Info was provided about expenditure in rejected financial paper

Clement Rohee

Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee has said that ample information was given to support the allocations for expenditure by his ministry under Financial Paper 9/2011, which was recently rejected by the opposition in the National Assembly.

APNU MP Carl Greenidge two weeks ago said that the government brought the proposed allocations back to the National Assembly with no changes whatsoever and he considered this contemptuous of the Parliament.

The rejected expenditure included government’s request for approval for money spent from the Contingencies Fund for honorarium paid to workers at the General Register’s Office (GRO) and for the purchase of radio sets for the Guyana Police Force, both of which fall under the