Cut in Amerindian Development Fund to put youth on bread line

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Yvonne Pearson (second, left), advisor at the Amerindian Affairs Ministry. Pearson had brought a dozen Amerindian youths to protest the budget cut on Thursday.
Yvonne Pearson (second, left), advisor at the Amerindian Affairs Ministry. Pearson had brought a dozen Amerindian youths to protest the budget cut on Thursday.

Roughly 2,000 Amerindian youths will be out of work due to the voting down of the $1.1 billion Amerin-dian Development Fund, PPP/C Region 9 representative Bryan Allicock said yesterday.

“Some 2,000 young Amerindians are to go on the bread line,” Allicock declared at a PPP press conference.

The parliamentary opposition—APNU and the AFC—voted down the total allocation over concerns about potential misuse by the