Premier Farrell Responds to Comments on Montserrat's Poverty Rate

Montserrat’s leader of government business, Premier, the Honourable Joseph Farrell has vehemently denied the island has a poverty rate of 37 percent.

During the recent debate on the 2024/2025 budget in parliament, Opposition member Honourable Claude Hogan quoted data from the Halcrow poverty assessment 2008/2009 to this effect.

However, Premier Farrell countered by stating that from that time, no further assessment was done which, based on the available data, is a misrepresentation of the current situation in Montserrat.


Premier, the Honourable Joseph Farrell