First budget cut for 2013 hits Specialty Hospital

Dr. Bheri Ramsaran

Budget cuts reappeared last night with the first chop for 2013 being a $1.25B provision for the controversial specialty hospital at Turkeyen.
The cut came as the National Assembly went through the estimates of the Ministry of Health and the Georgetown Hospital.

Government zeroed in on the possibility of avoiding the cuts by pointing out that APNU MP Carl Greenidge’s motion for the cut published on Tuesday evening, failed to quality for admissibility in the House because the notice period  was too short.

However, AFC’s Khemraj Ramjattan pointed out that he had a motion submitted on Friday which had to have met the