The proposed $17.5B in budgetary allocations for the Ministry of Home Affairs escaped the scissors of the opposition last evening, after the AFC withdrew its motion to slash over $500M at the last minute.
About 20 minutes into the consideration of the budgetary allocations for that ministry AFC leader Khemraj Ramjattan told the Committee of Supply that he had a motion in which he had proposed a cut and he was no longer going ahead with it.
“We had from the beginning said that we would not be vindictive and vengeful and will be rational in our cuts;
