The opposition on Wednesday allowed the approval of the $775,656,000 in budget estimates for the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment, but not before battering Minister Robert Persaud with a series of questions ranging from areas such as the salary of contracted workers to building maintenance.
APNU MP Carl Greenidge sought an explanation as it related to the increase of the allocation for contracted workers. Persaud, while noting that the ministry is a new one, said that the sum of $13M covered salaries for about nine staffers between the period May to December of last year,
