Amidst cuts made to GINA, NCN and GPL, the opposition on Thursday allowed budgetary allocations of $380.3M, meant to facilitate the payment of salaries to contracted workers at the Office of the President (OP), to go through untouched.
Considering that the combined opposition voted to slash these allocations considerably during last year’s consideration of the estimates, many assumed that similar action would have been taken this year. Cuts were made last year after the Alliance For Change (AFC) and A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) determined that many of the persons slated to benefit should not. Further, the opposition parties explained that they were in disagreement with this method of hiring employees since it took away job security as well as several benefits.
Nevertheless, by abstaining, the opposition allowed the funds to pass after Minister within the Ministry of Finance Juan Edghill
