President Donald Ramotar on Sunday commissioned the recently renovated Burnham Park Pavilion in New Amsterdam, Berbice.
“You would have known over the years we have been building and rebuilding infrastructure so necessary and so indispensable for further social and economic development; and while this is important we also see the importance of investing in people,” Ramotar said in his address at the ceremony.
The administration recognises the importance of investing in human capital and is interested in enhancing the quality of life. “We want to enhance the capacity of people, we spoke of lifting the quality of life in society, giving people a higher quality of life, and so too it is true that we have to live by other values and creating other conditions; that is why we have been investing so heavily in the social sector,” the president said.
According to Ramotar, over 30 per cent of the National Budget goes to the social sector. The administration also recognises
