Teixeira unaware of plans for talks on next year’s budget

Gail Teixeira

Government Adviser Gail Teixeira said she is unaware of whether Government will accede to Leader of the Opposition David Granger’s request to President Donald Ramotar for collaboration on the 2013 national budget with a view to averting a collision as was seen this year.

Further, she said that as far as she knows, there has been no further attempt on the part of the Government to convene
meetings of the tripartite discussions on the budget or on a myriad of other issues, as the last round of talks was derailed to some extent by the Commission of Inquiry into the Linden shooting deaths and its Terms of Reference.

Granger recently wrote the President calling for there to