Still no quarterly report on sugar expenditure

To date there has been no formal submission of the promised quarterly reports on the expenditure of the Guyana Sugar Corporation which were promised to the National Assembly by the Agriculture Minster, Dr Leslie Ramsammy during consideration of this year’s budget estimates. Parliament will convene today and critics are left with no real answers on how the $6 billion GuySuCo subvention is being expended thus far for 2014. Ramsammy told Stabroek News that by the end of June he would be prepared to provide the financial breakdown inclusive of money spent from January to June to the sectoral committee. He would be referring to the Eco-nomic Services Commit-tee.

APNU shadow agriculture minister, Dr Rupert Roopnaraine, stated that written questions will have to be submitted to parliament for detailed responses from the agriculture minister. He said that it was imperative to get a commitment from the minister by the end of June.

Stabroek News did ask Roopnaraine given the six months that have already elapsed why the opposition had not taken