‘I want an opportunity to do better,’ Norton says after drug bond controversy

Public Health Minister Dr George Norton during his press conference yesterday

A visibly-shaken Public Health Minister Dr. George Norton yesterday appealed for a chance “to do better” in wake of his ministry’s controversial leasing of the Sussex Street drug bond, even as he maintained that he still could not say who approached the owner about the deal.

“I want an opportunity to do better,” Norton told a news conference yesterday at the Public Buildings, where he issued an apology for inaccurate statements he made in the National Assembly’s Committee of Supply during questioning on the bond.

“I have come to the firm position that the answer given two responses were not accurate and wish to express sincere and profound regret,” Norton said, while offering his apologies to President David Granger, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo and Speaker of the National Assembly Dr. Barton Scotland along with his parliamentary colleagues from both sides and others who were present in the Committee of Supply at the time the false answers were given.