Speaker lauds Finance Minister for e-docs

Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman yesterday lauded Minister of Finance Dr. Ashni Singh for his initiative to table his documents in the House in electronic format.
He said that this move if adopted by other parliamentarian will reduce the use of paper.

During the early part of yesterday’s sitting of the National Assembly, he drew the parliamentarians’ attention to a CD which was on their desks. On the CD were the audited financial statements of several government agencies inclusive of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)  1999-2008 and the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) 1998-2009.

Trotman said that the minister wrote to him last week seeking leave for documents to be supplied in the