Time right for government of national unity says Nagamootoo

Time right for government of national unity

ALLIANCE For Change (AFC) Member of Parliament (MP), Mr. Moses Nagamootoo declared in the National Assembly Monday night, that the time is ripe for a Government of National Unity.

In his contribution to the 2014 National Budget Debate, he said: “We, in Guyana, have tried all kinds of financial medicines but Guyana is still limping. We need a new political and social profile. We must give reconciliation and political unity a chance.”
The former People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Minister suggested: “We can re-invent ourselves and rewind the tape to 1953, when there was racial and political unity. As Antonio Gramsi has said in his Prison Notebook, the old is dying but the new is yet to be born.
“The new is a government of national unity and this Good Parliament could be its midwife.”
Nagamootoo said the 2014 Budget Debate is not unlike those of 2012 and 2013, sadly characterised by a sharp and noisy division of views.
But he said it is regrettable that there has emerged so much friction and fraction over this budget.
“We cannot deny the Government its right to praise its budget, but we abhor condemnation of our criticisms as being negative. Ours is not the job of the loyal choir but we have a duty as elected representatives of the people to guard the public purse,” Nagamootoo argued.