[Video] House can cut budget

David Granger

Speaker Raphael Trotman yesterday upheld the National Assembly’s right to reduce the national budget, clearing the way for the opposition to proceed with planned cuts to some of government’s proposed spending for the year.

Although government contended that an interim court ruling on cuts that were made last year had established that the National Assembly could only pass the budget or reject it in its entirety, Trotman said it could not be bound by a “preliminary” decision.

“The National Assembly of the Parliament of Guyana has the power to amend, by reducing only,