APNU says Ashni Singh should be cited for contempt over financial paper

A Partnership for National Unity yesterday said that the one of the three financial papers tabled last Thursday and which will be debated at the next sitting of Parliament is contemptuous since it brings back items cut from the budget and said that Minister of Finance Dr. Ashni Singh should be censured.

Financial paper 1/2013, the focus of the APNU statement, is for a total of $3.384 billion in current and capital expenditure and is a statement of excess for the period ending December 31, 2013.

In terms of current estimates, it seeks a provision of $217.1 million as subsidies and contributions to