Change of gov’t has brought renewed optimism in Region 10

Jermaine Figueira

Region 10 is “breathing a breath of fresh air” with the end of the PPP/C’s rule, according to regional parliamentarian Jermaine Figueira, who on Tuesday accused the former government of stifling the region and mismanagement.

“Speak youth! Speak youth!” fellow government parliamentarians chanted during Figueira’s presentation on the proposed national budget in the National Assembly on Tuesday.

“[We] were [in a] chokehold by the previous administration,” he said, before adding that the people of the