, I, too, was very disappointed when that happened. I can’t say that I would have put my objections in quite those terms or as strongly but I wasn’t happy to see that either. So, I can’t say that I was surprised by what was said or the position that the unions took.”
Items beneficiaries received from the Grocery Bag Program
On Wednesday, January 6, 2021 the Ministry of Human Development, Families and Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs, announced that it has opened an application process for a redesigned Food Assistance Program. As expected under this present government, it took two releases to get the message across. The first release was posted on the Government Press Office’s Facebook page at 9:20 a.m. and it was taken down about 15 minutes later. Then at 10:50 a.m. another release was posted on the same Facebook page to announce the starting of the program. According to both releases, the COVID-19 Food Assistance Program and the Grocery Bag Program (formerly known as Pantry) have now been merged into one program entitled Food Assistance Program. The release went on to say that clients on any of the aforementioned programs SHOULD APPLY for the new Food Assistance Program designed to assist vulnerable households.