The eloquence and rhetoric with which Guyana’s Finance Minister Dr .Singh and other Government speakers tried to defend the much touted LDC (Low Carbon Development) program failed to convince the joint opposition of its viability.
“What we are being fed here is a pie in the sky” Alliance for Change (AFC) Parliamentarian Moses Nagamootoo contended.
The Guyana Elections Commission is the latest agency to feel the axe of the joint parliamentary opposition with $527million (G) being slashed from its 2012 budgetary estimates.
During an examination of the estimates in the National Assembly this evening, opposition parliamentarians including the Alliance For Change (AFC) leader Khemraj Ramjattan blasted the ruling People’s Progressive Party Government for its delaying tactics in holding local Government elections.
A move by the joint opposition in Guyana’s Parliament to trim more than $26 billion (G) from the national budget has taken the ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Government by surprise.
Georgetown (CPI): Unrest is brewing among Guyanese workers as the minority led People’s Progressive Party Government in the South American Republic seeks to push the 2012 national budget in Parliament amid growing criticism from opposition parties about millions of taxpayers dollars being unaccounted for in the accounts of income and expenditure.
Distinguished Caribbean novelist George Lamming sees the Caribbean as a region in deep crisis.
“This thing we call the Caribbean, is an unfinished project and where we are now, it seems to me, is still at the scaffolding of that project. No one has any idea what it will be in another 50 or 100 years, but it is in its deepest crisis at the moment and I do not think this will be its last chapter, ” the Barbadian writer declared.
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