Former Prime Minister says no football funding

Bridgetown.

Former Prime Minister, Owen Arthur, has express his objection to the possibility of the taxpayers being used  by the Constituency Councils to help finance a football competition in memory of the late Prime Minister David Thompson later this year.

According to Arthur. if the ruling Democratic Labour Party plans to place the late Prime Minister on  a pedestal, then it was free to do so from its party headquarters on George Street.

Arthur told Trakker News, that he could no reason why  Constituency Councils should be allow to take the public 's money and sponsor a football competition, when the country already had the National Sports Council and the Barbados Football Association to organise such activities.