Guyana budget cuts!!

discuss. what do you think

More historic developments as…Budget approved, $21B slashed

The Combined Opposition yesterday for the first time in Guyana’s history, managed to dramatically gouge a significant portion of the monies allocated for spending in various sectors.
Following two days of cuts by Alliance for Change (AFC) and A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), the 2012 Budget was slashed by $21B with the entire $18.5B allocation for the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) projects gutted and reduced to $1.

This followed the previous day’s cuts to the tune of some $2.23B which targeted the Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) subsidy as well as GINA, NCN and GECOM, among others.
The first victims of yesterday’s cuts as proposed in the motion by APNU’s Carl Greenidge were the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit, Ethnic Relations Commission and the State Planning Secretariat.

Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee then sought to persuade the opposition that making a cut to Guyana’s premier narcotics-fighting entity, will send the wrong signal to the bilateral partners such as the country’s geographical neighbours, with whom greater collaboration in the drug fight is being fostered.
The Minister with responsibility for National Security sought to emphasise that the move to cut CANU’s fund “is coming at a wrong time…it is coming at a time when the fight against narcotic trafficking has assumed greater proportions.

The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) despite emphatic protests by ranks in the government benches was also subject to a $99M slash reducing its budget to $1

PNC will always foster racism

Last evening’s session brought to an end a two-week session in the House where for the first time in Guyana’s history a budget was amended, relieving the government of some of the money it had proposed for expenditure during the year.

think about that? real debate for fisrt time.

good for guyana or bad for guyana?

the entire $18.5B allocation for the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) projects gutted and reduced to $1.

this is a direct hit at jagdeo